If more spares come up, I think its only fair to exclude those people whose names are already in the lottery....start a new one for those who missed the 9am deadline, I say!
This could work. Please don't think I am against such an idea, all I wanted with this idea was to get as many fans tickets as possible.
What we could do is, if more spares come up, start checking and removing the 20+ people who have yet to confirm that they still need tickets and replace them with those who missed the deadline. For example if from now on 15 people pull out of the draw they could be replaced with 15 who may have missed the deadline? I don't want to disappoint those who are already on the list by reducing their chance, but I also don't want to disappoint other fans who may have missed the 9am deadline.
Please share your thoughts.
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goldrush
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You can take my name off the list now. I got 10C lottery tickets on Tuesday night (lucky as fuck) and I didn't even see this thread until now, sorry!
This thread is proof that there are truly good people amongst all the whining bullshit on here. Ames you are a legend, I hope you get a ticket one way or another - you really deserve it.
“Do not postpone happiness”
(Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)
That is really weird. My two tickets are still in my basket and I have periodically tried it every hour or so since Tue and the general link but to no avail.
If HMV are now allowing certain tickets to go out despite our complaints for them messing up our links then that is just shoddy.
Although if more people get through maybe there will be more spare tickets for the lottery!
If more spares come up, I think its only fair to exclude those people whose names are already in the lottery....start a new one for those who missed the 9am deadline, I say!
This could work. Please don't think I am against such an idea, all I wanted with this idea was to get as many fans tickets as possible.
What we could do is, if more spares come up, start checking and removing the 20+ people who have yet to confirm that they still need tickets and replace them with those who missed the deadline. For example if from now on 15 people pull out of the draw they could be replaced with 15 who may have missed the deadline? I don't want to disappoint those who are already on the list by reducing their chance, but I also don't want to disappoint other fans who may have missed the 9am deadline.
Please share your thoughts.
I think everyone deserves a fair chance, as long as we go with our original criteria that they could not get 10c or HMV or other tickets, etc etc and are members of the fan club, not just the message board
You can take my name off the list now. I got 10C lottery tickets on Tuesday night (lucky as fuck) and I didn't even see this thread until now, sorry!
This thread is proof that there are truly good people amongst all the whining bullshit on here. Ames you are a legend, I hope you get a ticket one way or another - you really deserve it.
I think we are all 100% for Ames having the first available spare ticket ) I think what is also nice is that since this idea was first thought of and then developed there has been a particularly strong community feel on here and a great level of support. Ok, so there has been some whining but then that is what happens when passionate music fans are fucked over by some corporate giants I'm pretty sure that once we've all seen the SBE or 02 shows we'll feel like new people anyway
I personally cannot wait for the 02 show, having waited years and years to get a chance to see Pearl Jam due to never been able to get tickets or afford it before :-) Am pretty sure it's gonna be the event of my life )
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goldrush
everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,640
You can take my name off the list now. I got 10C lottery tickets on Tuesday night (lucky as fuck) and I didn't even see this thread until now, sorry!
This thread is proof that there are truly good people amongst all the whining bullshit on here. Ames you are a legend, I hope you get a ticket one way or another - you really deserve it.
I think we are all 100% for Ames having the first available spare ticket ) I think what is also nice is that since this idea was first thought of and then developed there has been a particularly strong community feel on here and a great level of support. Ok, so there has been some whining but then that is what happens when passionate music fans are fucked over by some corporate giants I'm pretty sure that once we've all seen the SBE or 02 shows we'll feel like new people anyway
I personally cannot wait for the 02 show, having waited years and years to get a chance to see Pearl Jam due to never been able to get tickets or afford it before :-) Am pretty sure it's gonna be the event of my life )
Well you've got a hell of a first gig to look forward to! I was lucky enough to be at The Astoria and The Vic in Chicago, so SBE is like completing my own Holy Trinity! It's actually the shortest distance I've ever had to travel for a PJ gig (9 and half thousand miles being the furthest!) but possibly the most excited I've ever been!
“Do not postpone happiness”
(Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)
If more spares come up, I think its only fair to exclude those people whose names are already in the lottery....start a new one for those who missed the 9am deadline, I say!
