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silly moi. Should've remembered mspedia ! thanks
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Oh boy, he did NOT like that! The temperature in the room dropped by ten degrees (even though we were outside on a balcony ) as he drew himself up and said "No one knows more about the Manics's history than I do!" I fell all over myself trying to explain that I hadn't meant it in a critical way, only that when you've played so many gigs over so many years it must be hard to keep track and blah blah, and somehow we smoothed that moment over and carried on with the interview. I guess it stayed on Nicky's mind, though, because at the gig that night, he asked the audience whether IfWhiteAmerica had ever been played live before. I don't know exactly what he thought of the fact that many of the faithful enthusiastically informed him that yes, it had (I certainly wasn't about to ask him, I had a film to make! ), but later when I was working with the footage from the dressing room after that show, I kind of got an idea of it. Although he was not in shot or on mic, the room mic had picked him in the background laughing and bitching good-humoredly about having been wrong. I've always loved that Nicky doesn't take himself too seriously By the way, IfWhiteAmerica was played at every gig on the Past Present Future tour. |
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I've been getting "MARKET FORCES" all day, which I feel sure is meant to be some kind of weak-assed defence of the touting situation
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haha I was asked to type Rock on then told me they had no tickets but i could expand my search on Get Me In.. FUCK OFF TICKETBASTARDMASTER!
*and breathe*
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I've been to paperless ticket gigs before and although a bit faffier and it taking longer to get everyone in the venue, it worked. The Killers did that for a small academy warm-up show in 2012 and the gig seemed to largely be full of big fans and only one lone tout stood outside, who clearly hadn't got the memo about it being a ticketless event The warm-up show they did a couple of months back required photo ID as well (although I'm not sure just how strictly the door staff were checking, but I suspect it would have put some re-sellers off). The trouble is, it's all become one big inside job now. Ticketmaster have basically just created a "premium" ticket market with the likes of Viagogo etc. What chance does anyone have of thwarting it significantly without legislative intervention when it's the ticket agencies causing the inflated market to exist in the first place? But I don't expect this government to do anything about it. |
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Comedian Louis CK tried going against touts two years ago. He sold the tickets only through his own website and then had a system of canceling any resold for more then their worth. He never stated how it work but it seemed to mostly work.
http://www.laughspin.com/2012/07/03/...isk-exclusive/ |
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Annoyed at not getting tickets, and even more annoyed that they're already on the usual sites for 3x the face value, so posting on forum.
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At the last Manchester show earlier this year, my friend couldn't come at the very last minute due to illness so i had a ticket to sell. A tout outside the venue offered me £5 and would not budge.
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Woke up even more excited about this today.
My favourite band playing my favourite album in the city that I went to my first Manics' gig. |
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I'll probably end up with a touts ticket off getmein or viagogo. Paying double face value is bad enough but i could be paying an extra tenner to courier me an e-ticket that the seller could send me for free via e-mail ! You're not told what they're selling either so you can't avoid those. If i'm forced to pay the courier fee then i'd rather have a proper ticket
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On Ticketmaster yesterday I got "Heard it through the grapevine" which not only seems to be a good association with the touts, but was also annoyingly bloody long to type in.
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I'm gutted. I can't make any of the dates. I'm hoping they may add some weekend dates in the south.
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Managed to get tickets for both Manchester nights.
Quite happy about this.
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