Spent three hours yesterday morning attempting to buy Michael Jackson tickets.After various network crashes, server failures and incorrect password messages - I finally gave up.
It says something about the appeal of Wacko Jacko that makes millions of people scrap for tickets.
The O2 Arena will be the host of ten gigs - the likelihood is more dates will be added - or he will collapse after two and the rest will be cancelled.
For me it wasn't really about seeing a sideshow freak. And since mentioning the desire to obtain tickets I have been met with standard responses along the lines of criticising his appearance and his past misdemeanours. I just love his music.
Such is Jackson's back-catalogue that he needn't write a new song till the day he dies. If he was performing a new album people would probably feel short-changed. Everybody wants to see the classics.
No doubt the touts will have got their grubby little hands on tickets - and I can expect to see them on eBay or other ticket sites with mark ups so high you would get altitude sickness. Touting is something of a British/American industry - visits to other countries have shown me its just not so common.
As I resigned myself to having zero joy in getting tickets yesterday - I tried to look at the positives - saving £50 - £75 being one of them. Yet I remain hopeful he will add more dates.
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