A Bob Dylan concert in Brighton has sold out in 20 minutes, according to fans.
Tickets went on sale at 10am today (July 18) for the gig at the Brighton Centre.
The show is part of the musician's Rough and Rowdy Ways world tour which has been running since November 2021.
Following the quick sell out, many fans took to Twitter to share their disappointment after not securing a ticket.
Ian Carter wrote: “Bob Dylan tickets at the Brighton Centre sold out in 20 minutes, but don't worry as you can pick them up on Via Go Go already for £502. This doesn't feel like progress.”
Danielle also shared her upset. She wrote: "Absolutely devastated I couldn’t buy tickets for Bob Dylan at the Brighton Centre.
“I was one of the first in, but the seat map wouldn’t load on the app. By the time it finally worked (5+ mins later), all tickets were gone. Really disappointed.
"Bob Dylan is my hero.”
However, many fans were more successful.
Kee wrote: “Almost an hour later and I’ve got Bob Dylan tickets hell yeah.”
Leo added: “Incredible news guys…I’m going to see Bob Dylan in November.”
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The musician’s Brighton show on November 7 is the first of thirteen dates, travelling across the UK.
It comes amid a surge in interest in the Hurricane singer’s career, following the release of the biopic A Complete Unknown last year, which starred Timothee Chalamet as Dylan and followed the story of his career beginnings and infamous decision to go electric in the mid-1960s.
The shows will be entirely phone-free, and people will be asked to put their phones in a Yondr pouch, which closes automatically when in the venue and unlocks in the venue’s concourse.
The singer is one of the most acclaimed songwriters of all time, winning 10 Grammys and being nominated on 38 further occasions.
Dylan has had six UK top 10 singles and nine UK number one albums.
He began his career in 1962 with the single Mixed-Up Confusion, which failed to chart in the UK and US.
But he shot to stardom with a string of successful singles in 1965, including The Times They Are A-Changin’, Subterranean Homesick Blues and Like A Rolling Stone.
He was the first songwriter to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, with the Swedish academy crediting him with “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”.
Dylan’s songs have been covered by the likes of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Rolling Stones and Adele, the latter of whom had a top five UK hit with Make You Feel My Love.
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