Oasis Australian dates: Noel and Liam Gallagher to tour Sydney and Melbourne, according to NME

OK, Australian Oasis fans.

So, either you spent seven hours that Saturday night trying to, in vain, buy tickets to the UK and Ireland shows or the $10,000 you were going to have to sink into a return trip to England in the first place was a non-starter.

Now, it looks like the brothers Gallagher could be on their way to Australia.

According to British music bible NME sources — so, not officially confirmed — Oasis already have a list of international stops for a global tour, and Melbourne and Sydney are both on it.

Oasis has previously toured Australia during its first iteration and both Noel and Liam have separately played down under with their solo acts since the band broke up.

That’s great news for anyone (i.e. most people) who missed out on tickets to the UK and Ireland tour.

NME wrote that an announcement was expected in the coming week.

The other cities on the list include Boston, East Rutherford in New Jersey, Los Angeles and Chicago, Toronto, Mexico City, Tokyo, Seoul, Sao Paulo, Santiago and Buenos Aires.

Noel and Liam Gallagher revealed in August Oasis would reform after breaking up 15 years ago, and decades of bitter feuding between the brothers.

The band initially announced 14 concerts across the UK and Ireland in London, Dublin, Cardiff, Edinburgh and, of course, their hometown of Manchester. Feverish demand saw three extra shows added before tickets went on sale.

The ticket buying process was a debacle with fans experiencing frustrating online queues that ran into the hundreds of thousands while trying to secure tickets for a single venue that only held 90,000 people.

There were also numerous reports of would-be ticket buyers waiting hours before reaching the front, only for Ticketmaster’s system to accuse them of being a bot and kicking them back to the end of the line.

Perhaps the most rancorous criticism of the process was the use of dynamic pricing which saw the prices of even standing tickets priced at £355 despite being publicly advertised at £148, and including no extra benefits or access.

In response, the band issued a statement. It said, “While prior meetings between promoters, Ticketmaster and the band’s management resulted in a positive ticket sale strategy, which would be a fair experience for fans, including dynamic ticketing to help keep general ticket prices down as well as reduce touting, the execution of the plan failed to meet expectations.

“All parties involved did their utmost to deliver the best possible fan experience, but due to the unprecedented demand this became impossible to achieve.”

The European Commission announced it would investigate the impact of dynamic pricing following the torrent of complaints. This would apply only to the EU which includes Ireland.

Oasis also added two extra Wembley shows after the first ticket release which was only available through a ballot system for fans who missed out earlier.

Oasis’s heyday was in the 1990s as Britpop dominated the charts, starting with the Definitely Maybe album in 1994. The Gallagher brothers were notoriously tempestuous, especially towards each other, and Oasis disbanded in 2009 after Noel quit ahead of a 2009 Paris concert.