Early this morning in the U.K., fans scrambled online to get tickets for Radiohead’s three-night stand at the small Roundhouse venue in London. Unfortunately, things didn’t go so well.
Tickets for the shows started going on sale at 9 a.m. local time. Demand was going to be high anyway, since the shows in May will be the band’s first gigs in London in four years. But the queue on the Roundhouse’s website was driving fans crazy.
As SkyNews pointed out, some fans noticed that their spot in the queue fell every time it refreshed. One person complained on Twitter about being dropped from Number 5 to Number 16,300. A writer for The Guardian noted that he went from 2,323 in the queue to 13,685 after being on the site for 15 minutes.
I was in position 5 of the queue and then moved to 16,300 for #Radiohead??? What!!! @RoundhouseLDN
— bakedtoimperfection (@chonniebakes) March 18, 2016
Later, the Roundhouse confirmed that tickets were completely sold out, but people still complained that the site kept them in the queue and continued to refresh.
Thanks for your patience this morning everyone. We experienced unprecedented demand for @radiohead. All tickets are now sold out.
— Roundhouse (@RoundhouseLDN) March 18, 2016
It looks like ticket re-sellers had trouble nabbing seats, too. StubHub only lists two tickets for the Thursday, May 26 show available - both at £1180.
Lead singer Thom Yorke also expressed his frustration with the situation:
I'm as fucked off as you are . and am only human .
— Thom Yorke (@thomyorke) March 18, 2016
Hopefully Radiohead fans outside of London will have a better chance at seeing them. They are set to perform in Amsterdam, Paris, New York City, Los Angeles and Mexico City this year.
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