From now on I will probably have to write Taco “Queue” Hemingway. When the rapper announced the pre-sale of his new album in August, the traffic on his website was such that people interested in placing an order… ended up in a virtual queue because the servers couldn’t handle it. By the way, fans immediately bought all the T-shirts from the warehouses. The same situation repeated itself when selling tickets for the latest tour.
I tried to buy a ticket to Taco Hemingway
After a three-year break, he releases a new album “1-800-OŚWIECENIE”. The album will be officially released on September 22, and the day before, at noon, ticket sales for the concert tour promoting it started. In 2024, Filip Szcześniak will visit Katowice (17/05), Poznań (19/05), Gdańsk (24/05), Wrocław (07/06), Kraków (15/06) and Warsaw (22/06). The tickets actually sold out even before they could be formally purchased, because the virtual queue formed before 12 p.m.
After the queue apocalypse occurred on the day of pre-sale tickets for Taco Hemingway’s tour, I turned to Empik’s spokeswoman and asked what exactly happened. In response I received the following message:
All advance tickets for Taco Hemingway’s tour have been sold out. The number of users interested in purchasing significantly exceeded the available pool of tickets. Some customers did not have time to complete the purchase and received a message that the pre-sale tickets had run out – wrote Anna Gut-Mostowy.
In addition, there was information about the start date of regular sales and the assurance: “The Empik Tickets team is making every effort to ensure that sales run smoothly despite such great interest.” Well, that’s very nice, but at On January 12, the designated day (September 21), I knew that I would probably not buy a ticket.
I had been chatting on the ticket website since 11 a.m. Exactly at the stroke of 12, I clicked the “order” option. For a microsecond I saw the option to choose the number of tickets, and then I was thrown into a virtual queue. Waiting time: OVER AN HOUR.
Queue for tickets to Taco Hemingway Empik / Screenshot 21/09/23
I could diversify standing in the queue by, for example, reading separate explanations why the website had redirected me to the virtual queue: “You are waiting because the website you want to access is not yet open to guests, or it is visited by a large number of people at the same time and “wants to grant access on a fair, first-come, first-served basis.”
In the next update, I was reassured that I could not lose my place in the queue, even if my phone went to sleep or I closed the queue page, because when I returned to the same link I would see how my place in the queue had changed. However, you should be careful because “the time to enter the website will be limited.”
Shocked to finally have their turn, customers were also instructed on what would happen at that moment: if the tab with the queue page was open, the landing page would open automatically. What if it got closed? “If the queue page is not open when it is your turn, when you return to the queue page you will see a pop-up notifying you that your time has started and confirming that you want to go to the site,” I read and wonder what exactly the author meant.
Tickets for Taco Hemingway are selling out quickly
Another interesting fact: it turns out that virtual queues can be paused. What does it mean? In practice, no one “will be redirected to the expected page, so everyone will remain in the queue until the queue resumes.” Easy? Easy. And why might the queue be stopped? Here it turns out that “for business or technical reasons”. But don’t worry, when it is generously resumed, the user will still have the same place in the queue. This is called justice in the age of digital reality and various random factors.
After 15 minutes, the waiting time increased by another 17 minutes. Meanwhile, in the comments of the lucky people who managed to buy tickets, I read that after just a few dozen seconds, information appeared that tickets from the third and then the fourth pool were already on sale. As it turns out, there were also people who went to the sales page half an hour before the start and then they were shown a message that they had been added to the queue and the waiting time was an hour.
On Empik’s fanpage, one of the users revealed her recipe for success: she entered the website at 11 a.m. and refreshed the tab every minute. Oh well, I’ll watch videos from the concerts on Instagram or TikTok, because surely people with the fastest thumbs and an Internet connection, who managed to buy tickets, will record these unique performances.
Meanwhile, there is a discussion going on on the side about the new album “1-800-OŚWIECENIE”, which is the reason for all this confusion. Those who received it earlier (because they purchased it as part of a pre-order) report that it is a concept album. The assumption is that “1-800” is a nightly broadcast on Radio Marmur (a reference to the Marmur Hotel, which is featured in one of Hemingway’s earlier albums), during which listeners can call in to talk. Taco acts as the host and also plays the role of people calling for help. There are guest appearances by various Polish artists, and the fans are, as usual, divided: some do not like the album at all, others are delighted, and the rest remain moderately satisfied and notice the weaknesses of individual songs. So the situation on the front remains unchanged.
Source: Gazeta
Bruce is a talented author and journalist with a passion for entertainment . He currently works as a writer at the 247 News Agency, where he has established himself as a respected voice in the industry.
