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idolawyer

Can Bands Take Back Your Tickets If You Scalp Them? The Answer May Surprise You

We here at Idolator get all of our legal knowledge from the creative products of Dick Wolf, so it's probably best for us to call in for outside help on thornier issues regarding the law. Which is why we're proud to welcome the new Idolawyer: Please say hello to John P. Strohm, who practices at Johnston, Barton, Proctor, and Rose in Birmingham, Ala. In addition to representing both bands and indie labels, Strohm played with Blake Babies, The Lemonheads, and Antenna; now, he plays music under his own name. Strohm's musings shouldn't be taken as straight-up legal advice, but he will offer insight into legal issues out there that are a bit complicated in the minds of non-lawyers (a.k.a. most of us). Yesterday, we talked about Phish's claim that they would go after people who wanted to scalp tickets to their upcoming reunion shows by repossessing said ducats. Some in the comments section found this ludicrous—but as it turns out, according to Strohm, the band has every right to do that. More »

5:15 PM on Thu Oct 2 2008
By Lucas Jensen
1,556 views, 18 comments

Latest by ylekot88: what about the seats that are forfeited? Do they get re-sold through ticketmaster, livenation & the band's website link? more »

fools and their money

Ticket Brokers: It's Not Our Fault That Hannah Montana Tickets Cost More Than Your Mortgage Payment

The parade of finger-pointing surrounding the scarcity of tickets to the Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus "Best Of Both Worlds" tour—a situation that has resulted in crying 11-year-olds, fathers lining up to humiliate themselves, and possibly flawed lessons on economics from the Federal Reserve—marched on earlier this week, when the National Association Of Ticket Brokers (it's like the Elks Club for scalpers the "secondary market") issued their take on the situation. And in their mind, the root of the whole problem resides in MileyWorld, the official Hannah/Miley fan club! More »

10:50 AM on Thu Nov 1 2007
By mjohnston
1,753 views, 3 comments

Latest by bbernardini: Believe it or not, there's a small (VERY small) group of people who are attending these shows because the backing band contains two members of American Hi-Fi. more »

buy it now

Led Zeppelin Passcodes: Almost As Hot As Hannah Montana Tickets

Still waiting for that e-mail saying that you won a passcode to buy tickets for Led Zeppelin's reunion show in London? Well, fear not—the always-hot "secondary market" has a bunch of passcodes for sale, and if you're the lucky winner of one of the auctions for passcodes currently raging (highest "buy it now" price: £1,000, with no extra shipping charges), you can spend even more money on ... well, you may not be able to buy anything if the promoter of the show, Harvey Goldsmith, has its way: More »

11:15 AM on Tue Oct 2 2007
By mjohnston
2,225 views, 1 comment

Latest by mackro: I applaud the ID check. Won't stop people from selling passcodes unfortunately, but at least those who try have a greater chance of being outed online. It's uncomfortable to even have this lottery in the first place, but it's not as more »

say you'll be there

Spice Girls Show Sells Out In 38 Seconds, Bono To Join Group As "Anti Spice"

Tickets for the Spice Girls' Dec. 15 show at London's O2 Arena sold out in 38 seconds flat this morning, with more than one million people who'd pre-registered for tickets to the show "bombard[ing] the lines" for Ticketmaster, according to the ticketing behemoth's UK boss. More »

10:05 AM on Mon Oct 1 2007
By mjohnston
1,220 views, 7 comments

emerging markets

There's A Sucker Born Every Minute: People Now Paying For Fan Club Presale Codes

Now that artists are going the "fan club" route—giving those people who pony up $30 or $40 a year access to presales for their upcoming concert tours—a new secondary market has emerged in the ticketing world: The reselling of presale codes, which allow members to get into show's online presales before the non-paying riff-raff. The Wall Street Journal looked at the ways that artists and their managers are trying to head off the latest assault on their revenue at the pass:
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5:13 PM on Thu Sep 20 2007
By mjohnston
828 views, 3 comments

