[Police] Queues

I went to shoot Bryan Ferry last night (with a camera - however tempting - but that's another story) and on the way back to my car, I was speaking to an aquaintance who works at the NIA (Birmingham). She told me that there were people in tents up on the concourse outside the box office waiting to buy tickets for the Police gig - I'm sure she said 'about 500 people' but that seems way too high... As I'd had a pig of a shoot and couldn't really be bothered walking up the steps (the paper wouldn't use the photo anyway) I just walked back to the car... But people camping outside the box office??? Wow. Don't these people have jobs to go to? J.