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NME sort out Big Gig tickets problem
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 23 February 2009
The NME has announced that people who booked tickets for their Big Gig via their official Trinity Street powered online store will get their tix mailed out today.
It was previously thought that fans who booked tickets for the Cure-headlined show, which takes place at The O2 this week, through the official store would not get their tickets as a result of Trinity Street going out of business.
As previously reported, Trinity Street had failed to send out any Big Gig tickets bought via their website before going under earlier this month, leaving fans who had ordered tickets that way ticketless, and facing the prospect of having to buy new tickets and join the list of Trinity Street’s other creditors to try and get back their money back through the company’s administrators. Big Gig promoters AEG sent out an email to that effect last week.
But with growing criticism that fans who had, after all, bought their tickets from the official NME store, were going to lose out – and news that Cure man Robert Smith had expressed concerns – the music mag announced on Friday that it had managed to get the information it required from Trinity Street’s administrators to allow them and AEG to replace the original tickets without asking for more money.
New tickets will be sent special delivery today, and anyone affected is advised to consult the information given on this page on NME.com.
The Big Gig takes place at The O2 as the grand finale to this year’s NME Awards programme, during which The Cure will be named this year’s Godlike Geniuses.
