Liam Gallagher has been forced to abandon one of his most recognizable concert rituals, tossing his tambourine or maracas into the crowd, after audience members were injured in scrambles to catch the coveted items during Oasis's ongoing reunion tour.

The singer broke the news to fans at Oasis's recent show in Edinburgh, telling the packed audience that he had been instructed to keep his instruments onstage. The decision follows reports of crowd skirmishes and at least one fan sustaining visible injuries while fighting over Gallagher’s famously tossed maracas. “I can’t throw my tambourine out tonight or my maracas, I’ve been told not to,” Gallagher told the crowd, according to fan-captured footage. “I’m not being tight or anything like that, do you know what I mean? But you don’t know how to behave yourselves.”

The crackdown reportedly stems from an incident at Oasis's July concert at London’s Wembley Stadium. The Metro UK reported that a 42-year-old woman caught Gallagher’s maracas, only to be attacked by two men who wrestled the instrument from her hands. The woman later shared photos of her bruises and cuts with British tabloids, describing the experience as “horrible.”

That confrontation, widely circulated in the U.K. press, appears to have triggered the ban on Gallagher’s long-running habit of handing out instruments as keepsakes. “I’ve just been told don’t do any of that shit anymore because you don’t know how to behave yourselves,” Gallagher told the Edinburgh crowd. “You keep pinching each other on your nipples and ears and f*cking sh*t like that and kneeing each other in the bollocks. I’ve been told now.”

For decades, Oasis fans have treated Gallagher’s tambourines and maracas as prized souvenirs. During the band’s 1990s peak, the singer’s nonchalant toss of a percussion instrument into the crowd often set off frenzied scrambles, though the clashes rarely escalated into the sort of aggressive behavior reported in recent weeks.

In today’s resale-driven culture, the value of such memorabilia has only increased. Stage-used tambourines and maracas from Oasis's current U.K. shows have reportedly fetched significant sums on online marketplaces, fueling competition among fans desperate to secure a piece of the band’s history. What once began as a cheeky tradition has now turned into a flashpoint of dangerous rivalry.

Despite the ban, the Oasis reunion tour continues to draw enormous crowds across Europe. The Edinburgh concert marked the latest stop in the band’s improbable comeback, which reunites Liam Gallagher with his brother and longtime sparring partner Noel Gallagher after years of public feuds and skepticism about whether the pair would ever share a stage again.

The tour resumes this weekend with two shows in Dublin, followed by a North American leg beginning with back-to-back dates in Toronto on August 24 and 25. Demand for tickets has been astronomical, with shows selling out within minutes and secondary market prices soaring.