Fury as tickets for music icon's Scots gigs appear on resale sites for almost £700 minutes after they sell out

Scottish Sun

18-07-2025

VIA NONO Fury as tickets for music icon's Scots gigs appear on resale sites for almost £700 minutes after they sell out
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GREEDY touts started selling tickets to see music legend Bob Dylan's Scottish shows just minutes after the gigs went live.
Briefs to see the Blowin in the Wind star were being offered on sites for five times their original value moments after the 10am kick off today.
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Bob Dylan will perform at the Armadillo
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The icon played Scotland in November
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The 84-year-old will appear in Glasgow's SEC Armadillo on November 16 and 17 during his Rough and Rowdy Ways tour.
But disappointed fans face being overcharged to see their idol as ruthless touts set inflated prices for his only Scots shows.
Website Viagogo had tickets for sale for £685 each within an hour of his Glasgow show being released.
The site also had tickets being offered for £667 and £394 a piece.
The shows will be phone-free and concert goers will be asked to put their devices into a pouch until the end of the gig.
It comes a week after Lewis Capaldi fans raged at greedy touts who were flogging tickets for the star's comeback shows at eyewatering prices.
Seats for the OVO Hydro shows in Glasgow are being flogged on Viagogo for as much as £468.
And entry to Capaldi's Aberdeen concerts could set desperate punters back as much £407.
Dylan performed in Scotland last November where he told the crowd: 'We could play here every night, actually. Can't wait to come back.'
The tour dates come amid a fresh surge in interest in the singer's career following the release of his biopic A Complete Unknown last year.
Actor Timothee Chalamet starred as Dylan in the film which followed the story of his career beginnings and infamous decision to go electric in the mid-1960s.
The Hurricane singer will also play in Leeds, Belfast and Dublin.
Dylan is one of the most famous songwriters of all-time, winning 10 Grammys and being nominated on 38 further occasions.
He has had six UK top 10 singles and nine UK number one albums.
Born Robert Zimmerman, Dylan burst on to the folk scene in the early 1960s before controversially picking up an electric guitar on stage in 1965.
He has sold more than 125million records and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016 — the first songwriter to receive such a distinction.
Dylan owned a huge Highland mansion near Nethy Bridge for over 20 years which he used as a hideout. He sold it in 2023 for more than over £4m.
Dylan is among several musicians and comedians to introduce restrictions on mobile phones at their performances in recent years.
Sir Andy Murray also imposed a phone ban at his recent shows discussing his career.
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Dylan in his younger days
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