Peter Kay urges fans to 'persevere' as there's 'plenty' of tour tickets despite site crash

express.co.uk:

Peter Kay, 49, sent fans into a frenzy after announcing a surprise stand-up tour running from December to August 2023. After thousands flocked to the O2 Priority website for pre-sale tickets, the website crashed, leaving fans scrambling to book tickets.Ticket promoter SJM then issued an apology to fans via social media, reassuring them there are plenty of tickets to go around.Posted on Peter’s Twitter account, which boasts 789,600 followers, a statement from SJM read: “We'd like to acknowledge and apologise for a number of technical issues our customers experienced while trying to buy tickets for Peter Kay's upcoming live tour via the O2 priority pre-sale earlier today.“SJM would like to reassure customers that substantial provision has been put in place for the main ticket on-sale this Saturday 12th at 10am.“Plenty of tickets will be available throughout the day so please persevere and please buy from official ticket outlets listed on the attached link.”Gaining 1,794 likes on the tweet alone, many disgruntled fans took to the comments section to explain the difficulties they were having.Some fans even spoke about a “glitch” that others were using to usurp the technical issue.User @Borough_Bird wrote: “THATS WHY THEY ALL WENT!!

Everyone used a glitch that let anyone buy them from gigs and tours! All those tickets bought today should be cancelled!”The so-called “glitch” involved fans going to alternative ticket provider Gigs and Tours, and writing “?pre=02pk” in the URL.But those who managed to get tickets using the handy hack faced fierce backlash from others on social media, with fans calling it unfair.User @Sophropes wrote: “So priority was broke all day but just seen on twitter people went on gigs and tours and put in.