U2 - Ottawa - I'm ticketless - should I go anyway?

JaneNY
JaneNY Posts: 4,438
edited November 2005 in Other Music
Do you think I can buy a legit ticket from someone outside? Never done this before. (I have my PJ ticket from the same company so I can compare the tickets to see if it looks legit)
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  • worldwide_suicide
    worldwide_suicide Posts: 38
    DO NOT, even if you have a ticket, DO NOT
  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    that depends...

    do you have a thousand dollars..?

    i think that's what their tickets cost nowadays isn't it...?

    bah.

    fuck them, they're too damn conceited. i'd love to have a world wide boycott of U2 until they ground themselves... but that will never happen.
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  • bubbamackdaddy69
    bubbamackdaddy69 Posts: 576
    I think you'd have a better chance in Montreal trying to get tickets..
    They are playing back to back nights there..
    Wish I could go to see Arcade Fire open especially in Montreal in their hometown
    Master of Zen
  • JaneNY
    JaneNY Posts: 4,438
    worldwide_suicide wrote:
    DO NOT, even if you have a ticket, DO NOT

    Heh I expected a few answers like that lol. I wouldn't follow them like PJ, but I'd like to see them once though.

    and no i don't have thousands of dollars. I'm leaning toward not. Wondering if I'd have a better chance in Montreal tomorrow. The website hasn't released ANY tickets, and I've been checking all day.
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  • iluvcats
    iluvcats Posts: 5,153
    I like their opening act, Institute with Gavin Rossdale.
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  • bubbamackdaddy69
    bubbamackdaddy69 Posts: 576
    JaneNY wrote:
    Heh I expected a few answers like that lol. I wouldn't follow them like PJ, but I'd like to see them once though.

    and no i don't have thousands of dollars. I'm leaning toward not. Wondering if I'd have a better chance in Montreal tomorrow. The website hasn't released ANY tickets, and I've been checking all day.

    The local rock station here "The Bear" has been having a bunch of contest to give away tickets..I think they had like 50 to give out
    Master of Zen
  • bubbamackdaddy69
    bubbamackdaddy69 Posts: 576
    JaneNY wrote:
    Do you think I can buy a legit ticket from someone outside? Never done this before. (I have my PJ ticket from the same company so I can compare the tickets to see if it looks legit)

    Or you can come to Ottawa and try to get tickets and if not I'll take you on the town and we'll have some beers !!... LOL
    Master of Zen
  • barcoach
    barcoach Posts: 413
    Pearl Jam and toast wrote:
    i'd love to have a world wide boycott of U2 until they ground themselves... but that will never happen.

    If you want to start it now count me in (a former U2 fan now completely rehabilitated.)
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  • Red Lukin
    Red Lukin Canada Posts: 2,994
    I always thought I'd take a picture of the scalper I bought a ticket from.
  • bubbamackdaddy69
    bubbamackdaddy69 Posts: 576
    iluvcats wrote:
    I like their opening act, Institute with Gavin Rossdale.


    Actually for Ottawa and both Montreal shows int's the Montreal band "Arcade Fire" opening...
    Master of Zen
  • Uncle Leo
    Uncle Leo Posts: 1,059
    I am not certain how far it is, but I guess if you REALLY want to see them, go, so long as you are prepared to spend whatever the people on the street will charge. If you are going to go far, don't just turn around without getting in.

    If you have the cash, are willing to part with it and want to see the band that bad, then you have to decide...

    But if you are only going to be willing to spend some flat amount and will turn around and go home, I'd just stay home.
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  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,264
    It's probably too late at this point, but if you stand in line early enough at the venue for day of show tickets, you should have a good shot. And if not succesful, then scalp one. You should be alright. They are expensive though. Not because the band makes them that way, it is because they sell out so damn fast because they play good music, put on a great show, and have millions of fans.

    To all the U2 haters, go drive off a cliff. Pearl Jam's tickets are what, $55 a show? Have you seen the stage setup that U2 has? Have you seen the amount of people needed to operate it? The number of trucks sitting outside the venue. There are probably as many people that sit on top of the stage manning just the lights for U2 than Pearl Jam crew members. And yet, U2's tickets are $50 for general admission, and then $120 for club seats. Let go of the jealousy folks. Number one rock band in the world...U2. My favorite band...Pearl Jam.
  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    it's not really the ticket prices that make me talk about U2 in such a way... its the way Bono handles himself... he thinks he's a fucking god.

    and Pearl Jam tickets should fall back towards the 20's when they go on the main US tour.
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  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,264
    Pearl Jam and toast wrote:
    it's not really the ticket prices that make me talk about U2 in such a way... its the way Bono handles himself... he thinks he's a fucking god.

    and Pearl Jam tickets should fall back towards the 20's when they go on the main US tour.


