Babyshambles Off AGAIN

hallelujah

the re-scheduled gig for tonight is off because of "Unforeseen Circumstances". What a tw*t. Down in Albion is a waste of time anyway and I'm a huge Libertines fan!

garthv

Source?

hallelujah

Babyshambles- Canceled Dublin Date on 18 April

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Babyshambles
Date: 18 April 2006
Where: TBMC, Dublin

Due to unforseen circumstances, Babyshambles rescheduled date at Temple Bar Music Centre, Dublin on 18 April 2006 has been canceled. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Refunds are available as follows:

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For tickets bought through outlets, refunds are available from the point of purchase.
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For Internet and phone bookings please return your tickets via a secure method of post to: Ticketmaster, Customer Services, Grafton House, 70 Grafton Street, Dublin 2.

Best Regards
Ticketmaster Customer Services Team
Grafton House
70 Grafton Street
Dublin 2

NIBBS

I still can't believe that this gig sold out, he's such a waste of space, how many gigs don't go ahead because he just doesn't turn up, so the miss a plane on the Thursday (and couldn't get a later flight), everyone is told the gig's postponed til Tuesday and then again - unforseen circumstances, sounds like bull****.......

hallelujah

agree completely. I'm just clinging to old Libertines whom I never got to see live

rubadub

hallelujah wrote:

For Internet and phone bookings please return your tickets via a secure method of post to: Ticketmaster, Customer Services, Grafton House, 70 Grafton Street, Dublin 2.

WTF do they want internet & phone tickets returned? why not just refund the credit cards???

onion-ring

Whats annoying me is, I rang the Temple Bar that day, they knew if he was'nt there by about 3 or 4 that day to sound check then it was'nt gonna happen, but what did they do, Said nothing, got a full house, lots of cash behind the bar, f**k how far you had to travel and f**k that your stranded in town. There ok.. If you go to Babyshambles gigs you know the score, you buy the ticket and take your chance but I am seriously pissed off with Temple Bar Music Centre for going along with the pretence that the gig was going to happen just to fill the bar till..
Will I buy a ticket for the next Babyshambles gig, F**kin right.
Will I go to the Temple Bar Music centre again, suck my c**k (that was a no btw)

Jonny Arson

This is absolutely ****ing disgraceful. I've stuck up for Pete on so many occasions but this is lower than low. An insult to all those fans who have purchased tickets and wasted their precious time travelling to see him play.

Thank christ I didn't buy a ticket for this gig.

ctrl-alt-delete

I was there last thursday - got split open by a glass bottle! (not too bad btw just 3 stitches on the chin) , i dont have any problems with pete, im more pissed off with tbmc (as mentioned by someone above), not too bothered the gig tonight was cancelled as i wasnt gonna bother going anyway, Il just wait till the next time they come over..

rubadub

onion-ring wrote:

Whats annoying me is, I rang the Temple Bar that day, they knew if he was'nt there by about 3 or 4 that day to sound check then it was'nt gonna happen, but what did they do, Said nothing, got a full house, lots of cash behind the bar, f**k how far you had to travel and f**k that your stranded in town.

That is terrible. I didnt mind too much, I wasnt that bothered seeing them and was there more for the night out. But I suffered the overpriced plastic pints (probably 500ml) of slops for nothing.
in the papers people had come from the UK and down the country, probably for the weekend, who knows, some may have changed plans and changed flights to stay for tonight. That would rightly piss me off.

dimerocks

did they play the gig in Cork at the weekend or was that pulled too?

hallelujah

I know its all very rock-starish not to turn up (more petes less keanes imho) but this is taking the piss. BBshambles know they will sell out most small venues so they can afford to take the risk. I agree totally about TBMC, $$$$$. They had to have know before anyone turned up. They should have announced it earlier in the day. I asked a security man earlier in the night when was glen matlock to come on, he said 'dunno mate, sure neither bands have shown up yet'. He knew and I suppose I knew but couldnt admit it to myself. I didnt have to travel far to go to the gig but if I had come from far away I would have been seething. The crowd were right to behave angrily as they did. Now us internet buyers have to pay to post our tickets back to ticketw*nks to get a refund. another crowd of $$$ grabbers!

Toast

Stop with the conspiracy theories. TBMC did not receive an official cancellation from the artist so as far as they were concerned it was still on.

Artists turn up late to the soundcheck constantly.. and regularly many dont even bother.. just having roadies do it. A good example is Wolf Parade who showed up an hour after doors were meant to open (from what I could gather based on how drunk they were on stage they probably spent that time trying to sober up.)

With someone like Pete Doherty Im sure there was as much chance of him showing up 5 minutes before the gig as there was of him not showing at all.

comet

dimerocks wrote:

did they play the gig in Cork at the weekend or was that pulled too?

Yep they played Cork Sunday night and it was a great gig, he was sharp and in good form. He was apologising about the dublin gig or something, couldn't quiet hear what he was saying said something about the promoters beeing pissed off with him.

