My understanding is that today was an internet pre-sale via Moz's official site, and that many people got Standing Tickets, and that the rest will go an sale tomorrow as planned. The story, while admirable, is full of errors.

Two things - I've spoken to wayahead directly and they assure me that today they only put on a small part of their entire allocation. Many more tickets are on sale tomorrow at 9.30am as advertised (call them yourselves if you don't believe me).

In other news - a currently ticketless mate of mine spoke to a supervisor at the agency, who told him that the point of the presale was to gauge the level of demand. The reason for this is that a second night at Manchester is definitely being considered.

Absurd, why would they tell everyone one date, only to sell tickets sooner? Unfair!

Section 114, Row N, Seat 24!

U.K. Here I come ;^)

they are selling them on ebay already!!!!!

£200 buy now! - what is wrong with the world?

any ideas?

No wonder "The world is full of crashing bores" but its all good! Bastards.

Block 114, Row S, Seats 21-24. Lower Right Tier, Right of the Stage.

Now to book a train.
Muahahahaaaa.

Anyone nearby in the seating?

- Adam, supreme_fool@msn.com

Damn I wish he'd start this tour in Toronto, Canada then make his way through the Eastern States like he did in 1997. Reading all these posts is making me wish I could travel to manchester.

the phone lines will be really bloody busy tomorrow because those cute pop tarts busted are also selling their tickets tomorrow.
i think i will be getting mine off my digital tv.

Well I got tickets but they are seated...I guess try again Saturday for standing...Either way my birthday evening will be spent seeing the Man Himself...MORRISSEY!!! CHOW!!!

I just bought two seated tickets. I'll try tomorrow again for standing. It's not as if the tickets I got tonight will be hard to shift. Infact, everybody who bought seated tickets today will be trying for standing tomorrow. How clever is that?

http://www.wayahead.com/sjmmaj/price.asp?code=105827&userid=91505820&filler1=gig sandtours&filler2=morrissey

went to manchester, just some weeks ago.
bad timing. in which case, i stayed at
the luther king house. in rusholme.
just some fifty metres from platt fields park.
were the (last night of the) fair was held.
not particularly good, but easy to get to the city centrum, and just to live in rusholme.
oh my.

Well, I got my tix, not the greatest seats so I'll try again tomorrow, if this really was a pre-sale! Anyhow, time to find flights from NYC to Manchester!!! I can only hope for a second show on the 23rd!

Hmm, this is interesting. I clicked on the Morrissey banner thing on the gigsandtours.com page I've been staring at for the past week, and the blue roder form thing popped up (despite my mouse icon not changing to a little hand, if you see what I mean).

Sold Out.

Excuse my french, but this is fucking disgraceful. I've got up early today, with a stinking hangover I might add, to come to my workplace so I can use the net to buy tickets, only to read that wayahead have been selling them early. I expected a good chance to get the tickets, probably the same as everyone else, only to hear that the tickets have gone early to other people.

And I bet most of the tickets will go to magazines and radio stations that offer them as competitions. I don't care if they're trying to gauge the reaction for the tickets - they shouldn't ruin the real fan's chances of seeing what could be the greatest gig in history.

As for the people flogging them on eBay already - don't worry, my plan is to recover from this hangover then hunt them down and kill them via a series of paper cuts with their fake tickets.

so go on then, how many of us got up with stinking hangovers to be confronted with either ...

a crashed server ( 'due unprecedented heavy traffic' )

a page that says all tickets sold out ( at 9am )

nothing - as in a blank page

or a blocked phone line

an automatic ( and unwelcome ) link to the Busted ticket page ( ugh!)

I'm kinda glad I don't work on the switchboard at GIGSANDTOURS today.

Ah, so my patience paid off. After a night worrying and considering getting the tickets on offer on line (seated) or to delay and try at 0930 today and go all out for standing (my preference by a country mile!) I was rewarded for my patience with a call connected at 0930 exactly and two standing tickets are now en route to me!

Welcome home mozzer, happy birthday, oh this is going to be one special night!!!!

Just got 2 standing tickets from www.ticketmaster.co.uk. They kept trying to fob me off with shitty seats all over the arena but eventually I was given the option of floor tickets. Fan-bloody-tastic!!!!1

http://www.wayahead.com/sjmmaj/price.asp?code=105827&userid=91505820&filler1=gig sandtours&filler2=morrissey good lucj

how do you guys know your seat numbers?

did you book on the phone?

i booked over t'internet and my confirmation don't say anything about the seat allocation?

Me and two mates got Upper Tier, Section BL 209, Row M, Seats 6 to 8. Any close neighbours around?

And where will everybody be partying before and after the gig?

for the floor, standing. 30 mins of redialling paid off.

