U2start.com | General Chat 16

MattG

13 years

**In a 22,000 capacity venue.

LikeASong

13 years

It's crazy, and it's becoming too usual

KieranU2

13 years

Fuck. Unlucky. Just hope that they put another night on. To be honest, I expected Van Halen to struggle to sell out that tour, but it looks like they are doing quite well.

Similar thing happened to me when I wanted to see Coldplay. The band released the pre-sale code to the everybody. Couldn't get them then. The day later, there must have been about 1,000 tickets left, so it was even harder to get tickets.

It's a joke.

MattG

13 years

I don't know if its as big of a problem over there as it is in America or not, but "too usual" is a gigantic understatement. It's disgusting how it happens here, and the rich and wealthiest see no problem with paying $500 to get into an average show. Ticketmaster has now also secluded the first few rows of most shows and sell them separately as "Official Premium" seats. Van Halen's are going for $1500. Face value. On Ticketmaster.

There's no such thing as getting in right at the buzzer and fighting it out for the front. The best you could do for this show was probably halfway back in the arena, first level seated. And that's if you were lottery-winning lucky.

MattG

13 years

The way it needs to be done is how they do it at The Metro (small club in Chicago where i saw Jane's Addiction and Foo Fighters last year).

No tickets. Only way into the venue was to present a photo ID with the same name as the credit card that purchased your tickets. You were allowed plus however many people you bought for- they were marked on the hand. Doors were arranged alphabetically to avoid clusters, but you were basically just checked off an attendance list. No resales possible. Had to have that name attached to the original purchase.

I hate the idea of not having that paper souvenir, proof that you were there that night...but I'll print out some pictures and save some confetti instead if it means I can actually have a shot at some seats once in a goddamn while.

KieranU2

13 years

So that's £980 just for a Van Halen ticket? Fucking hell, that's almost a salary for 4 weeks here.

MattG

13 years

When I saw John Mayer at a 20,000+ arena in Chicago, his entire front row was lottery based, but given away to fans in the 300 section. People who couldn't afford floor seats. The way he weeded out who the die-hards who couldn't afford vs. the people that were only in those seats cause they were the cheapest, was he had his crew walking through the 300s at doors. Whoever had a seat in the 300 section and was there the full hour before the opening act even started (which could have meant a good 3 hours before JM hit the stage) was an eligible candidate. My brother and I were there, and the girls sitting like 4 rows in front of us got chosen to go in the front row.

MattG

13 years

VH's new song is shit anyway. Jesus.

LikeASong

13 years

Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3The way it needs to be done is how they do it at The Metro (small club in Chicago where i saw Jane's Addiction and Foo Fighters last year).

No tickets. Only way into the venue was to present a photo ID with the same name as the credit card that purchased your tickets. You were allowed plus however many people you bought for- they were marked on the hand. Doors were arranged alphabetically to avoid clusters, but you were basically just checked off an attendance list. No resales possible. Had to have that name attached to the original purchase.

I hate the idea of not having that paper souvenir, proof that you were there that night...but I'll print out some pictures and save some confetti instead if it means I can actually have a shot at some seats once in a goddamn while.

That's great, but impossible to do with >3000 people venues.

Mr_Trek

13 years