mjfromthelane

You sorted that quick 😆 Fair play though - I definitely thought a FV hospitality ticket would have been harder to come by for the typical punter. You must have had a good contact there 👍

This has been done to death and there's even another active thread on a 'queue' system which would basically be a lottery. As many have said, all it would mean is probably 2x or 3x more casuals trying and an even lesser chance of tickets. A different kind of chaos...

Definitely a trend that seems to be aligned to the younger crowd at events these days. Started by Boiler Room really but particularly in DnB now there are more and more '360' events with part of the crowd behind the decks, and I guess with everything so online now it's more about being seen there than the actual experience. A perfect example being the kid from the Chase & Status Boiler Room who went viral and has been all over their social media, on stage with them at the Brits etc etc.

I think thousands of ticketless people would pay that price without much thought. The problem is the tickets aren't actually readily available for that amount, and 3, 4 or 5 grand is a bit more difficult.

Hoping to get there this summer for either the Critical Sound or 1985/Alix Perez all-dayers.

Went to C&S at Drumsheds on Friday night and was pretty underwhelmed by the whole experience - and having looked on social media that looked like the general feeling too. The majority of it was caused by the venue itself. Doors opened at 6 with the curfew supposedly at 10.30. We turned up at about 7.10 after getting away from work. By the time we were past the various queues / security lines, it was 8.15 when we were actually in. Not a great start when it was already a short night - and then it looked like we were barely getting 2 hours of music. The queues obviously weren't helped by everyone turning up in a tight time period, but surely they could have different / more entrances. Some of the funnels were ridiculously narrow when you're expecting thousands of people to pass through within 90 - 120 minutes. I thought maybe we had just timed it badly but I've seen comments from people getting to the venue at 6 and basically missing all of Lens' (warm up DJ) set anyway - I don't think she finished until 8. By the time we got to the main room it was about 8.30. We saw 15 mins of Flowdan which was pretty flat - think everyone would have just preferred some drum & bass. He finished at 8.45. There was then 30 mins of set up / emptiness before C&S came on, with no music and spells of boos/whistling from the crowd as everyone frankly got bored. C&S come on at 9.20 and we're then thinking 'are we only getting an hour?!' The set itself was decent and they couldn't have done much better pulling out some old classics and getting guests like Becky Hill, Tom Grennan, Ardee on. The new front man/MC isn't a patch on Rage though. We stood about 3/4 back in the centre for the first 30 minutes and the sound was pretty terrible - I'm not sure if it was a mixing issue but we all noticed how tinny it was and the tracks weren't coming through properly. We then moved a bit forward into one of the side channels which was a lot better, but still not as good as Printworks. I was at Wembley Arena last Saturday for a gig and even the sound there was levels above Drumsheds. C&S ended up playing past the supposed curfew, up until about 10.50. Getting out of the venue and back to Meridian Water station then took over an hour, moving at a snails pace before repeatedly getting held in the last alleyway to 'regulate' train and taxi queues. When we finally got to the station we just missed a Liverpool Street train that barely had anyone on it. On the train home we then realised we had spent as much time queuing to get in/out of the venue as we had being in there. There were a few others on the train who had the same experience and loads more on social media by the looks of it. Not to say those nights aren't a lot more difficult to manage than all-dayers but I think Friday night will have put a fair few thousand off from ever going back...

Another question from me I can't see a definitive answer to online - for Oxfam when do you need to be onsite for? The Tuesday? Currently trying to cajole two mates in for the 1st Feb madness.

This might have been answered before, but what is the deal if you had a spot with Oxfam and then got lucky in the resale?

Not sure about only 4 teams having a chance but I agree with this! If people are that bothered about watching a last 16 game whilst at Glastonbury, watch it down your local and put your tickets back in the resale for the rest of us....

As has already been mentioned, they literally just dropped one of the most watched Boiler Room sets ever, so ‘terrible’ is a bit harsh. I do think they are almost too active though, which doesn’t help. They were on the festival/live circuit this year and now with a new album out + Drumsheds in Feb etc, you’d think next summer would be big too. Hoping they focus on live shows as it’s what sets them apart to most.

When people use the auto-refresh, how do you stop it refreshing when it enters the ticket buying page? Or does it know when to stop refreshing if the URL changes?

For the Loo Crew, I assume that just involves the cleaning of all the parts of the toilets that punters use? And not some sort of involvement with the toxic waste? Either way, I think that is one volunteering option the other half won't be so keen on.

FFS this was a bad read for the no ticket comedown. Agreed on The Temple - sunset or sunrise is pretty special from the bleachers!

This might be a stupid question but is there any truth to general location being a factor in ticket success? Me and my GF were talking about how we know a lot of people out of London/the UK who got through this year.

On the ticket holding page yesterday were you allowing the 20 seconds countdown to reach 0 each time and auto refresh? The overwhelming majority of people manually hit refresh on the page (also known as F5) every few seconds to increase the chance of it reloading onto the ticket purchasing page. If each refresh is a ticket to the raffle, most people think refreshing as many times possible is the best way to win.