Oxegen sold out

LundiMardi · 05-03-2006 12:08AM

Call_me_al wrote:

well we dont have much other choice unless you wanna soend near a grand goping to reading or glastonbury - which isnt even on. Oxegen is good and you how you can tell - it sells well.

now why someone would buy tickets to see that no talent a$$ clown bon jovi is something you should be asking...

yeah, Bon Jovi is a wanker all right...How they sold 100+ million records is beyond me, what with no talent n all.

exiot · 05-03-2006 12:36AM

Apparently about 40,000 tickets have been sold, a batch of tickets were released yesterday because of the amount of people who bought them on Friday.
A friend who works for a Ticketmaster outlet told me this today..

Nalced_irl · 05-03-2006 08:17AM

rubadub wrote:

Some idiot paid €460 for 2 tickets. They are going to be sick as dogs when more go on sale. Especially as they are still on sale on other tout sites for far less!

Thats the reason they are sold out. Of course there are more, and everybody (except the one you mentioned) know this so wont go to touts. Its a way of trying to drive touting out as far as i know. Look at U2 in croker. There wasnt the same amount of touting cos tickets were being released close to the date and most people knew it. I think its a good idea by MCD if it works. I mean, its not some ploy by them, Oxegen will sell out eventually either way.

EDIT: I forgot to say, paying that much for tickets this early?? Thats just plain stupid!

Toast · 05-03-2006 01:21PM

Call_me_al wrote:

well we dont have much other choice unless you wanna spend near a grand going to reading or glastonbury

It doesnt cost ANYTHING like that amount of money to go to either Glastonbury or Reading

Try closer to 200 to go to Reading and 300 for Glastonbury with flights. Oh yeh its 180 to go to Oxegen ( a 2 day festival) if you throw in parking / bus tickets.

NIBBS · 05-03-2006 01:48PM

it's all very simple........it's cheaper to go to most other countries to gigs/festivals than to go here.......ticket prices here are so far above the European average it's unreal......

and the line up for Oxygen is pretty poor - again........MCD know that the majority of people going to the festival aren't going for the music and therefore couldn't care less about the line up, so they just throw a couple of names on the bill and it sells itself.......in this country you could at this stage probably hire out a field somewhere in the middle of knowhere and have no bands on the bill at all, just bring a crappy PA system and push some music out over a CD player, and still charge €150 plus for a couple of days.........

I don't understand why The Who are on this type of bill at all, but as with most of the bands the promoters haven't tried to fit and blend anything here at all........

COCK · 06-03-2006 12:32AM

so lets just get this straight, there will be more tickets on sale no question

ThE_IVIAcIVIAIV · 06-03-2006 12:39AM

90% chance more tickets will be available

COCK · 06-03-2006 12:42AM

man oxegen people are damn sadists... and i thought for a few minutes i was gonna end up goin on my own!! well at least i got a ticket...

mezzdon · 06-03-2006 12:49AM

OXEGEN 2006 - SOLD OUT
The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Who, The Strokes, Hard Fi, Goldfrapp and the Artic Monkeys are among the acts performing at OXEGEN 2006 on 8 and 9 July 2006. Tickets are now SOLD OUT.

Thats what ticketmaster are saying!

peeps78 · 06-03-2006 11:10AM

if and when they do sell more tickets they are gonna sell out quicker than previous years because glastonbury isent on this year and they are heavily advertising oxegen on MTV so alot more people from the UK are probably going to try to go.

rubadub · 06-03-2006 01:19PM

rabbitinlights wrote:

When did anyone say the tickets were sold out?

Dont say its a huge ticketmaster conspiracy that they say its sold out, they never released any statement saying this.

It is on the ticketmaster site right now, maybe not when you posted but it is there now.

OXEGEN 2006 - SOLD OUT
The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Who, The Strokes, Hard Fi, Goldfrapp and the Artic Monkeys are among the acts performing at OXEGEN 2006 on 8 and 9 July 2006. Tickets are now SOLD OUT.

The day tickets were not available online the day after they went on sale, this is because they had to get reports back from the shops that sold them during the first day, there were alot of tickets bought on the first day so they ceased the online sale of tickets to clear the backlog.

