Hewson
Blue Crack Supplier
i dunno about down under but it was the early days of ticketmaster and the vertigo tour show i ended up going to in the states sold out in something like 16 seconds.
Not so much the early days of Ticketmaster (they'd been around awhile), but the early days of U2.com and the presales run in conjunction with Ticketmaster (as opposed to the prior Propaganda fan club ticketing), and there was plenty of hijinks on the first leg sales with brokers getting most of the tickets, causing Lawrence Mulliniks to pen a strongly worded letter and the fall leg to have a new presale code sent to all former Propaganda subscribers.