lyricalwax
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Wow, wow, WOW!
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Far better than I expected it to be. For a free gig it was pretty impressive, they really went all out on lights, pyro, lasers and smoke, didn't think they woulld, and the sound was a lot better than Emirates too. Was near the back so saw Brad Pitt too
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When I saw doors at 7pm and this being a free 30 min gig, had no idea it would actually start at 9:30. Going with my younger sister who's 12 (and over the moon) but now thinking it's a bad idea if it means getting home just before midnight.. Oh well, beggars can't be choosers I guess.
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I don't get it, why will you try anyway if it's a lot of bother? If you're not likely to come down, wouldn't it be a waste of tickets if you win? Edit: Ignore this, just got some tickets thanks for the link.
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You were right, AP didn't go through..
I should've voted for SfA, then there at least would've been a vote-off between that and FAWY. Oh well, looking forward to the next one. -
Heh, I guess it does, but I count it more as a faith
I feel like rallying around for AP votes
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You talk as if you knew for a fact there and then that they definitely weren't going to play MK Ultra (because we all know every single setlist is always in the same order ). They easily could've played it after, you don't know, so how does that justify anything? Oh noes, your bat-sense has got it all wrong! Time to throw a strop! I too was expecting them to play it at some point and was rather disappointed as I realised they weren't. I don't particularly care for Feeling Good either, am rather bored of Unintended (and think it's out of place at an arena/stadium gig) and detest the 'SIA's but I couldn't think of doing anything worse or more embarrassing than throwing my toys out of the pram when they come on. Basically I'm not an arsehole. Imagine a group of morons around you booing every other song they play, including your favourites. "MK Cuntra!!!" "United States of UR Gay-sia!!" Ooh look at me, aren't I clever! arf arf! The thing is, you say this as a joke, but your behaviour and comments on here suggest otherwise (not to mention belies your undertitle). This. You can say all the bad things about Muse or indeed any band/anyone all you like, that's not the issue here. I don't deny the fact that people have different tastes and like/dislike various songs, but that's completely different from moaning, booing and heckling them at a gig. Now granted the band couldn't hear your heckling (which is not so apparent in the video) but I just don't understand this at a gig. It's such a negative attitude to take, and rather childish too, pretty much one step away from the retards who chuck stuff on stage when there's an act on they don't like. Dislike it by all means, but why be so immature? Rather inconsiderate behaviour too, considering there are many other people there who may adore it, and have been waiting for it to come on. I know I would've been pissed off if I was surrounded by your lot. The funny thing is, this dislike is only to be found on here, and thus all the supposed 'hardcore' fans who were on the barrier. There was a huge cheer and everyone was singing along where I was sitting. Totally agree.
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Ah, but the majority of these people only missed out because of the touts who bought them to resell for a profit in the first place. Granted there are some people who'd rather buy them later, closer to the date, and don't mind paying over the odds, but I'm pretty sure most try and fail to get any at the general sale, and hence have to buy them off the secondary market. Funnily enough, the laws of economy dictate that this secondary market actually determines the real price, i.e. the price people are willing to pay for the ticket, so I guess the real solution would be if every ticket (or indeed every good with a limited, finite supply) was sold in this way and therefore every penny of the profit is shared by the band and record company. However, the band/record label have collectively made the decision not to and are happy to sell at a fixed price. If this was enforced by the law of the land (like they've done with football tickets), then no one else would financially gain from the concert apart from the people involved, which is how it should be. Yes, forcing people (who genuinely cannot make the gig) to resell at face value creates an artificial price with regards to market forces of supply and demand, but then it was an artificial price to begin with anyway. I guess it all boils down to ethics really more than economics.
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I don't deny that it's possible to get tickets via secondary ticket agencies, what I mean is that there's no guarantee of it arriving, especially for a concert like Muse where tickets fetched very high prices just before the gig. Now obviously GetMeIn is backed by Ticketmaster so there's a level of security there, but there's no such guarantee for Viagogo or Seatwave, just a refund. By the way, as much as I detest eBay you're not totally stuffed if they don't arrive. The Paypal guarantee is in place so you get your money back too, and the advantage over the others is that there's a feedback system. It would be very rare for a verified seller with thousands of feedback with 99% rating to not deliver. On a side note, the main advantage with eBay however is that when there are loads of unsold tickets for whatever reason, you can pick up a real bargain. For example, Arctic Monkeys Wembley arena tickets are going for around £5-10 each now which I'm mighty tempted to go to. Apart from mammoth bands like Muse or Green Day I only ever pay below face value for gig tickets these days
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Seatwave in a way is worse than eBay as it has the same extortionate prices but as in the example above some sellers don't go ahead with the sale at the last minute as they either don't have the tickets to sell, or have sold it on for a higher price on eBay/elsewhere. Essentially you're buying from sellers with absolutely no feedback so you have no idea whether you're going to get the tickets or not, just a guarantee of a refund if they don't arrive, although that hardly helps if you've been looking forward to the gig for months. What a lot of people don't realise is that you're actually just buying from a random person (ie most likely a tout if the prices are really high) and not a reputable company or anything. Same with viagogo, and other ticket exchange websites. I know you don't need anyone to make you feel any worse, but please don't tell me you paid a stranger before you received the tickets? I don't understand, why? Did you just wire the money over or meet face to face? These 'companies' are sneaky as it all looks official and the website sounds genuine but to be honest anyone with a basic knowledge of html can make a website these days, all they need is a genuine sounding url like uksoldouttickets.com for example. If you really need tickets and don't mind paying over the odds, you should only buy from websites which are members of ASTA UK (The Association of Secondary Ticket Agents): http://www.asta-uk.org/asta_members.php.
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The Real Hustle - Supermassive Black Hole is on every episode, and Hysteria was on the day. I'm sure TIRO was also used. One of the producers must be a Muse fan or something.
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Eternally Missed, Crying Shame, and Fury. I always forget about the b-sides after a while for some reason..
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I had my first Muse dream the other day and I blame this board. It's quite literally the last thing I do before I go to bed.. god I'm so sad. I was in Dom's house, he invited me or I won a competition or something. It was a nice Georgian type huge house, but it was somewhere in France I think. It was very sunny and the interior was really lavish and ornate with loads of rooms, but he was just in his normal clothes and he was laughing and joking about a lot, don't ask me what I cant remember. and he had these huge dogs. Also near the end I met his 2 baby dughters (wtf?) who were really cute. But then he changed into someone else and I can't remember the rest. I also had a random dream about people from the board (with avas instead of faces), I thought I was the only one but it turns out there is a thread for those aswell?! I really need to stop spending so much time here. I stopped after wembley but HAARP's set me off again. Any tips would be appreciated.
I should've voted for SfA, then there at least would've been a vote-off between that and FAWY. Oh well, looking forward to the next one.
