It has been just a week since Cheryl, Nadine Coyle, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh returned to the stage after 11 years for the first of 30 shows across the UK and Ireland.
But it’s feared the Girls Aloud comeback tour has already flopped as ticket prices were slashed on Thursday by 50 percent to fill stadiums.
The move also upset eager fans who had already spent between £58 and £200 on their tickets for upcoming shows across the UK in areas such as Manchester, Nottingham, Sheffield, Aberdeen and London.
The half-price deal is being offered on Ticketmaster from Thursday until next Tuesday.
But one outraged fan wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter: ‘Ok can someone please explain to me how @nottinghamarena is getting away with selling Girls Aloud tickets at 50 percent off? For a better viewing seat to us who paid double. Fuming!!! At least move the people who paid more to the better seats, before doing this??!!!’
It has been just a week since Girls Aloud returned to the stage after 11 years for the first of 30 shows across the UK and Ireland (Cheryl Tweedy, Nadine Coyle, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh pictured)
But it’s feared the Girls Aloud comeback tour has already flopped as ticket prices were slashed on Thursday by 50 percent to fill stadiums
Another wrote: ‘I got girls aloud tickets two f****** days ago and now the evil Ticketmaster has put them on bloody half price. @NadineCoyleNow do something!!!!”
Someone else added: ‘The cheek of the Ticketmaster 50% off girls aloud tickets promo when we were all in the ticketing trenches paying a ton a few months ago.’
However, one person stuck up for the decision and wrote: ‘I can see both sides of the argument. Everyone wants to see as full as possible arena for the girls though and it shouldn’t be about money for fans – at the time you felt it was a price worth paying?’
The long-awaited reunion tour was first announced last November and had two shows in Dublin and Belfast earlier this week.
A band insider told the Mail on Sunday the girls, Cheryl, Nadine Coyle, Kimberly Walsh and Ni-cola Roberts, were ‘in tears’ after their Dublin show which saw them pay tribute to their former bandmate Sarah Harding who died three years ago from Breast Cancer.
As they began, Nadine said: ‘We’re going to do a duet with Sarah tonight. It’s going to be us, Sarah, you. Let’s do this together.’ That prompted tears from many among the sell-out audience at Dublin’s 3Arena last Friday evening.
Sarah’s vocals were used and images of her were beamed onto a screen behind them – and together they all sang their cover of I’ll Stand By You, which became their second number-one, in 2004.
The group catapulted to fame in 2002 when they took part in the ITV reality show Popstars: The Rivals.
Some fans were furious at the sale after paying ‘£450 for two tickets’ months ago
The half-price deal is being offered on Ticketmaster from Thursday until next Tuesday
The move also upset eager fans who had already spent between £58 and £200 on their tickets for upcoming shows across the UK in areas such as Manchester, Nottingham , Sheffield, Aberdeen and London
The long-awaited reunion tour was first announced last November and had two shows in Dublin and Belfast earlier this week
Sarah’s vocals were used and images of her were beamed onto a screen behind them – and together they all sang their cover of I’ll Stand By You, which became their second number-one, in 2004
They competed for a place in a girl band and were then pitted against a boy band from the show named One True Voice in the hope that their song would become Christmas number one.
Girls Aloud won with their single Sound Of The Underground and they went on to have three more number ones and 20 top ten hits.
Sarah also won Celebrity Big Brother in 2017.