tickets at HMV

[Budweiser]

Tickets go on sale at HMV on the 30th of march 7pm.

I think this is stupid becuase

1. The shops will be still open

2. People lineing up to by tickets wont know the line up as its released just before and

3. It's just after rush hour and it's going to busy as fook.

Edited March 24, 2009 by Budweiser

[Obsydyan]

Tickets go on sale at HMV on the 30th of march 7pm.

1. The shops will be still open

2. People lineing up to by tickets wont know the line up as its released just before and

3. It's just after rush hour and it's going to busy as fook.

[kaosmark2]

You're forgetting internet phones, or Radio 1, or people, y'know, communicating with each other to get the line-up off the web while queuing.

[jake_king5]

I queued up outside the Portsmouth HMV last year from 5am, got to the front of the queue and they ran out of weekend tickets! They only had 100 odd, not worth the bother in my opinion. As soon as I got home I went on seetickets and managed to buy my ticket.

[pigshair123]

how many tickets do the bigger stores usually have?

[RapidAmp]

But the thing with this year is you won't get your ticket on that day.

You get handed a voucher that you have to go into HMV on the 1st of August and hand it back over to get your ticket.

They say it's to prevent Touting which I can't see happening tbh

[Jung]

Only downside I can see to this, is that for the people unlucky enough to not manage to get tickets on the 30th, they aren't going to be able to camp outside HMV the next morning to try and get a ticket.

But, I have a hunch that with the fact there are no box office tickets this year, there will be a second and third batch released a bit later like there was in 2007

Edited March 24, 2009 by Jung

[beLIEveR]

Now that you mention it, yes I would rather they went on sale at 6am the next morning. That way anyone mad enough to be there at 6am would get their ticket. A heavy Monday night, a nice kebab, some messing around in town and then staggering over to HMV off your face at 5:30am? If I lived in the catchment area and that was the routine it would most certainly be an annual tradition.

[inspectedinspector]

Do all HMVs sell them then?

[Jung]

Do all HMVs sell them then?

[moz4pm]

Only downside I can see to this, is that for the people unlucky enough to not manage to get tickets on the 30th, they aren't going to be able to camp outside HMV the next morning to try and get a ticket.

But, I have a hunch that with the fact there are no box office tickets this year, there will be a second and third batch released a bit later like there was in 2007

[kaosmark2]

they say every year there will be no box office and every year there is

[moz4pm]

fair enough, lucky i'm a leeds goer then

[Jung]

Actually, there was some thing about Reading council insisting they don't this year.

[Azzy G]

Yea think it's due to the rioting etc at the gate last year, it was in the license terms. It was pretty bad from what I saw

[Jung]

Yea we got dropped off by what used to be the main entrance early Wednesday afternoon and saw the carnage, people getting lifted out and collapsing. Apparently some people had been there since midnight before, crazy shit man.

Can't blame them for putting a stop to it if I'm honest

[dakyras]

they say every year there will be no box office and every year there is