Tour Announcements & Upcoming Gigs

[1986]

Got Prague for Springsteen in the end, £190 for 2 "Standing A" tickets. Absolutely eye watering what we get charged over here.

[Badlands]

53 minutes ago, AAlex said:

I'm asssuming I'm not the only one to use Twickets and have the app completely freeze whenever you click on an Alert you have set up, don't suppose anyones found a fix? I emailed them and got a 'we're aware of it' but remember getting the same years ago so clearly isn't a priority.

Trying to get 2 standing tickets for QOTSA in Birmingham later this month for my Dad and it's proving to be an absolute nightmare. Viagogo are offering them at a very reasonable £145 each currently... so any recommendations would also be very welcome 😂

I always try and have a web browser open with the account setup of its days leading up to a popular gig. Assuming not all push notifications are the same it’s still a lottery but I’ve had success in the past 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Goose egg for me on the Milan presale 😖

[charlierc]

9 hours ago, Burritomancer said:

Hozier announced as the headline for both Glasgow and Chepstow Summer Sessions. 

Also got a link that he's doing a Finsbury Park show on July 7th, unless that's already been mentioned somewhere.

[gingerevans84]

2 hours ago, charlierc said:

Also got a link that he's doing a Finsbury Park show on July 7th, unless that's already been mentioned somewhere.

He wont come close to selling out Finsbury Park? Seems fairly ambitious.

[Burritomancer]

The Snuts have confirmed on their discord that they’ll be touring the UK and EU in 2024 with a new album. May include some intimate shows too. 

[charlierc]

14 hours ago, gingerevans84 said:

He wont come close to selling out Finsbury Park? Seems fairly ambitious.

Well he has sold out signs on most of his UK tour in December, but I do agree it's a bigger scale again.

Guess we'll see.

[Dg_vic]

9 minutes ago, charlierc said:

Well he has sold out signs on most of his UK tour in December, but I do agree it's a bigger scale again.

Guess we'll see.

Hozier similar gamble to Jamie T this year. Even with strong undercard, Jamie T did not sell it out. 

[found home in 2009]

On 11/3/2023 at 10:16 AM, Burritomancer said:

Hozier announced as the headline for both Glasgow and Chepstow Summer Sessions. 

Love Brittany Howard, she seems to big for me to be a support act for Hozier

[charlierc]

One extra Green Day announcement just came through for small venue shows in Italy and the UK. Specifically at Electric Ballroom in North London on Friday.

Will note that it is quite expensive.

[northernangel]

1 hour ago, charlierc said:

One extra Green Day announcement just came through for small venue shows in Italy and the UK. Specifically at Electric Ballroom in North London on Friday.

Will note that it is quite expensive.

I'd rather pay £100 though for a small venue than not see anything at Wembley

[Chapple12345]

Duran Duran are headlining Latitude 2024 in a UK exclusive show

[northernangel]

16 minutes ago, Chapple12345 said:

Duran Duran are headlining Latitude 2024 in a UK exclusive show

Well we alresdy knew they weren't the Legend act and they would probably only accept sub at minimum which they probably won't get.

[charlierc]

3 hours ago, northernangel said:

I'd rather pay £100 though for a small venue than not see anything at Wembley

Depends on the act for me. Certainly it's not hard to be bemused at spending £82 on tickets for the Green Day/Fall Out Boy/Weezer gig they did in London last year and this one being even more.

Maybe it's just being bummed out at how much more expensive seeing these kinda acts is getting. First time I saw Muse in 2009 was about £40 per ticket (and even that would've been top-end for the time), whereas Milton Keynes earlier this year was £95 (or would've been had I not got second handers a few days before) and a GA standing at the London O2 date a few weeks ago was about £20 more expensive than that.

[Earth_pig]

Human league touring again next year

Tickets expensive.

Would be good at Glastonbury but don't know where, I doubt they would accept Avalon if they are playing arenas.

Not cool enough for Woodies, other stage nope, west holts I dunno doesn't seem a good fit and afternoon on pyramid seems odd to.

 

[incident]

7 hours ago, Earth_pig said:

Human league touring again next year

Tickets expensive.

Would be good at Glastonbury but don't know where, I doubt they would accept Avalon if they are playing arenas.

Not cool enough for Woodies, other stage nope, west holts I dunno doesn't seem a good fit and afternoon on pyramid seems odd to.

That's always been the problem with them. It'd be fun, but there's no good place to put them.

Definitely don't think Avalon would be viable - they'd have been too big even before now and given the recent crowd issues I think we'll see more caution with booking novelty acts "too big" for that stage.

Of the above, WH feels like the most likely but yeah feels out of place. Needs to be headline wherever it is, a daytime slot for them would die a slow painful death.

[sedra]

9 hours ago, Earth_pig said:

Human league touring again next year

Tickets expensive.

Would be good at Glastonbury but don't know where, I doubt they would accept Avalon if they are playing arenas.

Not cool enough for Woodies, other stage nope, west holts I dunno doesn't seem a good fit and afternoon on pyramid seems odd to.

 

The Park might be a good shout for them - it tends to have a more eclectic mix? 

[NorthernSoul52]

Not a fit with the general shape of sounds that goes on there - but they could play nicely atop West Holts for me.

Curveball, but hey.

[jonnyisRFC]

I’ve entered the ballot for Green Day tickets on Friday in London. I imagine It will be even harder than securing Glastonbury tickets! 

[WhatADin]

21 minutes ago, jonnyisRFC said:

I’ve entered the ballot for Green Day tickets on Friday in London. I imagine It will be even harder than securing Glastonbury tickets! 

I'm secretly hoping that a lot of people were a) put off by price b) couldn't get through. 🙊 Everything crossed though. Most people I spoke to about it said they couldn't afford it/get time off/get back from Camden/too short notice etc. 

[charlierc]

1 minute ago, WhatADin said:

I'm secretly hoping that a lot of people were a) put off by price b) couldn't get through. 🙊 Everything crossed though. Most people I spoke to about it said they couldn't afford it/get time off/get back from Camden/too short notice etc. 

I imagine tbf that even with the high price tag that it'll still have in excess of the venue capacity applying.

[WhatADin]

2 minutes ago, charlierc said:

I imagine tbf that even with the high price tag that it'll still have in excess of the venue capacity applying.

Oh, absolutely hands down. It's like 1,500 capacity? Just have to keep fingers crossed. Personally I'd rather pay more for a smaller gig like that than a huge stadium gig. 

[jonnyisRFC]

I imagine there will be 1000s of people enter just in the hope of selling them in for a profit. 

[Drinky]

The best way of doing shows like that is announcing them at a couple of days notice then either cash on the door (like Prince used to do with his impromptu London shows) or wristband and ticket on sale at 9am for a 7pm show (I remember lining up for Coldplay at Koko in the early hours, getting my wristband then heading home to shower and have lunch before going back out - https://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews-nme-7681-325555)

[charlierc]

9 minutes ago, WhatADin said:

Oh, absolutely hands down. It's like 1,500 capacity? Just have to keep fingers crossed. Personally I'd rather pay more for a smaller gig like that than a huge stadium gig. 

It's about that, yeah. I went there to see Courtney Barnett in 2015 and thought it was a really nice venue, so even if I'm meh on the cost, I imagine it'll be quite a fun experience.

I do want to stop being all "Boo price tag" but as I saw someone note on Twitter, Muse played that venue in 2015 and was £20 a ticket, announced on the day with tickets brought on the door. Maybe I was just a little hopeful it'd be closer to that. But obviously not. I do like the ballot concept tbf.

Edited November 6, 2023 by charlierc