I am an Australian living in Hong Kong. When I discovered that Radiohead were going on tour this year, I quickly checked to see if they were playing in Hong Kong.
I saw that they weren't and checked where else they were playing. I saw that they were going to Tai Wan, and I asked my parents if we could fly over. My parents, being fans too, attempted to book tickets on the Tai Wan site, which is only in Chinese. After hours of looking for an english translation and clicking on every possible link on the site, we gave up.
My mother then saw that Radiohead was playing in Rome during my school holidays and spent days planning a trip there. Unfortunately, the tickets were sold out. We found a site that said they had some spare and spent thousands and thousands of dollars on these tickets which were meant to be mailed to us. Just weeks before we were due to leave to Rome, we discovered that the site was fake and we had lost all of our money and were about to go to Rome, without Radiohead tickets. My mother quickly emailed a friend living in Rome to arrange tickets and luckily, he had spares!
I had finally relaxed, after months of stressing over whether or not I was going to see my favourite band. I was on my last day of school when I found out about the Toronto incident. On my way to the airport I checked the Radiohead tour dates site and, that was when I saw that the Rome concert had been postponed.
Don't get me wrong, I went to Rome anyway and has a wonderful time, and it really is horrible about what happened in Canada, so I blame no one. It was just an amazingly long series of unfortunate events. I suppose it's fate that I could never see my favourite band. Anyway, I hope to catch them next time and hopefully they will reconsider coming to Hong Kong.
