Radiohead warn fans off resold Roseland tickets

Radiohead have warned fans that a resold ticket for their two nights at New York's Roseland Ballroom, on Wednesday and Thursday, will not get anyone in. No tickets were posted out; each one waits at will call from 6.30pm on the night for the person who bought it, who has to bring the card they paid with and their ID and is then taken straight inside.

On Dead Air Space, the band's blog, they say some buyers have already put one or both of their tickets up on auction sites, and tell anyone thinking of paying over face value to make sure they can get through the door before handing over any money. Sales were limited to two tickets a household. With that limit and the collection at the door, the band write, we have tried to ensure that more tickets go to the people who prefer to see the show than to cheat fellow fans with re-selling tickets at exorbitant prices.⁷

The shows were announced on 19 September, a few days before the band's Saturday Night Live slot. Tickets went on sale through Ticketmaster at 10am on Monday, at $65 plus $14.75 in fees according to a fan site, and by the end of the morning both nights showed as unavailable, with many fans there saying they had got none. Thom Yorke's Atoms for Peace ran their Roseland nights in 2010 the same way.

The last time Radiohead played in the United States was the Santa Barbara Bowl in August 2008, and apart from an unannounced set at Glastonbury in June they have played no concerts for The King of Limbs, out since February. Roseland had them three times before, in 1993, 1996 and 2000. Kieran Hebden, who records as Four Tet, announced on Twitter that he will support, and a fan site lists RocketNumberNine, Falty DL and Pearson Sound as well.

On Monday night, the day of the sale, the band were on an hour of The Colbert Report, and the post ends on it. On a lighter note, we played on The Colbert Report last night. It was funny.⁷