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(Half jokingly) expecting lots of tickets to be available on resale sites tomorrow after Liam’s performance tonight at the boxing. I know that’s how he performs now, and how he’s adapted his voice, but I’m not sure the masses are. It sounded particularly horrific to be fair … https://x.com/mainlyoasis/status/1837591650874343617?s=46&t=H5V-QdLd3Z1yQZQTa5tTwQ

https://www.albumoftheyear.org/releases/this-week/ I check this every Friday morning - it’s a comprehensive list of all new releases, and then I just work my way down and check out the reviews/genres etc. It covers all genres too. I’ve found loads of new artists from here, and found out about new albums I would definitely have missed!

Wonder if there may be a slight increase in the number of tickets cropping up on Twickets / Ticketmaster official resale after these extra dates have sold out? Maybe from those who ideally wanted London tickets but had to get elsewhere, or where these new dates work better? But wishful thinking maybe

The Fat Dog album certainly woke me up this morning .. in a good way. Chaos - but I like it.

Assume Twickets will have some order to its distribution list re alerts, whether that be alphabetical or the order in which they were signed up to for example. Guessing the first people to receive the alert would have snapped them up before all emails had even been sent out.

Yeah true, I guess I was more coming from the angle that by not allowing them to sell out in minutes (which traditionally they would have), but this whole drawn out saga for hours, essentially created hundreds of thousands of people waiting in a queue, who purchased tickets at these inflated prices if they were ‘lucky’ enough to get through, as they felt they had no option to and had to decide in a split second. Whereas with more time and rationale, they may have realised that £350+ for general admission is crazy money. So they get people to purchase at these prices because of the queue they have themselves controlled.

Probably been mentioned and discussed earlier in the thread, but isn’t there the opportunity here for Ticketmaster to artificially create a ‘queue’ which will inflate the demand, hence therefore triggering this ‘surge’ pricing? And they can do this in house and totally as they please, probably with some complex calculations behind the scenes.

Struggle to see how ‘dynamic pricing’ is any better or more ethical than straight up touting.

They should change their name to can’tSeetickets ..

Still yet to see anything from See or Gigs & Tours? Are they having technical issues? I’ve given up and Ticketmaster now and am hoping the former suddenly springs into action ….

Really enjoying 86TV’s (Maccabees spin off) debut album. Some really good songs on there, and they’ve filled the Maccabees shaped void much more than Orlando’s solo stuff ever has.

Yep - superb. When the heavens opened for Mr November and Terrible Love .. it was a special moment.

I’m from ‘up north’ and I couldn’t believe the weather you guys all got at the festival compared to what it was like here! Was like two completely different seasons.

I think the whole ‘Sad Dads’ rebrand has been an excellent ploy and given them a whole new lease of life. It’s basically them admitting they aren’t attempting to be ‘cool’, but there is a huge market for their target demographic, and they’re even winning over new fans even at this stage of their career and 10+ albums in.

Just thinking, as the headline size acts have social media teams who’s job it is is to increase exposure to as big an audience as possible - and that coupled with the fact that everybody has access to streaming these days, do acts still need to roll over to the festival and accept lesser fees in return for the exposure? Is that even still relevant a relevant angle in this day and age, or have the bookers now lost this bargaining chip, which has held them so dear over the years?