The ethical ticket marketplace is back.

The original Scarlet Mist launched in 2003 to give fans an opportunity to sell spare gig tickets at face value or less in a bid to combat the bastard touts.

The site closed in December 2014, with founder Richard Marks explaining at the time: “It has been fun to run it, and it has been a useful service. Unfortunately my wife is now disabled and I need to devote more time to caring for her and my family.”

However Marks has now teamed up with three other music fans – Peter Main, a business consultant and director of a not-for-profit children’s community nursery, web developer Mark Vick and structural engineer Niall Barclay – to get the site back online, with plans for a complete rebuild by the end of 2015, as MusicWeek reports.

Several other online ticket exchanges are available currently, but the likes of Seatwave and Stubhub – owned by Ticketmaster and eBay respectively – add on hefty fees to each transaction.