Nearly two days on and still no sell out

[borobud]

So it has been nearly two days since tickets came out for L/R 2010 and it is still not sold out on some of the major ticket sites i.e SeeTickets.

I for one really like the line up with both the Blink and GnR days looking really strong from top to bottom.

Just thinking that the time it is taking to sell out do you think people view the line up as poor? and are moving on to other festivals such as TITP and V.

Thoughts?

See you in August Leeds goers.

[Englishdragon]

No it just means the websites are working ok

Last year I got my ticket 3 weeks after "sell out"

Year before I got them a week after

[borobud]

It's keep flickering to sold out top available has anyone tried to get some today as it may be sold out when you try to process the order?

[Lithium05]

Leeds weekend tickets are still on sale, but Reading doesn't seem to be, not at the moment anyway.

I maintain it never sells out as instantly as they claim anyway. I think they say it's sold out, so anyone who stumbles upon an active link for tickets later on will buy them without thinking twice about it.

It's a bit like that episode of South Park where Cartman gets his own theme park...

Edited March 31, 2010 by Lithium05

[jammy2211]

Partly cause there is no Kol / Arctics / Razorlight / Franz / Killers catchy pop songs type act to get the less-dedicated fans to go I guess.

Competition from other festivals too doesn't help, Reading is kind of in the middle of two markets but hasn't got either. Badly phrased but what I mean is V has taken the above bands with Kol and Kasabian headlining, meanwhile the more 'core' Reading goer is probably more tempted by Download with ACDC, Aerosmith, RATM etc.

Man I phrased that poorly.

[borobud]

Partly cause there is no Kol / Arctics / Razorlight / Franz / Killers catchy pop songs type act to get the less-dedicated fans to go I guess.

Competition from other festivals too doesn't help, Reading is kind of in the middle of two markets but hasn't got either. Badly phrased but what I mean is V has taken the above bands with Kol and Kasabian headlining, meanwhile the more 'core' Reading goer is probably more tempted by Download with ACDC, Aerosmith, RATM etc.

Man I phrased that poorly.

[small]

im sure we will be told reading tickets officially sold out after about 4 hours again, can still grab some every time they go back up briefly tho i assume

however i havnt seen leeds weekends say sold out once on see and ive been checking regularly. leads me to believe leeds really hasnt sold out!!!

plus, theres a thread somewhere about the headliners linking to an nme article. the comments on that article are pretty much all hate towards this lineup. it would seem reading this year isnt attracting the entire nme crowd... except it would also appear they are all buying tickets solely for libertines, to be expected i suppose.

im happy tho, hopefully a much better atmosphere with real music fans there and this is such an improvement on last years lineup

Edited March 31, 2010 by small

[sftiz]

or maybe they keep putting the odd few back on sale as they miscalculated numbers/people cancelling tickets ect.

[ar1]

"Partly cause there is no Kol / Arctics / Razorlight / Franz / Killers catchy pop songs type act to get the less-dedicated fans to go I guess. "

which sounds like a good thing to me

I agree with the above points that it's quite difficult to define "sold out" as there will be returns and cards that fail to provide funds popping up all the time and the organisers will always be very keen to big up with demand.

[Englishdragon]

im sure we will be told reading tickets officially sold out after about 4 hours again, can still grab some every time they go back up briefly tho i assume

however i havnt seen leeds weekends say sold out once on see and ive been checking regularly. leads me to believe leeds really hasnt sold out!!!

plus, theres a thread somewhere about the headliners linking to an nme article. the comments on that article are pretty much all hate towards this lineup. it would seem reading this year isnt attracting the entire nme crowd... except it would also appear they are all buying tickets solely for libertines, to be expected i suppose.

im happy tho, hopefully a much better atmosphere with real music fans there and this is such an improvement on last years lineup

[XrtVra]

theres also the fact that people order them and enter the wrong details, so while it takes a time to be processed, there are less tickets, but then theyre put back into the system. this is often why it goes from sold out on the night, to not sold out at midnight

[Spiky Mike]

Times have changed. For anyone into rock, Download has an incredible set of headliners and Sonisphere line-up is also very strong. I went to Reading or Leeds every year for 20 years, but it can't compete with the others for rock stuff anymore and I can get my non-rock fix at Glasto which is a better festival overall. I think Reading/Leeds' niche is now more as an NME festival as V books mainstream indie and pop.

[re_hashed]

Just thinking that the time it is taking to sell out do you think people view the line up as poor? and are moving on to other festivals such as TITP and V.

Thoughts?

See you in August Leeds goers.

[Benj]

Isn't capacity up AGAIN this year too, so there will be more from the off anyway

[mrtourette]

Whether it sells out or whether there's 5000 tickets left I'm still going to have to swim through mud with 100 other people when I need to use the loo at 7pm on the Sunday.

[pink_triangle]

I think a slower sell out this year is because 2 of the headliners blink 182 and arcade fire havent had the commerical success of the majority of headliners of recent year. Doesnt mean they arent worthy headliners but bands like kings of leon and killers are bigger ticket draws. Im sure it will sell out in time.

[Superficial ant]

I think right now the only day that has really sold out is the Saturday for Reading for obvious reasons with the libertines, I for one think the line up is amazingly diverse! There must be at least 10 bands I would like to see on there and we've got like 5 more stages to go yet lol!! Iam amazed how you could buy a Reading weekend right now with no troubles at all! Did this happen last year?

[Tom88]

Yeah It will still sell out, I've got quite a few mates that just can't afford it this year, so I think that might be having an impact too!

Anyone got any idea why early entry sold out so fast this year? I thought it took over a week last few years?