WeGotTickets Announce Booking Free Day As They Celebrate A Decade Of Innovation

WeGotTickets, the leading UK tickets agency for small to medium venues, celebrates ten years of ticketing events in April with a ‘booking free’ day and party at the venue where it all began, The Bull & Gate in Kentish Town, North London.Back in 2000 trying to sell tickets in advance for smaller events could be a frustrating, if not impossible, experience. Fed up with this situation a group of Oxford promoters knocked heads together and launched the site that would become WeGotTickets.Fully embracing the internet WeGotTickets was the first ticket agency in the UK to sell paperless tickets, a revolutionary idea back then but one that has now become an industry standard.Over the years WeGotTickets has maintained this reputation for innovation and for encouraging best practice throughout the ticket sector. Alongside features such as their charity donation modules and ticket reallocation service their booking fees remain the lowest and most transparent in the business.To this day WeGotTickets continues to develop new ways of making life that little bit easier for gig goers, venues and promoters alike. On the 19th of April as a thank you to their customers who have purchased more than 1.6million tickets over the past ten years WeGotTickets will be waiving their booking fee.Ticket buyers will have the choice of not paying the booking fee altogether or generous types that they are donating the money to one of ten charities picked by WeGotTickets’ staff.Then that night, the company will up sticks from Oxford and descend on the legendary music venue The Bull & Gate for a party featuring live sets from exlovers and Jonquil and the Rockfeedback DJs.Said Dave Newton, WeGotTickets founder, “What! 10 years! Really? All I remember is sitting around one Friday afternoon with my cohort Andy drinking a bottle of Sainsbury's Merlot trying to solve the problem of selling advance tickets to a show we were promoting in London. Obviously the solution must have been a good one as some 4000 other promoters seem to agree. Maybe it's time to crack open that bottle of Margaux '53.”------WEGOTTICKETS 10TH BIRTHDAY PARTY DETAILSMonday 19th AprilThe Bull & Gate, 389 Kentish Town Road London NW5 2TJDoors: 8.30pmTickets £7 in advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/75602£8 on the doorexlovers – liveJonquil – liveRockfeedback DJsABOUT WEGOTTICKETSWeGotTickets is the leading ticketing agency in the UK for small to medium sized venues and promoters and currently works with over 3000 such organisations.WeGotTickets has made it possible for promoters of all manner of events to benefit from advance ticket sales and now sells more than 500,000 tickets a year for a wide range of events; from art events and underground restaurants, to traditional live music shows. Indeed to cater for the growing demand for comedy tickets the company recently launched WeGotComedy.com, the UK’s only dedicated online ticket portal for comedy events.Since its launch WeGotTickets has consistently pushed for innovation, transparency and best practice across the ticketing industry, with many of the company’s ideas becoming standard industry practice.The company’s 10% maximum ticket commission rate has helped to lower fees across the business, whilst its pioneering paperless ticketing system has been a major factor in reducing the live music industry’s carbon footprint. The company has also been involved in numerous initiatives to help develop the grassroots live music industry and in 2009 launched an online forum where the company’s clients can network and share resources and knowledge in private.Over the years WeGotTickets has been proud to work on a number of special campaigns with charities such as Oxjam, Childline and Warchild, and regularly donates a percentage of their booking fees back to these groups. In 2009 the company launched a unique feature allowing ticket buyers to quickly and easily make a donation to a featured charity whilst purchasing tickets.Started in Oxford in the early noughties, the company was set up as a result of the founders being unable to sell advance tickets for one of their concerts at a venue that lacked a box office. Originally selling through their music merchandise website www.OxfordMusic.net, the WeGotTickets online box office was fully launched in 2002, selling tickets for The Zodiac (now O2 Academy) in Oxford and other venues.www.wegottickets.com