This makes no sense to me at all

Very few shops get "hard tickets", i.e. ready printed ones like the sound cellar get. Most are online agents like HMV who print them out there and then. All these linked shops are going to have direct links with ticketmaster, thats how other gigs sell out in minutes and people in slow queues in linked shops get none. Don't understand what you mean by backlog?

axel90 · 06-03-2006 01:34PM

Relax people loads more will come available... this happes with everything, /i have a ticket but a few of my mates need them, i can nearly bet they'll all get tickets. There is no way that line up would sell out thoses tickkets that quick

psilocybe · 06-03-2006 01:47PM

Soundceller get actual tickets and they said they have very few left and that Ticketmaster are sold out. A friend wanted to put a deposit down but they wouldn't let him.

rubadub · 06-03-2006 03:13PM

If it was truely sold out they would not still be having expensive full colour full page ads in todays papers... adding to the cost of the event.

lodgepole · 06-03-2006 03:19PM

rubadub wrote:

If it was truely sold out they would not still be having expensive full colour full page ads in todays papers... adding to the cost of the event.

Those ads have already been paid for. They don't have a money back guarantee.

But I agree that it's not sold out.

kc66 · 06-03-2006 03:21PM

rubadub wrote:

If it was truely sold out they would not still be having expensive full colour full page ads in todays papers... adding to the cost of the event.

This often happens with sold out concerts. I assume the ads are payed for well in advance. They will probably be advertising till the week before it.

bigpoppa · 06-03-2006 03:25PM

Its just been on the RTE news it is in fact one big conspiracy alright so well done lads for sorting it. Apparently what they have been doing is booking acts and selling tickets in some sort of "festival" 'scam'.

Apparently the tickets are in fact sold out and now if you havent got one you cant go.

The flaw in the scam however is that if you dont want to go you dont have to buy a ticket.

No doubt Prime Time will cover this in the next few days also.

Note that there is another scam doing the rounds called Electric Picnic.

oxygen_old · 06-03-2006 03:43PM

bigpoppa wrote:

Its just been on the RTE news it is in fact one big conspiracy alright so well done lads for sorting it. Apparently what they have been doing is booking acts and selling tickets in some sort of "festival" 'scam'.

Apparently the tickets are in fact sold out and now if you havent got one you cant go.

The flaw in the scam however is that if you dont want to go you dont have to buy a ticket.

No doubt Prime Time will cover this in the next few days also.

Note that there is another scam doing the rounds called Electric Picnic.

wtf? Your making no sence,even sarcastic sence.

This is just the same as last year,they said the tickets were sold out months in advance but more became available closer to the date. Theres no way they sold out all day and camping tickets all ready

Jonny Arson · 06-03-2006 03:46PM

I'm certain there will be camping/weekend tickets on sale at a later date but there won't be many of them so keep checking ticketbastard.ie over the next while. 25,000 tickets were sold after Oxegen 2005 for this year and with all the shove down your throat advertising from MCD it's hardly surprising so many people sadly bought into the ''OMG Kaizers, OMG Chilliz!! OMG OMG!! must buy NOW!'' attitude. Also no Glastonbury this year means that more people from UK are coming over this year.

FAO the people who are moaning and complaining about not getting a ticket....

they were on presale for the last week. If you wanted a ticket that badly you should have got it then. They were on sale all day Friday so it's your bad.

Binomate · 06-03-2006 05:19PM

I've got my fingers crossed.

rubadub · 06-03-2006 05:50PM

Lodgepole wrote:

Those ads have already been paid for. They don't have a money back guarantee..

kc66 wrote:

This often happens with sold out concerts. I assume the ads are payed for well in advance.

Can anybody working in newspapers or advertising confirm this? This happens all the time so you would think with decades in the industry they might cop on and not pay for so many ads? Always surprised me when U2 did full page ads for gigs that were absolutely certain to sell out in minutes. This is partly the reason the tickets cost so much, those ads are not cheap.

If it truely was sold out and paid for in advance you would think they could offer the ad space at a knockdown price to somebody else, thats why it really makes no sense to me. Cannot see any reason why that is not possible.

rubadub · 06-03-2006 06:03PM

Lodgepole wrote:

Those ads have already been paid for. They don't have a money back guarantee..

kc66 wrote:

This often happens with sold out concerts. I assume the ads are payed for well in advance.

