Arctic Monkeys offer 'golden tickets' with new single

Arctic Monkeys offer 'golden tickets' with new single
Arctic Monkeys offer 'golden tickets' with new single
 
 

Sunday, 16, Aug 2009 12:19

By Lewis Bazley.

Music fans buying the new Arctic Monkeys single from Oxfam could win a "golden ticket" to see the band live.

The Sheffield quartet have hidden a winning code number inside two copies of Crying Lightning, with a pair of tickets for Reading festival and a pair of Leeds tickets on offer.

Arctic Monkeys are headlining the Bank Holiday weekend festivals, with Radiohead and Kings of Leon also on the bill.

The sale of Crying Lightning through Oxfam marks the first time the charity shops have sold a new release since the Band Aid single Do They Know It's Christmas? in 1984.

Forty signed copies of the single - the first from Arctic Monkeys' new album Humbug - will be distributed through Oxfam's network of 700 high street shops and a further 15 sent randomly to consumers who have order the new release from oxfam.org.uk/shop.

David McCullough, Oxfam's director of trading, said: "Oxfam shops have always been one of the best places on the high street to pick up a musical bargain or find a rare treasure, and this is a fantastic reason to pay your local shop a visit."

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