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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Aneesa Ahmed

Ticket fees: UK gig-goers fight back against new wave of charges

Gorillaz performing on stage
A Gorillaz fan was charged a £1 ‘restoration fee’ for a concert next June at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, which opened in 2019. Photograph: Bethan Miller/PA

Gig-goers who bought tickets for Gorillaz at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in June next year have been refunded some of their booking fee by the ticket seller Gigantic after the Guardian queried the pricing.

A reader contacted us asking why he had been charged a £1 “restoration fee” for a concert at the £850m stadium in north London. The Gigantic website also listed the same fee for the recently built Co-op Live arena in Manchester.

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