Tickets sold out in just 30 seconds for the country’s first pilot gig with James Vincent McMorrow. 

The National Concert Hall’s website crashed for many who tried to nab tickets to the much-anticipated show.

Tickets went on sale at 10am today for the concert on June 10 in Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens. 

Only 500 tickets went on sale for the pilot gig. People were only allowed to buy up to four tickets and will have to stay in pods of four at the concert. 

When the site crashed, the message that appeared was: “We are currently performing some maintenance on our site, we apologise for any inconvenience.

“If you need us, we can be contacted at info@nch.ie We'll be back soon.”

However, on a link that McMorrow shared an ‘Internal server error’ appeared.

The Irish singer said he understands those who didn’t get tickets are frustrated, and apologised for the website crashing. 

"Congrats to those who got tickets, I’ll see you all in the Iveagh gardens next Thursday!” he wrote on Twitter.

"End of the day this is the first show back and it’s only 500 tickets, the tix we’re gone in 30 seconds, it was always going to be chaos. we are working on a free stream of the show, the show itself will be historic and we are working to live up to how historic it will be.

“I know the site crashed for most people and apologies for that, we did it through the concert hall site to ensure protection from reseller bots, they probably underestimated just how many people wanted these tickets, it speaks to how many people are desperate to get back to live music.

“I know a lot of people are frustrated, it was basically tens of thousands of people trying to get 500, it was always going to be chaos. But the tix did go to real people, not friends of friends, not bots.”

The National Concert Hall’s website is now back up and running as it announced the gig is sold out.

"We are now SOLD OUT for James Vincent McMorrow with special guest Sorcha Richardson,” a message on the website reads. 

"As expected demand was phenomenal for this exciting first live concert since the start of the pandemic.

"We understand that people are disappointed but delighted to see so much interest and love for the return to live music.

"We hope we will see you all again at more events over the coming months!”