Now, listen, you've all got to stop buying your Led Zep tickets from those dodgy ticket websites because, well, Harvey Goldsmith says so. And those of you about to hand over hard earned cash for VIP tickets for an upcoming Cream concert - stop, don't do it.
As previously reported, at least one ticket agency website has been offering tickets for the rumoured Led Zeppelin reunion concert at O2 Arena, even though no such gig has actually been confirmed. Goldsmith yesterday issued a statement responding specifically to an advert from one of these ticketing websites in the Evening Standard warning that some of the events they are offering tickets for most likely don't exist. For those that do - such as the Bruce Springsteen O2 concert that Goldsmith is staging - the specific ticket deals being offered by said website do not exist.
Goldsmith, one of the loudest critics of the growing online ticket tout industry, said yesterday: "There have been at least four events advertised which I suspect either don't exist or where no tickets are on sale or indeed dates finalized. These [the ticket touts] are the very people whom our industry has spent over a year trying to convince the DCMS to instigate outlawing. The media should consider the consequences of giving credibility to those who rip the public off. There are NO packages or tickets for some the events advertised at all, nor do some of the events even exist. We are concerned that the public will be fleeced. The bottom line is that unless official adverts have appeared for concerts, tickets are not on sale. Do not buy from unauthorized sources."
So that's you lot all told.