Jack White will perform at the Omaha Music Hall on Aug. 6.
Tickets to Jack White’s concert at the Omaha Music Hall on Aug. 6 sold out today. According to some folks I know on Facebook, it sold out wicked fast.
A lot of people are wondering, “Why wasn’t the show booked at a bigger venue?”
Let’s look at the numbers, shall we? In Omaha, White is playing the Music Hall, which holds about 2,200 people. In Colorado, he’s playing Red Rocks, which holds about 9,400. In LA, he’s playing the Shrine Auditorium, which holds 6,300.
So, what venue in Omaha could hold him?
At 16,000 to 18,000 seats, the CenturyLink Center is waaaaay too big. A half house might work, but it’s probably still too spacious. At 9,000 seats, the Mid-America Center is also way too big. Again, a half-house might work, but maybe not. And would you really rather see him at the MAC?
Don’t forget that if you booked him at an arena and they only sell half the seats, the promoter probably just lost tons of money. A bigger venue means a bigger rental fee.
The one venue size we don’t really have around here is the 3,000 to 6,000-seat venue. All of our small venues (Music Hall, Orpheum Theater, Holland Center) hover around the 2,000 to 2,500 mark. All of the big places (MAC, Civic, Westfair, CenturyLink) are about 10,000 and up.
When the Ralston arena is built, it will have a capacity of 3,500. Some concerts will be booked there, but it’s a weird size. Only one concert in 100 will end up being a perfect fit. In this case, it’s Jack White.
Don’t get me wrong. It sucks for those of you who didn’t get tickets to the show. I’d be really bummed. I just don’t know where else you put him.
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As an aside, I was told that an inordinate number of tickets are available on ticket resellers such as StubHub.
The Ticketmaster page for the concert also said: “Please note: Delivery of all tickets will be delayed to enforce ticket limit of 4 tickets per household.”
I wonder if the scalpers got a hold of a lot of the tickets. I have a call to the venue’s rep to see what’s up and if anything suspicious occurred.
Tickets sold out instantly, so I’m not sure a 3,500 seat venue would have sold out any less fast.
Jack White would have done well to book the MAC. He might not have sold it out, but he would have come close for sure.
Or maybe he should have done the Pershing to make up for that White Stripes show he cancelled all those years ago.
I started trying around 10:30am and was met with “no tickets available” when searching any combination of ticket price/location. Tried off and on for 30 minutes or so and eventually got a main floor GA ticket. I was pleased but know there are probably thousands who were not as lucky.
As of right now there are 551 tickets (thats 25% of the total number of available tickets mind you) on StubHub anywhere from $70-$200 per ticket.
I didn’t notice this type of ticket gouging in Omaha until last year when some of the Stir Concerts sold out lightning quick (Black Keys, Mumford and Sons). How, in this day and age, have we not figured out a way to keep people from scalping tickets like this? It is super frustrating.
I was on ticketmaster at precisely 10:00 am on Friday and was unable to purchase tickets for this show. It was as if the show was sold out before it actually went “on-sale” to the public. By 10:15am-15 minutes after the on-sale time- 175 tickets were available on StubHub and by 3:30pm Friday afternoon there were over 500 which by your 2,200 capacity number is 23% of tickets available. I’ll keep finding ways to get tickets and keep paying twice the face value to see an artist like Jack White because it’s what I love but someday this sort of thing needs to change.
started right at 10 and took 5 attempts before i got GA main floor. must have been a lot of traffic. Persistance paid off.
Although I have a hard time understanding how 1/4 the venue capacity was available on stubhub and ebay within just a few hours. I checked the same afternoon that they went on sale – just because. Certainly seems suspicious. Is Ticketmaster actually enforcing the 4 per household requirement.
Hey guys,
I just bought 4 tickets, looks like “Sold-Out” is a term TicketMaster uses loosely. I cant guarantee the same fortune I had, but it is worth a shot. I also tried buying tickets right at 10am and continued trying all day. I hate TicketMaster.
Tried to buy tickets from 10:30 a.m.- 11:30 on Friday to no avail. Now, I’m likely to buy a pair off another ticket website for twice as much as the original ticket price. Pretty lame that so many tickets are now for sale from scalpers…Kinda surprised Jack White even does business with ticketmaster.. Obviously the venue is smaller, but most shows don’t sell out this fast in Omaha. This was the perfect show for all the low life scalpers.
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Hey everybody! It appears that tickets are once again available. Ticketmaster coughed up one ticket for me (that’s all I tried for) when I tested it out this morning. Blog post here: http://bit.ly/L7AzaI