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? by Gen Williams
Artists: The Strokes, Pulp, Foo Fighters, The Prodigy
Words: Gen Williams
Posted: 27 May '02, 22:15
Two months before the Carling Weekend is even due to take place, it appears that weekend tickets for Reading are close to selling out.

Less than a month after the festival organisers began to announce this year's lineup, which has been hailed as a particularly strong one, featuring Foo Fighters, The Prodigy, The Offspring, The Strokes, Muse and Pulp, ticket agents wayahead.com and ticketweb.com have run out of weekend tickets, before the full lineup has even been announced yet; more acts are set to be announced tomorrow.

It seems that bigmouth.co.uk and stargreen.co.uk still have tickets, though it seems likely that they may follow suit and run out of tickets pretty soon; meanwhile tickets are still available at most ticket agencies for the Leeds dates. If you know of any other sites still selling weekend tickets for Reading, please post on the DiS boards and let everyone know!

Editors note: bigmouth.co.uk seem to have sold out of weekend tickets at this point too, all day tickets are available, but don't include camping rights (so get a weekend ticket kid to carry your tent past the gate)

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Reading sold out!

i think its totally sold out now, weekend tickets anyway. i cant find them anywhere on the internet.
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 28 May '02, 21:30 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Reading sold out!

I couldn't either. I got the last one from picadilly box office. But quite a few HMV's still have them. Def. oxford, bath and nottingham.
Laura
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Old_Anonymous_Comments | 29 May '02, 18:06 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Reading sold out!

apparently the dudley merry hill has shitloads. so says the phone answering man. and people are paying £150+ on ebay.

I wonder if it is wrong to take advantage of such idiots?
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 29 May '02, 19:37 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Reading sold out!

nah, they're just people who probably don't know what a search engine is. HMV Manchester has about 70 left but you have to pay in person.
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 29 May '02, 19:55 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Reading sold out!

HMV manc told me they weren't selling them at all...
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 30 May '02, 09:35 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Reading sold out!

They do- that's what they said to me today but the guy asked someone else and they do sell them - behind the main counter.
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 30 May '02, 16:19 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: Reading sold out!

Heehee i live too far away to have got them from there anyways...
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 31 May '02, 09:27 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Reading nearly sold out! - press release

The Carling Weekend : Reading Festival

Weekend Ticket Information

Weekend Tickets for this year’s Carling Weekend : Reading Festival have sold out at some of the major ticket outlets. To save people wishing to buy tickets unnecessary problems, organisers Mean Fiddler would like to make everyone aware that the following stockists are now the only places to buy weekend tickets (priced at £90 subject to booking fee) for the Reading site:

Piccadilly Box Office - 0161 832 1111
Stargreen - 020 7734 8932
Way Ahead - 020 7403 3331
Selected HMV stores throughout the UK (call info line for nearest branch)

Day tickets (priced at £39 subject to booking fee) are still available for all days at The Carling Weekend: Reading Festival and Weekend and Day tickets are still currently available for The Carling Weekend: Leeds Festival. Booking information is as follows:



AVAILABLE FROM:

BY PERSONAL APPLICATION

THE CARLING WEEKEND: READING AND LEEDS FESTIVALS – DAY TICKETS ONLY available at face value for cash from all Mean Fiddler Box Offices for no booking fee.
THE CARLING WEEKEND: LEEDS FESTIVAL ONLY – WEEKEND AND DAY TICKETS -From Gateway Yorkshire, City Station, Leeds for cash with no booking fee.
Also available from all Ticketmaster outlets.

CREDIT CARD BOOKINGS
National Credit Card Hotline - 08701 500 044
London Credit Card Hotline - 020 7344 0044

INTERNET BOOKINGS
www.meanfiddler.com www.ticketmaster.co.uk and www.carlinglive.com

SMS BOOKINGS (Orange Customers Only)
Text "READING TICKETS or "LEEDS TICKETS" to 07813 895252

POSTAL BOOKINGS
Cheques / Postal Orders payable to “Reading Festival Ltd”
Ticket Prices - £90.50 / £39.50 including booking fee (+ £3.50 on overall booking for 4 or more tickets to cover cost of registered post)
Please enclose SAE and DAYTIME PHONE NUMBER. Allow 28 days for delivery.
Send to : READING / LEEDS 2002, PO Box 1707, London NW10 4LW
Last date for postal bookings – Cheques 8th August / Postal Orders 20th August (subject to availability)

PLEASE STATE CLEARLY for which festival you require tickets.

Recorded Information Hotline (24Hrs) – 09063 656 205 (Calls cost 60p per minute)
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 29 May '02, 12:11 | Send note | Report this | Reply

HMV do sell Reading tix!

HMV does sell tickets for Reading and Leeds festivals. Some people have been having problems because some stores don't usually sell concert tickets, but they are making an exception with Reading & Leeds. Even some members of staff don't even know they sell them, as I found out today when I bought mine at Manchester HMV - but they DO sell them - if anyone says they don't, they're behind the counter at £95 each. The guy said they've got about 70-100 left! But you have to pay and collect them in person.
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 30 May '02, 16:45 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: HMV do sell Reading tix!

If you go to the Mean fiddler website then they'll give you a number to find out if they're in your local store.
If anyone is from maidstone they had some this morning but reportedly had 100 people phone up about them already.
I think the extra £5 is a con though!
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 30 May '02, 21:45 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: HMV do sell Reading tix!

I reckon they should make it so that you can order your reading tickets for the following year when you buy you're ticket - then they could reserve tickets for reading veterans... maybe this is a bit unfair, but I don't care ;) perhaps they could give people with these reserved tickets a few weeks after the release date to pay up, then offer them to everyone else. Anyway it doesn't matter now :(. I'll try HMV tomorrow, they had them in Canterbury last year and the year before definately.
Loulabelle | 20 Apr '04, 00:46 | Send note | Report this | Reply