Last chance for Oasis fans to secure Wembley ballot entry after ticket furore

Oasis fans will be holding out hope for a Wembley ballot entry with the last ticket sale invites being sent out.

Successful Oasis fans will be contacted by 9pm on Friday September 13 at the latest, with a ballot entry code not able to guarantee that they will be able to purchase a ticket as they will be sold on a first come, first served basis.

Those who do receive a code will be contacted by Oasismynet via email with details and timings for the final ticket sale for the additional dates on September 27 and 28 next year.

Announcing the private ballot last weekend, the band said entries would be “strictly limited” in an attempt to “avoid long queues”.

It comes after the band announced they were reuniting for a run of dates in the UK and Ireland in London, Dublin, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Manchester, for the first time since breaking up backstage at France’s Rock en Seine festival in 2009.

On Wednesday, the band ruled out returning to Knebworth Park “in the future”, along with any plans for more dates in the UK.

Many fans were shocked by standard tickets for the reunion tour more than doubling from £148 to £355 on Ticketmaster, prompting the Government and the UK’s competition watchdog to pledge they will look into the use of dynamic pricing.

Meanwhile, others were left angry and disappointed after being left empty-handed, having waited in an online queue for hours to buy tickets.

In a statement on Wednesday the band said they hoped the new private ballot ticket sale strategy will make “the process far smoother for fans by reducing the stress and time it takes” to obtain tickets.

But some fans were left “pretty annoyed and upset” at missing out on an invite last weekend, despite previously queuing online for hours.

Ali Harrison, 51, told the PA news agency she had waited for more than nine hours in the queue for tickets but was unable to access them.

Ms Harrison, from Herne Bay, Kent, told PA: “I’ve been a fan since the early ’90s and was never able to afford to see them back then. Then I got sick with lupus so I couldn’t really go anywhere for anything.

“Now I’m in a good place both health-wise and financially, and I still can’t go to their gigs because tickets have been impossible to get access to.”

Consumer group Which? has since told Ticketmaster to “do the right thing” and refund fans hit by inflated ticket prices.

Last weekend, Liam Gallagher spoke about his brother Noel for the first time since the reunion was announced, saying he “won’t have a bad word said” about him, and adding he would be “blowing him kisses in between each song”.