Tickets for two Rolling Stones concerts in Dublin in September sold out yesterday within two minutes of going on sale.The majority of the 16,000 fans turned up in person at 9 a.m. at the 85 ticket outlets throughout Ireland yesterday.
Prices ranged from €55 for an unreserved seat to €130 for a "top-prize reserved best-viewing seat, with average ticket prices selling at €80", said promoters MCD.
The Rolling Stones will play at The Point in Dublin on September 9th and have agreed to play an extra date on September 11th due to huge public demand. Their last Irish concert was at Slane Castle in 1982.
"It's a new Irish record and one of the fastest sell-outs of the whole Licks world tour," said MCD spokesman Mr Justin Green. He said tickets were cheap compared to elsewhere for the tour. "Ticket prices in the USA ranged from $100-$350."
The Irish concerts at The Point will wrap up the European leg of the group's world tour of their Forty Licks CD.
The group's management says there has been unprecedented demand in Britain and Ireland for tickets. Box office records in the US, Australia and Japan have already been broken.
The European part of the tour begins in Munich on June 4th.
It will play in Italy, Austria, Spain, France, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Britain, before arriving in Dublin.
For the tour, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood will perform more than 50 songs each night.
The Stones's retrospective double CD Forty Licks has already achieved multi-platinum status throughout the world.