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The tour covers a little more than a fortnight, in three short bursts. First comes a Thursday-to-Saturday run: O2 Academy Birmingham on 12 November, Edinburgh on Friday 13 November and the Eventim Olympia in Liverpool on Saturday 14 November. The band then spend Thursday 19 and Friday 20 November at the O2 Forum Kentish Town, before crossing to Belfast for the Telegraph Building on Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 November.

Every date is listed at 7pm. All seven are evening shows, and there is no matinée.

Edinburgh: check the venue

The Edinburgh show is at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange, which is where Live Nation UK and Ticketmaster UK both list it. Ignore any listing that places the 13 November date at O2 Academy Edinburgh, and make sure a resale ticket names the Corn Exchange before you pay.

Two nights each in London and Belfast

Kentish Town hosts the band on consecutive nights, and on 31 October both were on sale: the Thursday, marked sold out earlier in the month, was back on sale at Ticketmaster UK, and the Friday was still showing 'Get tickets' at Live Nation UK. Belfast repeats the back-to-back pattern at the Telegraph Building, with both nights at low availability on Ticketmaster.

The resale zone names are simple. Edinburgh, Liverpool and Belfast are listed as general admission, with a floor standing listing in Liverpool too, while Birmingham and London are sold as stalls, plus a standing floor listing for the Friday in Kentish Town.

On this tour, the nights that sold out start well above the dates that stayed on sale. At the last check, O2 Academy Birmingham opened the resale market at the lowest level of the tour, followed by the Friday at Kentish Town, still on sale at face value, and then the Thursday, since back on sale at the official sellers.

Edinburgh and Liverpool, the two nights that had sold out, started at the same level, well above the London nights, and the first Belfast night started highest of all. No resale listing had appeared for the second Belfast night at the last check.

Within a venue the gaps are small. In Liverpool, floor standing started above the general admission listings, and on the Friday in Kentish Town the stalls started below the standing floor.

Where the official sale is still open, as in Birmingham, in Edinburgh again since 2 November and for both nights in London, face value is usually the cheaper route. Resale prices on Hellotickets are set by sellers and can be above face value, and the final price is shown before you pay.

Picture This tickets are sold through Live Nation UK and Ticketmaster UK. Live Nation UK lists four of the shows: Birmingham and both nights in Kentish Town, all with 'Get tickets', and Edinburgh, still marked 'Sold Out' there on 2 November even though Ticketmaster UK had put tickets back on sale. Ticketmaster UK handles Edinburgh and Liverpool, and lists Birmingham and both Kentish Town nights too. The two Belfast nights are not on Live Nation UK at all; their official listings are on Ticketmaster's Irish site.

Where each date stood on 2 November:

• On sale: O2 Academy Birmingham (12 November), at Ticketmaster UK and Live Nation UK, and both nights at the O2 Forum Kentish Town (19 and 20 November), at Ticketmaster UK.
• Low availability: Edinburgh Corn Exchange (13 November), back on sale at Ticketmaster UK with general admission at £30.90, and Telegraph Building Belfast (25 and 26 November), at Ticketmaster.
• Sold out: Eventim Olympia in Liverpool (14 November), with only resale tickets offered, if any.

All seven dates are already on general sale or sold out, so there is no on-sale date left to wait for. Low availability is a warning rather than a sell-out: the official seller still has tickets until it says otherwise.

If your night has sold out

For Liverpool, resale is the remaining route. Edinburgh, sold out in October, was back on sale at Ticketmaster UK on 2 November, so check the official seller first there. Before buying, check the venue name, the date and the delivery details of the listing. In Hellotickets' words, “Every ticket is authenticated. If there's ever an issue, you're protected by our refund policy.” Tickets are sent as soon as Hellotickets receives them from the seller, sometimes up to 1–2 days before the event, so keep your confirmation e-mail to hand.