Fri 11 Apr 2008
No Radiohead Tickets for Me
Posted by Caroline on Crack under Los Angeles, Music -Gripe #1: I hate scalpers and their newfangled ticket-hogging technology!
Gripe #2: I know Radiohead loves the intimate setting of the Bowl but come on, guys! You have A LOT of fans! Try a bigger venue, or how about THREE nights? Or four nights! THAT would be awesome.
Gripe #3: Effin scalpers!
Gripe #4: Web sites publishing the secret presale password. It’s supposed to be a secret to only the subscribers. OK, I was guilty of that before but that was for the Beastie Boys. It’s TONS harder to get tix for Radiohead. They always sell out in, like, a half second!
OK, as you may have gathered, this morning I tried getting tickets for at least one of Radiohead’s shows at the Hollywood Bowl this coming August 24 and 25. Being part of the KROQ Street Team I was savvy to KROQ’s secret presale password. But since that password ended up making its way on the Web to everyone else not part of the Street Team, I’m thinking that the scalpers used it, too. They must have because the presale tickets sold sooo fast. And Ticketmaster makes it harder for a human being like myself to jump through hoops and score tickets what with their “security check” measures that have you type in not one word but two. Arrgggh! Bitches! I don’t know how the machines get around that.
Anyway, tickets to the general public (no passwords needed) go on sale online tomorrow morning at 10am Pacific and range in price from $39-$75 each. So if you’re a hard-core Radiohead fan, good luck with that. Sorry, I really don’t have any tips on how to score tickets as everything I’ve tried from signing on early to using lots of windows at the same time hasn’t worked. I only know of people who were able to get tickets though. My brother’s friend (bi-atch!) got them for both nights through Radiohead’s W.A.S.T.E. site, which allows four tickets per person unlike the two-ticket of the presales, and last time he simply waited in line to score tickets and did.
All I really know is that Ticketmaster’s “partner” TicketsNow is charging $295 a person for tickets in the V section. That’s $300 for a nosebleed seat! As much as I love Radiohead, that’s just not an option. Ah well. Good luck, Radiohead fans!
ONLINE SALE: SATURDAY, APRIL 12 at 10am PDT
April 11th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
HA-ha. We goooooot tickets! Finally, and I still hate ticketmaster.
April 12th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Radiohead tickets went on sale at 10 AM this morning. I was logged onto ticketmaster.com b4 sale start time and proceeded to purchase my 1 ticket at 10 on the nose. From 10am-10:12am via repeated searches the best seat I was offered was way in the back of the venue. I did just a little better than a friend who could only secure lawn seats. I don’t understand how in the world the better two sections of a large venue be sold out at the very start of ticket sale when THERE WAS NO PRE-SALE. WTF!!! It’s now 12pm I bet the show’s totally sold out thanks to greedy ticket brokers/scalpers.
April 12th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
hmmmmmm,
i am thinking volunteering… i believe it might work
April 13th, 2008 at 10:02 am
I thought we discussed before about the scalpers’ software that gets them past TM’s security screens and lets them pocket the tickets. O well. BTW, Hollywood Bowl, “intimate setting”???? I like the setting, but how intimate can you be with 17,376 folks? They should have done a 7-10 night run at Nokia or Disney.