Girls Aloud Go Mobile For A Greener Gig

Pop sensations Girls Aloud will minimise their impact on the local environment when they perform at Newnham Park, Plympton in August by delivering tickets to fans via mobile, reducing the environmental and financial cost of printing and delivering traditional paper based tickets.

The girl band will be one of the first, and certainly the most popular band, in the UK to use mobile ticketing. To buy tickets for the event fans simply log on to new mobile ticketing website Tixmob.com and pay for their tickets using a credit or debit card. Tickets are then delivered direct to your mobile phone.

Fans can choose to receive all tickets on one phone or, for those buying multiple tickets, to have them delivered direct to their friends’ mobiles. Unlike traditional ticketing services tixmob charges no costly delivery fees. You simply pay the face value of the ticket plus a nominal processing charge and tickets will be available right up until the final minutes before the event starts.

A spokesperson for EDGE Promotions, organiser of the Newnham Park event said, “Using tixmob we are happy that we are helping reduce our environmental impact by reducing the need for paper based tickets as well as giving festival goers a convenient, hassle free way to buy tickets.”

Ramesh Kumar, business development director, tixmob, added, “Having fun shouldn’t be hard work so we set up tixmob to provide easy, reliable and affordable access to gigs and events. We redeem more tickets than any other company in the world so this is an obvious next step for us,”

The live concert will be held on Saturday 11th August 2007 at Newnham Park Plympton. Gates open at 1.00 pm, and a huge array of support music will be provided throughout the day by Booty Luv, Eton Road (X Factor) as well as top local bands, Joey The Lips, Morph, Natalia, and Karrallon.