This could work. Please don't think I am against such an idea, all I wanted with this idea was to get as many fans tickets as possible.
What we could do is, if more spares come up, start checking and removing the 20+ people who have yet to confirm that they still need tickets and replace them with those who missed the deadline. For example if from now on 15 people pull out of the draw they could be replaced with 15 who may have missed the deadline? I don't want to disappoint those who are already on the list by reducing their chance, but I also don't want to disappoint other fans who may have missed the 9am deadline.
Please share your thoughts.
I gotta say, i'm all for everyone getting a chance to go to this gig, but i'm not crazy about this particular idea. the whole idea (from what i gathered) with the want list (and the spares list) is that we whittle it down to a reasonable number of people who want a ticket, and make it a lottery where number small people have a decent chance of getting a ticket.
There's 67 currently people wanting tickets, to add people just cos they missed a deadline (a deadline that was stressed by Ames) is too bad really, it is, but by adding say 10 tomorrow that would replace the 10 that got tickets today turns the whole thing into a bit of a farce.
Some might not agree but that's just the way I feel
My HMV tickets were still in the box for about two days. I kept trying it but just kept saying the event was sold out. Not a great deal of fun but good news those who were lucky.
Rock on!!!!
Seen Pearl Jam 4 times in London, once in Manchester, as well as an Eddie show at Hammersmith.
I gotta say, i'm all for everyone getting a chance to go to this gig, but i'm not crazy about this particular idea. the whole idea (from what i gathered) with the want list (and the spares list) is that we whittle it down to a reasonable number of people who want a ticket, and make it a lottery where number small people have a decent chance of getting a ticket.
There's 67 currently people wanting tickets, to add people just cos they missed a deadline (a deadline that was stressed by Ames) is too bad really, it is, but by adding say 10 tomorrow that would replace the 10 that got tickets today turns the whole thing into a bit of a farce.
Some might not agree but that's just the way I feel
I have mixed feelings because, of course, on the one hand I understand how much everyone desperately wants to go...but on the other, to put new people on does kinda negate the point of having a deadline....
Try to tell me that you love me, throw your little punches at me...
I noticed on a couple of other threads that there are some who are bolded (on the list from the first page) that now have tickets through whatever means, it'd be great of those people would just notify us on this thread that you have.
Well you've got a hell of a first gig to look forward to! I was lucky enough to be at The Astoria and The Vic in Chicago, so SBE is like completing my own Holy Trinity! It's actually the shortest distance I've ever had to travel for a PJ gig (9 and half thousand miles being the furthest!) but possibly the most excited I've ever been!
:shock: are you me??!
almost every single words of that I could have said myself!! (apart from the max distance...so far it's 5400 miles, one way).
Astoria was my first PJ gig (at bloody last! and I didn't get ticket myself for it, thank for PJ fans generosity), even ended up front row.. I grinned stupidly for 2 days after , literally!
..and it started a very unhealthy (for my wallet) addiction and very healthy friendships.. hitting 50 shows at Seattle in September, a week before my birthday!
It's admirable of you folks to supply your spares WELL DONE !
Let's face it tho, more of us could've been going if the tix were just made available to 10c members in the first place
I see some of the auctions on ebay reaching over £700 for a pair
I tried both sales, no luck, was on hold on the phone from 8.59 til 9.18am on Thursday, to be told, "Oh I'm sorry, the Pearl Jam tickets are all gone.."
I'm sure the gig will be packed with 10c members.....unfortunately a lot of them will have handed over hundreds of pounds to a 'middle man'........so, exactly who benefits from this bloody ticketing system ? ?
Never mind.........I'll see you in Manchester then guys
I came, I saw, I concurred.....
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goldrush
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Well you've got a hell of a first gig to look forward to! I was lucky enough to be at The Astoria and The Vic in Chicago, so SBE is like completing my own Holy Trinity! It's actually the shortest distance I've ever had to travel for a PJ gig (9 and half thousand miles being the furthest!) but possibly the most excited I've ever been!
:shock: are you me??!
almost every single words of that I could have said myself!! (apart from the max distance...so far it's 5400 miles, one way).
