{"id":304499,"date":"2026-02-18T16:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/304499\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:13:12","slug":"raye-devastated-as-fans-denied-entry-to-paris-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/304499\/","title":{"rendered":"Raye &#8216;devastated&#8217; as fans denied entry to Paris gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raye has said she is &#8220;completely devastated&#8221; after 65 fans were turned away from her concert in Paris on Sunday night after a &#8220;system error&#8221; on Ticketmaster.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old singer-songwriter took to X on Tuesday to address the incident, and promised complimentary tickets for a future show and a signed vinyl to the fans affected to &#8220;soften the blow&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She wrote: &#8220;I am completely devastated for the 65 ticket holders who were turned down from entering our Paris show on Sunday night. This is completely unacceptable and wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have been told this was a system error at Ticketmaster, meaning 65 tickets were not fully validated when they were purchased, this was outside of anything I could control and I feel saddened and let down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know everyone affected was refunded and given a voucher from Ticketmaster, but I&#8217;d like to offer all of these 65 people who didn\u2019t get in to the show complimentary tickets to any Raye future show of their choice and a signed vinyl, you will contacted shortly about this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know this doesn\u2019t even remotely make up for this mess, but it\u2019s all I can think of in this moment to soften the blow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My deepest apologies to those of you affected. Love, Raye.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3kB1eBAMHw\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/3kB1eBAMHw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RAYE (@raye) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/raye\/status\/2023824897739551184\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson from Ticketmaster said: &#8220;A small number of fans experienced a technical issue when entering the show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we know it doesn\u2019t replace the show, we have fully refunded those affected and provided a gift card.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company added that the tickets affected represented fewer than 0.6% of the total sold.<\/p>\n<p>The singer-songwriter, real name Rachel Keen, wrapped up the European leg of her current tour with the concert in Paris on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>It will continue through the UK, Ireland, America and Canada until 20 May.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Press Association<\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raye has said she is &#8220;completely devastated&#8221; after 65 fans were turned away from her concert in Paris&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-304499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}