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  • Pauk
    Pauk Posts: 1,084
    Pegasus wrote:

    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 :mrgreen:, 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 :p
    Paul
    '06 - London, Dublin, Reading
    '07 - Katowice, Wembley, Dusseldorf, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
    '09 - London, Manchester, London
    '12 - Manchester, Manchester, Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen
  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    fowls wrote:
    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 :p

    Number of shows attended is like a pissing contest here... :mrgreen: 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.....
  • icemanap
    icemanap Posts: 406
    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!
    :D Rock on!!!! :D
    Seen Pearl Jam 4 times in London, once in Manchester, as well as an Eddie show at Hammersmith.
  • icemanap
    icemanap Posts: 406
    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.
    :D Rock on!!!! :D
    Seen Pearl Jam 4 times in London, once in Manchester, as well as an Eddie show at Hammersmith.
  • pdalowsky
    pdalowsky Doncaster,UK Posts: 15,234
    redrock wrote:
    fowls wrote:
    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 :p

    Number of shows attended is like a pissing contest here... :mrgreen: 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' :D
  • Alive 79
    Alive 79 Posts: 100
    pdalowsky wrote:
    redrock wrote:
    fowls wrote:
    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 :p

    Number of shows attended is like a pissing contest here... :mrgreen: 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' :D

    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
  • Pauk
    Pauk Posts: 1,084
    redrock wrote:
    fowls wrote:
    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 :p

    Number of shows attended is like a pissing contest here... :mrgreen: 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 :D 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
  • sibyl
    sibyl Posts: 45
    I'm still waiting and..hoping...
    please!!
  • icemanap
    icemanap Posts: 406
    Don't suppose we have had more spares come up over the weekend at all?

    I don't know whether or not I am looking forward to Thursday or not!
    :D Rock on!!!! :D
    Seen Pearl Jam 4 times in London, once in Manchester, as well as an Eddie show at Hammersmith.
  • Drum Machine89
    Drum Machine89 Posts: 2,157
    Hey guys just to say I still in need of a tickets, so if I could be left in the lotto then that would be great,

    Thanks, Mike. 8-)
    Let them wash away
    All those yesterdays
    All those yesterdays
    All those paper plates
  • jrd
    jrd Posts: 3,060
    icemanap wrote:
    Don't suppose we have had more spares come up over the weekend at all?

    I don't know whether or not I am looking forward to Thursday or not!

    i think given the number of people vs the number of tickets up for grabs we might as well quit worrying and assume we won't win...! ;)
    at least that way if you DO win it'll feel even better :D
    Oh yeah? Well, I've had about enough of morons and halfwits, dolts, dunces, dullards and dumbbells - and you chowderhead yokel, you blithering hayseed, you - you've had enough of me?
  • Pegasus
    Pegasus Posts: 3,754
    goldrush wrote:
    pdalowsky wrote:
    Question for you all

    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!
    as a rule, I can't sit at concerts. ask the people that were at Crowded House with me ;)

    Lanegan-Dully that's ok, really mellow.. Ed was limit, I jumped to my feet at the first chord of Porch!
    But I cannot possibly physically sit down at a PJ show. I mean it literally impossible. you'd tie me to the chair I'd rip it off the floor!
    and whilst you don't have to actually seat in the US, we all know that at UK shows, you get hassled both by people around you and security for not seating down :evil:
    that's why I don't go to gigs if I can't get standing floor, I get annoyed and other people get annoyed and it spoils the show for me..

    good thing I've now secured a standing tix for SBE :D , but I would have rather stood right at the back of L3 than seat anywhere.
  • Pegasus
    Pegasus Posts: 3,754
    redrock wrote:
    fowls wrote:
    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 :p
    Number of shows attended is like a pissing contest here... :mrgreen: 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.....
    I was just pointing out how crazily in love with the band (and the fans) I fell.
    I'm not saying it makes me a better fan than someone that saw just 10 shows in 15 years.. I'd rather have been at those shows 15 years ago (I got excuses ;)).. but I wasn't and kind of making up for lost time.
    Plus It's as much about the travelling with friends than seeing the shows now anyway. An excuse for a trip and parties :P
    Alive 79 wrote:
    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!!
    this is the only time aside from the Astoria that I didn't secure tickets directly when I tried.. and I have now got 1 anyway. It isn' t that hard (well, TM is but that's why we have 10c :mrgreen: ) and most places overseas are WAY easier to get tickets than the UK.
  • Briano
    Briano Posts: 53
    Pegasus wrote:
    redrock wrote:
    fowls wrote:
    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 :p
    Number of shows attended is like a pissing contest here... :mrgreen: 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.....
    I was just pointing out how crazily in love with the band (and the fans) I fell.
    I'm not saying it makes me a better fan than someone that saw just 10 shows in 15 years.. I'd rather have been at those shows 15 years ago (I got excuses ;)).. but I wasn't and kind of making up for lost time.
    Plus It's as much about the travelling with friends than seeing the shows now anyway. An excuse for a trip and parties :P
    Alive 79 wrote:
    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!!
    this is the only time aside from the Astoria that I didn't secure tickets directly when I tried.. and I have now got 1 anyway. It isn' t that hard (well, TM is but that's why we have 10c :mrgreen: ) and most places overseas are WAY easier to get tickets than the UK.