Can anybody working in newspapers or advertising confirm this? This happens all the time so you would think with decades in the industry they might cop on and not pay for so many ads? Always surprised me when U2 did full page ads for gigs that were absolutely certain to sell out in minutes. This is partly the reason the tickets cost so much, those ads are not cheap.

If it truely was sold out and paid for in advance you would think they could offer the ad space at a knockdown price to somebody else, thats why it really makes no sense to me. Cannot see any reason why that is not possible. Especially as the ads are by MCD or whoever else and they have plenty of other gigs they could be promoting in the same place. Surely they would know this happens all the time and would be able to change ads a day in advance, the papers only get their stories the day before so whats the big deal in changing an ad that they could have sent in weeks in advance?

deaddonkey · 06-03-2006 08:28PM

"OXEGEN 2006

THE ARTIST'S AND AUDIENCE'S ULTIMATE MUSIC FESTIVAL!

Check out the acts in the line up section!

Unprecedented demand for OXEGEN was experienced on official websites, ticket hotlines and in ticket outlets as 2006s event sold out in just under 12 hours!

Tickets went on sale at 8am on Friday morning, and the highest demand ever was witnessed for OXEGEN as day tickets, weekend tickets and weekend tickets with camping sold out completely in UNDER 12 hours. Music fans have once again underlined today that OXEGEN which takes place in Punchestown on Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th July 2006 (subject to licence) is the hottest ticket in Ireland. "

linky

Binomate · 06-03-2006 08:31PM

I really don't think there will be any more tickets. They claim all 70,000 sold in 12 hours. Even if they actually did sell that many, what do you think the odds are that they might create more tickets to meet the demands? It's a win win situation unless they are not licenced to do so or need to meet regulations or something.

Fuzzy_Dunlop · 06-03-2006 08:41PM

Binomate wrote:

I really don't think there will be any more tickets. They claim all 70,000 sold in 12 hours. Even if they actually did sell that many, what do you think the odds are that they might create more tickets to meet the demands? It's a win win situation unless they are not licenced to do so or need to meet regulations or something.

i assume you meant that you really dont think there wont be any tickets unless i've completely missed your point

1huge1 · 06-03-2006 08:43PM

mezzdon wrote:

OXEGEN 2006 - SOLD OUT
The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Who, The Strokes, Hard Fi, Goldfrapp and the Artic Monkeys are among the acts performing at OXEGEN 2006 on 8 and 9 July 2006. Tickets are now SOLD OUT.

Thats what ticketmaster are saying!

well i heard on today fm last night (the blast)
that they always do this and mcd (i think thats the name) will be releasing loads more in a couple weeks although you would want to queeing up very early as id say loads of ppl want tickets
though i suppose you could do it on the internet but so many ppl would be on ticketmaster.ie that the site probably couldnt cope

Binomate · 06-03-2006 08:51PM

playa3 wrote:

i assume you meant that you really dont think there wont be any tickets unless i've completely missed your point

Yep, you assumed right. I don't think there will be tickets based on the news article and from what I've seen on ticketmaster and the oxegen website. I could be wrong and it could be a marketing scheme or what ever. There wasn't really a point to my post. My questions weren't rhetorical or anything, they were just general questions to who ever is viewing the thread or who ever has an opinion or some insight in to the matter.

mickymg2003 · 06-03-2006 09:10PM

I'm not optimistic about a second batch of tickets...this is probably it. Oh and if there is a second batch will there be a presale?

pretty-in-pink · 06-03-2006 11:44PM

Proof that oxegen has sold out. If the word of the oxegen website, the mcd website and the ticketmaster site are not good enough for you then maybe rte will be. If not maybe MTV will convince you. Anywho warnings are rife about buying from a tout so be careful people, you will get ripped off price wise but you might get ripped off with no ticket(s) to show for it!

Can't wait. Oxegen is gonna rule this year!

RTE
MTV

Binomate · 07-03-2006 12:39AM

Will have to buy second hand.

Oxegen sold out

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