Tickets to Midnight Oil‘s 2017 Australian tour are hot property right now, with passes to sold-out shows being resold for over $900 online.
With eight of the Oils’ upcoming Aussie shows now sold out, tickets have been popping up on resale sites for highly inflated prices, which isn’t super-surprising given the tour’s popularity and the desperation of ticket scalpers.
Music Feeds has spotted Midnight Oil tickets up for sale for almost $1,000 online. For comparison, the original cost of most tickets on Midnight Oil’s upcoming Aussie tour are between $80 and $150.
In a statement to fans late yesterday, Midnight Oil warned punters against purchasing tickets from reseller sites.
“Such unofficial sites may currently be legal but they typically charge vastly inflated prices and sometimes even offer fake tickets,” the band say.
“Midnight Oil is well aware of the problems caused by automated ticket buying around the world and the band is as frustrated as its fans are by this ticket scalping. It may be legal and impossible to stop in many places but it is clearly a big problem for both fans and artists on all ‘high demand’ shows these days.”
Midnight Oil are implementing a number of anti-scalper measures for their 2017 The Great Circle world tour, including limiting tickets to six-per-person and issuing paper tickets instead of digital ones, but that clearly hasn’t stopped scalping from being an issue.
Ticket scalping has plagued a number of popular Australian tours recently, with tickets to Adele and Justin Bieber‘s upcoming tours being flogged for thousands of dollars by scalpers.
Midnight Oil are expected to add new shows to the Australian leg of their The Great Circle tour in the next 24 hours or so.
View the band’s already announced tour dates, below.
Watch: Midnight Oil ‘The Great Circle’ World Tour Teaser
Midnight Oil 2017 ‘The Great Circle Tour’ Australian Dates
Tickets on sale to general public Monday, 27th February
Monday, 2nd October
- ANZAC Oval, Alice Springs, NT (18+)
- With Dan Sultan & Apakatjah
- Tickets: Official Website
Wednesday, 4th October
- Darwin Amphitheatre, Darwin, NT (18+)
- With Dan Sultan & Irrunytju Band
- Tickets: Official Website
Saturday, 7th October – SOLD OUT
- Kuranda Amphitheatre, Cairns, QLD (18+)
- With Urthboy
- Tickets: Official Website
Tuesday, 10th October
- Townsville Ent. Centre, Townsville, QLD (All Ages)
- With Urthboy
- Tickets: Official Website
Thursday, 12th October
- Great Western Hotel, Rockhampton, QLD (18+)
- With Urthboy
- Tickets: Official Website
Saturday, 14th October
- Big Pineapple Fields, Sunshine Coast, QLD (18+)
- With The Living End & Jebediah
- Tickets: Official Website
Sunday, 15th October – SOLD OUT
- Riverstage, Brisbane, QLD (All Ages)
- With The Jezabels
- Tickets: Official Website
Tuesday, 17th October – NEW SHOW
- Riverstage, Brisbane, QLD (All Ages)
- With Special Guests TBA
- Tickets: Official Website
Thursday, 19th October
- Hockey Fields, Coffs Harbour, NSW (18+)
- With Jebediah & Jack River
- Tickets: Official Website
Saturday, 21st October – SOLD OUT
- Hope Estate, Hunter Valley, NSW (18+)
- With Birds of Tokyo & Ash Grunwald
- Tickets: Official Website
Tuesday, 24th October – SOLD OUT
- AIS Arena, Canberra, ACT (All Ages)
- With Something For Kate
- Tickets: Official Website
Thursday, 26th October
- The Village Green Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, SA (All Ages)
- With Spiderbait & Bad//Dreems
- Tickets: Official Website
Saturday, 28th October
- Perth Arena, Perth, WA (All Ages)
- With Spiderbait
- Tickets: Official Website
Wednesday, 1st November
- Derwent Entertainment Centre, Hobart, TAS (All Ages)
- With The Jezabels
- Tickets: Official Website
Friday, 3rd November
- Gateway Lakes, Wodonga, VIC (18+)
- With The Living End
- Tickets: Official Website
Saturday, 4th November – SOLD OUT
- Hanging Rock, Mt Macedon, VIC (18+)
- With John Butler Trio, Something for Kate, Frank Yamma & David Bridie
- Tickets: Official Website
Monday, 6th November – SOLD OUT
- Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne, VIC (All Ages)
- With The Jezabels & Adalita
- Tickets: Official Website
Wednesday, 8th November – SOLD OUT
- WIN Entertainment Centre, Wollongong, NSW (All Ages)
- With Abbe May
- Tickets: Official Website
Saturday, 11th November – SOLD OUT
- The Domain, Sydney, NSW (18+)
- With John Butler Trio & A.B. Original
- Tickets: Official Website
New shows in Sydney & Melbourne to be announced soon.
