Right, well, that’s that done so.

Tickets for Coldplay’s Dec 21st date at the o2 went on sale at 9am; by 9.06am looking for any one isolated ticket was unsuccessful - in layman’s terms, it was sold out.

Of course, they went and added their second date - the next Night, Monday 22nd - to the website at 9.06am, and that one was gone by 9.10am.

So not one, but two dates sold out in ten minutes; 34,000 tickets quickly snapped up; and at a cost of €61.15 (including handling fee) each, each, MCD and Ticketmaster seem to be earning €12,474,600 an hour.

Nice work if you can get it. Expect much moaning on Jim’s Blog later this morning.