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Danielle Kate Wroe

Coldplay fan mortified over awkward ticket mix-up gets amazing offer from band

Most of the time, if you buy the wrong gig tickets, that's that - you have to mourn your loss of cash and move on. You'll either have to buy the right ones or begrudgingly accept that it wasn't meant to be this time around.

When 17-year-old Finley Galdins accidentally bought the wrong Coldplay tickets, buying tickets to a cinema screening of the gig, instead of the gig itself, he was left gutted and fearful that he wouldn't get to see the band that he loves.

So when he woke up to a direct message on Twitter from Coldplay, he couldn't believe his luck. He was so shocked, and his nan even warned him it was a scam as she thought it was too good to be true.

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