Ticket Tout.com, set up in February 2006, went into administration on 6 March.
“The company’s offices are now closed and no further trading will take place,” said a statement by joint administrators Lane Bednash and Mark Reynolds of Valentine & Co insolvency practitioners.
Initial investigations suggested there was “no possibility of refunds or of providing tickets to consumers who have placed orders with the company due to lack of available funds and the quantum of the claims”, the statement said.
A special website has been set up at Insolvencynoticeboard.co.uk to provide information to the public.
Ticket Tout’s collapse comes just a year after another firm, Getmetickets.net, was closed by the government for overcharging its customers. This latest debacle will hopefully put some pressure on the government to ban the resale of tickets and kill touting altogether. Last month, culture secretary Tessa Jowell said she did not believe there was a need for such legislation; hopefully this may just change her mind.
Camden Council agreed on 14th December to go out to public consultation on a “planning brief” for Camden Town Underground Station.There are just six weeks to respond to that consultation, which closes on the 16th February.
As recently as 2005 Transport for London’s previous propsals to demolish The Electric Ballroom, Buck Street Market and all the other buildings in the triangle to the north of the current station were defeated.
Kate Fuller of The Electric Ballroom says:
“I am very concerned that the Camden Council Planning Brief is a back door route to giving the TFL the cCouncil policy it needs to come back and force through a new but fundamentally similar development scheme.
We recognise the need to improve the Tube Station to ease congestion, but TfL’s ideas for the site would change the nature of the heart of Camden Town and actually reduce the number of people.
Camden Town doesn’t need a bland arcade-style shopping mall above it’s tube station. It is a unique place that needs to retain it’s character.My family has run the Electric Ballroom since the 1930’s. We have just refurbished the Ballroom, investing a large sum of money in upgrading the venue. We will be improving the facade and exterior of the building in the New Year. We do not want our premises demolished and our business displaced from the heart of Camden Town to make way for a shopping mall.
My family has run the Electric Ballroom since the 1930’s. We have just refurbished the Ballroom, investing a large sum of money in upgrading the venue. We will be improving the facade and exterior of the building in the New Year. We do not want our premises demolished and our business displaced from the heart of Camden Town to make way for a shopping mall.I hope you will respond to the Camden Council consultation and let them know that demolition of the Electric Ballroom, Buck Street Market and the other buildings on the site is unacceptable.”Here’s what you can do to save the Electric Ballroom:
1) Send your views on the future of the site to david.morrissey@camden.gov.uk at Camden Council, with the subject line ‘Response to Camden Town Tube Station Planning Brief Consultation’ with copies to the 3 local ward councillors: patricia.callaghan@camden.gov.uk; libby.campbell@camden.gov.uk; chris.naylor@camden.gov.uk. Please include your name & home address in the email.2) Respond to Camden’s consultation online at: www.camden.gov.uk/consults
3) go to the Electric Ballroom website and sign their online petition http://www.electric-ballroom.co.uk/save.html
go to the Electric Ballroom website and sign their online petition
Please tell all of your friends to vote for StopTout.com in the annual yahoo search finds of the year peoples choice the link is as follows;
Remember the more publicity we can get the more members will join and together we can beat the ebay ticket touts and make the ticket buying process cheaper for everyone, whether it be gigs, festivals or sporting events.
Once you have voted please forward this email to as many of your friends and contacts as you can, but you’ll need to be quick voting ends on the 15th of Jan.
Cheers, your support is greatly appreciated.
Voting for the people’s choice award opens on the 4th of January and closes on the 15th. All of the shortlisted sites are in with a shot of winning the award and we will have details on how to vote on the 4th via the blog.
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StopTout.com has been nominated in the Yahoo Search, find of the year award 2006.
Now in its fifth consecutive year, the Yahoo! Search Find of the Year awards 2006 celebrates the very best of the web by picking the top UK sites of the year that everyone should visit. From the weird and wonderful world of The Bee Dogs to the resourceful BritBlog guide to the UK’s most credible blogs, this year’s shortlist contains a cross-section truly representative of the unique diversity of the web.
Websites are short listed across 9 categories and StopTout.com has been nominated for the ethical category. We are also entered into the people’s choice category where web users get to vote for their favourite site. We’ll be hoping for your support and we will have details on how you can vote for us soon.
Having sold-out their 50,000 capacity Lancashire Cricket Ground gig within fifteen minutes, The Arctic Monkeys have now announced a second date. The band will now play the Old Trafford Ground on both Saturday and Sunday the 28th/29th of July 2007.
It has been a great year for the Sheffield four-piece, they won the prestigious Mercury Music Prize as well as scooping top gongs at the Brit and NME awards.
The show will follow the late spring release of their second album and they’ll be playing there longest set to date incorporating tracks from their hit debut album ‘Whatever people say I am, that’s what I’m not’ as well as their highly anticipated follow-up.
Although the band will be touring as part of the NME Indie Rave Tour in February, Klaxons have now unveiled headline shows of their own.
February Tour Dates:
3rd - Dublin Ambassador
4th - Belfast Mandella Hall
6th - Glasgow ABC 
7th - Leeds Met Uni
8th - Newcastle Uni
11th - Cardiff Solus (Uni)
12th - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
13th - Oxford Brookes Uni
14th - Bristol Anson Rooms
16th - Liverpool Academy
17th - Manchester Academy
18th - Sheffield Plug
20th - Portsmouth Pyramids
21st - Cambridge Junction
22nd - London Hammersmith Apollo (Sold Out)
