# StubHub goofs and promotes the wrong Lamb of God show **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 27, 2025, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubhub-goofs-and-promotes-the-wrong-lamb-of-god-show/1026087 "2025-12-27T02:30:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubhub-goofs-and-promotes-the-wrong-lamb-of-god-show/1026087/1 "2025-12-27T02:30:12Z")
The ticket reseller StubHub meant to offer tickets for a family-friendly Christmas concert that included the phrase “Lamb of God”, but instead promoted them as being for the thrash band of the same name. Oops. > **[Concert confusion with Va.-based Lamb of God](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvQsC1xTeGc%2F)** > > It was Saturday night at Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium in South Carolina, and ticket holders were lining up to see Lamb of God. But some visitors were repo... ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubhub-goofs-and-promotes-the-wrong-lamb-of-god-show/1026087/2 "2025-12-27T12:26:47Z")
“I’ve got tickets to a Christian rock concert!” [![](https://frinkiac.com/img/S12E20/564689.jpg) ](https://frinkiac.com/img/S12E20/564689.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubhub-goofs-and-promotes-the-wrong-lamb-of-god-show/1026087/3 "2025-12-27T12:47:06Z")
Also cited here 3 days ago: > [@Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 2)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/6247): > > Last weekend, a historic auditorium in Spartanburg, SC hosted a performance of a contemporary Christian pop opera about the birth of Jesus titled “Behold the Lamb of God”. StubHub advertised it for resale as being a concert by metalcore band Lamb of God. There are some good follow-up comments in this other thread, but IMO it’s still plenty funny enough for its own thread here. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubhub-goofs-and-promotes-the-wrong-lamb-of-god-show/1026087/4 "2025-12-27T13:30:59Z")
I now wonder if StubHub’s listing was somehow AI-assisted and that was what the algo scraped from online references to Lamb/God/show/tickets. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubhub-goofs-and-promotes-the-wrong-lamb-of-god-show/1026087/5 "2025-12-27T14:22:53Z")
As long as the band can play ’ Rawhide’ the evening will work out. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubhub-goofs-and-promotes-the-wrong-lamb-of-god-show/1026087/6 "2025-12-27T16:10:17Z")
Great comeback! ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2025, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubhub-goofs-and-promotes-the-wrong-lamb-of-god-show/1026087/7 "2025-12-28T00:06:59Z")
That’s apparently exactly what happened. Thing is, the band Lamb of God has no dates scheduled until well into 2026, and yeah, hardcore fans would know that, but hey, a pop-up show around Christmastime? Let’s go! (surprise, surprise!) In the late 1970s, there was a New Wave band called Fabulous Poodles that had middling success, and you guessed it - there were people who showed up at their concerts, expecting a dog show. Oops! More recently, in my old town of 40,000, there were two events at our local civic center one fine Saturday evening. The theater had a fine arts event, which ISTR was this one > **[The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Works_of_William_Shakespeare_(Abridged))** > > The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (also known as The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged)) is a play written by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield. It parodies the plays of William Shakespeare with all of them being performed in comically shortened or merged form by only three actors. Typically, the actors use their real names and play themselves rather than specific characters. > The fourth wall is nonexistent in the performance, with the actors speaking directly ... and the main area, an open barn-like area, had MMA cagefights. I heard someone say that they knew someone who worked at the box office, and the box office people quickly figured out just by looking at the ticket buyers which event they wanted to attend. This had never happened before! Diving into my memory bank, I also remember the “I can’t pay child support” truck parked in such a way that it took up FOUR parking spaces, and while I don’t like body-shaming people, some women really should not wear strapless dresses without a bra, and this woman was one of them. Also, the people on That Side Of The Room had a heavy cigarette odor about them. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2025, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubhub-goofs-and-promotes-the-wrong-lamb-of-god-show/1026087/8 "2025-12-28T00:39:01Z")
I saw the Reduced Shakespeare Company at a historic theater in downtown Tacoma about 15 years ago. On the same night, Peter Frampton was playing a different historic theater literally across the street. There was apparently quite a bit of confusion among ticketholders as to which theater was which that resulted in both shows getting delayed. When the show I was at was about to get underway, the theater director announced on the mic “If you were expecting anyone to come alive tonight, you need to be across the street”. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2025, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubhub-goofs-and-promotes-the-wrong-lamb-of-god-show/1026087/9 "2025-12-28T06:36:19Z")
That’s funny! (I was never a big Peter Frampton fan, but TBH if I had to choose, that’s the show I would have attended. Reduced Shakespeare will be performed again.)