That was quick.
Just as fast as tickets to two performances at Denver’s Pepsi Center went on sale, they were gone. As with all things good and bad in the 21st century, fans took to Twitter to both rub it in and lament their bum luck:
WE DID THE THING! WE'RE GOING TO ADELE IN DENVER
— Ali Henkle (@AliHenkle)
"Hello" Adele "All I Ask" is for additional tour dates since we got shafted and couldn't get seats in Denver
— Cristiantofer (@Cris_oRiley)
Hello, its me. I was wondering if after all the years you'd like to meet?
In Denver?! Cause I got
— Julie Rodgers (@JulieAnnRodgers)
The tickets to see Adele in Denver literally sold out in like a second! Wtf!!!
— noey (@hnoey28)
So it went everywhere across the United States, where the singer’s heart-rending balladry hasn’t been heard live for nearly five years. Despite , scalpers complicated the landscape, flooding Denver’s secondhand market with tickets ranging from unfair () to get-the-hell-out-of-here () prices.
If you feel hard done, maybe you should: It stands to reason that Adele’s Denver fans had to fight some particularly stiff competition in this morning’s ticket pandemonium.
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Consider that ticket availability was staggered by time zone, going on-sale nationwide at 10 a.m. local time. That means the first rounds of hardcore Adele fans who missed out on their East Coast and Midwest shows looked West for their shot at an affordable ticket.
As it happens, Denver is one of just two cities the Adele tour will come through in the Mountain Time Zone (along with Phoenix, which will also host a pair of concerts). That’s a total of four shows for increasingly anxious Adele fans to focus on at 10 a.m. MST — a far cry from the number that went live in EST (24), CST (15) and PST (13).
And if you really want to get into the ether of qualitative speculation, Denver makes more sense travel-wise: Phoenix’s shows are mid-week, whereas Denver’s are Saturday and Sunday. (And let’s be honest: Denver is just cooler than Phoenix.)
It’s hardly scientific. But if you need a crumb of solace in these post-Adele ticket times, maybe you aren’t to blame.
Unless you just slept through the sale. Adele deserves so much better.
