Tom Dunne: Don't ask — I just couldn't get a ticket for Chappell Roan

But I did make it along to the Snow Patrol comeback in Belfast

Chappell Roan at the MTV Video Music Awards. Picture: Mike Coppola/Getty Images for MTV

Wed, 18 Sep, 2024 - 21:30

Tom Dunne is a music-lover extraordinaire who, as well as presenting radio and TV shows, can also be seen in the wild as the lead singer with Something Happens.

When I begin writing this on Tuesday afternoon — winds moderate to fresh, gusting — a more macabre version of Dynamic Pricing is breaking out. It concerns the Chappell Roan gig at 3Olympia. People joined the queue for black market tickets expecting to part with a kidney to secure access. That has now risen to both kidneys. The queue hasn’t shortened.

It is the first gig I’ve ever known where people have contacted me out of the blue to tell me they can’t get me in. A friend in the business and a contact at the record label both phoned me to say, “Don’t even ask.”