I saw Travis support The Killers in July and was kinda surprised by them tbf. I hadn't expected much because of reputation and being meh on a song or two I'd heard but their frontman was charming and had more crowd interaction than some headliners I've seen, and the songs translated very well live. Think they won quite a lot of fans from that run.
It is still kinda funny in retrospect that in 2001, they headlined Reading with Green Day as the sub-headliner.
There was no way the backspacing and repeating only lasted 10 minutes in total, I had a lot of issues getting through the access denied screen and so by the time I had completed the purchase I must have been very close, if not out of the 10 minutes, then after getting the tickets I jumped around the room a bit to celebrate, grabbed a drink and then decided to go back to the phone and take some screen shots of each page. Went back, expecting to just get the page before so I could take a picture of that, but went to the reg numbers page. I cleared this manually then entered my spare reg number as a test, expecting it to kick me out but it didn't, so I went to the next page - no access denied this time, still expecting to get kicked out, but again all good, then got the payment screen and as this was my NZ reg number I went and got my NZ card. Now I was realising that this could actually work, so I decided to get a reg number for someone who would want to go, so I went to my emails, found the number, then went back again to try and change the reg, but got the all tickets have been allocated message, so I went forward again, entered the payment details and proceeded - all the time thinking that it would get stopped. The only message I got was that an order had already been placed by this email address and did I still want to continue, I did and that was it, all done. There's no way I did all of this in 10 minutes, none what so ever.
I only booked 2 tickets the first time and 1 the second (since cancelled with SEE), so my affect was small, and I never expected that it was going to be allowed. But from what I saw, if you got through early enough and without any issues, i believe you could have placed multiple orders easily
We seem to be seeing this a lot more where I think acts are just falling out of love with the idea of touring everywhere all the time and are doing shorter legs or taking more breaks. If Fred's had a chance of heart and decided he needs 2025 off after some intense scheduling in recent years, then that's fair enough.
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