A statement was put out to urge fans to refrain from purchasing any tickets from unauthorized resellers as the tickets may have already been voided. I can’t afford it,” said Rachel Loh, a 19-year-old University student.Ĭoncert organiser, Live Nation Lushington, decided to invalidate a “number of tickets” found on resale sites. It’s frustrating for us fans that these touters are trying to extort our money and profit from it. I went online to see the tickets selling at $500. “I waited online in the virtual waiting room for 4 hours before the tickets went on sale and didn’t even manage to buy one. On Viagogo, the tickets were going for S$700 to S$1000 and VIP tickets were being resold for prices between S$1,350 and S$9,912, which is about a 350 to 3,000 percent increase. The original prices ranged from S$78 to S$268. These tickets soon started appearing on many resale sites at exorbitant prices. Due to the high volume of traffic online, the ticketing system crashed leaving thousands of buyers empty-handed. In Singapore, less than 2 hours after tickets went on sale, the show was sold out. They included countries such as Singapore, Taiwan, Philippines, Japan and Korea. However, scalpers are buying tickets in bulk and using these sites to sell them at unreasonably high prices.īritish rock band, Coldplay, recently announced the dates for the Asian leg of the “A Head Full Of Dreams” Tour in 2017.
All these cameos suit the overarching theme of A Head Full of Dreams - how there's a big, bright, beautiful world just waiting to be discovered if you just open your heart and live a little - and if this message is unabashedly corny, under the stewardship of Chris Martin, Coldplay cheerfully embrace the cheese, ratcheting up both the sparkle and the sentiment so the album feels genuine in its embrace of eternal middle-aged clichés.Ticket-reselling websites such as Stubhub, Seatwave and viagogo, have become popular in the recent years, allowing fans to buy and sell tickets. Appropriately, Coldplay invite more than a few guests to help usher them into this brave new world, the showiest being Beyoncé, who overwhelms the band's innate politeness on "Hymn for the Weekend," but Tove Lo eases right into "Fun" and Noel Gallagher amiably allows himself to be swallowed by the gentle wash of guitars and synths. This carpe diem spirit courses throughout A Head Full of Dreams, turning it into a 21st century equivalent of Steve Winwood's Back in the High Life, a divorce record where every end seems like a fresh new beginning. Arriving after the deliberately dour Ghost Stories, this infusion of backbeat and glitz does indeed feel welcome and bold but such determined levity also suggests the gusto of a greying divorcee boogying down on the deck of a cruise ship, determined to seize every bit of life headed his way. He's quite literally having "Fun" on an "Amazing Day," living for the weekend and viewing his impending middle age as nothing so much as the "Adventure of a Lifetime." Coldplay match his optimism by tempering their signature soft focus, pushing themselves toward the light and undergirding the newfound positivity via glittering disco beats and a gossamer electronic sheen.
Martin gives away the game with his song titles. Where Chris Martin spent Ghost Stories in a mournful mood - his sorrow perhaps derived from his divorce to Gwyneth Paltrow or perhaps not it's best not to read too much into the tabloid headlines - the Coldplay leader sees nothing but sunshine and stars on A Head Full of Dreams. Released swiftly after Ghost Stories - just a year and a half, all things considered - A Head Full of Dreams plays like a riposte to that haunted 2014 album.