Flight of The Conchords fans have reacted with a mixture of anger and disappointment after the vast majority of tickets to their UK tour sold out within minutes.
Earlier this week, the New Zealand comedy folk duo announced their return to UK shores for the first time since 2010, taking in huge venues including London’s The O2 and Eventim Apollo.
But as tickets went on sale at 10am this morning, many complained that tickets had sold out as soon as they attempted to buy them.
“I was online at 10:01 and apparently flight of the conchords tickets are sold out this is some bullshit”, one Twitter user wrote.
“Flight of the Conchords tickets entirely sold out by 10:00:30? Current theory is that Murray was in charge of the booking system”, another joked.
Flight of the Conchords tickets entirely sold out by 10:00:30? Current theory is that Murray was in charge of the booking system.
— Lauren Bravo (@laurenbravo) October 27, 2017
Others complained that tickets were appearing on secondary resale sites for hugely inflated sums within minutes of going on sale.
“Flight of the Conchords tickets sold out immediately they go on sale and are on resale sites already”, Phil Spivey wrote.
Another user wrote: “10 mins after going on sale, Flight of the Conchords tickets on official resale from £329. Too many mutha ‘uckers, ‘uckin with my shi’!”
Me at 10:00: I'm going to buy Flight of the Conchords tickets
Me at 10:00:30: … ? pic.twitter.com/5f4BNwx1Ac— Sean M. Tracey (@seanmtracey) October 27, 2017
Flight of the Conchords tix went on sale at 10. Sold out at 10:02. Already on re-sale sites for £150. Gutted.
— Alice (@etabecila) October 27, 2017
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For some though, it was an opportunity to celebrate bagging tickets to see New Zealand’s fourth most popular folk duo.
class=”TweetTextSize TweetTextSize–jumbo js-tweet-text tweet-text” lang=”en” data-aria-label-part=”0″>”Yes! Flight of the Conchords tickets sorted! #fotc”, one said.
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Yes! Flight of the Conchords tickets sorted! #fotc
— Dom K (@dom_k) October 27, 2017
The tour comes amid talk that the folk duo are gearing up to release their first big screen outing as Flight of The Conchords.
“We’ve got a few things up our sleeves”, Jemaine Clement told the Press Association.
“We’ve done a little work on some of those ideas. The ideas we have are quite different to the TV show. It’s still music, still a couple of idiots and another idiot and some music.”