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The Streets Tour

Henry Irving
Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
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Missed out on tickets.

Let me know if you hear of any going at a reasonable price.

Ta

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  • JaShea99
    JaShea99 Posts: 5,458
    I was really surprised when I heard this news as I remember him categorically stating in his book that he would never perform as The Streets again.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,977
    Touts dream this. Famous band makes small reunion so they can sell the tickets for 3x the price.

    Me and 4 mates all began refreshing for tickets at 8:58 but by bang on 9 they'd all sold out.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    ValleyGary said:

    Touts dream this. Famous band makes small reunion so they can sell the tickets for 3x the price.

    Me and 4 mates all began refreshing for tickets at 8:58 but by bang on 9 they'd all sold out.

    Ditto for my son (the tickets are for him though I do like the Streets).

    Don't want to pay £150 for a £45 ticket.
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,296
    pretty common practice with attending gigs in this country, the touts have ruined it for everyone, 3 things ive tried getting tickets for this year, have sold out within seconds yet on viagogo and such a minute after

    liam gallagher
    the killers
    darts at ally pally ( yet you can buy 8 tickets together on viagogo)

    ed sheeran fair play to him any tickets that are on resale sites have had there orders cancelled.
  • johnnybev1987
    johnnybev1987 Posts: 11,410
    Me and mates wanted to go to this, but £150 no chance. £40 yes, i have seen Mike Skinner once at Reading festival probably around 7 years ago it was good he was as drunk as us lol he did start chucking some drink in the audience too for the fun of it so probably a bit of a helmet.
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,193
    johnnybev1987 said:

    Me and mates wanted to go to this, but £150 no chance. £40 yes, i have seen Mike Skinner once at Reading festival probably around 7 years ago it was good he was as drunk as us lol he did start chucking some drink in the audience too for the fun of it so probably a bit of a helmet.

    I saw him there once... maybe 10+ years ago. His voice ran out after two or three songs!
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,255
    Their stuff was right slap bang in my early 20s - remember being on a lad's holiday in Newquay at sunny side and hearing fit but you know it blasting out a lot that week by the pool - good memories and a good outfit
  • mrbligh
    mrbligh Posts: 3,056
    Am looking for two aswell if anyone has any
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,998
    Didn’t know he was back ... hope there is an album in development.
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  • bbob
    bbob Posts: 550
    It really is time that the government actually did something about the whole touting system, it's outrageous.
  • cafcsinger
    cafcsinger Posts: 5,548
    Would love a couple of tickets to see at a decent price, they immediately went on re sale for about £150 piss take
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
  • buckshee
    buckshee Posts: 7,867
    and they wonder why people illegally download music still.
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    50 quid a pop on Wednesday. Seen him about 4 times before in his pomp when he did the “go Moses” which he had to retire. That was only 20-25 quid if I recall correctly. Absolutely ridiculous they’re so expensive now

    Happy with the memories so won’t be going.
  • Leeds_Addick
    Leeds_Addick Posts: 4,699
    Not interested in the streets but i agree that there's a problem with touts.

    When I saw Muse @ Shepherds Bush earlier this Summer they implemented a no ticket policy whereby instead of getting a ticket we instead used the debit card that we paid for the tickets on as the ticket.

    They scanned the card when we entered the venue and that came up that we'd bought two tickets. Cross referenced the card with photo ID and we were in.

    Not sure why other venues and artists don't do it. Impossible to sell tickets for profit this way.
  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,368
    ValleyGary said:

    Touts dream this. Famous band makes small reunion so they can sell the tickets for 3x the price.

    Me and 4 mates all began refreshing for tickets at 8:58 but by bang on 9 they'd all sold out.

    Same, it's become a joke now.
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    saw him live in Sheffield about 10 years ago - he was shit.
  • buckshee
    buckshee Posts: 7,867
    Saw him a few times , probably 50/50 on decent and shit
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,168
    falconwood_1 said:

    ValleyGary said:

    Touts dream this. Famous band makes small reunion so they can sell the tickets for 3x the price.

    Me and 4 mates all began refreshing for tickets at 8:58 but by bang on 9 they'd all sold out.

    Same, it's become a joke now.
    The online sale of tickets is something that desperately needs better regulating. Resale sites should be banned in my opinion but you certainly shouldn't have a situation where resale sites are linked to the sites selling the original tickets. I'm sure large numbers of tickets get funneled straight to the resale sites by the retailer.

    No reason that you can't be put in some kind of virtual queue as well, maybe you can start joining the queue an hour before tickets go on sale, but then only a certain number are allowed through at a time, with 5 minutes to pick some seats and get your payment done or something.

    This free-for-all is almost unconstitutional in Britain.
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  • PopIcon
    PopIcon Posts: 5,970
    Terrible live act, shame because the records are superb.

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