The National - Olympia Dublin - 02/03/04 Dec 2010 - All discussion no tickets/swaps.

JJ · 10-09-2010 9:29am

Get yerself some Saturday tickets while they're hot.

H8GHOTI · 10-09-2010 9:29am

Just got 2 standing for Saturday. Arcade Fire on Sunday

I was going up for the weekend anyway for AF, so it was only the Saturday I was interested in & got them easy enough. Just kept refreshing until the date appeared and went straight in & got them. The Friday seemed easy enough too but I tried Thursday when I was waiting & that was gone at 9:01. Unreal.

How Soon Is Now · 10-09-2010 9:29am

I have Peter Kay that Saturday so glad i got the ones for Thursday gimme bit of a gap.

ct_roy · 10-09-2010 9:30am

finally!

just got 3 standing tickets for the saturday

woo fVcking hoo!

can't believe how fast these are going

Damian Duffy · 10-09-2010 9:31am

angerfist2009 wrote: »

I have Peter Kay that Saturday so glad i got the ones for Thursday gimme bit of a gap.

Interpol Tuesday and Wednesday, The National Friday and Saturday and Arcade Fire on Sunday. That is a ****ing solid week of gigs.

one man clappin · 10-09-2010 9:32am

Managed to get 2 for upper circle for friday after 15 minutes on 3 different browsers. I am a happy man

How Soon Is Now · 10-09-2010 9:34am

one man clappin wrote: »

Managed to get 2 for upper circle for friday after 15 minutes on 3 different browsers. I am a happy man

Thats insane

tonto2010 · 10-09-2010 9:39am

one man clappin wrote: »

Managed to get 2 for upper circle for friday after 15 minutes on 3 different browsers. I am a happy man

Same situation here, been trying to get standing since 9, managed to get 4 circle tickets for Sat. Must have been only about 10 standing for each night!

nxbyveromdwjpg · 10-09-2010 9:40am

i'm going to use toutless to to swap for two interpol standing tickets for tuesday??

missed it

How Soon Is Now · 10-09-2010 9:41am

tonto2010 wrote: »

Same situation here, been trying to get standing since 9, managed to get 4 circle tickets for Sat. Must have been only about 10 standing for each night!

I hope theres only ten standing haha last time i got standing tickets at Florence had loada young ones trying nudge me out way cause couldnt see lol. Not my fault there all so small

JJ · 10-09-2010 9:50am

angerfist2009 wrote: »

I hope theres only ten standing haha last time i got standing tickets at Florence had loada young ones trying nudge me out way cause couldnt see lol. Not my fault there all so small

I only managed to get Upper Circle tickets for Flo but I didn't mind because it was such a great gig. Maybe I was better off in the seated section.

H8GHOTI · 10-09-2010 9:52am

What's the story with standing in the Olympia? Do the seats on the ground floor come out?

How Soon Is Now · 10-09-2010 9:53am

JJ wrote: »

I only managed to get Upper Circle tickets for Flo but I didn't mind because it was such a great gig. Maybe I was better off in the seated section.

Standing was grand just most the young ones decided ahh id rather arse round the jacks for half hour then get a place. **** if i was gonna let them go in front of me lol

Anyway lookin forward to this now me mate will be in great humour when he wakes up sees i got him a ticket haha

How Soon Is Now · 10-09-2010 9:53am

H8GHOTI wrote: »

What's the story with standing in the Olympia? Do the seats on the ground floor come out?

Anytime i stood there was no seats be madness if there were seats .

H8GHOTI · 10-09-2010 9:57am

angerfist2009 wrote: »

Anytime i stood there was no seats be madness if there were seats .

Cool. That's what I presumed.
Only been there a couple of times for comedy when it was all seated.

eZe^ · 10-09-2010 10:00am

Absolutely fcuking gutted, had 2 tickets for the circle on Saturday, had 4 minutes left on the timer when I finished filling in the billing details, and then it took me to a 'you exceeded your time limit' page. FCUUUUUUUUK!

nxbyveromdwjpg · 10-09-2010 10:04am

Damian Duffy wrote: »

Interpol Tuesday and Wednesday, The National Friday and Saturday and Arcade Fire on Sunday. That is a ****ing solid week of gigs.

How about this:

Wednesday 1st - interpol
saturday 4th - the national
Sunday 5th - arcade fire
wednesday 8th - two door cinema club
Thursday 9th - the pogues
Sunday 12th - the frames

The first two weeks of december are mental, seriously.

