TICKETMASTER have explained tickets were only priced so low for Oasis’s concerts next year because they were not convinced it would be popular.
The concerts, with a collective capacity of 1.3 million people, saw tickets soar from £150 to £337.50 because of unexpectedly high demand for gigs which were headline news for the whole of the previous week.
CEO Joseph Turner said: “That’s a relief. I thought we’d end up giving them away to local radio.
“For there to be this many people wanting to see Manchester’s finest export since violence is a surprise, a shock, an unavoidable more-than-doubling of the price.
“After the first few nanoseconds we’d sold 500 or so and realised they might be more popular than we originally thought, which was pitched at roughly a Kaiser Chiefs level. So after that they were officially ‘in demand’.
“Unfortunately that incurs serious costs and overheads to the price of standing in a patch of Manchester park which we have to pass on to the consumer. In return I’m sure they’ll do Wonderwall for you.”
Turner added that it was definitely not the band’s fault and nobody should think that, a sentiment with which their defrauded fans eagerly concurred.
