Robbie fans angry

Quoted from: http://entertainment.news.com.au

'By Roxanne Millar
June 07, 2006

In demand ... Robbie Williams / Richard Cisar-Wright
In demand ... Robbie Williams / Richard Cisar-Wright

ROBBIE Williams fans will know by the end of the week if the hit-maker
will play a second show in Melbourne after his December 17 Telstra Dome
gig sold out within minutes.

Concert promoter Michael Chugg said the demand had been bigger than for
U2's Vertigo tour.

"It's huge. After the last tour, the talk about how great it was made
everyone want to see it.

"Now we're talking to him to see if he wants to do another show."

Chugg said he assumed the second gig would also be at Telstra Dome.

Tickets for Melbourne's Close Encounters show sold out within 30 minutes
of release yesterday and are already being sold on eBay for almost three
times the purchase price.

Williams's last Australian tour was in 2003 when demand was deemed too
low to bother with a second Melbourne show. Earlier today, thousands of
angry Robbie Williams fans were demanding to know why they missed out on
tickets to his Sydney and Melbourne shows.

More than 100,000 tickets were sold within 30 minutes for Williams's
first Australian concert tour in five years.

Concert promoter Michael Chugg told Seven's Sunrise concertgoers are
facing an uphill battle because scalpers resell tickets on auction
website eBay.

"These people are now joining fanclubs so they can scalp tickets," Mr
Chugg said.

"Unless they publish ticket details on eBay, you've got no hope of
finding out who has the ticket and that's the problem," he said.

- with AAP'