{"id":202118,"date":"2025-11-06T00:14:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/11\/06\/feeling-supersonic-oasis-play-to-180000-fans-across-three-melbourne-shows-3\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T00:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:14:18","slug":"feeling-supersonic-oasis-play-to-180000-fans-across-three-melbourne-shows-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/11\/06\/feeling-supersonic-oasis-play-to-180000-fans-across-three-melbourne-shows-3\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Feeling Supersonic\u2019: Oasis Play to 180,000 Fans Across Three Melbourne\u00a0Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- no image --><\/p>\n<div><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMELBOURNE, Australia \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/oasis\/\">Oasis<\/a> won\u2019t look back in anger at their first visit to Australia in two decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe Britpop era superstars on Tuesday, Nov. 4 wrapped up the Melbourne leg of their swing down under, a three-concert stand at Marvel Stadium which produced three sellouts, playing to 180,000 fans, reps say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe rock \u2018n\u2019 roll stars have made themselves at home, and made their feeling clear on dodgy ticket resales, which didn\u2019t materialize due to the state of Victoria\u2019s tough <a href=\"https:\/\/djsir.vic.gov.au\/ticket-scalping\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">anti-touting laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tUnder those rules, tickets can\u2019t be resold for more than 10 per cent above the face value, or face fines from A$908 to A$109,044 for individuals or A$545,220 to A$545,000 for corporations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe Oasis tour was listed as a \u201cmajor event,\u201d and with it was protected under the\u00a0<em>Major Events Act 2009.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAs a result, those fans were guarded from paying obscene fees through StubHub or Viagogo, which remains one of live entertainment industry\u2019s mortal enemies.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Melbourne Recap\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PE8wxP6TSyM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOasis has applauded the intervention. \u201cIt\u2019s great to see Victoria\u2019s Major Events Declaration doing exactly what it\u2019s meant to \u2014 Viagogo can\u2019t list our Melbourne shows \u2014 and that\u2019s a huge win for real fans,\u201d reads a statement from the band.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cWhen government and the live industry work together, we can stop large-scale scalping in its tracks. We\u2019d love to see other states follow Victoria\u2019s lead so fans everywhere get a fair go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe Sydney chapter of the<em><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livenation.com.au\/oasis-tickets-adp348\" target=\"_blank\"> Oasis\u00a0Live \u201925<\/a><\/em> tour begins Friday, Nov. 7 with the first of two back-to-back shows at\u00a0Accor Stadium, tickets for which are also protected from secondary-market price gouging by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsw.gov.au\/legal-and-justice\/consumer-rights-and-protection\/services\/ticket-reselling\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">New South Wales\u2019 anti-scalping laws<\/a>. In NSW, it\u2019s an offence to resell a ticket for more than the original retail price, plus transaction costs up to a maximum 10 percent of the original price.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThose laws have \u201cbeen really successful for the Melbourne show,\u201d a rep for the band\u2019s management tells <em>Billboard.com<\/em>. \u201cAnd continues to be a really important thing for the band and team throughout the <em>Live \u201925<\/em> campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tScalpers were reportedly forced to try to sell tickets at a loss overseas because they couldn\u2019t sell them in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>A limited number of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/scrabblepr.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4794fdce89f5a4d847d12131f&amp;id=54c2dee030&amp;e=9d8c00d3fd\">tickets<\/a> are\u00a0available for the final Sydney shows, according to Live Nation Australia, which is producing the domestic swing, and fans can still sell tickets at face value on approved platforms, including Tixel, Twickets and Ticketmaster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOasis then heads to Argentina, Chile and Brazil, where the global tour wraps up Nov. 23 in S\u00e3o Paulo.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tRead <em>Billboard.com\u2019s<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/reviews\/oasis-first-concert-melbourne-australian-live-25-tour-recap-1236097984\/\">recap<\/a> of Oasis\u2019s opening night concert in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/oasis-180000-fans-three-melbourne-shows\/\">Aller \u00e0 la source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE, Australia \u2014 Oasis won\u2019t look back in anger at their first visit to Australia in two decades. The Britpop era superstars on Tuesday, Nov. 4 wrapped up the Melbourne leg of their swing down under, a three-concert stand at Marvel Stadium which produced three sellouts, playing to 180,000 fans, reps say. The rock \u2018n\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}