Creamy Goodness

wow whoever says they didn't see this coming is an idiot.

after all there was an article in the daily star today kissing his ass because he turned up for a gig in carlow (of all places) at 9am 12 hours before schedule.

:rolleyes:

Ro: maaan!

Agree with Toast. I'd be more pissed off with MCD tbh. (As usual). I'd be very interested to know if tonight's gig was ever supposed to happen. It's just like MCD to say the gig is rescheduled and then say it's canceled when they don't have a room full of people waiting for the band to come on. Although the way the crowd reacted on Thursday was just stupid and immature anyway.

galavanr

god damm it, !!!! d*** head, got the day off tomrrow n all

lostexpectation

idiot fanboys more likely see elvis playing

galavanr

tbmc.ie have said nothing on their site so far

Tank Top Fever!

My mates were at the Carlow gig last night, the band told anyone who asked about the Dublin gig tonight that they wouldn't be showing

Pete has a drugs test in London apparently

NIBBS

Toast wrote:

Stop with the conspiracy theories. TBMC did not receive an official cancellation from the artist so as far as they were concerned it was still on.

Artists turn up late to the soundcheck constantly.. and regularly many dont even bother.. just having roadies do it. A good example is Wolf Parade who showed up an hour after doors were meant to open (from what I could gather based on how drunk they were on stage they probably spent that time trying to sober up.)

With someone like Pete Doherty Im sure there was as much chance of him showing up 5 minutes before the gig as there was of him not showing at all.

totally agree, you can't blame the TBMC on this, it's purely down to the band, how could they turn up in Cork yet they couldn't get to TBMC after missing a flight - surely these great rockstars could have gotten on the next flight and still made the gig - though I think that missing the flight thing was bull**** too.......
unless the Venue is told by the promoter that the gig is off what are they meant to do..........and all MCD seemed to do was put up info long after that the gig was rescheduled to tonight..........it wouldn't have helped anyone travelling to know an hour beforehand that they weren't playing, and generally people don't seem to check these things out anyway......

galavanr

freakt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

lostexpectation

what happened at the no show gig on thursday? hav any other forums posted about it?

Browner13

The fact that the support band finished up after 10 pm (TBMC, have a 11pm Curfew, ye?) and they didnt announce P' Do's missed vain...er I mean flight until after they had feck'd off, there was a bit of a "let's keep them here, they'l buy drink, drink=money" attitude involved, as they obviosuly knew well before the support band took stage that he was a no show and didnt make an announcement, knowing that most of the crowd would have left before or during the support bands proformance

Toast

Its not the venues choice to go ahead with the gig or not. Its the organisers. The venue is hired by the organisers to host the event. If they are told to go with it they do.

If a headliner pulls generally the organisers will cancel the gig or give the option of seeing the support with a partial refund. MCD have consistently done this. So it would have been in their interest to allow that option because they could have gotten some takers for a partial refund and seeing the support.

As it is they now have given everyone a free gig at their expense (until they sue Babyshambles that is).

MCD were evidently not told by Babyshambles management that they were not going to make the gig. If anyone is to blame its Babyshambles.

ghostdancer

Tank Top Fever! wrote:

My mates were at the Carlow gig last night, the band told anyone who asked about the Dublin gig tonight that they wouldn't be showing

Pete has a drugs test in London apparently

well then Pete and the rest of the band shouldn't have organised the gig for today if they knew that he had to go to London....

Ro: maaan!

ghostdancer wrote:

well then Pete and the rest of the band shouldn't have organised the gig for today if they knew that he had to go to London....

This is the bit I don't believe. They probably didn't agree to it. MCD just didn't want to have to say it was completely cancelled to a room full of drunk people.

4:20

From MCD.IE

BABYSHAMBLES Tonight Cancelled
News last updated: 18-04-2006


Due to a rescheduled court appearance in The UK which Pete Doherty 'has' to
attend, tonights show in TBMC, Dublin has been cancelled. The band
apologises to all the fans who've bought tickets but this circumstance is
out of our control.

As there is no planned rescheduled date full ticket refunds are available
from point of purchase.

- i like the 'has' to attend bit - may i be right in thinking MCD probably wont be promoting mr. doherty in the future !

honru

It's about time they'd pull this little stunt off in Ireland. Pure rock 'n' roll man.

Their debut album hardly created a stir, NME are now bored of them. Sure, it'll only take another year or so until they're swept under the rug and forgotten about, and they deserve it.

Browner13

4:20 wrote:

From MCD.IE

BABYSHAMBLES Tonight Cancelled
News last updated: 18-04-2006


Due to a rescheduled court appearance in The UK which Pete Doherty 'has' to
attend, tonights show in TBMC, Dublin has been cancelled. The band
apologises to all the fans who've bought tickets but this circumstance is
out of our control.

As there is no planned rescheduled date full ticket refunds are available
from point of purchase.

