{"id":2939,"date":"2022-11-11T04:55:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T12:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/11\/peter-kay-tour-sees-extraordinary-demand-for-tickets\/"},"modified":"2022-11-11T04:55:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T12:55:23","slug":"peter-kay-tour-sees-extraordinary-demand-for-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/11\/peter-kay-tour-sees-extraordinary-demand-for-tickets\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Kay tour sees \u2018extraordinary\u2019 demand for tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"primary\">\n<p class=\"standfirst\">Demand for tickets to see comedian Peter Kay\u2019s first tour in 12 years caused multiple websites and apps offering pre-sale access to cash. <\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the tour are set to go on general sale tomorrow (Saturday) but telecommunications companies O2, Virgin Media and Three were offering users access two days earlier.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/O2\/status\/1590765090042654721\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">O2<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/virginmedia\/status\/1590765369425547265\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virgin Media<\/a> said on Twitter that it had been the \u201cmost popular pre-sale ever\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve sold out our Priority Tickets for Peter Kay. We\u2019ve seen extraordinary demand, our most popular pre-sale ever. We\u2019re sorry not all our customers were successful.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeneral sale tickets for The O2 and UK arenas are released Saturday 10am (GMT). We wish everyone the best of luck!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A number of extra dates have been added to the comedian\u2019s tour, which could help break Kay\u2019s previous record-breaking string of dates. In 2010, Kay set a world record for the biggest-selling stand-up comedy tour, performing in front of more than 1.2 million people.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>His new tour is set to start in Manchester on December 2.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peterkay_co_uk\/status\/1590756395477262336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>, tour promoter SJM Concerts, said: \u201cWe\u2019d like to acknowledge and apologise for a number of technical issues customers experienced while trying to buy tickets for Peter Kay\u2019s upcoming live tour via the O2 Priority pre-sale earlier today.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSJM Concerts would like to reassure customers that substantial provision has been put in place for the main ticket on-sale this Saturday 12th at 10am. Plenty of tickets will be available throughout the day so please persevere and please buy from official ticket outlets listed on the attached link.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \n\n<div class=\"tax-cat-tags\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"col-sm-6 tax-cat\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<p class=\"\">Filed under<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"btn\" >Awards<\/button>|<button class=\"btn\" >Ticketing<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div class=\"col-sm-6 tax-tags\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<p class=\"\">Tags<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"btn\" >Ticketing<\/button>|<button class=\"btn\" >Stadiums<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theticketingbusiness.com\/2022\/11\/11\/peter-kay-tour-sees-extraordinary-demand-for-tickets\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Demand for tickets to see comedian Peter Kay\u2019s first tour in 12 years caused multiple websites and apps offering pre-sale access to cash. Tickets for the tour are set to go on general sale tomorrow (Saturday) but telecommunications companies O2, Virgin Media and Three were offering users access two days earlier.\u00a0 O2 and Virgin &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2944,858,188,1597,3316,3337,3338,3339],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-culture","category-comedy","category-events","category-o2","category-peter-kay","category-sjm-concerts","category-three","category-virgin-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.goticketly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}