[ollie]

Crumb's!:( Nobody better try that with the Three Amigo's, though if we were selling tickets for that, and I was in the ticket box I might be tempted with a £1000......

Originally Posted by Quazi Washboard

Your not going to let this go are you Ollie.
OK then.
Find out who's been given the job of selling the tickets, (for well known bands like Busted, this will be some struggling student who's got a job sitting in a box office because he just want's to earn enough money to spend the week in the pub.) then give them £1000 to tell everyone that's trying to buy tickets that the gig is either; Over 18s only, (this should wipe out half the audience) cancelled, or sold out. (the entire knobble works better if they are on tour and you do this to three or four venues evenly spaced around the country)
Busted (or whoever you're doing this to) come to play their gig to an empty room. Now if this place is somewhere like Manchester Apollo, the venue will have just lost a lot of money because it costs so much just to light and heat a place like that, plus you have to pay the staff, plus they will already have agreed a price to pay the boy band which they will be obliged under contract to pay.
The upshot? Well that band will cirtainly NOT be playing there again, the venue owner will contact other venues, (they all keep in touch you know) infact, if the venue is one of a line of venues all owned by the same corporation, then they won't be playing any of those either. Before you know it, nearly an entire tour has been officially cancelled due to poor ticket sales. The fans, like sheep, will go off them because they don't appear to be popular any more and eventually this will affect record sales so badly that their record company will drop them. They will go down in the history books as one of the biggest flops of all time and will end up stacking shelves in their local supermarket.