Astoria was my first PJ gig (at bloody last! and I didn't get ticket myself for it, thank for PJ fans generosity), even ended up front row.. I grinned stupidly for 2 days after , literally!
..and it started a very unhealthy (for my wallet) addiction and very healthy friendships.. hitting 50 shows at Seattle in September, a week before my birthday!
50th show around your birthday, nice work! I've only been to 10 so far, the first was Finsbury Park in 1993 and the last 2 were the MSG shows last year. Astoria was a hell of a gig for it to be your first, you could end up with crazily high expectations after that!
I don't know if you saw the guy in the front row at the Astoria, between Mike and Ed, wearing a Led Zep t-shirt? He went a bit nuts when Mike threw that Zep riff into Yellow Ledbetter because Robert Plant was there?...
that was me!
“Do not postpone happiness”
(Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)
Who prefers standing to seats at a venue like sbe? I've never sat at pj before and been front row a few times, but sbe looks very interesting from the balcony. Taking in the show from a close distance and not jostling for position? Then do all that at the 02 and Manchester!!!!
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goldrush
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Who prefers standing to seats at a venue like sbe? I've never sat at pj before and been front row a few times, but sbe looks very interesting from the balcony. Taking in the show from a close distance and not jostling for position? Then do all that at the 02 and Manchester!!!!
That's a good point, but PJ are not the kind of band you can sit down to!
I've had to sit at a few shows and it really depends on the type of gig. The "Audience with Greg Dulli & Mark Lanegan" shows were seated and that was fine, it was a laid back acoustic gig, but I saw Neil Young & Crazy Horse at the NEC and PJ in Newcastle, Australia and sitting down sucked so bad! Some shows just demand that you jump around!
“Do not postpone happiness”
(Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)
Astoria was my first PJ gig (at bloody last! and I didn't get ticket myself for it, thank for PJ fans generosity), even ended up front row.. I grinned stupidly for 2 days after , literally!
..and it started a very unhealthy (for my wallet) addiction and very healthy friendships.. hitting 50 shows at Seattle in September, a week before my birthday!
50 shows in 3 and a half years?! That's insane. This euro tour will bring me up to 11 (Astoria was my first too), seems kinda lame in comparison
Paul
'06 - London, Dublin, Reading
'07 - Katowice, Wembley, Dusseldorf, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
'09 - London, Manchester, London
'12 - Manchester, Manchester, Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen
50 shows in 3 and a half years?! That's insane. This euro tour will bring me up to 11 (Astoria was my first too), seems kinda lame in comparison
Number of shows attended is like a pissing contest here... Why this need to compare number of shows? Nothing lame in having seen them 11 times compared to 50, 100 or whatever numbers there are floating about. Nothing lame in having seen them just once.....
Walking (or should I say being dragged kicking and screaming) down Oxford Street yesterday, I thought I would go in HMV and try the ticket section in there, I know it was a long shot.
I spoke to the guy in the first shop, he looked and couldn't find any. He said to me did I pre-order the CD and get the link, I said yes, I carried on to tell him how my card details were entered and then I got booted out and tickets were still in my shopping basket for two days. He said he was sorry no tickets were available to me, then advised me, get this, to cancel the pre order for the CD! Great advocate for HMV that. Needless to say Backspacer's HMV order was cancelled shortly after I didn't get tickets. Idiots!
Rock on!!!!
Seen Pearl Jam 4 times in London, once in Manchester, as well as an Eddie show at Hammersmith.
I also agree people who missed the deadline shouldn't be added to the list. It's not fair on the rest of us who have been here from the start. It's a real shame but rules are rules.
Rock on!!!!
Seen Pearl Jam 4 times in London, once in Manchester, as well as an Eddie show at Hammersmith.
