The Smashing Pumpkins Ticket Debacle
After partying all night Saturday night, Me and some friends prepared to purchase tickets to the Smashing Pumpkins residency at the less than 1000 person capacity Orange Peel in Asheville, NC yesterday morning. We had 6 people and were utilizing 10 computers. As soon as tickets went on sale at 1pm, we began refreshing the page as fast as possible. The Orange Peel was using a company called Ticketweb to purchase tickets, and they are so horrible they make you appreciate ticketbastard. Basically the end result was hours of trying to get tickets, and nothing. Pages wouldn’t load, your place in line would get lost, and there was even an annoying survey before you could buy them to crash the system. Moral of the story is Ticketweb sucks really bad and I hope they go out of business. Luckily, the Orange Peel is cool and has decided to fire those amateurs and use ticketmaster. So, they have said that less than 10% of total tickets available got sold yesterday, and that tickets will go on sale either this afternoon or tomorrow. So, if you forgot about these amazing shows, or had wasted a Sunday afternoon wanting to smash your computer, you still have a chance to attend one of the biggest music events of the year. For updates, check out the Orange Peel website and good luck.
Here’s the new Smashing Pumpkins song:
- Posted by Davy Minor on May 21, 2007 at 3:47 am
