Peter Kay tickets Leeds: First Direct Arena announces two new dates as thousands join online ticket queue

The comedian’s Better Late Than Never tour was initially scheduled to come to the arena for two 2023 dates – January 20 and May 19. A further date of November 12 was announced on Thursday as O2 Priority’s pre-sale of tickets began.

Tickets went on general sale at 10am on Saturday morning, with the arena announcing that two more Leeds dates had been added. The new dates are March 22, 2024 and June 1, 2024.

The arena has a capacity of 13,781 people, meaning no more than 68,905 people will ultimately secure a ticket for one of the five shows in the city.

Frustrated fans replying to the arena’s Twitter post about the new dates, reported being in huge queues on the Ticketmaster website.

Answering a fan who asked the arena if there were tickets left, Twitter user Paul wrote: “Don’t bother, there was 199,000 in front of me in the queue at 10am. Arena only holds about 12,000.”

Yorkshire_Pics said they hoped the queue was for the Leeds dates only and not the full tour, adding: “I was 36,000 in the queue and I'm currently at 25,000.”

James Scholey wrote: “Get a better ticket provider. Had tickets in my basket. Then crashed. Then put to back of queue.”

Richard Clough wrote: “Been in queue since 10am moved 5,000 places - so slow.”

Woody wrote: “In a queue of 58,000. Pointless.”

Responding to reports of up to 200,000 people queueing for tickets, Ticketmaster tweeted: "As expected, Peter Kay is super popular this morning. To make it as fair as possible, we have put everyone in a queue. Be patient and don't refresh or you'll lose your place."

It comes after Yorkshire Evening Post readers shared their disgust at people seeking to profit by snapping up tickets in the hope of making resale profits.

Tickets had started to appear on ViaGogo – a ticket resale site – for as much as £1,000 each after Thursday’s pre-sale. O2 priority said demand was the highest seen for more than 15 years, for any event.