Music fans were left disappointed as sold-out tickets for an upcoming Glasgow festival were touted online for more than £500.

Tickets for the BBC Radio 6 Music Festival, which will take place in Glasgow at the end of March, went on sale on Friday morning.

Excitement was met with anger as tickets for big-name acts including Depeche Mode sold out within minutes.

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Those who missed out on tickets for the Barrowlands show, originally priced at £30, were then directed to secondary websites where tickets were going for as much as £700.

Measures put in place by event organizer BBC requiring ID matching the lead booker's name on the ticket failed to deter touts.

A TicketWeb spokesperson: “We worked in conjunction with the BBC to make sure that tickets got into the hands of true fans.

“The measures that we have put in place will ensure that it is these fans who get into the festival.”

Depeche Mode fan James Cassidy, 37, blasted secondary website for preventing genuine music fans from getting into the show.

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He said: “We tried on the phone and laptop at 10am. The phone line was jammed and the website had a really long wait.

“As soon as the we were first in the queue it said that it had sold out and redirected us from Ticketweb to Viagogo.

“At that time they were selling them for £260 and I’ve checked back since and it’s went to £600 upwards.

“It’s a high-profile gig and the capacity is only 2000 but if it was only genuine fans I might have got some.

“It’s always just your luck whether you managed to get tickets but to see them all get hoovered up by Viagogo to get sold on again at stupid prices is disappointing.

“We went online and we can now go to another European tour date and get flights, tickets and hotel and it will probably cost less than one ticket.

“This is an absolute rip-off.  You would think the BBC would be more aware of this happening and put more restrictions in place.

“The way to do it is to go back to the days of going to the actual venue to get tickets. It would at least give genuine fans the chance.”

A spokeswoman for the BBC said: “To guard against ticket touts reselling tickets for profit and tickets being resold via the web for profit, 6 Music Festival tickets will be printed with the name of the lead purchaser who will have to show their ID on arrival at the venue to gain entry.

“There will be security around the venues to monitor any touting of tickets.

“Anyone offering their tickets for resale is breaking the Terms & Conditions they agreed to during the booking process and we reserve the right to cancel them.

“We strongly recommend the public do not buy tickets being resold as the purchaser cannot guarantee they are genuine and not copies, and without the ID of the lead purchaser they will not gain entry to the Festival.”