Tickets for the One Direction concert at Sheffield City Hall have Sold Out.

Though tickets didn't officially go on sale until 10am this morning (Saturday 1 October 2011) eager fans started queuing as early as 3pm on Friday, in order to be the amongst the first in line. Around 20 people camped over night, while the majority started to turn up from around 6am on Saturday morning. By 10am the number of people in the queue had reached over 400.

Due to the amount of people turning up to queue, a wrist band system had to be implemented. This system counted the available tickets against those queuing. Once the allocation had been counted out, any further customers were advised that it was unlikely that tickets would be available for them but were still welcome to continue queuing in the small chance that there might still be some available.

Tickets were also available to purchase via online and over the phone.

Though measures had been put in place, unfortunately due to the phenomenal volume of traffic the Sheffield City Hall website did experience problems. Despite this, customers were still able get to through to buy their tickets via the website. Phone lines also received a hammering and became jammed very quickly, but again some customers were successful in getting through.

All City Hall, See Tickets and TicketMaster's allocation of tickets sold out within 7 minutes, making it one of the fastest selling On Sales that the City Hall has witnessed.

Unfortunately, such was the unprecedented demand for this concert it was inevitable that not everyone that wanted a ticket would be successful in getting one and we're sorry for those that didn't. As yet, there are no plans for a second concert to be scheduled.

The concert is due to take place next year on Friday 20 January 2012, 7.30pm.