Saturday 22 August 2009

Muse agreement to sell out in record time


TICKETS to Muse's hugely await Teignmouth agreement sold out in record time yesterday.
Overjoyed fans are celebrating after waiting line outside the Carlton Theatre for more than 24 hours to get tickets to The Den Seaside Rendezvous agreements.
Matt Bellamy, Dominic Howard and Chris Wolstenholme made an appearance in the town on Thursday night and happily new world chat with waiting fans.
Matt said: "It has been great to see all the fans waiting up, I also announcement a few older Teignmouth residents queuing too. It is great to know our music is getting across to different generations."
Box office staff sold an allowance of 5,000 tickets within one hour of them going on sale, with extra selling out by mid afternoon.
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However, national online ticket sales sold out in 20 minutes as fans fenland websites. Internet auction sites were yesterday already re-selling tickets at a whopping £840 a pair.
Hundreds of dedicated fans braved cold conditions overnight so they could buy the £37.50 tickets for the appearance on Friday, September 4 and Saturday, September 5.
By 9am yesterday, the queue snaked from the theatre's box office appear on the stage, around The Den, past the Beachcomber cafe and towards The Point car park. Some camped out from 8.30am on Thursday.
Newly opened restaurant, Take 2 in the Riviera Cinema building, played Muse hits ahead of the ticket booths opening.
Roger Smith, chairman of Teignmouth Players, the voluntary administartion which runs the theatre said: "Teignmouth has never seen anything like this. It has been amazing. The fans have been wonderful. They waited all night and have been in excellent the holy ghost throughout."
The band, who have twice won the best live appearance title at the Brit Awards, haven't played on home area since 1995 and the break to see them locally has gone down a storm with people of all elds.
Charlotte Mortimore, 21, and Sam Taylor, 20, from Teignmouth, were the first to get their Saturday gig tickets despite a last minute hiccup when Charlotte realised she had lost her bankcard.
But after a few panicked minutes she got her hands on four for the Saturday night event. Both said they were "ecstatic".
Charlotte said: "We are so excited now. It's going to be amazing. Last night was so much fun, we have not had any sleep, and stayed up all night chatting to people and playing drinking games."
Sam added: "We are going to celebrate with a few drinks before going home to bed for a upstart."
Brothers Jakk and Harry Tranckle, from Teignmouth, queued with friends.
Jakk, 19, said: "I am absolutely shattered but it was worth the wait.
"I've been listening to Muse since I was 12 years old. I think it's amazing they are going to be playing in their home town."
Harry, 22, added: "I can't believe it's only two weeks. It's going to be excellent."
Dale Stewart, 22, of Teignmouth, said: "This is a once in a lifetime chance. They have not forgotten where they have come from and that is great."
Jacqueline Daviss started queuing at 1.30pm on Thursday and got Saturday tickets for her and children Emily, 19, Jazmine, 14 and Oscar, six.
She said: "There has been a wonderful atmosphere. The great thing was that the queue was full of local people. My children have grown up with Muse so I think it's brilliant they have remembered their hometown and are putting on these concerts."

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