    so you got one for SBE then, well done :)
  • see_the_world
    see_the_world Posts: 172
    Pegasus wrote:
    this is the only time aside from the Astoria that I didn't secure tickets directly when I tried.. and I have now got 1 anyway. It isn' t that hard

    Isn't it? I must be doing something seriously wrong then because it's been totally impossible for me thus far (at least, outside of the Ebay route it has, and I haven't resorted to that quite yet).

    Congrats on getting sorted out though :)
    If I knew where it was, I would take you there...
  • Pegasus
    Pegasus Posts: 3,754
    see_the_world wrote:
    Pegasus wrote:
    this is the only time aside from the Astoria that I didn't secure tickets directly when I tried.. and I have now got 1 anyway. It isn' t that hard

    Isn't it? I must be doing something seriously wrong then because it's been totally impossible for me thus far (at least, outside of the Ebay route it has, and I haven't resorted to that quite yet).

    Congrats on getting sorted out though :)
    i meant not hard for normal shows.
    this one is much harder obviously... but it's possible. be patient. (and if you're a Londoner, get your ass there on the day.. miracles happen, I've seen several at the Astoria)
  • see_the_world
    see_the_world Posts: 172
    Pegasus wrote:
    see_the_world wrote:
    Pegasus wrote:
    this is the only time aside from the Astoria that I didn't secure tickets directly when I tried.. and I have now got 1 anyway. It isn' t that hard

    Isn't it? I must be doing something seriously wrong then because it's been totally impossible for me thus far (at least, outside of the Ebay route it has, and I haven't resorted to that quite yet).

    Congrats on getting sorted out though :)
    i meant not hard for normal shows.
    this one is much harder obviously... but it's possible. be patient. (and if you're a Londoner, get your ass there on the day.. miracles happen, I've seen several at the Astoria)

    I know, patience is a virtue. I am plugging away at HMV and Ticketweb (although the later seem to have pulled their listing).

    I'm not in London, but I am considering travelling down ticketless on the day regardless. Thing is, that's money that could be spent having a good time on the 18th if I end up locked out... decisions, decisions...
    If I knew where it was, I would take you there...
  • Briano
    Briano Posts: 53
    see_the_world wrote:
    I know, patience is a virtue. I am plugging away at HMV and Ticketweb (although the later seem to have pulled their listing). I'm not in London, but I am considering travelling down ticketless on the day regardless. Thing is, that's money that could be spent having a good time on the 18th if I end up locked out... decisions, decisions...


    they have??
  • see_the_world
    see_the_world Posts: 172
    Briano wrote:
    see_the_world wrote:
    I know, patience is a virtue. I am plugging away at HMV and Ticketweb (although the later seem to have pulled their listing). I'm not in London, but I am considering travelling down ticketless on the day regardless. Thing is, that's money that could be spent having a good time on the 18th if I end up locked out... decisions, decisions...


    they have??

    Looks that way to me. For the time being, at least.

    I still have my HMV tickets sitting merrily in my basket though! :evil:
    If I knew where it was, I would take you there...
  • Briano
    Briano Posts: 53
    see_the_world wrote:
    Briano wrote:
    see_the_world wrote:
    I know, patience is a virtue. I am plugging away at HMV and Ticketweb (although the later seem to have pulled their listing). I'm not in London, but I am considering travelling down ticketless on the day regardless. Thing is, that's money that could be spent having a good time on the 18th if I end up locked out... decisions, decisions...


    they have??

    Looks that way to me. For the time being, at least.

    I still have my HMV tickets sitting merrily in my basket though! :evil:


    aye i see what ye mean

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