Kate Bush tickets?

[Archie_tect]

Being of a certain age, Mrs A_T and I thought it would be a pleasant experience to go and see her.... with certain misgivings about the effects the intervening years have had on her voice and pie-eating extravagances.

Imagine our delight to get into the site at 9:31 to select the Friday tickets we wanted, clicked the purchase button to wait the 30 seconds to be put through to the pay page... to then get kicked out... tried until 9:35 to get back in to find they only had £104 tickets left on Tuesdays... tried until 9:37 to find they only had £145 single tickets on any day. By 9:40 they only had £415 Hospitality tickets left...

To be honest I'm more than relieved as I'm sure I would have been disappointed with the whole experience.... but I'm sad for Mrs A_T who was very excited.

Anyone got tickets? Anyone care... even a little bit?

 

[EltonFrog]

Oh God! She's not at now is she? We'll be sunbjected to her interminable monotonous catawailing for the next few months every time we turn on the radio. Geez!

 

[SteCenturion]

This is what could be described as a 'near death experience'.

You survive to 'not hear her another day' - congrats.

 

[MikeG]

As an aside, good friends of ours just outside our village are constantly annoyed by people driving up their private lane to take photos of their house, insisting it is where Kate Bush spent her childhood. They have often travelled from America to do a little circuit of Kate-Bush-important-places, and they just won't accept that she never lived there, despite the fact that our friends renovated it from a derelict empty building some 50 years ago. With obsessive fans like these, it is little wonder you are struggling to get hold of any tickets.

I have to say that her recent album, 50 Words for Snow, was really excellent. Very innovative, and with lots of interesting collaborations. But even so, I am not sure I'd want to listen to her in concert for 2 hours.

 

[SteCenturion]

Yanks (some of them are very nice) are often very STUPID.

I worked on Ascension Island when a member of H.M Forces - (incidentally where the moon buggy was tested - Gen).

Groups of our North American friends paid large sums to fly to London, transfer to Brize Norton & fly on a ropey old Tristar to the Island for bird/nature watching.

The island has been featured several times on Attenborough et al nature doc's.

A friend of mine 'when asked' -
"hey man, what are those big domes for" replied -

"Well, you know that the Queen has many Corgis" ? - "That's where they are bred in captivity in special atmospheric chambers" - etc, etc.

Hook line & sinker Mr Doodle Dandy was heard telling his possy about his great find.

 

[ianrauk]

Tried to get some tickets but no luck. Very disappointing.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Mate at work tried to get some, no luck. Do you think she'll show up?

 

[swee'pea99]

I read rumours somewhere - Guardian website I think - that basic tickets are changing hands for upwards of a grand. Seems crazy to me. She wasn't that good even when she was 'good', and thirty years on...

 

[SteCenturion]

Wish I had bought 4 now.

Not to go & watch her though.

Might have funded a new bike.

 

[ScotiaLass]

Can't stand her voice.

 

[Basil.B]

Kate is a great talent in my opinion. Didn't bother trying to get tickets as I knew I would have no chance.
I nearly went in 79, wish I had now, tickets were only £4, I think.
Try and go in in 2049!

 

[Archie_tect]

The site said that the tickets would be printed with the purchaser's name on them which would then require proof of identity to get in at the door in an attempt to cut out ticket laundering and touts... what happened to that idea?

As single tickets were only available within 7 minutes, the hospitality/ pre-sales ticket distribution must have been enormous.... bit like the Olympics... there must be a fairer way, but then it is just market-driven, so who cares anyway?

 

[vernon]

The site said that the tickets would be printed with the purchaser's name on them which would then require proof of identity to get in at the door in an attempt to cut out ticket laundering and touts... what happened to that idea?

I think that they have implemented it. A secondary ticket web site has Kate Bush tickets on offer for between £700 and £1350. Tellingly, there are only two or three tickets on offer for each night of the tour. I reckon that the tickets on offer are ones that have been purchased/acquired outside of the normal sale/distribution mechanism. All of them mention that the tickets are to be picked up on the night at the venue.

I'm not losing sleep over my inability to acquire Kate Bush tickets. The Black Sabbath, Sound Garden and Faith No More gig on July 4th is more alluring.

 

[Peteaud]

Would have liked to see her, but not at a stupid price.

 

[laurence]

i got 2 at the pre-sale... i couldn't afford any more and you only had 1 chance to buy, so i didn't risk it and just got a pair.

my friend got some in the general sale and i almost got 1 more, but decided against it. more kept coming up and going in an instant for a few hours.

kate bush and neutral milk hotel in the same year - epic!