The National Irish Shows 2013, Cork, Belfast, Dublin.

CianRyan

Bloody hell.
I'm going away this weekend so no money for tickets, didn't see them selling out this fast at all.

I guess I'll take what I can find second hand at a later date.

run_Forrest_run

wonder would they do a second Marquee gig? Or failing that, another gig in Ireland in Autumn, Dublin probably.

sile seilide

keep trying.. not quite sold out

missingtime

There are tickets there alright. I checked just a second ago.

frantic190

Apparently 3,000 tickets were sold in the first 10 minutes.

sile seilide

standing tickets still available

frantic190

Sold out now according to Harmonic's Facebook page.

run_Forrest_run

yep, standing tickets still available, just checked there now.

ticketmaster are some pricks, holding back standing tickets to sell the seated ones first. fcukers.

heebusjeebus

run_Forrest_run wrote: »

wonder would they do a second Marquee gig? Or failing that, another gig in Ireland in Autumn, Dublin probably.

I was thinking that but the Coronas are playing on the Saturday.
They are due in Rome on the Sunday so it's not looking likely they'll try another venue.

run_Forrest_run

heebusjeebus wrote: »

I was thinking that but the Coronas are playing on the Saturday.
They are due in Rome on the Sunday so it's not looking likely they'll try another venue.

kick the Coronas out, I'm sure the 10 strong crowd won't mind

Shaque attack

Got two standing but they kept offering me seating first. Hope there's still some there for the rest of ye trying.

siblers

Shaque attack wrote: »

Got two standing but they kept offering me seating first. Hope there's still some there for the rest of ye trying.

Managed to get 3 standing, delighted but its prett silly of ticketmastertohold tickets back

WoollyRedHat

Ticketmaster are *****.. I wish there was another competitor besides them.

JJ

Sounds like this gig will definitely make up for the Oxegen debacle almost 2 years ago.

lordgoat

Lol at people giving out about the ticket price. This concert at that price is a steal.

This is cheaper than the olympia gigs they played as far as i remember.

The ticketmaster charge is a worked out by how much the cost price of the ticket is. Not saying I agree with it but that's where it comes from.

siblers wrote: »

Managed to get 3 standing, delighted but its prett silly of ticketmastertohold tickets back

ticketmaster don't hold tickets back. What happens is that once you are in the queue for tickets (on the timer) they register as sold until the timer runs out, then they go back into the queue.

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Ticketmaster are *****.. I wish there was another competitor besides them.

there are a few alternatives to ticketmaster.

www.tickets.ie being the main one.

siblers

lordgoat wrote: »

Lol at people giving out about the ticket price. This concert at that price is a steal.

This is cheaper than the olympia gigs they played as far as i remember.

The ticketmaster charge is a worked out by how much the cost price of the ticket is. Not saying I agree with it but that's where it comes from.




ticketmaster don't hold tickets back. What happens is that once you are in the queue for tickets (on the timer) they register as sold until the timer runs out, then they go back into the queue.



there are a few alternatives to ticketmaster.

www.tickets.ie being the main one.

I worked at a ticketmaster agency before and there were loads of times when tickets would be sold out for a good few hours, sometimes days and then more would become availble. May not have happened in this instance but standing tickets for me were unavailble from 9:01am till after 11 so it does feel like they were held back.

deisedude

I feel physically sick that I forgot this was on sale this morning.

Anyone willing to swap some kidneys for 2 tickets?

Eod100

Were people able to buy tickets after 11am? Promoter who's on twitter seemed to think they sould out at 11am..

lordgoat wrote: »

there are a few alternatives to ticketmaster.

www.tickets.ie being the main one.

Could be wrong, but thought it was only ticketmaster that were selling these tickets?

deisedude wrote: »

I feel physically sick that I forgot this was on sale this morning.

Anyone willing to swap some kidneys for 2 tickets?

Stay clear of ebay then.. There's a guy selling 2 standing tickets for 200 (not even including psoting).. If someone wants to make a profit then fair enough (I don't agree with it personally but whatever) but think the max you should make is double the ticket price.. Hate touts!

You might have some luck on toutless or gumtree or somewhere like that!

siblers

Eod100 wrote: »

Were people able to buy tickets after 11am? Promoter who's on twitter seemed to think they sould out at 11am..

I got mine at around half 11, I had tried to get standing tickets at 9am but they went immediatley.

deisedude

Ya, tried toutless. Can't access my Adverts.ie account, think i signed up before and didnt verify the account

Eod100 wrote: »

Were people able to buy tickets after 11am? Promoter who's on twitter seemed to think they sould out at 11am..



Could be wrong, but thought it was only ticketmaster that were selling these tickets?



Stay clear of ebay then.. There's a guy selling 2 standing tickets for 200 (not even including psoting).. If someone wants to make a profit then fair enough (I don't agree with it personally but whatever) but think the max you should make is double the ticket price.. Hate touts!

You might have some luck on toutless or gumtree or somewhere like that!

Eod100

siblers wrote: »

I got mine at around half 11, I had tried to get standing tickets at 9am but they went immediatley.

Yeah, heard 3,000 sold out in 10 mins or something like that.

Tbh, I'm surprised it sold out so fast! Guess with it's such a novelty to see a band like them play Cork!

Eod100

Think ticketmaster could easily clamp down on totus if the wanted to.. They could have a system like Munster have with rugby tikctes where people are able to return tickets if they can't use them and then these are sold on for face value..

Don't think tm have any will to do this, as once a gig is sold out they're happy..

WoollyRedHat

lordgoat wrote: »

Lol at people giving out about the ticket price. This concert at that price is a steal.

This is cheaper than the olympia gigs they played as far as i remember.

The ticketmaster charge is a worked out by how much the cost price of the ticket is. Not saying I agree with it but that's where it comes from.




ticketmaster don't hold tickets back. What happens is that once you are in the queue for tickets (on the timer) they register as sold until the timer runs out, then they go back into the queue.



there are a few alternatives to ticketmaster.

www.tickets.ie being the main one.

Realistically though, for gigs like The National, how many other companies sell tickets for them? As someone has mentioend, for this one you could only get it on TM

iamanengine

Got mine around half 11, delighted

One_More_Mile

Got mine at 11.30 after listening to herself give out mad for an hour cause I was late & missed out...blessed.

sile seilide

What actually happened to/at the National at Oxegen in 2011?

ghostdancer

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Realistically though, for gigs like The National, how many other companies sell tickets for them? As someone has mentioend, for this one you could only get it on TM

at the end of the day, that's a choice by the band and promoter.
if they wanted the tickets sold elsewhere, they could do it.

Eod100

sile seilide wrote: »

What actually happened to/at the National at Oxegen in 2011?

Beyonce was playing at the same time so there was only a few hundred at it..

Qoute from one of the lads: ''Ireland is definitely one of the countries where we feel the most connected with our audience. Well, with the exception of the year we played Oxygen – that was when we played at the same time as Beyoncé. To be honest, that gig of ours was a bit of a disaster.”

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2013/0208/1224329780306.html

ghostdancer

sile seilide wrote: »

What actually happened to/at the National at Oxegen in 2011?

on at the same time as Beyonce, on the 2nd outdoor stage:



the crowd inside the pit wasn't much better.

Matt seemed hammered though from what I remember, so doubt he really cared at the time...

sile seilide

Jaysus