FATBOY SLIM, alias Norman Cook, has had a pop at Oasis ticket prices – branding them “sick”. The DJ reckons the controversial dynamic pricing method, which sees the cost of tickets rise if demand is there, is a rip-off for fans. When asked about Liam and Noel Gallagher's reunion gigs, he said: “The only problem I have got is with scalping the fans.
"That dynamic pricing, that is ripping off the fans. It is like auct-ioning tickets because you know they are doing well. “It is bad enough with the touts doing it, but the actual promoter and band doing it, it is sick.
“As far as I know, it has never happened on my watch. I get a say on making tickets, on the whole, cheap. I always say, ‘Let’s have a fair price’.
“Ticket prices are so exorbitant. It is just profit for people who are very, very rich already — and that is for the bands and the promoters. "I can’t see how you can justify making it even more expensive, just because you know you have got a gig that everybody wants to go to.
” But he added of the Oasis reunion: “When you are in a band, and it is your first band, you go through something which is like losing your virginity — or your first love affair. “I am sure there is a moment when you think, ‘Let’s bury the hatchet and get some of that old magic back’. Financially, for a lot of people, if they run out of money, I can see why they would do that.
” Norman, whose own UK tour starts on Friday, also praised Coldplay, despite claiming .