    Even Bono admits he's conceited. I just love their music, and if there is anyone in the world of rock that deserves to act like Bono, it is Bono. Part of being the way he is what allows him to get his foot in the door of the White House and whatever building Tony Blair works in. If Bono acted the way he does while at the same time not doing anything to better the world, then I'd say he is a tool. But he brings about change, and it's the attitude about himself that allows him to come up with huge goals like ending world poverty. The One.Campaign, G8 Concerts, getting countries to cancel third-world debts, it's all part of it. I for one am not against promoting your band. As long as you continue to put out good music, then promote away. I've said it a million times here, if Pearl Jam could handle fame like U2, then they might do the same thing. But they can't, and therefore you don't see music videos or tv appearances.
  • reeferchief
    reeferchief Posts: 3,569
    i was going to start again with our little U2 debate Bootlegger but i cant be arsed tonight:D
    Can not be arsed with life no more.
  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,264
    reeferchief wrote:
    i was going to start again with our little U2 debate Bootlegger but i cant be arsed tonight:D

    Ha, you're a better man than I.
  • ACCBootlegGoddess
    ACCBootlegGoddess Posts: 4,318
    Well you're prob already there...but I'd go for it.

    I'm going to Montreal ticketless tomorrow. I have a friend lining up early at the box office.

    I'm a little nervous tho cause U2 fans aren't as generous as PJ fans are...and arent' as opposed to scalping as PJ fans are :(
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  • JaneNY
    JaneNY Posts: 4,438
    I ended up not going - I was really, really tired - had taught 2 1/2 hours of aerobic classes in the morning (day after thanksgiving we had extra classes) and I just crashed in the afternoon. Body felt like lead. The thought of standing around in the cold out around the Corel center was just too much - I could just feel the wind going around all that empty flat space out there. But I'm better today so I may well go to Montreal - its only 100 miles. (Gotta teach 1 hour aerobic class first) I'm nervous too, but I really want to see them once and I know my way around the area there. Its snowing though.
    R.i.p. Rigoberto Alpizar.
    R.i.p. My Dad - May 28, 2007
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  • JaneNY
    JaneNY Posts: 4,438
    I made it to Montreal - got a legit. ticket right off the website the day of the show. U2 was great. The Bell centre was packed to the top. There wasn't a single empty seat anywhere, all the way around the back of the stage. My seat was awesome for scoring it the day off the show, at regular non-scalper price! Section 201, right at the level of the tip of the ellipse, and I was front row in the balcony, so I was just looking out into the air at the band, with no heads in front off me. I must have done something good in a former life or put some good karma out there sometime....because it sure came back to me in the form of this seat the day of the show.

    You could call me a casual fan - I know most of their hits, have a few of their albums, but never got around to seeing a show though I wanted to. They put on a great show - different than Pearl Jam, but it was nice to step into someone else's universe for a day. As a casual fan, I was glad to hear some of their main hits, Where the Streets Have Name, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Mysterious Ways, Beautiful Day, Elevation, Vertigo, Pride in the Name of Love, one of my favorites. (Its good to see a band for the first time because you get reminded that its NICE to hear some of the hits! When we see PJ for the 33rd time we want all rarities, but its easy to forget that the majority of showgoers aren't like us and may just get to one show.) Bono sounds good live, and the band played great! They have screens that show either them playing or pictures, though I didn't look at the screens much. At one point they had the Prime Minister of Canada's phone number, and the phone number of some others, I expect MPs (members of parliament) on the screens. He talked about the One campaign - everyone cheered for that.

    I know not everyone likes them here, but there's a little of my experience fwiw.
    R.i.p. Rigoberto Alpizar.
    R.i.p. My Dad - May 28, 2007
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  • thankyougrandma
    thankyougrandma Posts: 1,182
    but what we really want to know is: How was the Arcade Fire? :)

    I went to the Bell Center last night, could not even score a decent scalper tickets, unless i would have spend 125$ for a 200 section, it suck but i might try again tomorrow.
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