Teenage Cancer Trust confirms fastest selling Royal Albert Hall shows in 10 year history

05/02/10

Teenage Cancer Trust’s spectacular line up at the Royal Albert Hall has sold out within minutes of tickets going on sale. Thousands of fans rushed to buy tickets for Teenage Cancer Trust’s biggest ever shows at 9am today, smashing the event’s records from the last decade.

Them Crooked Vultures, Suede, Noel Gallagher, Arctic Monkeys, JLS, The Specials and The Who all sold out within minutes. At the time of writing, comedy fans can still get tickets for Jimmy Carr, Rhod Gilbert and Noel Fielding (Tuesday 23 March), but they’ll need to be quick.

The charity is advising disappointed fans to keep an eye on this site and the Royal Albert Hall’s Box Office for announcements of any tickets made available through returns.

Front row seats, meet and greets and other opportunities are still available by charity auction at ticketmaster.co.uk/tctauction.

The charity’s legendary patron, The Who’s Roger Daltrey, CBE has been behind Teenage Cancer Trust’s concerts at the Royal Albert Hall from the start. Roger said, “It’s immensely rewarding for me personally in these difficult financial times that these shows have been so successful. It’s obviously a reflection of the public’s support for teenagers in their time of need. Thanks to this charity, Britain leads the world in its treatment of teenagers with cancer. From myself, my team, all the artists and the teenagers, thank you so much.”

Teenage Cancer Trust’s all-star, 10-night line up, in association with Nomura, marks the charity’s 10th year of music and comedy at the Royal Albert Hall. Following Depeche Mode’s sold-out gig on 17 February, the full series continues with: Them Crooked Vultures (Monday 22 March), Jimmy Carr, Rhod Gilbert and Noel Fielding (Tuesday 23), Suede (Wednesday 24), Noel Gallagher (Thursday 25 and Friday 26), Arctic Monkeys (Saturday 27), JLS (Sunday 28), The Specials (Monday 29), The Who (Tuesday 30).

Teenage Cancer Trust believes that teenagers should not have to stop being teenagers, just because they have cancer. The charity funds and develops specialist teenage cancer units within NHS hospitals which enable young people to be treated together, by an expert team, in the best possible environment. Teenage Cancer Trust focuses on quality of life and aims to improve the chances of survival for young people with cancer. Since its inception in 1990, the charity has opened a total of 14 units and plans to build enough so that, by 2012, every single teenager in the UK can have access to the support they provide.