Responses have ranged from a class-action suit, which was filed by a frustrated fan who'd bought tickets to see two Rage Against the Machine reunion shows, to five members of Congress who are demanding that the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission launch an immediate investigation into allegations of "potentially unfair, deceptive and anti-competitive practices."
Not everyone is happy with Live Nation's COVID refund policies. Miss the deadline and your interest-free loan to parent company Live Nation is extended for another year. In the case of Die Antwoord, Ticketmaster sent ticket holders a single email announcing the postponement and giving them just one month to go online and request a refund. Making matters worse is the fact that, when shows finally do get postponed, it's not always easy for fans to get their money back.
So we had Australian fans going, 'Are you coming or not? Like, what is going on?' And we were not allowed to say anything until new dates were actually in place." And if their money is refunded, then the promoters could go bankrupt. "Promoters are waiting until the last minute to announce that shows aren't happening," the frontwoman of a veteran punk band told me last summer, "because if their shows are canceled, then people's money is refunded. The problem is that it has real-world consequences. Given Die Antwoord's dadaist tendencies, it's easy to imagine all this as some form of next-level performance art. The third round of postponements, which were announced in late March, asks fans to believe that the 2019 House of Zef Tour will finally take place in early 2022, nearly three years after the tickets first went on sale. The duo is tentatively set to play Portland Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Jan. Lured by the South African duo's strange mix of hip-hop theatrics, District 9 aesthetics, blank parody and art-school excess, they pounced on the chance to buy tickets for the band's 2019 House of Zef Tour.Īt the time, they had no idea they were sinking their money into a tour that would be postponed not once, not twice, but three times. As Die Antwoord can attest, procuring concert ticket refunds can be a poke in the eye.īack in the spring of 2019, legions of loyal Die Antwoord fans made that same decision.
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