Calling Thom Yorke

[Simon Vinson]

Thom, I tried to buy tickets this morning for your November shows in Melbourne was dutifully logged in to the ticket agency at 9am this morning. Within the first minute I selected GA Standing room and the response was 'no tickets available'. How can the entire arena possibly be sold old in less than a minute? I tried again this time for 'best available' and was allocated seats in the Upper section, though how the entire lower reserved section could have sold out within the first 3 minutes is beyond me. Anyway I selected the tickets and then the Ticketek system crashed. I tried many times again, but each time the system said there were no tickets available. This is so unfair! The web-site plainly says that you cannot buy more than 4 tickets and you cannot resell for more than face value yet within half an hour eBay is full of people selling tickets for 4 and 5 times the face value. Clearly the warning that people will have their tickets cancelled is no deterrent whatsoever! This is so unfair for loyal fans. The band last toured in 2004 and did 2 shows in Melbourne. I had tickets to the 2nd show and it was cancelled because of your throat. The show was never re-scheduled and this is the first time you  have come back to Melbourne. I could cry ... Simon