This article was found online regarding the onsale of Phish tickets on January 30th. This may be the fastest sell out in recent history. What makes things even more surprising is that this happened amidst the economic downturn.
Phish On-Sales Tax Live Nation's Ticketing System
Billboard
Ticket sales for the upcoming tour by the reunited Phish exploded
today (Jan. 30), with all shows selling out in minutes and severely
testing Live Nation's new ticketing system.
"We sold out everywhere we went on sale," Phish agent Chip Hooper at
Paradigm tells Billboard.com. "We put up two Jones Beaches, a Camden,
N.J., an Asheville, N.C., Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Indianapolis.
Every show sold out very quickly. [Phish manager] Coran Capshaw and I
are very happy."
But the blogosphere was blistering with frustrated fans unable to get
tickets on the new LiveNation.com ticketing system, which seemed to
crack under the strain of the massive demand.
"We're really excited about the response," Hooper says. "This was a
uniquely high-demand situation, so I'm not surprised that the system
was taxed to the max. They probably got a million hits in the first
minute. The folks at Live Nation are well aware of what happened and
worked really quickly to rectify the traffic jam. I have all the
confidence in the world that they'll have the system working as smooth
as silk very soon."
Phish returns to live duty March 7-9 in Hampton, Va. The summer tour
begins June 4 at Jones Beach in Wantagh, N.Y.
Billboard
Ticket sales for the upcoming tour by the reunited Phish exploded
today (Jan. 30), with all shows selling out in minutes and severely
testing Live Nation's new ticketing system.
"We sold out everywhere we went on sale," Phish agent Chip Hooper at
Paradigm tells Billboard.com. "We put up two Jones Beaches, a Camden,
N.J., an Asheville, N.C., Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Indianapolis.
Every show sold out very quickly. [Phish manager] Coran Capshaw and I
are very happy."
But the blogosphere was blistering with frustrated fans unable to get
tickets on the new LiveNation.com ticketing system, which seemed to
crack under the strain of the massive demand.
"We're really excited about the response," Hooper says. "This was a
uniquely high-demand situation, so I'm not surprised that the system
was taxed to the max. They probably got a million hits in the first
minute. The folks at Live Nation are well aware of what happened and
worked really quickly to rectify the traffic jam. I have all the
confidence in the world that they'll have the system working as smooth
as silk very soon."
Phish returns to live duty March 7-9 in Hampton, Va. The summer tour
begins June 4 at Jones Beach in Wantagh, N.Y.
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