COLDPLAY fans have been left fuming as the band appeared to “ignore” the ticket queue chaos in their new social media post.
General sale for the band’s Music of the Spheres UK tour opened at 9am on Friday and immediately the queue was more than 100,000 deep as fans clamoured to get hold of a ticket.
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Fans were left frustrated with online ticket website Ticketmaster as many faced long delays and technical problems.
Several buyers reported being asked to “authenticate their accounts” without receiving the necessary verification codes, while others were hit with error messages instructing them to “check their internet connection.”
Just hours later, the band’s official Instagram account posted a video from the European Space Agency.
The clip showed a new LUNA facility in Germany that will prepare astronauts for moon landings.
It was captioned: “Step into LUNA, Europe’s ‘Moon on Earth’.
“The future of exploration is here with LUNA, a groundbreaking facility that recreates the Moon’s surface on Earth!
But some fans were baffled that Coldplay failed to address their current ticket fiasco and instead shared this space clip.
One follower commented on the post and asked: “How are they ignoring all these complaints on ticket sale?”
A second quipped: “I think the flight time to the moon would be quicker than todays long Ticketmaster wait only to miss out to bots and extortionate re-sales.”
A third posted: “I was really excited to try my first concert ever that will happen to be yours, but the horrible way it went with the tickets makes me never wanna attend anything anymore.”
“Was 20k in the queue this morning and only £900 tickets left. Absolutely gutted for my daughter who really wanted to go,” this fan wrote.
Another added: “Joined the queue first thing in the morning with almost 250k people in front of me. After midday a message popped up all tickets sold. Missed out the previous year too.”
It comes after Ticketmaster’s ‘dynamic pricing system’ sparked outrage, with prices for Oasis’ tour tickets soaring as high as £355.
Given the demand, it remains to be seen if the band will follow Oasis’s lead and put on extra gigs for ballot entrants.
Last night we revealed how Coldplay have risked the wrath of Oasis when it comes to their concerts in London next summer.
Noel and Liam Gallagher have sold out seven nights at Wembley Stadium — but Coldplay has leapfrogged them by adding an extra four gigs to their residency at the venue.
The news confirms our story from July that they’d play ten nights at Wembley.
It breaks the eight Take That did on the 2011 Progress Tour and the eight Taylor Swift had this summer.
Swift holds the records for the first solo artist and first international artist in history to ever play Wembley eight times in a single tour. She broke the record set by Michael Jackson with his Bad Tour in 1988.
A pre-sale for Coldplay’s shows sold out on Wednesday.
A music insider said: “The demand is through the roof for both Oasis and Coldplay, and they’ve always got an eye on what the other is doing.
“When Chris Martin and his band realised they could play more Wembley shows than Oasis, it did put a smile on their faces.
“There are bound to be some cheeky digs along the way as the shows get closer.”
In more bad news for Oasis, Coldplay has been named the most-played British group of the 21st century on UK radio and TV.
Licensing company PPL released its list in advance of National Album Day on October 19.
Coldplay’s music has been played more than 40,000 times, the equivalent of 13 years of airplay this century, with Viva La Vida their most popular tune.
Oasis is at No. 6, behind Queen, Take That, Little Mix, and The Beatles.
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