Rodrigo’s huge world tour kicks off next month, starting in North America and arriving at The O2 in London next April. See the full list of dates here and find any remaining tickets here.
Now, Ticketmaster has revealed that it has recovered tickets for the US and Canada leg of the tour purchased by touts and will now make them available to fans at face value.
Fans can request these tickets via Ticketmaster (here) now, and requests will close today at 11:59am ET/tomorrow at 4:59am BST.
Fans who haven’t yet secured tickets to the tour will be prioritised. There are also $25 “Silver Star” tickets available for request starting September 1 at 3pm EST/8pm BST.
The ticketing platform made the announcement yesterday (Thursday August 20), saying they are “are ticket purchases that broke the rules of the sales and are being released directly back to fans, at the original prices set by the tour.”
Rodrigo’s hero and collaborator, The Cure‘s Robert Smith, made a similar move in 2023 when he confirmed the band had cancelled 7,000 tickets found on secondary resale websites in a bid to tackle touts.
The same year, Smith also persuaded Ticketmaster to issue small refunds to verified ticket buyers over the “unduly high” service fees.
Ticket touts are an increasingly hot topic in the music industry. In the UK, the government announced plans last November to ban the resale of live event tickets above their original cost, as well as limits of platform fees and potential fines of up to 10 per cent of a company’s global turnover.
Elsewhere, an investigation in July found that 72 per cent of StubHub UK’s arena listings came from just three bulk sellers, while a month earlier, the Competition and Markets Authority ordered StubHub UK to pay a £900,000 fine and refund more than 50,000 customers after finding that mandatory fees had not been displayed upfront.