I smell law suits for mozzers promoters! This is absolutely absurd. Blatent false advertising. I can legally sue. Theres evidence all over the newspapers and on this site. Im sure wen moz finds out about this scam he wont be happy. I reckon its cos of his new record deal...hes following their commands.

I bet all tickets were forced in the direction of freeloading celebrities. If ya see bono, give him a slap.

Can you imagine the crowd....endless rows of early-hour, web-surfin nerds! Hackers anonymous will be having their monthly meeting in block 115.

i ordered this morning my ticket on gigsandtours.com just a minute before they sold out... guess what? they didn't accept my e-mail address because it wasn't co.uk! i could't enter my order because of my "WRONG" e-mail address, which in fact is RIGHT!
f*** O**!
maccoz.... maccoz@email.it

Balls to internet booking. Ticketmaster has some serious problems when it comes to online booking. Luckily I managed to get 4 standing over the good old phone after nearly an hour of toil online. It seems a bit of a shambles on the net. Sorry to hear about the difficulties some people have had. That co.uk stuff sounds appalling.

I managed to get standing tickets this morning, not from Gigsandtours but from ticketweb, because I couldn't get the gigsandtours page to load, close to 9.30.

Anyway i'm looking forward to it! See most of you there!

ticketmaster worked fine for me and i got:

LOWER TIER, SECTION BL 108, ROW P, SEATS 10 TO 12.
anyone around me?

Well, what pandemonium ensues, like. I got two seated tickets from ticketmaster, then two standing from gigsandtours.com - but the latter transaction didn't come through. It simply didn't happen. For some stupid bloody reason it reset itself to the default Moz page... And, needless to say, the 'phone lines are a TAD busy at the moment... Well, anyway, well done to those to got good tickets, and commiserations to anyone whose life might be falling apart at this very moment. Pure empathy, if so!

Just managed to get my tickets at 10:20 am (UK time) from www.gisandtours.com, though when I first tried them this morning it said "seated - sold out" and "standing - not available" (whatever that means). So I tried and retried calling the ticketline which was constantly engaged. I tried gigsandtours one last time and lo and behold, ALL ticket types were on sale again! I am presuming they releasing them in batches or something? Or is it just a plain old cock-up?

FYI, the NME ticketline has sold out, so has www.ticketmaster.co.uk (so they say). THere is a site called www.getmetickets.net which IS selling tickets, but at stupidly high prices (about £100 I think).

Best of luck

Carlos_Blakos

I phoned the venue directly on the 0161 number, was on hold for 5 minutes and got through at 9:30 exactly! Very nice people, and I got 4 standing tickets. I may actually have a spare, but won't know for a week or so...

I'm soooooooooooooooooooooo excited!!

Just got two more standing tickets from tickmaster.co.uk - just keep going back and forth until it offers standing tickets.

The website works in a sequential manner so patience should see success!

gigsandtours show no seats available though. Does each ticket broker have its own allocation? I'm glad I managed to get my ticket this morning, but this on-off availability in the span of 90 minutes is stupid.

This may have already been pointed out, but May 22 is FA Cup Final day, and there's a reasonable-ish chance Man Utd might be in it. So it could be quite a day in Manchester.

Also, if anyone is thinking of going up the day before you can get a double room at the Travelodge Manchester Central for 10 quid. They're sold out on the 22nd, but I still got a double at the Merchants' Hotel for 40 quid, which isn't bad.

As random as it seems, good lower tier and standing tickets are still being sold on TM. Just make sure you choose 'Secure Post' as your delivery method before querying for standing tickets, otherwise you'll have to request new seats.

And hit refresh as long as you can tolerate it!

i tried every possible way.
i got it at last at a ridiculous price through getmetickets... but it's standing!
see you all in manchester.
maccoz from italy!

After getting up early this morning and hammering the gigsandtours.com site with requests, around 9:40 I managed to get a chance to enter my details in. Then it fucked up and I couldn't get a connection back. I then called gigsandtours.com about 1000 times and eventually got a line into a queue, only to be told that all the tickets had been sold out (9:50am). I then repeatedly refreshed ticketmaster.co.uk for standing tickets for about 40 mins until I eventually got the option to order. So 2 floor tickets, ordered! And I can't bloody wait.

I recommend everyone that wants to get standing tickets to just keep trying ticketmaster. Oh, and you'll need to select 'secure post'. Good luck!

as others have mentioned, floor (standing) tickets are still available on ticketmaster.co.uk:

http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/cgi/asp_events/byid.asp?event_id=18003858ED88245E& category=Music [ticketmaster.co.uk]

Just keep refreshing the 'Trying to retrieve your tickets' page.

