Tom Dunne: Don't ask — I just couldn't get a ticket for Chappell Roan
Chappell Roan at the MTV Video Music Awards. Picture: Mike Coppola/Getty Images for MTV
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.”
