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posted by davidt on Friday January 27 2006, @12:00PM
Reggie-Kray sends the link:

Morrissey Tour Sells Out in 20 Minutes - albumvote.co.uk

Morrissey's forthcoming UK tour is an entire sell but has left many thousands of fans disappointed. The decision to stick with smaller venues coupled with the rising number of touts who can easily ply their trade on eBay means many loyal fans must pay way over the asking price or do without.

A fan at Morrissey-solo claimed, “most other gigs in the country were all gone by 9:20 this morning. Judging by the activity on e-bay, it looks like the b*****d scum touts have struck again.”
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Other links:

Morrissey fans camp overnight for tickets - News And Star

Morrissey tickets already on sale on eBay - Whitehaven News

Update: 01/27 21:11 GMT:
Aly Panic sends the link:

Tickets for The Smiths legend Morrissey's Grimsby gig sold out in 17 minutes this morning. - This Is Grimsby
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  • I bought four tix for various venues at 3pm..thats 6 hours in my maths book

    momus
    Anonymous -- Friday January 27 2006, @12:12PM (#194491)
  • If Morrissey wasn't so set on playing these pathetically small venues, there'd me more tickets to go round.
    AnthonyGlamour -- Friday January 27 2006, @12:21PM (#194496)
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  • other links posted on the general discussion forum by "tarnished", now that wasn't too difficult david. Oh i forgot, i'm not uncleskinny am i?
    Anonymous -- Friday January 27 2006, @12:44PM (#194513)
  • what mean "b*****d"?
    gracias!
    fernando -- Friday January 27 2006, @01:07PM (#194529)
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    daradá
  • there are so many front/second row tickets on Ebay, i can't help smelling a large rat. how did these touts get so many good seats - is it just professional skill at speed dialling, or do they still have arrangements with promoters/ticket agents as they used to have in the days before 4 tickets per person?

    also so many stories on these pages of buying tickets 5-10 mins ahead of the advertised time. is there a little whisper to the touts?

    one thing's for sure, the promoters love instant-sellouts astronomical tout-price stories, and are not disposed to step in.
    the biggest words on the national tour poster are the 3 sold-out london shows. it's all wonderfully efficient...

    it's silly to attack morrissey over this, it's a complicated business and he's not a concert agent or promoter. i'd defend his right to play the palladium, shea stadium or my local pub. but it would be nice to see promoters behave in a less exploitative way towards fans - very naive of me
    methadone -- Friday January 27 2006, @01:21PM (#194537)
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    • Re:Ebay conspiracy theory by deaf witness (Score:1) Friday January 27 2006, @02:11PM
    • I posted this on the forum a bit back:

      http://www.trashcity.org/ARTICLES/TICKET.HTM

      It says near the end of the article something about ticketmaster having a deal with some companies:

      "the company announced plans to auction off the best tickets to the highest bidder - effectively becoming nothing more than touts, driven entirely by market forces. The worst thing is, laws against scalping are ineffective, since they apply only to the resale of tickets, not the initial purchase. Again, they'll be laughing all the way to the bank."

      And you're right about the stupidity of attacking Morrissey over the ticket fiasco. It's great that he plays small venues still; I doubt I'd go if it was in a big arena.
      Also, considering the small amount of people who post on this site and the number of venues he's playing, there should have been enough tickets for everyone here.
      My friend queued this morning and said she'd seen five guys who she knew to be touts as they'd been selling outside the Paul Weller concert a while back. They'd camped out or showed up very early and bought four tickets each, before heading off in seperate directions (presumably to get them on ebay) ...
      One way around this issue would've been to have a series of fan related questions. Touts could find out the answers, but it's extra leg work for them and it may have slowed them down.

      Mozzersgirl -- Friday January 27 2006, @02:28PM (#194570)
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    • Re:Ebay conspiracy theory by Sleepy lifeguard (Score:1) Saturday January 28 2006, @02:27AM
    • Re:Ebay conspiracy theory by Anonymous (Score:0) Saturday January 28 2006, @07:00AM
  • Got my Tix for Gateshead Sage in fairly good seats, but had to queue from 6.30am, and by that time a sizeable queue had already formed. I also noticed that, whilst there were 4 or 5 people selling tickets to the queueing masses, I didn't see very many manning the phones...A friend tried ringing for her seats and it had sold out by ten past nine, allegedly...

