Just got tickets...
Jumble Grumble
09-05-2007, 17:52
....to Radio One's Big Weekend - Who says the BBC sucks - this is the U.K's BIGGEST FREE CONCERT - and its coming to PRESTON!!!
The Coral Islands
09-05-2007, 17:58
....to Radio One's Big Weekend - Who says the BBC sucks - this is the U.K's BIGGEST FREE CONCERT - and its coming to PRESTON!!!
You know, if you just bought tickets to a free concert, I have to question your sanity...
Still, I agree that the BBC is superb.
You know, if you just bought tickets to a free concert, I have to question your sanity...
No, no, he didn't buy tickets, he got them.
Whereyouthinkyougoing
09-05-2007, 17:58
The only tickets I ever get are parking tickets. :(
Yay for you, though.
Jumble Grumble
09-05-2007, 17:59
You know, if you just bought tickets to a free concert, I have to question your sanity...
Still, I agree that the BBC is superb.
Didn't buy them silly. :)
Registered for the draw (for free) and got me FREE tickets for the Saturday - around 500,000 people registered for around 75,000-80,000 tickets - and I got one!!
The Coral Islands
09-05-2007, 18:06
If a concert is free, why have tickets at all? It seems so superfluous...
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I suppose they make sense given the draw thing, but to me it seems simpler just to have someone with a ticker at the door who stops letting people in after the place fills.
So 500,000 people don't show up for a show that can only hold 80,000 people?
Jumble Grumble
09-05-2007, 18:10
If a concert is free, why have tickets at all? It seems so superfulous...
The venue is barriered off (for crowd control probably - can you imagine 500,000 people attending a venue intended for 40,000 at a time - you get tickets to one of the days).
And if you don't have tickets how do you know who has won and is allowed in?
This is a big event.
Jumble Grumble
09-05-2007, 18:11
If a concert is free, why have tickets at all? It seems so superfulous...
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I suppose they make sense given the draw thing, but to me it seems simpler just to have someone with a ticker at the door who stops letting people in after the place fills.
Again the crowd control thing - can you imagine 500,000 people queing to get in- how calm would the first people to be denied entry be?
The Coral Islands
09-05-2007, 18:21
Again the crowd control thing - can you imagine 500,000 people queing to get in- how calm would the first people to be denied entry be?
Well, folks could be admitted in groups- Say ten get let in at each gate every minute or so. When it is getting near to the limit, announce that only a few more groups are being permitted, and when it reaches 40000 just close the doors.
I must admit, winning a ticket is more fun than waiting in line for hours to ensure entrance. Still, I am sure that it would be theoretically possible to do the concert without them.
Well, folks could be admitted in groups- Say ten get let in at each gate every minute or so. When it is getting near to the limit, announce that only a few more groups are being permitted, and when it reaches 40000 just close the doors.
I must admit, winning a ticket is more fun than waiting in line for hours to ensure entrance. Still, I am sure that it would be theoretically possible to do the concert without them.
460,000 people having travelled, sometimes hundreds of miles and at great expense, to see a concert
+
being refused entry
=
Not a pretty sight
Lunatic Goofballs
09-05-2007, 18:34
460,000 people having travelled, sometimes hundreds of miles and at great expense, to see a concert
+
being refused entry
=
Not a pretty sight
I guess that depends on how you define 'pretty'.
I'd pay to see that. :)
I V Stalin
09-05-2007, 23:30
Having looked at the line-up, I have to ask...
Why? Apart from MIA and Biffy Clyro, who's playing that you want to see?
Philosopy
09-05-2007, 23:48
Having looked at the line-up, I have to ask...
Why? Apart from MIA and Biffy Clyro, who's playing that you want to see?
There are a few bands I wouldn't mind seeing; Kaiser Chiefs, Mika, Razorlight and the Scissor Sisters.
I haven't a clue who most of the rest of the bands are, though.
Turquoise Days
09-05-2007, 23:50
I dunno, Stalin. Stereophonics and Fratellis are worth a look. However, they will be swamped by the general crappiness. Always the way with these things.
Also: Preston?!!
I V Stalin
10-05-2007, 07:27
They should've got the Manics. Then it'd be worth the admission fee. ;)
Also...Phil...Mika?! :eek: :(
Jumble Grumble
10-05-2007, 16:46
I dunno, Stalin. Stereophonics and Fratellis are worth a look. However, they will be swamped by the general crappiness. Always the way with these things.
Also: Preston?!!
Do you mean 'why Preston?' or 'where the hell is Preston?'
Slaughterhouse five
10-05-2007, 17:11
460,000 people having travelled, sometimes hundreds of miles and at great expense, to see a concert
+
being refused entry
=
Not a pretty sight
well i would say that anyone that travels hundreds of miles at a great expense to go to a concert, especially a free concert is just bonkers in the first place.
i guess i never got into being a fanatic follower of anything.
Philosopy
10-05-2007, 17:14
Also...Phil...Mika?! :eek: :(
I like Mika. I wouldn't leave my children with him, but his music is fun. :p