Oasis reunion

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I was saying to a colleague that I see it as the equivalent of the cunts going out buying all the bogroll at the start of covid.

And we can blame Oasis for that and all: sure didn't they write the anthem for not letting anybody get in your way even if it's too much bogroll for you to take!

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Looks like the UK will be investigating Ticketmaster over this, and calls for the Irish government to do the same

Which will be something good to come out of this, if anything actually happens. But hotels and airlines have been doing the same thing for years and no one ever gave a shite

It's okay: Starmer, like Harris, is literally a communist so, as per my previous suggestion, Ticketmaster will be nationalized before we know it. Punters of the world unite!

[Bürggermeister]

Ticketmarxist, it has a nice ring to it.

[mickO)))]

Did anyone get a ticket at face value or did they all jump up three fold?

I know one person that got two standing tickets for the normal price.

Looks like the UK will be investigating Ticketmaster over this, and calls for the Irish government to do the same

Which will be something good to come out of this, if anything actually happens. But hotels and airlines have been doing the same thing for years and no one ever gave a shite

Nothing will come out of it I am sure the brown envelopes are all going into the right hands. It's been widely know for years that they held back tickets to flip on other sites and nobody did a thing about it. The airline / hotel situation I don't really see as the same because at least in those cases you somewhat have other options when it comes to a concert it's that date or nothing.

[Ducky]

Still the best thing that they're responsible for, albeit indirectly.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Weirdly, that sketch feels older to me than Oasis themselves 

[Anvil]

Comedy gold... makes me feel very old!  The number of times people walked into class rooms saying "How's this dead town been..." Or "Teacher's teach ya how to be stupid" 

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Haha, exactly! I guess it's that I probably know it better than I know any given Oasis tune    Me and my sister used to act it out incessantly.

[Eoin McLove]

I was saying to a colleague that I see it as the equivalent of the cunts going out buying all the bogroll at the start of covid.

And we can blame Oasis for that and all: sure didn't they write the anthem for not letting anybody get in your way even if it's too much bogroll for you to take!

Bogroll with it.

[jobrok1]

Cigarettes and Boggyroll

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Ticketmaster may have breached consumer laws by failing to warn Oasis fans that the price of tickets might soar while they were queueing, experts have said, as it emerged that the company plans to apply "dynamic pricing" more widely.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/sep/02/failure-to-warn-oasis-fans-of-dynamic-pricing-may-be-consumer-law-breach-say-experts?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

If that's the only avenue they go down then it basically amounts to nothing going forward. "Price may vary according to availability" stuck on all promotional material, all in order.

[Mooncat]

I had no love for Oasis or Britpop at the time it was all popular, but I wouldn't mind seeing them just because it feels nostalgic. Can't even imagine how terrible the crowd would be at this though. Peak weekend warrior drunken assholes. How many people will pay $400 for their ticket and then watch the gig through their phone. Fuck that.

[John Kimble]

https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/arid-41468836.html

Seen a few of these articles pop up recently, kind of a backlash against the backlash if you will. I could be misreading it but the gist appears to be, criticisms re the ticket price are missing the point, and people are more than justified in paying over the odds in the name of nostalgia.
Absolutely fuck that. Anyone is perfectly entitled to pay whatever the fuck they want to see a bunch of has-beens perform well beyond their sell-by date. That's not the point. If you want to part with hundreds, maybe thousands, expect to be called out on it. It's bullshit. Yer wan even goes as far as to say she's not even a die-hard fan. That's fine. If you want to go see them, good on ya. Just stop trying to justify it.

[Eoin McLove]

It comes back to the bogroll argument. Paying over the odds is all part of the experience of being a part of something for numbskulls who were never a part of anything. They never bought into a subculture when they were young and now they are middle aged, have money, missed the boat first time around and are atoning for their squareness. If they show that they, OMG, queued for loik three days and spent seventy grand on a ticket, it'll be like they really were actually fans of the band, or part of the movement. Getting in on other people's nostalgia... it's absurd whatever way you look at it.

[Don Gately]

Pretty wide generalisation though. I'm sure there are plenty looking for tickets who were into them first time round too but I get your point.
Coldplay sold out 4 nights in Croke park, that is mind boggling. Two very very ordinary bands and I'm being generous.