With or Without You, U2 will play in Madrid for the first time in 13 years

TICKETS for the first U2 concert in 13 years went on sale at prices ranging from €60 to €70 but after selling out in minutes, appeared on the internet for up to €952.

All of the tickets were offered for sale on the Ticketmaster web site – one of Europe’s oldest and most well-respected internet booking sites – but the fact that they sold out so quickly and were then immediately offered again through other sites suggested that some very clever programmes had been put in place in order to obtain the lion’s share of tickets.

Whilst ‘scalping’ (the charging of exorbitant prices) in person is covered by Spanish law, no party up until now had taken the trouble to extend the law to cover the internet.

With fans and the band themselves fuming at this potential massive rip off, the Spanish Education, Culture and Sports minister, Íñigo Méndez de Vigo has announced that there will be an enquiry into what has happened and he plans to encourage the autonomous regions to introduce legislation to outlaw this type of activity in the future.

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John Smith

Married to Ophelia in Gibraltar in 1978, John has spent much of his life travelling on security print and minting business and visited every continent except Antarctica. Having retired several years ago, the couple moved to their house in Estepona and John became a regular news writer for the EWN Media Group taking particular interest in Finance, Gibraltar and Costa del Sol Social Scene. Currently he is acting as Editorial Consultant for the paper helping to shape its future development. Share your story with us by emailing newsdesk@euroweeklynews.com, by calling +34 951 38 61 61 or by messaging our Facebook page www.facebook.com/EuroWeeklyNews

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