QoTSA

[shermarama]

Crap on a stick. I suppose I've never tried scrapping for tickets for something likely to sell out - either I'm going to see a band that won't sell out the venue or I usually don't find out a band's touring until the tickets have well gone. I thought I was getting ahead of myself by finding out the day before tickets went on sale that QoTSA were touring the UK at the end of the year. I thought to myself, I can go and see them in Brixton, and be a sad fangirl and go to the Brighton gig too; that one's a Friday night so I could just stay over for the weekend. So I made sure I got into work for 9am this morning and fired up the websites and found massive queues and busy servers and by the time I even got through to a listing, at about eight minutes past nine, Brixton had completely sold out and the standing had gone at Brighton. Repeated battering hasn't got me anywhere and now it looks like the seating has sold out at Brighton too. In a fit of inspiration I've bought two tickets for Reading, being relatively accessible from London and still having standing going; I spent years getting trains from Brighton to London for big gigs so it's almost part of the process in my head, and I still find it a bit odd to come out of a London gig and go and get on a bus with random people who've been doing everything else there is to do in central London, rather than heading for the Brighton train and sometimes ending up chatting to all the other people who've obviously been to the same gig. But still, Brighton in particular would have been nice. There's still a good chance of getting tickets second-hand, I'm sure, but it's irritating that even knowing in advance and being there in time for the scrum, I still didn't succeed in getting tickets to see the band I want to see in the place I want to see them. They serve Dark Star in the Dome, and for a reasonable price and everything, none of your Carling-sponsored shitty cans.

Oh and it occurs to me that the Reading gig is the 4th of December, which is actually within the time I'd got notionally marked out for going to Egypt. I wonder if that makes it a sensible plan to plan to go to Egypt on the 5th, then, and have finally getting to see QoTSA as an excellent start to the holiday?

Comments

[purplegril.livejournal.com]

Erm, see my post :D

[purplegril.livejournal.com]

Have a taker now anyway, we shall have to perv over Joh separately :D Was really surprised the traffic was so bad, didn't think QOTSA were really that big a deal to most people...

[shermarama]

There were Sex Pistols tickets going on sale at the same time which won't have helped with the general server-clogging but yeah. Oh well, I have no real love for Brixton as a venue anyway, and the singer out of my band found the same problems and independently came up with the same solution of buying tickets for Reading. At least I'm certain of seeing them somewhere.

[purplegril.livejournal.com]

I like Brixton as a venue even if I'm not a massive fan of the place itself :D

Would like to see them in a smaller venue, though.

[shermarama]

I like the layout of Brixton, that gently sloping floor and wide stage, but the sound's always pants, which irritates me.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

If you'd posted that you wanted one on LJ, I could have got you one for Brixton standing. Not that that's any help now. In fact, it'll probably just annoy you even more. Alternatively, keep an eye on Scarlet Mist (http://www.scarletmist.com/) nearer the time of the gig, and you'll probably find some tickets for Brixton on there at face value.

Yes, going to the Reading gig and then straight off on holiday sounds like a good idea to me.

[shermarama]

Well, you say that, but how certain would you have been in advance of being able to get tickets yourself? And I wasn't expecting them to go quite that quickly so I didn't think I'd have a problem. I have noted the cunningness of Scarlet Mist when you've mentioned in your journal before, though, so I'll be keeping an eye on that. I think I'd prefer Brighton to Brixton, because it's a Friday night and because the Dome is a good venue that serves actual tasty beer and just because it'll be more fun and less arse than Brixton, I reckon.

[cuvavu.livejournal.com]

5th better than never :)

[shermarama]

So you have got somewhere you can get online at close to midnight local time, then?