Went on sale at 10AM. Got online at 9 fucking o clock to get ready.
Refreshrefreshfreshrefreshrefreshrefresh at 9:59, get in exactly when ticket window opens.
Entire upper level (cheapest seats, only ones we can afford) are completely gone. There weren't 2 tickets together at all. So I checked to see if you could even buy one....there was one seat left. ONE seat. By the time I checked again, it was gone too.
Went on all the resale ticket sites, and the entire upper fucking level is available through brokers, marked up AT LEAST 80%.
Fuck. Unlucky. Just hope that they put another night on. To be honest, I expected Van Halen to struggle to sell out that tour, but it looks like they are doing quite well.
Similar thing happened to me when I wanted to see Coldplay. The band released the pre-sale code to the everybody. Couldn't get them then. The day later, there must have been about 1,000 tickets left, so it was even harder to get tickets.
I don't know if its as big of a problem over there as it is in America or not, but "too usual" is a gigantic understatement. It's disgusting how it happens here, and the rich and wealthiest see no problem with paying $500 to get into an average show. Ticketmaster has now also secluded the first few rows of most shows and sell them separately as "Official Premium" seats. Van Halen's are going for $1500. Face value. On Ticketmaster.
There's no such thing as getting in right at the buzzer and fighting it out for the front. The best you could do for this show was probably halfway back in the arena, first level seated. And that's if you were lottery-winning lucky.
The way it needs to be done is how they do it at The Metro (small club in Chicago where i saw Jane's Addiction and Foo Fighters last year).
No tickets. Only way into the venue was to present a photo ID with the same name as the credit card that purchased your tickets. You were allowed plus however many people you bought for- they were marked on the hand. Doors were arranged alphabetically to avoid clusters, but you were basically just checked off an attendance list. No resales possible. Had to have that name attached to the original purchase.
I hate the idea of not having that paper souvenir, proof that you were there that night...but I'll print out some pictures and save some confetti instead if it means I can actually have a shot at some seats once in a goddamn while.