50 shows in 3 and a half years?! That's insane. This euro tour will bring me up to 11 (Astoria was my first too), seems kinda lame in comparison
Number of shows attended is like a pissing contest here... Why this need to compare number of shows? Nothing lame in having seen them 11 times compared to 50, 100 or whatever numbers there are floating about. Nothing lame in having seen them just once.....
yes it has become a proper whip it out contest 'mines bigger than yours'
50 shows in 3 and a half years?! That's insane. This euro tour will bring me up to 11 (Astoria was my first too), seems kinda lame in comparison
Number of shows attended is like a pissing contest here... Why this need to compare number of shows? Nothing lame in having seen them 11 times compared to 50, 100 or whatever numbers there are floating about. Nothing lame in having seen them just once.....
yes it has become a proper whip it out contest 'mines bigger than yours'
Dont think my nerves could hold out trying to buy tickets for 50 shows, its the most stressful thing in the world and then takes a few months to get over the disappointment of missing out! If Ticketmaster would allow me easy access to 50 shows (and the cash) I'd be there!!
Underneath this smile lies everything........... all my hopes, anger, pride and shame
50 shows in 3 and a half years?! That's insane. This euro tour will bring me up to 11 (Astoria was my first too), seems kinda lame in comparison
Number of shows attended is like a pissing contest here... Why this need to compare number of shows? Nothing lame in having seen them 11 times compared to 50, 100 or whatever numbers there are floating about. Nothing lame in having seen them just once.....
Indeed I'm happy with my lot.
Paul
'06 - London, Dublin, Reading
'07 - Katowice, Wembley, Dusseldorf, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
'09 - London, Manchester, London
'12 - Manchester, Manchester, Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen
Comments
This could work. Please don't think I am against such an idea, all I wanted with this idea was to get as many fans tickets as possible.
What we could do is, if more spares come up, start checking and removing the 20+ people who have yet to confirm that they still need tickets and replace them with those who missed the deadline. For example if from now on 15 people pull out of the draw they could be replaced with 15 who may have missed the deadline? I don't want to disappoint those who are already on the list by reducing their chance, but I also don't want to disappoint other fans who may have missed the 9am deadline.
Please share your thoughts.
This thread is proof that there are truly good people amongst all the whining bullshit on here. Ames you are a legend, I hope you get a ticket one way or another - you really deserve it.
(Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)
“Put yer good money on the sunrise”
(Tim Rogers)
If HMV are now allowing certain tickets to go out despite our complaints for them messing up our links then that is just shoddy.
Although if more people get through maybe there will be more spare tickets for the lottery!
I think everyone deserves a fair chance, as long as we go with our original criteria that they could not get 10c or HMV or other tickets, etc etc and are members of the fan club, not just the message board
I think we are all 100% for Ames having the first available spare ticket
I personally cannot wait for the 02 show, having waited years and years to get a chance to see Pearl Jam due to never been able to get tickets or afford it before :-) Am pretty sure it's gonna be the event of my life
Well you've got a hell of a first gig to look forward to! I was lucky enough to be at The Astoria and The Vic in Chicago, so SBE is like completing my own Holy Trinity! It's actually the shortest distance I've ever had to travel for a PJ gig (9 and half thousand miles being the furthest!) but possibly the most excited I've ever been!
(Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)
“Put yer good money on the sunrise”
(Tim Rogers)
I still need tickets following the on-sale debarcle
Here is hoping Cheers
I gotta say, i'm all for everyone getting a chance to go to this gig, but i'm not crazy about this particular idea. the whole idea (from what i gathered) with the want list (and the spares list) is that we whittle it down to a reasonable number of people who want a ticket, and make it a lottery where number small people have a decent chance of getting a ticket.
There's 67 currently people wanting tickets, to add people just cos they missed a deadline (a deadline that was stressed by Ames) is too bad really, it is, but by adding say 10 tomorrow that would replace the 10 that got tickets today turns the whole thing into a bit of a farce.
Some might not agree but that's just the way I feel
Seen Pearl Jam 4 times in London, once in Manchester, as well as an Eddie show at Hammersmith.
Adios!
2010 - Belfast, London, Berlin, Arras, Werchter
2012 - Manchester 1+2, Berlin 1+2, Stockholm, Oslo
2014 - Berlin, Leeds, Milton Keynes
I have mixed feelings because, of course, on the one hand I understand how much everyone desperately wants to go...but on the other, to put new people on does kinda negate the point of having a deadline....
JOEJOEJOE, and others, I am sorry. But it seems the people have spoken. The deadline was set up for a reason, but I am sorry that people missed out.
