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TICKETS FOR THE only Irish gig as part of the Spice Girls reunion tour have now sold out.
Tickets for the 24 May 2019 concert in Croke Park were priced at between €59.50 – €191.00 and went on sale at 9am this morning.
MCD Productions announced at just after 11.30am that the tickets are now gone.
Even before the tickets sold out, fans had already gone online to vent frustration at the sale process.
Several said they appeared to have tickets before the web page stalled and they went back in only to find they were only offered more expensive tickets.
Ticket resale website Viagago already has numerous tickets for the concert available to buy on its website.
Dublin North West TD Noel Rock, who has previously introduced legislation aimed at tackling ticket touting, said in a statement that action is needed.
“The exploitation of fans needs to Stop right now. Legislation is sorely needed here which is why I am lobbying government to enact my touting proposals as soon as possible.”
If we Wannabe good legislators, we’ve got to buck this trend. Tickets for the gig are already selling for €450 on Viagogo, the main facilitator of touting. This is far Too Much. You’d need to be Posh Spice to afford this Scary price.
“Real fans are sick of paying through the nose for tickets to concerts in Ireland.”
The 90s pop superstars announced a much-awaited return earlier this month but Irish fans were initially left disappointed by a UK-only tour.
A week later, the band announced a single date in Dublin’s Croke Park to take place a week before the start of the UK tour.
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Anger and confusion as to why anybody would do that sort of damage to their ears.
@Trevor Hayden: Real question is in 2018 who still wants to see the Spice Girls. Young Girls today haven’t a clue who they are, I would have thought Women in their 30′s and 40′s would have grown up by now and be too embarrassed to go..
@David Garland: wouldn’t be my cup of tea. But whoever wants to spend their money on the spice girls, so be it. I don’t think it’s embarrassing at all. Why should anyone else care.
@David Garland: yeah, women in their 30’s and 40’s wanting to have fun. Who would have thought it ? The only embarrassing thing here is your comment that belongs in the 1950’s
@Trevor Hayden: and pay €191.00.
@David Garland:
The Spice girls have grown up too.
@Trevor Hayden: Well I got mine. Screw the haters.
@Ciarán O’ Donoghue: The eye and ear hospital is within walking distance of Dublin City Centre.
Only kidding, enjoy.
@Ciarán O’ Donoghue: good for you! Enjoy!
@Rose Margaret: people are paying up to 350 euros for Advent calendars
@Trevor Hayden: Trevor -The “Village clown” Thank God it’s 2018, A time where people don’t need idiotic comments like yours! Each to their own! Presumably everything you listen to is masterclass??
@Ciarán O’ Donoghue: you lucky thing enjoy
@Ian James Burgess: ah good point fair play
@Ciaran McCann: Warning : Sense of humour required.
Jesus chill out.
Ticketmaster have the complete run of the ticket sale industry.
They dont seem to have to answer to anyone for the brutal service.
Any kind of medium demand for tickets ends up crashing the website and as for the prices, they are mad money to be paying. Better off spending money on ticket going to the UK and make a night of it with cheap flights and accomodation.
@Sarah Ennis: Seat wave haven’t gone away you know.
@Genius 80s+: ticketmaster and seatwave are the same company, as most people know – it now seems that they’re just operating in an even more devious way by making it appear that system has stalled and diverting to more expensive price for seats. It is sad. There is surely some equally creative solutions to control and ban this extortion?
I’m not sure legislation is required here. Vote with your feet people. I know TDs should be able to do more than one thing at a time but this has to be bottom of the list stuff. Who rings their TD to complain they couldn’t get spice girl tickets FFS.
@DaisyMay: nobody would have contacted him over this. He has been working on ticket touting for years. He seems to be having a bit of fun with his statement too
@Michael McLoughlin: yeah hilarious
@DaisyMay: Legislation is needed.
I got a presale code for the Foo Fighters works out at over 90 euro to see them in Dublin. about 55 euro for the Belfast gig. It’s absolutely crazy the difference.
@Philip Morgan: I think that’s €85 I’d happily spend. But yeah, ticket prices here are bananas.
@Mick Ryan: As regards the Spice Girls, though they are not my cup of tea, about 60000 tickets priced at up to €190 sold out in 150 minutes. Sounds like they got the ticket prices spot on, if not possibly undervalued them.
@Mick Ryan: Agrees that’s why I got both :)
The local chippers won’t be the only places to find Spice Bags that night.
@Kem Trayle: ba-dum-tisk!
Yo, I’ll tell ye that yer robbed, that yer really, really robbed
Old Spice…..
