A number of massive title artists together with Coldplay, Dua Lipa, Radiohead and Sam Fender have joined a marketing campaign, calling on Keir Starmer to take motion to guard music followers from the secondary ticketing market
Coldplay and Dua Lipa are backing a marketing campaign calling on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to guard followers from on-line ticket touts.
They need a value cap to cease the “extortionate and pernicious secondary ticketing market” attributable to touts utilizing bots to purchase tickets in bulk to then promote on for large mark-ups to real followers.
Different artists to again the marketing campaign embody The Remedy’s Robert Smith, Radiohead, New Order, Mark Knopfler, Iron Maiden, Bastille, PJ Harvey and this yr’s Mercury Prize winner Sam Fender.
Plus many organisations representing music and theatre venues, managers and retailers have additionally bought behind the initiative.
The assertion the artists have all signed additionally says: “For too lengthy sure resale platforms have allowed touts to bulk purchase after which resell tickets at inflated costs, forcing followers to both pay above the chances or miss out completely.
“This erodes belief within the dwell occasions sector and undermines the efforts of artists and organisers to make reveals accessible and inexpensive.
“Introducing a cap will restore religion within the ticketing system, assist democratise public entry to the humanities according to the Authorities’s agenda and make it simpler for followers to identify unlawful behaviour, akin to ticketing fraud.”
The declaration comes as a brand new investigation from Which? lifts the lid on world touting operations focusing on the weak hyperlinks within the UK’s damaged ticketing business.
A current instance of extortionate mark-ups embody Oasis tickets going for £3,498.85 on Stubhub and £4,442 on Viagogo whereas a Coldplay ticket was up for £814.52 on Stubhub.
The decision for motion comes after the Labour manifesto promised stronger client protections and the federal government pledged to cap resale costs to close out the web touts.