I noticed on a couple of other threads that there are some who are bolded (on the list from the first page) that now have tickets through whatever means, it'd be great of those people would just notify us on this thread that you have.
almost every single words of that I could have said myself!!
Astoria was my first PJ gig (at bloody last! and I didn't get ticket myself for it, thank for PJ fans generosity), even ended up front row.. I grinned stupidly for 2 days after
..and it started a very unhealthy (for my wallet) addiction and very healthy friendships.. hitting 50 shows at Seattle in September, a week before my birthday!
Let's face it tho, more of us could've been going if the tix were just made available to 10c members in the first place
I see some of the auctions on ebay reaching over £700 for a pair
I tried both sales, no luck, was on hold on the phone from 8.59 til 9.18am on Thursday, to be told, "Oh I'm sorry, the Pearl Jam tickets are all gone.."
I'm sure the gig will be packed with 10c members.....unfortunately a lot of them will have handed over hundreds of pounds to a 'middle man'........so, exactly who benefits from this bloody ticketing system ? ?
Never mind.........I'll see you in Manchester then guys
50th show around your birthday, nice work! I've only been to 10 so far, the first was Finsbury Park in 1993 and the last 2 were the MSG shows last year. Astoria was a hell of a gig for it to be your first, you could end up with crazily high expectations after that!
I don't know if you saw the guy in the front row at the Astoria, between Mike and Ed, wearing a Led Zep t-shirt? He went a bit nuts when Mike threw that Zep riff into Yellow Ledbetter because Robert Plant was there?...
that was me!
(Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)
“Put yer good money on the sunrise”
(Tim Rogers)
Who prefers standing to seats at a venue like sbe? I've never sat at pj before and been front row a few times, but sbe looks very interesting from the balcony. Taking in the show from a close distance and not jostling for position? Then do all that at the 02 and Manchester!!!!
That's a good point, but PJ are not the kind of band you can sit down to!
I've had to sit at a few shows and it really depends on the type of gig. The "Audience with Greg Dulli & Mark Lanegan" shows were seated and that was fine, it was a laid back acoustic gig, but I saw Neil Young & Crazy Horse at the NEC and PJ in Newcastle, Australia and sitting down sucked so bad! Some shows just demand that you jump around!
(Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)
“Put yer good money on the sunrise”
(Tim Rogers)
Even seating is standing, if you see what I mean....
50 shows in 3 and a half years?! That's insane. This euro tour will bring me up to 11 (Astoria was my first too), seems kinda lame in comparison
'06 - London, Dublin, Reading
'07 - Katowice, Wembley, Dusseldorf, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
'09 - London, Manchester, London
'12 - Manchester, Manchester, Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen
Number of shows attended is like a pissing contest here...
I spoke to the guy in the first shop, he looked and couldn't find any. He said to me did I pre-order the CD and get the link, I said yes, I carried on to tell him how my card details were entered and then I got booted out and tickets were still in my shopping basket for two days. He said he was sorry no tickets were available to me, then advised me, get this, to cancel the pre order for the CD! Great advocate for HMV that. Needless to say Backspacer's HMV order was cancelled shortly after I didn't get tickets. Idiots!
Seen Pearl Jam 4 times in London, once in Manchester, as well as an Eddie show at Hammersmith.
Seen Pearl Jam 4 times in London, once in Manchester, as well as an Eddie show at Hammersmith.
yes it has become a proper whip it out contest 'mines bigger than yours'
Dont think my nerves could hold out trying to buy tickets for 50 shows, its the most stressful thing in the world and then takes a few months to get over the disappointment of missing out! If Ticketmaster would allow me easy access to 50 shows (and the cash) I'd be there!!
'06 - London, Dublin, Reading
'07 - Katowice, Wembley, Dusseldorf, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
'09 - London, Manchester, London
'12 - Manchester, Manchester, Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen
please!!
I don't know whether or not I am looking forward to Thursday or not!
Seen Pearl Jam 4 times in London, once in Manchester, as well as an Eddie show at Hammersmith.
Thanks, Mike.
All those yesterdays
All those yesterdays
All those paper plates