“Young, 79, is preparing for his Love Earth tour with his band the #ChromeHearts, with performances across Europe and north America between April and August. Young will play two concerts in the UK, headlining Glastonbury festival on 28 June and BST Hyde Park on 11 July.

The most notorious recent example of dynamic pricing was for Oasis’s UK tour: the huge demand meant that #tickets that were originally £148.50 rose to £355.20. Fans were outraged and culture secretary Lisa Nandy called out the practice, saying it was “incredibly depressing”.

#LiamGallagher was initially unrepentant, telling a fan to “shut up” after they complained about the prices, but the band later distanced themselves from the issue, saying: “#Oasis leave decisions on ticketing and pricing entirely to their promoters and management”. While calling dynamic pricing “a useful tool” they also acknowledged its use in the UK ticket sales resulted in “an unacceptable experience for fans”, and did not use dynamic pricing for other territories on their world tour.

Not only have #TheCure banned dynamic pricing for their tours, they also set ticket prices low and have confronted Ticketmaster over other fees. In 2023, after seeing that US fans were being charged service fees that were sometimes greater than the face-value cost of the tickets, Smith took the company to task, saying he was “sickened” by the fees. #Ticketmaster backed down and offered a $10 refund on the affected tickets.”

<https://theguardian.com/music/2025/mar/17/neil-young-rejects-dynamic-ticket-pricing-robert-smith>

"Do you know what I mean?" - Oasis

(ctd) I think there's a great four-minute song lurking behind the bluster, but Oasis were no longer making tight rock 'n' roll sounds. They'd become full of themselves at Knebworth the year before, and believed themselves to be untouchable.

Never believe in myths of your own brilliance, it makes you lazy and boring.

Just one week at number one, sold to the Oasis fans and nobody else.

While the lads witter on, three more episodes to clip...

Soundtrack to the top 20: "How come how long" by Babyface, voiced by Clive Warren.

At the top: "Do you know what I mean?" - Oasis

"All of rock history has been leading to this point," claimed Select magazine, quite clearly off their heads on something.

Some call it the group's best song, seeing as how it's absolutely massive and arrogant and encapsulates everything Oasis were about.

Others reckon it's repetitive, vacuuous, and goes on a minute longer than "Bohemian rhapsody".