‘Have you ever bought tickets to an event and realised you’d completely misunderstood what it was? – 23 people who didn’t know what they were turning up to

13.

‘My gran in her infinite wisdom bought tickets for a showing of what she thought was Flash Gordon because it was one of her favourite films, turned out it was a screening of Flesh Gordon… she was apparently ‘too embarrassed’ to leave! I still wonder if it was intentional…’
–nerdy_bird92

14.

‘I was 15 and took a girl on a date to watch Brokeback Mountain. Thought it was a generic western, I’d said I loved those sort of movies growing up. I got real embarrassed when they started getting jiggy.’
–marshallno9

15.

‘Ex girlfriend once convinced me that Sweeney Todd was a gritty action film even though I was sure it was a musical. Five minutes in and I was like ‘ffs she got me’.’
–mightytonto

16.

‘As a young teenager, I was convinced by a friend to go and see Elizabeth (with Cate Blanchett) because it had Kathy Burke in it so it must be really funny! Kathy Burke plays Mary I and the opening scene is of heretics being burnt at the stake! Definitely not a comedy!’
–mini72

17.

‘My partner bought us tickets to what we thought was a band we liked – very indie, slow, dreamy music. We instead ended up in a room equivalent to a very small living room where two people played klezmer music using instruments such as the mighty shower hose tubing as a trumpet. 10/10 all the way.’
–SnooLobsters278

18.

‘A friend of mine persuaded me to come and see this comedian called Derek Acorah, who did a whole routine, pretending to be a spiritualist… we did not last long. It was eye-opening.’
–Popular_Sell_8980

19.

’50ish years ago my boyfriend and I went to see Rocky Horror Picture Show, because we really liked horror movies. We didn’t have a clue why the audience was throwing toast at the screen, and dancing in the aisles, and yelling back dialogue. Bemused isn’t the word.’
–StarbugRedDwarf

20.

‘I’m trying to educate myself and do more worldly things as I get older. I bought my husband and I tickets to Swan Lake in London. Turns out it’s a ballet, not an adaptation of Black Swan.

In my defence, Black Swan does centre around a production of Swan Lake… I just didn’t know Swan Lake was a famous ballet…’
–blac4bird

21.

‘I think the Red Hot Chilli Pipers is a common one.

I was dating a guy who bought us tickets for some festival down in Cornwall. He was a huge RHCP and said that they played the festival every year. They weren’t on the line up for that year but he reckoned the dates worked out and they would probably be a late announcement. Instead the Pipers were announced and we broke up before the festival happened.

I used to tell this story all the time, and then decided to do some extra digging and looked back at past lineups. The actual Chilli Peppers had never played that festival – it was the Pipers every year and he was misreading the lineup every single year.’
–klymers

22.

‘I bought what I thought were Kate Bush tickets – but it was a Kate Bush tribute act.’
–Zharkgirl2024

23.

‘I took my partner to what was billed as ‘a deep look at the breakdown of a marriage, a stage drama that will captivate you’ at Clapham theatre.

I inadvertently clicked the wrong link and ended up with tickets to an immersive children’s show where we had to crawl through tunnels and collect hidden things and build a den.

We turned up looking expecting a drama for adults, the organisers kept asking where our kids were and that they had to be supervised. It was epic. One of the most fun things we did.’
–Rumple-Wank-Skin

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