I managed to get my tickets from the phone lines. Good luck for all those who are trying to get them. A piece of advice, however. Don't let the automated system tell you there are no standing tickets, it told me this but when I was put through to an agent, I managed to buy what I wanted.

All the best

I have two good seated tickets (block 115, lower tier, right of stage) which I would like to trade for two standing tickets. Anyone interested? please contact me: mozzer72@hotmail.com

not what you know, but who.
Standing can't wait.

See you all there

a real rusholme ruffian

Since my first set was in section 211.. I woke up at 4:20am (NY Time) and bought another set of tickets, in a much better section.. now I just need to get the tix, and sell the other ones.

Anyone else here as crazy as my wife and I and heading from NY to Manchester for this show :)

Gentlemen and Ladies,

Due to an immeasurably irritating glitch* in the ticketmaster system, I find myself with 4 seated tickets in block 108, in front of the stage at the M.E.N. (Good seats, mind)

I managed to get my intended tickets (standing) and so I've got the four seated tix for sale.

I'm no tout - and I'm not out to make money. The first person to offer me the FACE+BOOKING+POSTAGE charge of 132.75 GBP that I've incurred gets all four tickets.

Seating Information:
LOWER TIER
PRICE LEVEL 1

SECTION BL 108, ROW W, SEATS 11 TO 14

Contact me on charlie@bang.co.uk if you want them.

*Ticketmaster informed me that I should select secure postage for my allocated standing tickets. Upon clicking "Back" it re-allocated me the above seats. It wasn't until the confirmation email arrived that I noticed.

(First of all: please be nice, forgive my bad English).

Hello, everyone, congratulations to all of those who got to buy their tickets for the Morrissey show; I didn't. From Spain, not sure why, I couldn't see the gigsandtours.com site, probably due to excess traffic on the page. And couldn't buy them via phone, because I couldn't dial that number from Spain. So: I got no tickets anyway.

What I find quite funny is people who have bought dozens of tickets that now they don't want, and the trade of tickets on comments. It's comforting to see that trade (it reminds me of the cards trading on school), it makes me think I would finally manage to get, at least, one standing ticket. What I really fear... is the bidding for the tickets, and how the prize can grow as the date of the show gets near... Plus, the plane ticket to get to Manchester, plus the hotel fee, plus the price of the merchandise I would surely buy... Well, what a mess, if only some promoter would bring Morrissey to Spain, it would save me this terrible headache!

I got my ticket!!

104, Row E, seat 25!

Anyone near? :p

Apparently the tickets from ticketline.co.uk will be going on sale a bit later since their server crashed this morning. So no need to buy from getmetickets.co.uk at £145 each (how was he allowed to get an allocation for the concert?).

Got there at 8.30 only to find that about twenty bastard ticket touts with all their scally kids at the head of the queue buying up every ticket in sight. It made me so angry when there were so many real fans waiting to get tickets. Anyway, finally got to the window at 10.40, after my friend texting me to tell me that it was sold out online and thinking that all hope was gone. I jokingly asked for 6 standing tickets thinking that there wouldn't be a hope in hell in getting them and I would be up in the gods somewhere. I had no problem getting them. I was sure that they would have gone within the first 5 minutes. Worth the two hour wait in the freezing cold. I'm so glad that I got off my arse and went down there. BTW, I live in Rusholme so if anybody needs any information about Manchester, please let me know!

I visited gigsandtours.com at 9.30am and finally, (I think), got 2 tix about 10am but haven't as yet had any confirmation by email even though the transaction went thru OK. I visited ticketmaster.co.uk and wayahead.com in the days previous only to find that Morrissey wasn't listed as an upcoming event. I am registered with wayahead.com so would be mightily p*ssed off if there was a presale and I didn't get to hear about it in advance. Why weren't tickets advertised properly so we all knew where to apply and on which date and time?

I think the Morrissey team have been a bit naughty about announcing this gig as a one-off (big apologies if I'm wrong about this). There is bound to be other shows at around the same time (within a month at least). When these shows are announced, the demand for the MEN shows will subside, as the demand for the second Albert Hall gig did back in 2002 when touts couldn't even get rid of the tickets for £10.
Moz has a very enthusiastic fanbase but, in the overall scheme of things, not a huge Oasis/Simply Red/Paul McCartney size fanbase but the greedy ticket touts probably don't realise this (as they didn't for the second night of RAH).
I am certain you'll be able to get in to the MEN show without a ticket in advance. I will offer you my top tips on negotiaiting with touts closer to the event! But seriously, MEN is huge, the Moz fanbase is not. If you really want to go, you'll get a ticket alright (assuming other shows are announced and this isn't a genuine one-off).
Trust me!
John