Tried your best but didn’t succeed in getting Coldplay tickets?
Fret not because the British rock band has agreed to play one more night in Singapore next year.
Concert organiser Live Nation Lushington on Thursday (Nov 24) announced a second show for the band’s A Head Full of Dreams Tour on Mar 31 at the National Stadium.
The highly popular band was originally slated to perform for just one night on April 1.
But due to overwhelming demand, the band has added a second night to their concert.
There will also be additional tickets to be released for the first show.
Tickets will go on sale on Friday (Nov 25) at 10am.
On Monday, fans all over Singapore prepared to purchase their tickets online but not everyone managed to get past the virtual waiting room that customers are made to go through before selecting tickets or making their payment.
Tickets were sold out within 90 minutes. On Nov 17, some 12,000 pre-sale tickets were also sold out in one hour.
Angry fans took to Live Nation Lushington’s official Facebook page to complain and criticise the ticketing system. Some even claimed that the tickets weren’t actually sold out but were being sold on the resale market instead.
There was even a ticket limit ‘loophole’, where a fan reportedly managed to buy 28 tickets on her own.
However, the organiser took steps to void some of tickets that were re-sold online at inflated prices and promised to “open up a little more inventory in the coming days to cope with the very significant demand”.
They also added that the band was “aware of touts trying to profit” from the resale of tickets.
For tomorrow’s sale, there will be a limit for four tickets across all categories per transaction, said the organiser.
Here’s hoping that previously unlucky fans will finally score their coveted tickets.
As Coldplay sang in “The Scientist”: Nobody said it was easy. No one ever said it would be this hard.
ssandrea@sph.com.sg
