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?