Radiohead have condemned ticket resale platforms and what they known as “exploitative” touts.
Radiohead have condemned ticket resale platforms and what they known as ‘exploitative’ touts
The group hit out after greater than 1,000 tickets for his or her upcoming tour had been marketed on-line earlier than being made obtainable to the general public.
Radiohead – which consists of Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O’Brien and Philip Selway – introduced live shows in London, Berlin, Copenhagen, Madrid and Bologna earlier this month. Administration carried out strict measures aimed toward stopping large-scale resales, however tickets had been nonetheless listed on secondary platforms together with Viagogo and Ticombo.
Julie Calland, the group’s supervisor, has now been quoted by The Guardian hitting out at large-scale resellers, saying: “Radiohead have at all times strived to guard their viewers from exploitative ticket touts which, within the absence of sturdy authorities laws, turns into more and more difficult.”
She added: “Followers will likely be inspired to avoid secondary websites and we are going to work alongside venues, promoters and organisations like FanFair Alliance and FEAT (Face-value European Alliance for Ticketing), to close down unauthorised gross sales at inflated costs – tickets that for essentially the most half, don’t really exist.”
Radiohead followers had been required to use for an unlock code earlier this week to entry ticket gross sales.
Those that obtained one might apply for tickets from Friday (12.09.25), although entry codes don’t assure seats.
Ms Calland stated: “The registration course of, whereas not an ideal science, is an try to ship tickets as pretty as attainable on to followers on the costs the band supposed.”
Evaluation of Ticombo listings, first reported by The Guardian, discovered greater than 1,200 tickets marketed at costs as excessive as £788.
Thirty of these had been for certainly one of Radiohead’s 4 nights on the O2 in London, listed at a mixed worth of over £22,000 by a Swiss firm, Worldtix AG.
Reg Walker, a ticket safety professional, informed The Guardian: “The tickets don’t exist. It’s a transparent breach of the Shopper Rights Act, which is designed to guard customers from fraud.”
Ticombo stated there was “no proof that the listings in query are speculative or fraudulent”, later eradicating them after being contacted by the Guardian.
Worldtix AG stated it acted as an middleman, distributing tickets for a “community of sellers, ticket brokers and authorised brokers”.
Ticombo stated it “takes these issues very severely” and described itself as a know-how platform.
Adam Webb, a spokesperson for FanFair Alliance, stated: “This exploitative mannequin will be devastating for artists and audiences, and it received’t cease till the federal government introduces and enforces a long-promised cap on ticket resale costs.”
Viagogo, the biggest resale operator within the UK, stated tickets for Radiohead could be listed from Friday, claiming: “We exist to serve followers on their phrases – whether or not they missed the onsale, are shopping for tickets simply days earlier than the occasion, or have to promote on the final minute.”
A Division for Enterprise and Commerce spokesperson informed The Guardian: “The Radiohead tour is a superb alternative for followers to get pleasure from dwell music – however too usually rip-off touts are ruining the gig-going expertise. We’re contemplating the proof supplied in response to our session earlier this 12 months and are dedicated to clamping down on this exercise as a part of the Plan for Change.”
