BLACK SABBATH - Promoter Urges Government To Outlaw The Online Ticket Touts
May 6, 2012, 12 years ago
According to Sunday Mercury, BLACK SABBATH's biggest fan has claimed that greedy online ticket touts have ruined his chance of seeing the Brummie band’s reunion gig in their home city.
Sean May, who has got frontman Ozzy Osbourne’s name tattooed on his knuckles, spoke out as tickets for the show, to be held at the O2 Academy on May 19, went up for sale at £250 on the internet – more than for five times the original price of £45.
The band’s promoter Andy Copping also hit out at the online profiteers saying they were “disgusting” and he urged the government to outlaw the practice.
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Sean, aged 45, was planning to travel up to Birmingham especially for the gig from his home in Exeter.
The Sabbath superfan said: “I’ve been following the band since I was 14, but the real fans are missing out so these ticket scalpers can make money.
“I think it’s wrong, and it’s not the venue or the band that are profiting, it’s online ticket touts.
Black Sabbath's return to their home city for the first time in thirteen years will benefit Help For Heroes.
Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler (original drummer Bill Ward is still having a dispute with the members) are currently working on their first studio album in thirty three years and first since 1978's Never Say Die!
Black Sabbath will also headline the legendary Lollapalooza Festival in Chicago this August before returning to the studio to finish recording their long-awaited studio album.