Latest by ghostyhead: It's been hit or miss for me using those codes. The best was Prince's Musicology tour, where he really actually did save the best seats for the fans: I got second row seats, and literally everyone around me more »

rants

Nothin' But A Good Time ... And Fifty Bucks


To follow up on this morning's item about soft ticket sales for Poison: Tickets to tonight's show at the Jones Beach Theater—which I will be attending—range between $26 and $42.50, before the obligatory Ticketmaster service charges. More »

2:00 PM on Tue Jul 24 2007
By mjohnston
513 views, 1 comment

tickets

Prince's L.A. Shows Cost Way More Than Two-Thousand-Zero-Zero Dollars

The Los Angeles Times' Buzz Bands blog has details on Prince's upcoming residency at Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, which we will not be attending, for reasons that are about to become obvious: More »

9:30 AM on Wed Jun 20 2007
By Brian Raftery
420 views, 4 comments

tickets

Glastonbury Ticket Reseller Is Looking For Someone Who Loves Rocky Road, Chunk

This year's Glastonbury Festival, which takes place this weekend in the UK, has tickets that are stamped with the bearer's photo in an effort to sidestep scalpers. What this has resulted in people who can't attend the festival for reasons unrelated to price-gouging attempting to unload their tickets on eBay. The ads all have descriptions of the sellers—brunette with blue eyes, slightly receding hair—attached to them, making the whole enterprise part StubHub, part Nerve. One ad in particular caught our eye, if only because we're thinking that replicating this ID photo will require a very adept glam squad: More »

4:04 PM on Tue Jun 19 2007
By mjohnston
646 views, 2 comments

Latest by rg4vr: Baby Ruth? more »

industry

Concert-Ticketing Story Provides Second Excuse This Week To Run Wonderful Clay Aiken-Related Picture

For its weekend edition, USA Today examines the higgeldy-piggedly world of concert-ticket sales—a world that some of our more well-connected, guest-listed readers probably haven't had to explore in some time. The good news is that good seats for in-demand shows are easier to snag nowadays; the bad news is that, in addition to premium prices, you have to navigate an increasingly confusing marketplace: More »

2:38 PM on Fri Jun 15 2007
By Brian Raftery
394 views, 1 comment

tickets

Web-Based Scalping Business Gets Shot At Legitimacy

StubHub, the seven-year-old Web site that specializes in the "secondary ticketing" market (hey, it sounds nicer than "scalping"), has been snapped up by eBay for $310 million. The site hooks up buyers and sellers of sporting event and concert tickets, and it has some leanings toward legitimacy, having inked deals with a few sports leagues to sell unused season tickets. Red Herring values the classed-up scalping business at $10 billion, with four unfortunately named sites (StubHub, CoastToCoastTickets, RazorGator, and TicketLiquidator) leading the way in the business. More »

12:50 PM on Thu Jan 11 2007
By mjohnston
98 views, 3 comments

Latest by TheSkinny: Ticketmaster is evil, yes. But concert promotions satan Clear Channel/Live Nation bears much more of the responsibility when it comes to the rising cost of concert tickets--and a big chunk of those ticketing fees get kicked back to promoters, artists more »

kevin federline

Is The Federline Coming To A Screeching Halt?

A stark reminder that persons of dubious talent should try and schedule their buzz-generating shows before people actually hear the record in question: the New York Post is hearing rumors that Kevin Federline's big coming-out party in New York City, which is scheduled for this Saturday at Webster Hall, may be canceled because of low ticket sales. Either the desired price for an ironic night out in New York City has dropped to somewhere below $26.20, or there's a lot of crossover between K-Fed fans and people who want to see The Fall. More »

11:53 AM on Mon Oct 30 2006
By mjohnston
31 views, 3 comments

Latest by Ned Raggett: Oh, what I wouldn't pay to see a video of Mark E. Smith beating the crap out of K-Fed. "Where is the obligatory K-Fedder? HEY THERE FUCKFACE." more »

top

White House Officials Enjoy Corruption, Bad New-Age Music

This morning, the House Government Reform Committee released a wayyy-long report on former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, detailing Abramoff's efforts to cozy up to White House officials by providing them with meals, drinks, and concert tickets. So what are some of Washington's most easily corruptible officials listening to these days? More »

12:36 PM on Fri Sep 29 2006
By Brian Raftery
143 views, 2 comments