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Old 11-27-2014, 07:00 AM   #248
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Originally Posted by tessalasset View Post
Also keep in mind the bigger the venue, the more likely they are to have ties to ticketmaster or AXS or another big ticketing company. Damien needs to play in bigger venues to supply the demand. One of the reasons bigger artists stick with the likes of ticketmaster is that the system can handle that kind of traffic. If you went with a venue who had their own ticketing system, bigger artists' fans would crash the site in seconds, and then we'd be bitching about not being able to get tickets anyways.
thatīs for instance what happened with the Whelans show early this year, nice that Whelans has their own website for selling tix, no ticketmaster etc but then the site crashed already 30 minutes even before the sale started
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