Isle of Wight Competition boss John Giddings has stated that Oasis are more likely to decline a suggestion to headline Glastonbury due to the pageant’s low artist charges.
In August, the newly-reformed Britpop group shut down stories a couple of potential slot at Glastonbury, and stated they’d not be showing at “another festivals subsequent yr”, with their 2025 reunion tour present as their unique performances.
Talking at ‘Expertise 25’ – an exhibition celebrating the historical past of the IOW Fest – Giddings defined (through The Mirror) that each his personal pageant and Glastonbury “can’t afford” to have Oasis as headliners anyway, “as a result of they need cash”.
The pageant boss stated that different acts, nonetheless, would carry out at Glastonbury “for 10p”.
Giddings is a music agent and promotor, and serves because the managing director of Solo Music Company. He has beforehand labored for the likes of David Bowie, and represented artists akin to Girl Gaga, The Police and Easy Minds.
Glastonbury famously affords low pay for artists. In 2019, organiser Emily Eavis revealed how the pageant focuses extra on investing within the web site and charitable causes, slightly than turning a revenue or paying artists huge charges. She shared that they pay artists “10 per cent” of what they’d get from another pageant.
“Clearly individuals would try to lower your expenses on the areas, however we put all the cash into the areas so that you do get these unbelievable areas which can be similar to one other world. However then we additionally don’t pay the bands huge charges, and so we’re competing with actually huge business festivals who pay bands,” she informed the George Ezra & Buddies podcast.
Although a slot on the distinguished pageant’s lineup is believed to repay within the publicity it brings, final yr, Mercury-nominated singer-songwriter Nadine Shah shared that she needed to decline a suggestion to play at Worthy Farm because of low charges.
“The rumours are unfaithful. I’m NOT enjoying @glastonbury I’d have favored to however I wasn’t supplied a televised stage so I declined. It’s too costly successful for me to take in any other case,” she tweeted.
In a separate tweet, she wrote: “It’s only a actuality that enjoying stay is tremendous costly and should you can justify the prices (like being on telly and having a wider attain) then typically you are taking the hit. In any other case no, we’ve all payments to pay.”
Giddings additionally defended Oasis over the backlash they acquired about ticket costs for his or her highly-awaited reunion tour.
There was unprecedented demand for Oasis’ big 2025 stadium tour – the place the previously estranged Gallagher brothers will carry out collectively for the primary time in 16 years.
A whole lot of hundreds of followers have been held in on-line queues to entry tickets after they went on sale on August 31. Many have been then kicked out of the system after being incorrectly recognized as ticket-tout bots.
Moreover, there have been widespread complaints over worth surges because of Ticketmaster’s ‘dynamic pricing’ characteristic (an computerized enhance because of demand). Followers reported this to the Promoting Requirements Company (with investigations recommended by the UK authorities and the European Fee).
In accordance with consultants, not warning followers about ‘dynamic pricing’ previous to the sale might have been a breach of client legislation.
Giddings, nonetheless, has stated the costs are justified because of elevated prices for artist groups in recent times. “What individuals don’t realise, what most people don’t recognize, is that inside a ticket worth, 20 per cent of it goes to the federal government in VAT earlier than you start.”
He continued: “It’s 10 instances costlier to placed on exhibits since COVID, since Brexit, since all of that, and artists wish to current a present. The again display screen, the fireworks and every little thing going off with it.
Following the ticket-price backlash, the tour’s official resale associate Twickets U-turned on its stance – capping its reserving charge at a most of £25 per ticket.
Oasis subsequently distanced themselves from the worth hikes, with an announcement studying: “Oasis go away choices on ticketing and pricing fully to their promoters and administration, and at no time had any consciousness that dynamic pricing was going for use.”
In additional response to the furore, Oasis introduced two additional reunion exhibits for Wembley Stadium in London subsequent September. Tickets for these concert events went on sale through “a particular invitation-only poll”. Nevertheless, followers have been divided by how the brand new system operated.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer even commented on the controversy in Parliament, calling the surge pricing “miserable”. “I’m dedicated to placing the followers on the coronary heart of music and finish extortionate worth resales,” he stated. “And we’re beginning a session to work out how finest we will do that.”
In different information, Liam Gallagher has teased that “there could possibly be a number of new faces” performing with Oasis as a part of their 2025 comeback gigs.
In the meantime, LG has hinted {that a} new Oasis album is “already completed” amid rumours and ongoing dialogue about the potential of new music from the Gallaghers.
Oasis’ full upcoming 2025 reunion tour dates are:
JULY 2025
04 – Cardiff, Principality Stadium (SOLD OUT)
05 – Cardiff, Principality Stadium (SOLD OUT)
11 – Manchester, Heaton Park (SOLD OUT)
12 – Manchester, Heaton Park (SOLD OUT)
16 – Manchester, Heaton Park (SOLD OUT)
19 – Manchester, Heaton Park (SOLD OUT)
20 – Manchester, Heaton Park (SOLD OUT)
25 – London, Wembley Stadium (SOLD OUT)
26 – London, Wembley Stadium (SOLD OUT)
30 – London, Wembley Stadium (SOLD OUT)
AUGUST 2025
02 – London, Wembley Stadium (SOLD OUT)
03 – London, Wembley Stadium (SOLD OUT)
08 – Edinburgh, Scottish Fuel Murrayfield Stadium (SOLD OUT)
09 – Edinburgh, Scottish Fuel Murrayfield Stadium (SOLD OUT)
12 – Edinburgh, Scottish Fuel Murrayfield Stadium (SOLD OUT)
16 – Dublin, Croke Park (SOLD OUT)
17 – Dublin, Croke Park (SOLD OUT)
SEPTEMBER 2025
27 – London, Wembley Stadium (SOLD OUT)
28 – London, Wembley Stadium (SOLD OUT)
