Peter Kay fans have vowed to ‘riot’ as £125 tickets for his comeback gigs were being re-sold for a staggering £1770.
Followers of the Phoenix Nights legend, 49, took to social media to vent their frustrations as online queues to nab the in-demand tickets also saw queues surpass 300,000 people.
Demand for Peter Kay’s gigs continues to grow
One fan shared a snap of the staggering prices
Ticket resellers Viagogo are selling off tickets for a September date in Leeds with mark-ups of more than 1,000 percent – just an hour after they were released.
Some fans stuck in a 300,000-person queue joked: “Where’s Phil Schofield and Holly Willoughby?”
Seats in Cardiff sold for £50 are now reselling at £1,180 – more than a 2,300 percent mark-up.
The tour went on sale at 10am this morning (November 12) and fans were in the queue as early as 6am.
It comes after O2’s Priority website crashed amid “unprecedented demand” for tickets earlier in the week
£35 tickets have been going for as much as £1k on re-sale websites as desperate admirers of the Car Share funny man part with vast sums of money to be able to see their hero back on stage.
While fans have been assured by O2 that more tickets will be available and the website issues will be sorted, many are still voicing their anger online about being unable to book them.
If I don’t get Peter Kay tickets today there will be riots hahah, “one fan wrote on twitter on November 12.
A second fumed: “So if I’ve been on the @TicketmasterUK website since 8.40am, and pressed the waiting room BEFORE telling someone else about it, how is there 12,000 less in front of them than me.”
A third commented: “this #peterkay queue is horrible.”
And a fourth gave up, adding: “300,000 people ahead of me in the queue on TicketMaster for #peterkay tickets. I’ll wait for the DVD”
A fifth summed up the mood with: “Peter Kay tickets … impossible.”
The first batch of tickets were released on the O2 Priority app at 10am on Thursday but many were unable to load anything as the system buckled under pressure.
Virgin Media O2 said it is “by far the highest demand we’ve ever seen for Priority Tickets in 15 years”.
“Sorry, we’re working on it,” the firm told desperate fans.
“Please be patient.”
Peter, 49, is embarking on his first stand-up tour in 12 years and yesterday announced a monthly residency at London’s O2 Arena, performing there every month for a year, starting next month.
Fans have shared grabs of the agonising queues
Peter is beloved for hits such as Car Share