JJ · 10-09-2010 10:08am

eZe^ wrote: »

Absolutely fcuking gutted, had 2 tickets for the circle on Saturday, had 4 minutes left on the timer when I finished filling in the billing details, and then it took me to a 'you exceeded your time limit' page. FCUUUUUUUUK!

You need to enter your card details on your TM account, then you fly through the order form. The Visa verify form was nerve racking the first time I did that but I'm used to that by now.

Damian Duffy · 10-09-2010 10:14am

nm wrote: »

How about this:

Wednesday 1st - interpol
saturday 4th - the national
Sunday 5th - arcade fire
wednesday 8th - two door cinema club
Thursday 9th - the pogues
Sunday 12th - the frames

The first two weeks of december are mental, seriously.

Yeh I know, I'm also going to Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. All my favourite bands in short space of time. Can't wait. I like your line up except The Frames, I really really really hate The Frames.

sd2002 · 10-09-2010 10:20am

Had a feeling this would sell out mad fast!

Was up all night worrying but managed to get 2 standing for Thurs! Very

eZe^ · 10-09-2010 10:21am

JJ wrote: »

You need to enter your card details on your TM account, then you fly through the order form. The Visa verify form was nerve racking the first time I did that but I'm used to that by now.

But everything on the page was filled out, and I still had 4 minutes left on the timer, yet I got the time limit page. Joke to be honest. Off to the touts I go I guess...

JJ · 10-09-2010 10:22am

You could also try toutless.com.

Miguel_Sanchez · 10-09-2010 10:35am

Today's Friday?

Whoops - no National for me.

Miguel_Sanchez · 10-09-2010 10:36am

nm wrote: »

How about this:

Wednesday 1st - interpol
saturday 4th - the national
Sunday 5th - arcade fire
wednesday 8th - two door cinema club
Thursday 9th - the pogues
Sunday 12th - the frames

The first two weeks of december are mental, seriously.

Godspeed You Black Emperor are playing on the 10th. Belle and Sebastian are on too earlier in the month.

Now if only Menomena would stop over too.

Denalihighway · 10-09-2010 11:12am

so the National have pretty much sold 5000 tkts there...(meself n the lads got tkts for Friday thankfully)

i'm delighted to be able to see them in the olympia...but as a tour manager, isn't that a bit of a pain in the hole to have the band there for 3 nights in a row rather than having a venue with a 5000 (ish) capacity or something? Having them work a bit less is always good for longevity I imagine.

I dunno though, just a thought really...

don't think there's any venue like that really is there apart from the RDS maybe? Not sure what the capacity is there, but I am sure I'd rather be shat on than go to another gig there.

My apologies for once again using Boards to think out loud :pac:

Aldebaran · 10-09-2010 11:14am

Totally forgot this was going on sale today, really wanted to go too. I see some enterprising chap is already selling tickets on ebay for €80 each. Absolute joke.

PWEI · 10-09-2010 11:17am

Damian Duffy wrote: »

Getting tickets for popular artists in Ireland is a tough old game, the difficulty is compounded when the artist is flavor of the month as well. I'm sure you'll get it sorted.

Dublin is crying out for a venue with a capacity of about four to five thousand like Brixton Academy. You have so many artists playing here who are too big for the Olympia but not big enough for the O2. Then there are the bands that don't want to play a big arena like the O2 that are also too big for the Olympia.

Miguel_Sanchez · 10-09-2010 11:21am

Denalihighway wrote: »

i'm delighted to be able to see them in the olympia...but as a tour manager, isn't that a bit of a pain in the hole to have the band there for 3 nights in a row rather than having a venue with a 5000 (ish) capacity or something? Having them work a bit less is always good for longevity I imagine.

Tour managers and bands love when they have a few nights in the one venue. They get to sleep in hotels instead of on the tour bus, they don't have to travel - it's much more relaxing.

Denalihighway · 10-09-2010 11:27am

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

Tour managers and bands love when they have a few nights in the one venue. They get to sleep in hotels instead of on the tour bus, they don't have to travel - it's much more relaxing.

yeah fair point, I can understand that from the band point of view certainly

but I wonder would the cut-throats at the label see it that way? since they could be doing more shows in more countries had we a suitable venue for 5000...not that i'm worried about what they think...just musing

homerun_homer · 10-09-2010 11:57am

Got me 4 tickets for the Friday. Happy out.

The National - Olympia Dublin - 02/03/04 Dec 2010 - All discussion no tickets/swaps.

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