Current ticketing was valid but UTR will not accept future ticket bookings.
For artists looking for other ticketing services Fincham said there were many out there including Eventfinda, Flicket and iTicket locally, and international platform Humantix.
‘Sad for the local music community’
RNZ journalist and record label boss at The Big Fresh Collective, Liam Swiggs, said he’s been using UTR to sell tickets to their local shows for the better part of a decade, since they first started throwing gigs.
He thinks losing UTR as a ticketing service “will leave a giant hole” in a creative scene which is already really struggling.
“I think it’ll just take more money and mana out of our own backyard,” Swiggs said.