    Jessica x
    Anonymous -- Friday January 27 2006, @01:24PM (#194541)
  • Hmmm... why do I wonder if the ticket retailers are involved with the touts? Do they sell each ticket half an hour in advance for £50 to touts, the touts knowing they could get over £100 per ticket? And then when Average Dave gets onto the order page eventually, guess what? Oooh, it's sold out! Jesus, some ticketmaster gigs said "not on sale" for ages, and the next thing, refresh the page and... all gone. Yep, sold out in about 2 seconds APPARENTLY.

    And if my suspicions are wrong, then these ticket retailers should jolly well give us an apology, or a statement, or SOMETHING.

    I know, I know... but I was so angry today by the utter crapness of ticketmaster et al, and in a rage, "asked a question" to the tout gits on Ebay. "Do you enjoy ripping people off?"

    I wish, with mass action, we could do something about these little fleas. I mean, can't we phone Watchdog or something? Trading Standards??? This can't go on, seriously. It's disappointing, frustrating, inept and thoroughly unfair.

    (ahem... but I got some tickets, so I spose I should shut up).
    Helvissa -- Friday January 27 2006, @01:33PM (#194549)
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  • Dundee still on sale on ticketmaster!
    Anonymous -- Friday January 27 2006, @01:52PM (#194555)
  • I live in the USA. I got 3 tickets to The Appolo in my shopping cart at 1:58am (8:58am London Time), since I was a registered member i didn't think I would have to be filling out any forms. But I had to anyway and it wouldn't let me change my location from the UK, so i had to give up the tickets. So then I went to gigsandtours.com and got through! I got 1 standing ticket. sorry to everybody who didn't succeed.
    Geek of the Week -- Friday January 27 2006, @02:02PM (#194559)
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  • just looking at ebay and i see there are 701 items of morrissey tickets being sold which x 2 tickets
    1402 tickets being sold on ebay by f@@king touts
    and people will bid for these tickets....
    we should bycote ebay and do something about this why should scum bags like this rip of fans in this way.....
    we need to act and do something to stop this happening now and again in the future, has anybody got any good ideas.... i have mentioned this before they should look how glastonbury tickets were sold in the uk last year where your ticket has your address details on and then you need some photo proof id when you enter the venue this has worked with glastonbury so why cant it work with other concert tickets.....
    Anonymous -- Friday January 27 2006, @02:58PM (#194582)
  • Well, I rang the Birmingham Symphony Hall Box Office at 8.50 this morning only to here a recorded message saying that their Box Ofiice doesn't open 'till 10.00am and you can't book over the internet. So I then spend the rest of the morning continually dialing and redialing in a desperate bid to get through. Finally I get through at about 1.30pm HURRAH!!! I Say to myself...only to here another bloody recorded message stating that due to huge demand, Morrissey has sold out...BOLLOCKS!!! I say to myself. Ebay strikes again from the looks of things. I'm especially pissed off because the last Moz tickets I had for Birmingham's NIA, I had to genuinely sell on ebay for half the price I paid for them when for personal reasons I was unable to make it. Bummer. I know Moz has a huge fanbase, (possible now more than ever?) but I've never struggled to get tickets for any of his other shows I been to in the past. And now he sells out an entire UK tour in 20 minutes...? Something fishy goin' on I feel.
    binny -- Friday January 27 2006, @03:16PM (#194588)
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    There's a right way, there's a wrong way, and there's even a Victorian legal system...
  • Morrissey concerts are morethan that, they are events, I imagine most here understand that. Tickets are few but not so far between. The UK is a small place. I've been all around it. Why not go somewhere else. Tickets for Dundee are cheaper now on ebay than they were on ticketmaster. More will follow. Why not make an event of something from nothing rather than being crashing bores. In 5 hours you can get pretty much anywhere in this country. Give it a try, slip in the cd and watch the hours disappear. Ciao
    Unlikely One -- Friday January 27 2006, @04:39PM (#194605)
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  • thanks to the high demand of mozz tickets fans/touts, would'nt it be a good idea to get a fan based ticket swap thing going, in my vain attempts to get tickets to my preffered venue's manchester/blackburn, i did get some, but in the whole panic situation, inwhich i could'nt even type my correct details in the computer i was so exited at getting through (holds tickets for 2/3 minutes only online) i got tickets for elswhere such as grimsby,cornwall, and some of the scottish dates, i would glady swap pairs of tickets, what do you think
    Anonymous -- Saturday January 28 2006, @12:29AM (#194645)
  • I'm from Canada, and I'm going the Sterling show! anyone interested in meeting before the concert please e mail [email protected]
    charmer78 -- Saturday January 28 2006, @03:19AM (#194653)
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  • Look on Ticketmaster - tickets for Dundee avaialable
    Quick!
    Anonymous -- Saturday January 28 2006, @03:40AM (#194655)
  • I got through to one of the ticketlines when the Palladium tickets went on sale last Friday. I was fortunate to get one of the last ones, but to date have not recieved the ticket through the post. Has anyone else got theirs through yet?
    Anonymous -- Saturday January 28 2006, @07:10AM (#194675)
  • three tickets for the Glasgow Academy show on ticketweb at around 9.10am no problem. seetickets, aloud and ticketmaster were impossible and I gave up on those pretty quickly.

