Flight of the Concords

When we heard that acclaimed Kiwi folk duo Flight Of The Concords were playing a pair of Dublin dates in May, we were thrilled. Scratch that – we were positively ecstatic. For the uninitiated, the Concords are deadpan comedy gods: for irrefutable proof, track down episodes of their hilllllllllllllarious HBO series and/or their elpees immediately.

Tickets for their Olympia concerts went on sale, as they are wont to do these days, on a recent Friday morning at 9am – and sold out 20 seconds later. That's right. Twenty seconds. It's a record, apparently. One question: how the flippedy flip does a gig sell out in 20 seconds? We understand that the evil masterminds at Ticketmaster, who handle all ticket transactions for promotional giant MCD these days, are more than capable of handling multiple bookings and whatnot, but… 20 bloody seconds? Come on!

It usually takes us 10 minutes of fiddling about to book anything online. We've yet to meet anybody who got a ticket, either.

Do we smell a conspiracy here? Did MCD Grand Poobah Dennis Desmond keep all the tickets for his mates? Isn't there meant to be a recession on or something? And can't anybody do us a plus-one?