Taylor Swift - Aviva Stadium June 2024

Just realised I answered an entirely different question, I thought you were asking about Stevie Nicks 🤣🤣🤣

For Dashdoll, let's just say I know for sure and leave it at that. Probably doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out!

Is Wembley pretty impossible at this stage for non code holders?

Coldplay and Pink are playing here this year, so that article saying insurance is the reason Pink, Coldplay and Beyonce arent playing here is nonsense.

I personally didn't think TS tickets were hard to get. There were plenty floating around in my circle. Its highly individualised. 

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Your belief that Verified fan helps fans and deters bots and touts is naive in the extreme.

Anyone could have applied for Verified fan for Taylor, all you needed was an email address, you didnt even need a Ticketmaster account.

Some people had thousands of entries, others tens of thousands and they received hundreds and thousands of codes which they used or sold.

They were examples. In the end those artists chose to come and pay the costs. There are several examples over the past few years of artists who skipped Ireland where traditionally they didn't e.g. Madonna, Muse etc. I'm not sure why those are conveniently ignored.

The Head of Alliance for Ireland Reform is clearly stating it is an issue.

But sure, I don't think it matters in the TS thread tbh.

Im not sure what that has to do with anything I've said.

Its been well documented that insurance is an issue. Whether you believe those people/articles or not is likely a topic for a different thread e.g. Eddie Hearn and Katie Taylor (an example where I don't believe the promoter).

where has it been refuted?

100%. There is always a chance that the seller won't provide the ticket on those sites and whilst you'll be refunded, its not good to you if you've spent money and time to get there.

Close the thread, the gigs are over and people are still losing their minds.

If insurance was such a reason, then this whole summer wouldn't be choc-a-bloc with large/medium sized outdoor gigs. As was last summer.

You also just have whingers who make out we are more ignored than is the case, saw posts on Sum 41 page when they released their final UK dates...why do Ireland always miss out? The band literally played Dublin a few weeks ago that was noted as being the last here.

I bought Midnights in the presale and got a code, but didn't get a ticket. I also registered for the second presale, but didn't get a code. My husband got a code for the presale but didn't get a ticket either. It's disappointing, but I get that demand far outstripped supply. The one thing I am annoyed about is the lack of transparency from Ticketmaster. I emailed Ticketmaster two weeks ago to ask whether resale or production tickets would need a code, and if so, would last year's codes work? They emailed back to say that last year's codes wouldn't work, and new random codes would be sent out. When the production tickets went on sale last Thursday, I knew I couldn't buy them because I hadn't received a new code.

Then it turns out I could have used my husband's code to buy a ticket on my waitlisted account. But by the time that became apparent the tickets were sold out. I was on ticketmasters website when they were uploaded, staring at them and able to buy them, I just didn't know it. That really really annoys me.

It's right to say that MCD wouldn't have known what a behemoth the Eras tour was going to be. Her first gig was in March last year, and tickets went on sale here in July. The Aviva would have been booked well before her first gig in Arizona.

Lastly, I've never seen anything like around Lansdowne road last night. Not only were there no touts selling tickets, there were multiple people holding up homemade signs looking for tickets. There were so many people down at the park beside the dodder, the Guards had to close it off and stop others going in, as it was so overcrowded. People were climbing over the wall.

I know someone said that there were tickets floating about in some social circles, but I imagine that circle is very very small. The same people who get a ticket to the Ireland v England rugby matches the week of the match because someone's Dad works for a company who has a box, or knows someone who has a ten-year Aviva ticket. For the 99.999% of the rest of us, there were no tickets "floating around" for the last few months - and it kinda pisses me off that someone would have absolutely no insight into their own privilege when making statements like that.

And very very lastly, the tickets in America are so eye watering because of the resale sites. The original tickets ranged between $49 and $400. The resale sites are the ones that have them priced at thousands and that's the reason who so many US fans are coming to Europe.

Ticketmaster and MCD made a complete balls of the ticket release last Thursday.

They just released all the tickets in one go at 10.15, they were all gone in 20 minutes.

They basically gave people no notification.

They then had a queue running for the next 3 days with literally no stock at all.

All the other cities on the European tour had multiple production releases staggered over multiple days, so if you had a code you had a very good chance of getting tickets.

The capacity limit in Dublin screwed the production drops, but as Fanirish mentioned all the standing tickets were backdoored by Ticketmaster which reduced the amount even further.

The usual suspects got their tickets, I see Noel Rock was a VIP.

I was due to go yesterday but got a violent toothache on Saturday afternoon so had to abandon ship and give my tickets to relations, they had a great time though.

A cynical view would be that it suits taylor swift to sell a bunch of tickets to Americans because the ticket scarcity creates a lot of hype. If everyone who wanted a ticket got one, would anybody really be talking about taylor swift for the past few weeks?

My wife managed to nab two of those production tickets on Thursday (thanks to a tip off i got here, thanks lads!), bizarrely using her own account which didn't have a code, using the presale code I was given last July, even though my account was blocked from joining the queue. Very strange scenario.

Here were our "restricted view" tickets anyway, great gig butnif youve looked at the shownon disney plus you havent really missed anything (apparently):

Echo what was said by @radiotrickster. My friend's son and girlfriend have seen this show six times so far, Edinburgh, Madrid, Cardiff, Wembley and two nights Dublin. And going back to Wembley again next month.

It's exactly like the Glastonbury ticket scrum. Long time registrations get absolutely nowhere, yet the same people get to go six or seven times in a row and completely take their ticket for granted.

Muse returned to Belfast for an outdoor show in 2017 with arena band Biffy Clyro as support and didn't sell out. Some acts just need to give time to replenish a market they've exhausted.