- i like the 'has' to attend bit - may i be right in thinking MCD probably wont be promoting mr. doherty in the future !

I like the quation marks they use on the word has, Ow there was a small handful of people outside the venue and some photograhper from the Independant who as well as looking like a kiddie filder asked us to pose with our tickets in front of the Music Centre looking dissapointed (Jaysus standing around in front of Temple Bar Music Centre trying to look sad on purpose....havnt done that since I was 16 te-he) anyway it would appear that I have assisted the press in there continued hounding of P'do....in some small way.

Atlas_IRL

Docherty is a joke

Browner13

Im glad I payed face value for my ticket, seen plenty of people on the first night paying 100 + euro for one. There was some poor guy outside the Music Centre tonight who came up from Galway (he had come up on the original night too)

jonny68

NIBBS wrote:

I still can't believe that this gig sold out, he's such a waste of space, how many gigs don't go ahead because he just doesn't turn up, so the miss a plane on the Thursday (and couldn't get a later flight), everyone is told the gig's postponed til Tuesday and then again - unforseen circumstances, sounds like bull****.......

Pete Doherty is a grade A *****r and id sooner stick pins in my eyes than see a junkie loser like him play :mad:

ctrl-alt-delete

jonny68 wrote:

Pete Doherty is a grade A *****r and id sooner stick pins in my eyes than see a junkie loser like him play :mad:

Lucky you didnt buy a ticket then, just think of the effort you put into that post, makes you wonder....

Amazotheamazing

comet wrote:

Yep they played Cork Sunday night and it was a great gig, he was sharp and in good form. He was apologising about the dublin gig or something, couldn't quiet hear what he was saying said something about the promoters beeing pissed off with him.

Was at the gig too and I thought it was a pretty poor one. The sound was awful (though I've been told that might have been the Savoy's fault, apparently it's usually a pretty bad venue??) but mostly there was too much meandering and too little rocking. The entire no encore thing seemed to catch everyone by surprise, seeing as the Savoy left it a few minutes to turn on the house music, honestly thought they were little better than a standard pub band.

hallelujah

Toast wrote:

If a headliner pulls generally the organisers will cancel the gig or give the option of seeing the support with a partial refund. MCD have consistently done this. So it would have been in their interest to allow that option because they could have gotten some takers for a partial refund and seeing the support.

As it is they now have given everyone a free gig at their expense (until they sue Babyshambles that is).

as far as I was aware Glen Matlock was supposed to be the support and not the Ultra Montanes or whatever they were called. Tickets said Matlock and Babyshambles and I didnt see either so MCD can s*uck my embarrasingly long, if not wide, ding-dong.

rubadub

Toast wrote:

If a headliner pulls generally the organisers will cancel the gig or give the option of seeing the support with a partial refund. MCD have consistently done this. So it would have been in their interest to allow that option because they could have gotten some takers for a partial refund and seeing the support.

As it is they now have given everyone a free gig at their expense .

Has this really happened before? partial refunds? how much did people get back? and was there an option for a partial refund or full refund if you left? seems a nightmare to organise that.
Did the support (glen matlock) even show? I would have preferred to be in a normal pub drinking reasonable priced pints in glass glasses than seeing a "free gig".

Toast wrote:

MCD were evidently not told by Babyshambles management that they were not going to make the gig. If anyone is to blame its Babyshambles.

The few posts were moaning that TBMC never told people until 10pm, not blaming MCD or babyshambles for that. I had heard it was closing at 10.30 that night (other poster said 11). Did anybody stay on till the end?

Toast

Yeh partial refunds have happened though in the form of complimentary tickets to smaller events. Sometimes it can be pretty good if the support is decent and the complimentary tickets are to something of near to equal value. Ozzfest was one example.

Generally though they just cancel or reschedule before letting people in. Its not in their interest to do this half arsed monkeying about letting people in then having to try and make sure everyone has their stubbs for the next gig.

Also its not the TBMCs responsiblity to make announcements on behalf of the organiser unless told to. MCD were of the opinion he was showing... so TBMC were too. Also TBMC stays open till 3am generally. Theres usually djs from 11 but they could have stretched into that time if they had to.

I dont care at all for MCD and Im pretty neutral regards the TBMC but these conspiracy theories that it was to make some quick bucks is just childish. What if there had been a riot which isnt beyond the realms of possibility? Theyd lose a lot more than they could possibly make.

weemcd

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=50969746&postcount=2

fúck sake, wrong gig... close enough tho

ctrl-alt-delete

weemcd wrote:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=50969746&postcount=2

fúck sake, wrong gig... close enough tho

Il just go get your medal....

brixtoncat

yeah this is true, my mates were the support act, they said the band told them they had always been planning on gettin on the boat outta Ireland on Monday night - it was the promoters who re-scheduled the gig without properly checking that the band were even available. The sad part is that the rest of the group - minus Pete - were all at the Music Centre on Thursday, ready to play...

*ah well, what a shambles*

refusetolose

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