Ricky Gervais has promised fans he won’t use “dynamic pricing” when tickets for his next tour go on sale, after prices for the Oasis reunion surged amid huge demand.
The Britpop band’s much-anticipated comeback faced controversy after many fans complained about paying much more for their tickets than expected when they went on sale last month.
Writing about his Mortality tour, comedian Gervais told fans on X, formerly Twitter: “These tickets go on sale Friday at 10am. There is no dynamic pricing. There are Platinum tickets, which are very expensive but I donate the extra profit to charity. They will sell out very fast because I am an absolute legend. Apologies in advance. Good Luck.”
Ricky Gervais at the National Television Awards 2022 and Oasis at a charity concert for the Teenage Cancer Trust in 2003. Gervais has announced there won’t be dynamic pricing for his upcoming shows.
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Newsweek has contacted representatives for Oasis and Gervais for comment.
Brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, who have a notoriously volatile relationship, are reforming for an Oasis tour next year. Tickets went on sale in late August, but huge online queues meant that some tickets cost much more than fans had anticipated because prices rose in line with demand.
Some fans couldn’t resist mentioning what happened with the Oasis tickets after Gervais posted about his tour. “The way it should be done,” one said on X.
“I’d take this over that Oasis nonsense every day of the week,” said another, as one fan posted: “Fair and honest!”
One user shared an image of an Oasis concert poster as they wrote: “Definitely Ricky.” Others agreed that the After Life star was “a legend.”
The Gallaghers have distanced themselves from the uproar surrounding ticket prices for Oasis Live ’25, saying in a statement: “As for the well reported complaints many buyers had over the operation of Ticketmaster’s dynamic ticketing: it needs to be made clear that Oasis leave decisions on ticketing and pricing entirely to their promoters and management, and at no time had any awareness that dynamic pricing was going to be used.”
The U.K.’s competition watchdog, the Competition and Markets Authority, is looking into what happened to see whether the Ticketmaster’s sale of Oasis tickets breached consumer law.
Other artists have previously decided against the use of dynamic pricing, while in the wake of the Oasis controversy, Iron Maiden confirmed they will not be using it for their 2025 gigs.
“There will be no dynamic ticket pricing for the 2025 Run For Your Lives Tour,” the band wrote on Instagram. “Ticket resale in the UK will be capped at face value and won’t open until much closer to the start of the tour.”
