McFly vs Busted tour: Fans call Ticketmaster chaos 'more stressful than trying to get Taylor Swift tickets'

Ticketmaster faced caller woes arsenic fans complained of difficulties buying tickets to spot Busted vs McFly.

Tickets don’t spell connected wide merchantability connected Friday but O2 customers and different fortunate fans with presale codes had the accidental to get their hands connected immoderate aboriginal by logging connected to Ticketmaster connected Wednesday morning.

The 2 bands are acceptable to play 14 dates crossed the UK adjacent year, kicking disconnected successful Birmingham connected September 16, which marks 10 years since the debut McBusted tour.

They volition past instrumentality successful shows successful London, Cardiff, Sheffield, Leeds, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Liverpool, Newcastle, Nottingham, Manchester, Dublin earlier wraping up astatine Belfast’s SSE Arena connected October 21.

While galore fans went successful optimistic, they aboriginal took to societal media to vent their vexation aft being met by mistake messages and yet coming distant ticketless.

Appealing to the online summons vendor for help, 1 idiosyncratic wrote connected X, formerly Twitter: "Busted V McFly presale has been connected for 13 mins ans I'm inactive conscionable getting spinning circles?? @TicketmasterIre @TMIrelandHelp."

Another facing akin difficulties fumed: "The busted vs mcfly presale is much stressful than eras circuit tickets atm (sic)”.

While a 3rd enactment in: "I was consecutive to buying enactment but kept getting mistake u307 and watched astatine my mates got their tickets, wasn't until I closed the app I came backmost and lasting was sold retired @TicketmasterUK." There person been akin scenes implicit the past twelvemonth with different artists including Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter and Oasis.

Speaking astir the upcoming circuit aft it was announced past week, James Bourne from Busted said: "The full circuit is to find retired who's a amended band. Fans tin decide. They tin travel and enactment their set and they mightiness alteration their mind. It's going to beryllium a combat to the death."

His bandmate Matt Willis past jokily added: "It has been a agelong clip coming, this tour. Fans person wanted this. There's a monolithic crossover successful the fanbases but secretly I deliberation everyone likes Busted more."

Throwing down the gauntlet successful a connection of their own, McFly referred to Busted arsenic “old men,” vowing: we are gonna stroke them and their carers disconnected the signifier adjacent year.”

Ticketmaster person been contacted for comment.