It’s all gone a bit Pete Tong between promoter AEG Live and secondary ticketing site Viagogo. The latter had some kind of official relationship with AEG for the 50 Michael Jackson gigs at The O2 - it was linked to by the official MichaelJacksonLive website, and around 10% of the seats for each night were set aside to be sold as “official premium” tickets.
Except now AEG has won a court order forcing Viagogo to agree not to offer or provide its tickets to any other resellers. Apparently Viagogo sent an email to other agents offering to cut bulk deals on inventory. “We went nuclear” says AEG Live boss Randy Phillips. “It was not our intent to sell to brokers”.
No, only approved brokers, clearly.