    I love that he's playing smaller venues again. I didn't bother going to see him in any of the arenas he played last time round and prior to that I've only seen him at the Royal Albert Hall (far too big, but very beautiful) and the Royal Festival Hall, but hopefully this should be an amazing show. eee! x
    margot tenenbaum -- Saturday January 28 2006, @09:52AM (#194697)
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  • Tix still availabe on Ticketmaster for Dundee.
    Anonymous -- Saturday January 28 2006, @10:14AM (#194699)
  • ..will look great hanging in the window of HMV or Virgin.
    Anonymous -- Saturday January 28 2006, @12:07PM (#194711)
  • It's not Morrissey's fault that the shows sold out so quickly and that many people have been left disappointed.
    Blame touts, E-bay and unhelpfull ticket websites.

    A lot of people are asking why he has decided to play small venues when he can fill out much bigger places, but if you look at a lot of the reviews of the last gigs he did in Britain, at the tail end of 2004, there were a lot of middling reviews, including reviews from fans who post here, all saying that the shows seemed to lack the intense intamcy that has become part of the Morrissey Live experience. I'm sure this must have been apparent to Morrissey himself, as sometimes he looked uninterested on stage, and seemed aware he wasn't connecting with his audience the way he used to.
    Anyone who was at the SECC concert will agree that it wasn't a patch on previous Barrowland triumphs.

    Stadium gigs in general are tedious and uninvolving. Is that really the way you want to see Morrissey?

    Blame other people, force the hand of change, if we all take a stand we could do it.
    But remember it's not Morrissey's fault that touts exist, or that E-bay encourage the bastards.

    Requiescant Inpacce -- Saturday January 28 2006, @12:50PM (#194714)
    (User #10687 Info)
    "You should not go to them...let them come to you...just like I do..."
  • Got tickets for The Palladium, Manchester Apollo, Salford, Reading and Oxford.

    Used two phones while logged on to all tickets sites. There was a point when it was all going wrong but it came together about 9.10.

    Was I the only person that phoned the number in NME ad only to be told, after hanging on for 15 minutes, that they had printed the wrong number.
    Anonymous -- Saturday January 28 2006, @02:52PM (#194724)
  • Check out True-to-you.

    How do you get tickets? I haven't checked yet.
    ohglen -- Saturday January 28 2006, @04:40PM (#194735)
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  • Hi ya check out my payback time to the touts
    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&it em=6601475609&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&rd= 1

    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&it em=6601261075&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&rd= 1

    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&it em=6601073894

    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&it em=6601325110

    And look at this genious user http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2-TICKETS-MORRISSEY-LONDON-P ALLADIUM-14-5-06_W0QQitemZ6598885091QQcategoryZ587 37QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
    Look at his feedbacks, hero!!!!!!!!!!
    Do the same!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Anonymous -- Tuesday January 31 2006, @01:51AM (#195184)

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