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Oasis are set to bring their reunion tour to the US, Canada, and Mexico in August and September next year.
The band will play at Toronto’s Rogers Stadium on August 24, Soldier Field in Chicago on August 28, and MetLife Stadium in Newark on August 31.
Rogers Stadium will be a limited-life open-air concert venue with a capacity of 50,000, announced by Live Nation Canada last week. It is slated to open next summer, ahead of the Oasis shows.
The following month, fans will be able to see the Gallagher brothers on September 6 at Rose Bowl Stadium in Los Angeles and Estadio GNP Seguros on September 12 in Mexico City.
US rock band Cage the Elephant are scheduled to support the group across all of the dates.
The pre-sale for tickets will take place on Thursday (October 3) before the general sale begins a day later at midday local venue time.
They will be Oasis’ first shows in the countries since 2008, when they toured Dig Out Your Soul.
The band had previously teased the news on billboards in New York, Toronto, Chicago and other cities with the slogan, “Be careful what you wish for”.
The band’s first American tour for Definitely Maybe in 1994 and 1995 ended infamously after a messy, drunken performance in Los Angeles that caused Noel Gallagher to leave the band for several days.
The international dates come in addition to the 19 sold-out UK and Ireland shows previously announced.
Initial sales in August were marred by Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing policy which saw standing ticket prices jump from £135 ($180/€160) to £337 in some cases. This prompted Ministers from the UK Government to look into the pricing strategy and launch a watchdog investigation.
At the time, Oasis released a statement attempting to absolve themselves of any wrongdoing. Another has been issued promising that the dynamic pricing model will not be implemented for the upcoming sale.
“Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing model will not be applied to the forthcoming sale of tickets to Oasis concerts in North America,” read a statement from the band.
“It is widely accepted that dynamic pricing remains a useful tool to combat ticket touting and keep prices for a significant proportion of fans lower than the market rate and thus more affordable.
“But, when unprecedented ticket demand (where the entire tour could be sold many times over at the moment tickets go on sale) is combined with technology that cannot cope with that demand, it becomes less effective and can lead to an unacceptable experience for fans.
“We have made this decision for the North America tour to hopefully avoid a repeat of the issues fans in the UK and Ireland experienced recently.”
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