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Adele Swiss concert tickets go for 700 francs

Tickets for British pop sensation Adele’s second concert at Zurich’s Hallenstadion arena next year sold out on Monday in minutes after going on sale at 10am.

Adele Swiss concert tickets go for 700 francs
Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP

The sale was for 13,000 places at an additional concert in Switzerland’s largest city for the top-selling singer after tickets for a first concert sold out last week in three minutes.

The May 17th and 18th events are the only ones planned in Switzerland for her European tour, her first since 2011.

The tour is set to open in Belfast on February 29th 2016 and will also include stops in England, Scotland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and France.

The tickets for the Zurich concerts were advertised at 90 francs for general admission and 110 francs for seated places.

But shortly after the tickets were sold out, scalpers were offering them on online platforms such as Ricardo for as much as 700 francs, broadcaster SRF reported.

There is no law in Switzerland against the resale of concert tickets.

But consumer groups are warning against counterfeiters offering fake tickets for high prices.

Adele’s latest chart-busting album 25 has sold 4.49 million copies in its first two weeks of sale in the US alone, according to Billboard, and has topped the Billboard 200 albums chart for the past two weeks.

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CIRCUS

David Gilmour to play Rome’s ancient Circus Maximus

Former Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour has announced two gigs in Rome this summer at the iconic Roman hippodrome, Circus Maximus.

David Gilmour to play Rome's ancient Circus Maximus
David Gilmour will play two dates in Rome this summer. Photo: Pierre Andrieu/AFP

Gilmour will play on July 2nd and 3rd, with tickets going on sale from 10am on April 7th.

Priced between €60 and €120, tickets will be available from rockinroma.com, postepaysound.it, ticketone.it and davidgilmour.com.

Each person will only be allowed to purchase a maximum of four tickets.

Aside from the two days in Rome, 70-year-old Gilmour has already confirmed two dates at the Roman Amphitheatre of Pompeii (July 7th-8th ) and a further two at the Roman Amphitheatre of Verona (July 10th-11th) .

Gilmour's Italy dates come as part of a worldwide tour following the launch of his fifth solo album, “Rattle That Lock”, released in September 2015.

American rocker Bruce Springsteen will also have the privilege of performing at Circus Maximus on July 16th.

The last band to be granted permission to perform among the ancient ruins was The Rolling Stones, who attracted more than 60,000 fans to their gig in June 2014.

But the concert sparked controversy after it was revealed that the rockers paid just €8,000 to use the venue.

The decision to charge such a low price was defended by ex-Mayor Ignazio Marino, who argued that the event brought €25 million to the city’s coffers in just one day.

Still, as a result the city’s authorities upped fees for “occupying public land”, bringing the cost of hiring Circus Maximus to up to €200,000. 

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