After more than 12 hours of waiting for many White Stripes fans, it took only 12 minutes to learn whether they will get to see the concert next month at the Yukon Arts Centre.

'Everyone who stayed overnight didn't get tickets,' Corrie Gallienne, a clerk at Arts Underground on Main Street, said today.

Most lucky enough to buy tickets paid for them in cash in the hopes of booking their seats before someone in line at the arts centre got them first, she said.

The centre and Arts Underground were the only venues where tickets were available for the June 25 show.

Both facilities operate on the same computer system to book the seats, with the arts centre getting first priority if both try to book at the same time.

While fans started showing up at the arts centre at 12:30 Thursday afternoon, no one was lined up on Main Street until around 6:00 last night for the tickets, which went on sale at 9:00 this morning.

By 9:12 a.m., Gallienne said, they were sold out.

'It went so fast,' she said.

Kinden Kosick and Carlie MacKay started off the Main Street line last night after going to the arts centre and finding they would be closer to number 40 in line.

With a maximum of eight tickets being sold per person, it was believed by many that potentially the first 50 purchasers would be the only ones to get tickets if everyone bought the limit.

'We started standing here and the next thing you know there's a whole troupe of people. So we're here,' Kosick said.

As luck and Murphy's Law would have it, the first spring rain also found its way to Whitehorse overnight, which made the wait a cold, wet experience with little sleep.

'I'm on my last nerve at this point,' Kosick said with just a half-hour to go before the tickets would be on sale.

As both Kosick and MacKay pointed out, it's not everyday that big-name bands like the White Stripes come north. Kosick also took solace in the fact he may be among the first to say he camped out in Whitehorse to see a band.

'It's going to be worth it,' he said, before digging out the number one he was given for his position in line.

The first 25 people in each line were given the numbers.

Like many fans, neither Kosick or MacKay could point to a particular song by White Stripes as a favourite.

'You can listen to an album and it just flows nicely. You don't have to skip any songs,' Kosick said, adding the White Stripes sound can go from rock to blues to other varieties of music.

'It just feels good to listen to them,' MacKay said.

Even towards the front of the line downtown, prospective ticket-buyers made arrangements with one another that if there was someone who was the last to get tickets, one or two of those would be handed to a person in behind who had also waited overnight.

Other groups had taken shifts of eight throughout the night to make sure their group of eight got tickets.

Stephen Waterreus was the first in line at the arts centre at 12:30 p.m. Thursday. Throughout his 20-hour experience, he was joined by others in his group taking shifts.

He admitted part of his decision to wait was for the novelty of it along with the chance to see the White Stripes.

'It's the first time there's an opportunity to line up overnight in Whitehorse for anything,' he said as he sat in a camping chair with a sleeping bag covering him.

(Actually, some of the Yukon government's land lotteries of the '70s and '80s attract overnight campers.)

Despite the less-than-comfortable weather, Waterreus said he was warm since he had prepared for the about-20 hours of waiting to get a ticket.

Others had tents set up on the arts centre grounds, some acknowledging they preferred to wait there rather than downtown.

'The arts centre is a lot more chill. It's a lot nicer,' Jeremiah Kitchen said this morning as he waited about midway in the line of abut 70 people at the arts centre.

'There's more grass,' added Elidh Fraser, who was also waiting with Kitchen.

Fraser had arrived at 6 p.m. yesterday while Kitchen joined the line at around 8 p.m.

Closer to the front of the line, one young man bragged of planning to be in the lineup.

'I told people for a month now: White Stripes are coming to town, White Stripes are coming to town,' he commented to the group he was sitting with.

Some shelters erected through the rainy night were a little more basic than the tents sprawled out on the grass.

Aislin Cornett said she and her friends used a few shovels and a tarp to protect themselves from the rain.

Despite the long wait in line, by just after 8:00 this morning, as she stood holding a Tim Hortons coffee cup and McDonald's McGriddle sandwhich, Cornett was a little skeptical as to whether she would acquire tickets.

She was among the few purchasing fewer than the limit of eight, opting instead to buy only two. Within her group of friends, most were buying six.

At the end of the arts centre line, Blair Pigeon remained hopeful he'd be able to get himself and his 17-year-old daughter a ticket to the show.

Pigeon said he hadn't considered camping out for the tickets, but instead opted to stop by on his way into town from his home at Porter Creek.

While the arts centre is a small venue, Pigeon noted the sound in the facility will be excellent.