A small number of tickets to see Stereophonics in Dundee, cancelled after buyers broke the rules, have been released back to fans who missed out earlier this week.
Locals were left “gutted” on Tuesday after entry for the group’s Caird Hall gig, which takes place on August 22, sold out rapidly after going on sale at 9am.
Devoted Stereophonics fans had queued outside the Dundee City Box Office in the rain from as early as 4.30am to grab briefs for the concert.
Tickets quickly surfaced on websites such as StubHub and Viagogo for as much as £200 – a sum five times in excess of the asking price.
Regular Music, who are promoting Stereophonics’ Caird Hall gig, has said that four tickets have been released back to fans due to buyers exceeding the purchase limit.
Along with the city box office they have vowed to cancel any tickets found for resale through a secondary market.
A spokesman for Regular Music said: “There were only four tickets released as a result of tickets being cancelled due to customers exceeding the purchase limit. These have been sold.”
Regular Music also issued information to anyone who bought tickets as gifts for family and friends.
Many locals had raised concerns that strict rules requiring concertgoers to show ID matching the name of the buyer on the ticket would backfire on the night of the gig.
The spokesman added: “Tickets bearing the same surname (e.g. gifted by family members with the same surname) do not need to be transferred and ticket holders will be able to enter with their own ID.
“Recipients of tickets gifted by someone with a different surname should bring the credit card that the tickets were bought with and their tickets to the box office on the night to have name change validated before entry to the venue.”
The organisation joined the Stereophonics themselves in urging fans not to purchase briefs through online marketplaces, warning that they may be worthless.
A spokesman for the Welsh rockers said that purchasing tickets through such websites was a “massive gamble”.
FanFair Alliance and Stereophonics fans were among those to condemn StubHub and Viagogo on Tuesday.
