Viagogo gets feisty over new accusations; How much are Oasis tickets selling for?; UK anti-touting laws?; Sylvan Esso reluctantly back on Spotify; and more extreme weather show cancellations

<p><strong>This week on The Price Of Music, there&#39;s a vague but tangible &#39;us vs them&#39; theme, and lot of hoo-ha about secondary ticketing: </strong></p><ul><li><p>Secondary-ticketing firm Viagogo is having its latest public argument in the UK, <a href="https://musically.com/2026/09/25/fanfair-alliance-and-viagogo-clash-over-manchester-ticket-listings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">with anti-touting group FanFair Alliance</a>. And it’s all about Manchester, and ticketing at smaller venues...</p></li><li><p>Meanwhile 30 miles west of Manchester, it’s the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, and the Creative Industries Minister has promised that the long-promised crackdown on ticket touts will happen “quicker than we initially intended”. But what’s really going to happen?</p></li><li><p>Sylvan Esso quit Spotify last year in protest at co-founder Daniel Ek&#39;s personal investment in military technology. <a href="https://musically.com/2026/09/21/sylvain-esso-back-on-spotify-after-boycott-was-unsustainable/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Now they’re back on</a> Spotify, even though he’s still invested in weapons. Why?</p></li><li><p>How many people who’d bought tickets to see Ed Sheeran play the Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts DIDN’T get to see him? And this has <a href="https://musically.com/2026/09/28/extreme-weather-cancels-global-citizen-festival-and-ed-sheeran-gigs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">nothing to do with Israel or Palestine</a>... it&#39;s to do with climate change. (Plus, here&#39;s Brian Eno on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4fOZse4T58" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Ed Sheeran, Macklemore, and Robert Kraft</a>.)</p></li><li><p>We don’t get to talk much about brand new music print magazines, mainly because launching brand new music print magazines is usually a road to bankruptcy. Is <a href="https://musically.com/2026/09/22/drowned-in-sound-and-music-venue-trust-reveal-new-music-magazine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Shownotes</a> different though?</p></li><li><p>Grand Theft Auto VI isn’t just a game that licenses music: it’s a game with <a href="https://musically.com/2026/09/18/grand-theft-auto-vi-the-album-set-to-include-34-original-tracks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">its own soundtrack album stuffed with brand new songs</a>…</p></li></ul><p><strong>And in the special post-show lock-in s