Is anyone surprised that ticketmaster.ie nearly crashed as the 10,000 tickets were sold while it’s imaginable that 100,000 people probably tried to get tickets. There’s no evidence to suggest the site crashed but there’s plenty of disappointed people out there with super-fast broadband who still had no luck. Looking at Ebay will only highlight that the touts (and plenty of opportunists) have no doubt got more than a handful of the tickets.
This gig, as Keep It Fresh reported, was always going to be a sell-out. Arcade Fire live is an amazing experience and fans are rewarded by a band who give so much more than other bands but there’s something not very satisfying about the distribution of tickets these days. There’s still a few tickets for the last night of Arcade Fire’s European Tour at Alexandra Palace which is a much better setting for the band than a tent in Phoenix Park and even with Ryanair flights to Standstead and a ticket could be done for under 90 euro. Free accommodation should be easy for Dubliners because we all know at least one person we could ask to put us up for a night in London!
- Kieran
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