I mentioned earlier the heartbreak caused by Morrissey’s January gigs apparently selling out online in a nanosecond. Kat from Tech Digest was so outraged she did what any self-respecting nerdlinger would do – she cried and drowned her sorrows with weak lemon squash took to her blogging platform! Read her article, which appeared on Tech Digest earlier today, below. For a Mozza fan, it’s pretty rational…
Katherine Hannaford writes:
Excuse me for five minutes whilst I vent and rant about how angry I am with Ticketmaster and other online ticket-sellers. You may be aware that this morning, tickets for six London Morrissey gigs went on sale at 9am. Or you will be, when tonight’s papers come out proclaiming the gigs as being the fastest-selling concerts since the guitar was invented.
Like all die-hard Morrissey fans, I logged on at 9am sharp to buy two tickets to just one of the gigs. I was actually using my HTC Touch on the bus, navigating through the pages with GPRS, which was actually behaving itself for once. Not only that, but I had someone else attempting to buy tickets for me as well, on a computer at home. By 9:04am however, we discovered that our attempts to see the quiff-tastic Mozfather were in vain, as all the tickets were sold out.
Hang on – a 3,300 capacity venue, sold out on all six nights, within minutes of the tickets going on sale? It reeked of ticket tout exploitation, and has angered me to the point where I’m urging Ticketmaster and the like to implement new measures to block touts from ruining actual fans’ chances of purchasing tickets. For the love of Morrissey and all good music!

It’s time something was done. When I checked eBay as soon as I got to work an hour after the tickets went on sale, there were already 42 auctions selling Morrissey tickets. Checking now, at 3:15pm, there’s 145 auctions, with the average price for a single standing ticket being

Posted by mofgimmers on Friday November 23rd, 2007 at 3:45 pm