Liverpool fans queue for Peter Kay tickets

Crowds of people queued up outside Liverpool Echo Arena in the hope of getting tickets for Peter Kay’s sell-out tour.

Tickets for Kay’s, the ‘Tour That Doesn’t Tour Tour’ went on general sale and disappeared fast. The tour will kick off at the Manchester Evening News (MEN) Arena in April next year, but Kay will not perform at Liverpool Echo Arena until the following year, April 2011.

As fans gathered outside the Echo Arena, it was clear that not all of them would get their reward. Anne Spofforth, from Liverpool, said: ‘‘I’ve got to go so I can’t queue any longer but I tried to get tickets for the Manchester show but I couldn’t get them. My friends also went to the MEN Arena itself and queued for three hours and they couldn’t get them either.’’

Kay will be taking up residency at the Echo Arena on a successive five-night run from Thursday 21st April, 2011.

One fan, Kayleigh Devine, from Liverpool, who had been queuing for over four hours managed to get tickets for her and her boyfriend. She said: ‘‘We got here at half seven and they opened the doors at 11 but they weren’t letting many people in. The first three rows have already gone and I was fourth in the queue and by the time I’d got there they’d sold out on those rows.’’

Last month Kay smashed box office records at MEN Arena as his 20-night run through April and May sold out within an hour of tickets going on sale to the general public.

The ‘Tour That Doesn’t Tour Tour’ will be Kay’s first national tour in seven years since his ‘Mum Wants A Bungalow Tour’ in 2003. Other venues included are, Newcastle Metro Radio Arena, Sheffield Arena, London’s O2 Arena, Birmingham’s National Indoor Arena and Glasgow’s Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre.