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Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible Live - Sat 13th Dec - Olympia Theatre

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    #122
    cruhoortwunk
    Registered Users Posts: 2,355 ✭✭✭cruhoortwunk


    Weepsie wrote: »
    TM annoying me ever more. I (like others) did not get the best available as requested when evidently tickets are left. Could be held back for employees or to ensure upper circle etc sells out, either way its poor form at the least.

    Could well be to sell out upper circel all right. You can be sure there's a nefarious reason for it, when it's ticketbastard anyway


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    #123
    The Wild Bunch
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    Wonder who the support will be?

    They toured with Suede and Therapy? on the original THB tour


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    #124
    JJ
    Registered Users Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭JJ


    The general rule with most gigs is that a small percentage of tickets are held back for family, friends, etc of the band, their management, their record company and/or competitions. If these tickets aren't taken up, they're released to the general public and it's usually not announced for reasons that flynner87 pretty much already stated.

    So sometimes it pays to keep checking Ticketmaster to see if any tickets are released and you might get lucky. Having said that, I've found it's very rare to see extra tickets released for Olympia gigs. You'd have much better luck with Point gigs.


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    #125
    Stretchryan
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭Stretchryan


    The Wild Bunch wrote: »
    Wonder who the support will be?

    They toured with Suede and Therapy? on the original THB tour


    Would be amazing if Therapy? supported them just after they did their 20th year anniversary tours with Troublegum. Not gonna happen alas.

    Went to see Helmet a few weeks back doing 20th Anniversary of "betty" and was amazing pity only Page left in the band but that album was also so ahead of its time. Gonna go see them in Brussels again in few weeks


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    #126
    The Wild Bunch
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    JJ72 for old skool ****s and giggles would be decent support!


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    #127
    savemejebus
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    The Wild Bunch wrote: »
    JJ72 for old skool ****s and giggles would be decent support!

    and i'd almost suppresed that woeful smithfield memory...damn you!


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    #128
    The Wild Bunch
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    savemejebus wrote: »
    and i'd almost suppresed that woeful smithfield memory...damn you!

    I loved that Smithfield gig! Amazing weekend, the whole Green Energy buzz was class


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    #129
    bellinter
    Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭bellinter


    I got a BRAINDEAD MOTHER****ER T-Shirt at that Smithfield gig that I still have, what, 13 years later!
    Loved that show.


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    #130
    homerun_homer
    Registered Users Posts: 7,025 ✭✭✭homerun_homer


    Weepsie wrote: »
    TM annoying me ever more. I (like others) did not get the best available as requested when evidently tickets are left. Could be held back for employees or to ensure upper circle etc sells out, either way its poor form at the least.

    It can depend on how many you try to book for. If there are 4 seats in the front row and you are booking for 3 people, it won't leave the spare seat on it's own since it would mean either dividing another customer ordering multiple tickets, or hoping someone buys a lone seated ticket. Systems like this try and avoid lone seats. So if the rest of the rows don't suit your needs either, the system tries to find the best place for the 3 of you that doesn't mess with other sales. So you could get the front, but could easily end up with crap seats at the back because of how many tickets you're ordering.

    This may not apply to your situation either but it's some insight that I've come to understand. Also, the band sometimes reserves seats which if they don't fill by a certain point near the date go on sale. It happened with the XX's sold out shows in the Olympia. I went from having Upper circle to getting front row Circle on the day of or before the gig.


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    #131
    savemejebus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,558 ✭✭✭savemejebus


    Can also depend on how many have been pre allocated for viagogo and the other scalping sites.

    re the smithfield gig, it was JJ72 i found woeful, manics were great apart from Wattsville Blues.


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    #132
    bellinter
    Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭bellinter


    your wan Hillary though.............!


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    #133
    homerun_homer
    Registered Users Posts: 7,025 ✭✭✭homerun_homer


    JJ72 had played the same 10/11 songs to death by the time they played Smithfield and looked like they couldn't give a to$$ at that stage playing them. They toured those same few songs for way too long and should have been off sooner getting the second album ready. I think they might have played Formulae at that gig, it was brand new at the time.

    I remember the crowds being tight together and a lot of swaying and a big communal fall during both bands. I did not enjoy that, made me feel ill.


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    #134
    The Wild Bunch
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    Yeah the JJ72 setlist became so predictable

    Long Way South
    Snow
    Formulae
    Undercover Angel
    Improv
    Algeria
    Oxygen
    Bumble Bee

    Usually in that sort've order


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    #135
    The Wild Bunch
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    bellinter wrote: »
    your wan Hillary though.............!

    Whatever happened to her?

    Definite indie pin up of my formative years :D


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    #136
    homerun_homer
    Registered Users Posts: 7,025 ✭✭✭homerun_homer


    The Wild Bunch wrote: »
    Whatever happened to her?

    Definite indie pin up of my formative years :D

    she released an EP last year under the name The River Cry, but now goes under her own name and played a few gigs in Smock Alley recently during the Fringe fest.


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    #137
    JJ
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    homerun_homer wrote: »
    she released an EP last year under the name The River Cry, but now goes under her own name and played a few gigs in Smock Alley recently during the Fringe fest.

    Her new EP is pretty good. You can get it on Bandcamp:

    https://hilarywoodsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/night


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    #138
    smokie72
    Registered Users Posts: 214 ✭✭smokie72


    I thought this was a manic street preachers thread about the the holy bible 20th anniversary tour?


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    #139
    callaway92
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    Jesus, I thought tickets would be easy enough to get for this.

    Very surprised when Ticketmaster said none available last night!! :(


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    #140
    magicmushroom
    Registered Users Posts: 824 ✭✭✭magicmushroom


    Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, DAMN

    Pre-Christmas family get together with the OH's family has been scheduled for...December 13th. TYPICAL.

    FML :(


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    #141
    Frigating
    Registered Users Posts: 249 ✭✭Frigating


    magicmushroom wrote: »
    Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, DAMN

    Pre-Christmas family get together with the OH's family has been scheduled for...December 13th. TYPICAL.

    FML :(

    Ouch.

    Tell them you can't come, then play the album for them. They'll understand.


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    #142
    The Wild Bunch
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    Any word on suppport yet?


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    #143
    homerun_homer
    Registered Users Posts: 7,025 ✭✭✭homerun_homer


    The Wild Bunch wrote: »
    Any word on suppport yet?

    Rumours of Public Service Broadcast.


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    #144
    Stretchryan
    Registered Users Posts: 194 ✭✭Stretchryan


    Thats who supported them in Luxembourg a few months ago but missed their set


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    #145
    The Wild Bunch
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    homerun_homer wrote: »
    Rumours of Public Service Broadcast.

    Who are they when they're at home?


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    #146
    acquiescefc
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    The Wild Bunch wrote: »
    Who are they when they're at home?
    They are a kind of an electro band who use overdubs of old wartime voiceover clips.

    e ...g...



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    #147
    The Wild Bunch
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    acquiescefc wrote: »
    They are a kind of an electro band who use overdubs of old wartime voiceover clips.

    e ...g...


    cheers for that


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    #148
    [Deleted User]
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    I have a standing ticket and no mates to go with!


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    #149
    scudzilla
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I have a standing ticket and no mates to go with!

    and your problem is??

    The first point there (you have a standing ticket) FAR outweighs the second point


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    #150
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,323 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    homerun_homer wrote: »
    Rumours of Public Service Broadcast.

    Ooh, I actually wanted to see them last time they played here but missed it for various reasons, fingers crossed.


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    #151
    [Deleted User]
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    scudzilla wrote: »
    and your problem is??

    The first point there (you have a standing ticket) FAR outweighs the second point

    Want to buy it?


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