ROLLING FOREVER ON
Stones play more gigs to beat the ticket touts
WRINKLY rockers The Rolling Stones will keep playing huge stadium in a bid to beat greedy ticket touts.
The band have vowed to play live so often that all their fans get a chance to watch them.
They are determined to thwart touts who buy up swathes of tickets at once before selling them on at sky-high prices.
Tickets for the Stones’ No Filter tour officially went on general sale yesterday. But some fans were able to sign-up to presale offers.
And already hard-nosed touts are demanding £1,000 a ticket on some secondary ticketing websites.
Sir Mick Jagger, 74, Keith Richards, 74, Charlie Watts, 76, and Ronnie Wood, 70,
are said to be furious that real fans could miss out on seeing them live. Band spokesman Bernard Doherty said last night: “The Stones are going to be playing a lot of stadiums in the UK so that anyone who wants to see them can get a ticket.
“The law is you can resell tickets through these horrible secondary marketing companies and individuals who set themselves up as ticket sellers. They speculate. That person selling a ticket for £2,000 hasn’t got a ticket. They haven’t even been told they have got a ticket.
“But they are being cute with their 20 credit cards and are confident they will get them.
“It’s not fans reselling tickets, because each individual needed a special code through the fan club.”
Mr Doherty urged the Government to clamp down on shady sellers who can make millions from desperate fans.