Usually works out cheaper seeing some of these big acts abroad. If I was to pay for tickets, acommadation and travel to Dublin, I think I’d rather spend nearly the same to see them elsewhere.
Nothing will ever change about screwing us for gigs
@Mickey Finn: It would be OK for the artists if they got a fair slice of the wedge. There’s no living to be had now from recorded music as it’s only role is to get bums on seats at gigs. That wouldn’t affect the Spice Bags but for many other bands it’s the only way to make a living after they’ve been shafted by record companies, publishers and management. Many if the acts you see in the bigger gigs are skint. I have an old good mate who is constantly touring off the back of very well known 80s hits after being shafted royally by the industry.
sorry, about the €150, do you pay them or they pay you? I’d need at least €300 to attend
Spicy Prices
What a complete and utter waste of money so many sheep into manufactured pop music drivel
@Jonny: Sometimes people just like to switch their brain off Jonny and enjoy music that makes them feel good without giving a thought as to why.People also enjoy nostalgia.Have a day off and lighten up,not everything needs to have deep meaning.
@Tom Thumb: agreed but in this case… poor drivel
@Tom Thumb: I enjoy nostalgia but not manufactured pop music nonsense
@Jonny: So it would be a waste of money for you to buy tickets,for that matter it would be a waste of money if I did too but to those who enjoy the Spice Girls it’s no more of a waste than it would be for you to go and see one of the non ‘manufactured’ artists you enjoy.
P.S. I’d wager there’s plenty of manufacturing gone into a lot of the music you’d spend your money on.
@Jonny:
Relax.
Attendance is not compulsory.
@Jonny: But then how else would you get to feel smug and superior?
@Jonny: Wouldn’t ye rather the sheep stay away from the gigs you go to?
Wow a td worrying about ticket prices . Everything else must be fixed then
@ed w: do you think a person can only work / think / focus on one single issue at a time? And you’ve chosen this as your one and only issue?
@Karen Wellington: don’t bother Karen, some people too thick to comprehend.
Some people are slamming their bodies down, and winding it all around in anger.
Noel Rick is obviously a fan, dropping song names like that…
Wouldn’t go there if it was for free
The tickets are NOT sold out. They are declared such as part of the ticket master scam.
I guess they are the Old Spice Girls now. Giving humming along a whole new meaning
No they haven’t sold out. Between now and the gig general admission tickets will appear on Ticketmaster as ‘Platinum’ tickets at twice and three times the price. Watch.
Another night of lock down misery for Croke park neighbours
@liam ward60: Not a fan myself, I like to be the one to choose what music I listen to. Hop on Airbnb and go elsewhere for the nights.
Geri halliwells back is gone!
Emma Bunton looks a mirrion dorrars
Wouldn’t cross over the road to see them but wouldn’t begrudge anybody else doing so
Just checked at 4pm still tickets there on ticket master . Expensive ones but still there. Sounds like bull to get the resale sites profiting
I object to the use of the term ‘band’. They are a vocal and dance revue act.
I also suspect about …10 or perhaps as many as …11 tickets for this thing were actually issued and this a stoking exercise.
Just bought 5 tickets individually in the same row for our gang of friends, First one at 10am, 5th one only bought ten mins ago. All seated together.
Buy them individually but consecutively.
It’s to be expected with musicians of this high calibre ;)
@Justin Forde: Neither of which these girls are. They don’t play foot or hand instruments nor are high caliber – just singers of someone else’s professional manufactured tune writing.
Croke Park sales have given me almost as much to be ashamed of, about being Irish, as any random handful of our politicians in the last couple of years.
And that’s saying something.
Some music festivals have solved this problem very easily: when you buy a ticket you have to provide a persons name which is then tied to that particular ticket.
You can only enter if you have a ticket and the name on the ticket matches your ID.
If it’s not your name on the ticket – no entry.
If you play dumb and pretend that you ‘forgot’ your ID – no entry.
And voila, no one buys tickets from touts as they are worthless to anyone except the person who bought them.
Case closed.
@Termaz Fx: Tom Waits did it years ago where you had to provide a passport or the bank card the tickets were bought with. Though that was in the days before we started getting ripped by the official sellers.
Money, Money, their tour will give them each 3 million, hard to leave that.
Wow 450e to see the spice bags. Big money that
Poor Ireland. My reaction to initially hearing it was a UK-only tour could be summarised as ‘Ireland 1 – 0 UK’
Noel rock sounds like he’s taking the piss
As long as people are willing to pay crazy money for tickets, others will put them at those prices. Fact. Like it or not.
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