The XX

[No Cars Go]

1 minute ago, annax said:

Funny queueing system but tickets for the Wednesday in London secured. 

Did you refresh or stay in the queue? Every time I refresh it kicks me out.. 

[annax]

Just now, No Cars Go said:

Did you refresh or stay in the queue? Every time I refresh it kicks me out.. 

No refreshing. Just let it roll. Had a tab open for each date I was interested in. 

[No Cars Go]

11 minutes ago, annax said:

No refreshing. Just let it roll. Had a tab open for each date I was interested in. 

agghhhh no luck... these guys are getting very popular. Will try again on Friday. Thanks for the help nonetheless!

[RossTC]

Cardiff tickets now available and i just bought 2

[meirionw]

Very odd, I got the email about 30 minutes before sale time, waited in a queue for Cardiff tickets and failed miserably as all pre sale had sold out. Decided to try again a few hours later, not sure why I did that but secured two, and there were more available 

[Mezhyp1]

They've definitely been releasing more pre sale ticks throughout the day, they've added a 5th night at Brixton

[Rose-Colored Boy]

13 minutes ago, Mezhyp1 said:

They've definitely been releasing more pre sale ticks throughout the day, they've added a 5th night at Brixton

They seem very desperate to avoid The O2? Not sure that suggests a Pyramid slot is particularly likely? Although I suppose F+TM did a load of Ally Pally dates rather than the O2 last year.

Edited November 22, 2016 by Zac Quinn

[nikkic]

They obviously know that The O2 is a big pile of steaming ass, having to play 100 dates in Brixton would be preferable to 1 there. 

[shoptildrop]

only seats left on the Monday Manchester gig, gonna try my chances on Friday I think....strange didn't even get a presale link despite being part of their mailing list for years

[thewayiam]

9 hours ago, Zac Quinn said:

They seem very desperate to avoid The O2? Not sure that suggests a Pyramid slot is particularly likely? Although I suppose F+TM did a load of Ally Pally dates rather than the O2 last year.

I would think maybe that due to a probable younger fan base they opt for this as people don't want to sit in the gods or at the back and extend it over 5 nights. Pyramid sub or Other headline either way.

8 hours ago, nikkic said:

They obviously know that The O2 is a big pile of steaming ass, having to play 100 dates in Brixton would be preferable to 1 there. 

Twat of a venue to to as well.

[StLewi]

Luckily I managed to get tickets but, unsurprisingly, they're all over resale sites for inflated prices. Here's what I don't understand... When I purchased via the presale link, I was advised I'd receive the tickets in the post. So, with this in mind, how on earth are all the tickets on StubHub and Viagogo are etickets? I've either missed something or there's some serious skullduggery taking place.

Edited November 23, 2016 by StLewi

[Tuna]

18 minutes ago, StLewi said:

Luckily I managed to get tickets but, unsurprisingly, they're all over resale sites for inflated prices. Here's what I don't understand... When I purchased via the presale link, I was advised I'd receive the tickets in the post. So, with this in mind, how on earth are all the tickets on StubHub and Viagogo are etickets? I've either missed something or there's some serious skullduggery taking place.

 

Oh, there's skullduggery alright.

[Lucy92]

Got my tickets last night  can't wait got a good couple of months of music booked with Bon iver and the xx. Perfect run up to getting my resale tickets 

[swede]

Got tickets for Nottingham, didn't get sent an email until 10:45 and was really surprised that tickets were available so nabbed 2. Never seen The XX before so really looking forward to it.

[Ricci's Special Kebabs]

Their Other Stage closing in 2013 was a beautiful way to end the festival, I can wait to see them again at Worth Farm.

[StLewi]

Friday tickets for Brixton:

https://tickets.axs.com/eventShopperV3UK.html?wr=GENERAL-74e8-49fc-a100-9a20370de07e&addData=AUK&ec=O2BX170310&preFill=1&lang=en&locale=en_gb&eventid=328354&src=AEGAXS1_WMAIN&skin=goldenvoiceuk&fbShareURL=www.axs.com%2Fuk%2Fevents%2F328354%2Fthe-xx-tickets%3F%26ref%3Devs_fb

[ghostdancer1]

7 (Seven) nights in Brixton now

[chrislk89]

Those tickets sold out so quick. More needs to be done to stop ticket grabbing touts using bots!

[rpfranks]

See what I mean.. no Birmingham date but SEVEN in Brixton. I get that it's their home town but 7 nights, come on man. 

[DavisO89]

I managed to get 2 tickets for the tuesday but was ideally after 2 for the friday or saturday. If anyone knows anyone who might be willing to do a swap please get in touch 

[zahidf]

It must be a promotional thing: break the brixton venue record, increase their profile.

In glasto terms, this must mean 2nd frm top main?

[home to you]

All sorted for Brixton thanks to my sister (early Christmas present) .

I'd personally rather they did 7 nights there than 1 or 2 dates at the O2/a few nights at Ally Pally.

[T-Mouse]

58 minutes ago, zahidf said:

In glasto terms, this must mean 2nd frm top main?

If the festival has any balls they should let them headline. If you've got the 19 fucking 75 saying they'll be headlining in the future years then whats stopping the xx? 

[StLewi]

OK, so they've 'sold out' 7 nights in Brixton. However, if they had a Glasto-style ID/registration system that stopped touting, how many nights do you think they'd sell? 

I still can't get my head around how/why bands can sit there and watch real fans get ripped off. Yes I know the government are starting to look into this now, but surely bands can say they'll only play if the venues and ticket agents agree to an ID system? Or is that too simple? But at the end of the day, if touting didn't exist, the bands wouldn't get half as much revenue. They'll probably make money of the resale of their tickets too. So is it down to pure greed they don't stop the touts?

Edited November 25, 2016 by StLewi

[Rose-Colored Boy]

 

1 hour ago, StLewi said:

OK, so they've 'sold out' 7 nights in Brixton. However, if they had a Glasto-style ID/registration system that stopped touting, how many nights do you think they'd sell? 

I still can't get my head around how/why bands can sit there and watch real fans get ripped off. Yes I know the government are starting to look into this now, but surely bands can say they'll only play if the venues and ticket agents agree to an ID system? Or is that too simple? But at the end of the day, if touting didn't exist, the bands wouldn't get half as much revenue. They'll probably make money of the resale of their tickets too. So is it down to pure greed they don't stop the touts?

At Ben Howard's tour two years ago they said "if you don't bring ID matching the name on the ticket you won't get in" and they did at least try to enforce it, but it'd still have been very easy to circumnavigate. Requiring pre-registration of photos to be printed onto the tickets is the next step, obviously, but we're still probably years away from that being hassle-free and cheap enough to do for every single high-demand gig

In the meantime the government badly need to get their act together and make it illegal to systematically manipulate the system like in that documentary Tuna posted on the last page, before the bubble bursts and people don't even try to buy gig tickets any more.

Edited November 25, 2016 by Zac Quinn