Delhi Woman's Hilarious Struggle To Secure Coldplay Tickets For Family Goes Viral (Image: X @therealnaomib)
Since India faced a frenzied ticket-buying experience for the Coldplay band’s January 2025 concert in Mumbai on Sunday, Naomi Barton hailing from New Delhi, who doesn’t even like Coldplay shared her entertaining ordeal on X as she spent hours on her computer to grab Rs 12,000 tickets for her family. The hilarious thing was that the family was constantly monitoring her screen via Google Meet. She wrote on X that she doesn’t even like Coldplay but her entire family harangued her into contributing the devices to the grand ticket buying.
I don’t even like Coldplay but my entire family has harangued me into contributing my devices to The Grand Ticket Buying and now I am 22,000 in the queue and they are 1,50,000 in the queue so my whole day is going to be spent looking at this page and carefully not refreshing it.
— Naomi Barton (@therealnaomib) September 22, 2024
Her family even considered overspending discussing budget-busting options and justifying an additional Rs 10,000. As Naomi’s spot in the queue improved however, ticket prices surged and her family eventually set a spending limit, declaring, “I’m not paying one lakh to scalpers,” and later found that the tickets sold out with 1,592 people ahead of her in the queue.
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This has turned into an impromptu family gathering. We are all on Google Meet watching my screen. Refreshments have been acquired. Discussions are underway as to what we will do in case only expensive tickets are available. Credit cards are being examined.
— Naomi Barton (@therealnaomib) September 22, 2024
Naomi found solace in retaining her money sans giving it for the Coldplay concert, “I can keep it if I decide to never speak to them again,” she said. Despite the jinx, the family tried again on Tuesday but faced a 1.5 lakh-long queue but in vain. They also planned a Christmas weekend renting a house, blasting Coldplay’s “Fix You,” and screaming along to console her crying sibling on account of the sold-out Coldplay tickets.
To make Kiki cry less we are deciding to do a Christmas weekend booking some kind of big house with a pool in the boonies, playing Fix You (apparently that’s a Coldplay song!!) very loudly and screaming along and trying not to spill our cocktails.
— Naomi Barton (@therealnaomib) September 22, 2024
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