The Mars Volta - Olympia Theatre.

Soundman

Anyone else still a fan and heading along to this?

December 10th - Tickets - €35 inc bkg fee

Got my tickets today and really looking forward to this.
Haven't seen them live though did see At The Drive In years ago which makes me think it'll be a savage show.

Mushy

Yes & YES:D Should be cracking show.

Molberts

Soundman, you saw at the Drive-in? *jealous*

Saw them at Oxegen this year - savage!

If they make it on to the stage they'll be awesome :pac:

Soundman

Molberts: I actually worked with them when they played the Music Centre many years ago before the split.

So looking forward to this show. What do you mean though when you say if they make it on to the stage? Something I don't know?

So are you heading along too?

Aspiration

Hi Guys,

I bought 2 standing tickets to see The Mars Volta the day they went on sale. The tickets arrived, and on my order details, it tells me which row and seat number, even though it also says "Standing". Two other friends have just told me that they'd love to go to, so I was wondering what the standing/seating arrangement is on the ground floor in the Olympia. If my friends buy two tickets, and will probably get row and seat numbers too, will we be obliged to stay in those assigned places? I had assumed that Ground Floor Standing would be open floor, and that there wouldn't be any assigned "standing areas".

Does anyone know what the story is? I've only ever been to the Olympia at seated gigs.

Cheers in advance,
Aspiration

Driver 8

It's just normal standing, not any assigned places. Try to arrive in time to get into the pit, so at least you have a barrier to lean against.

JJ

Sometimes even though a ticket may be general admission or standing, it will still have a number or numbers on it as if there was a row and seat for the ticket.

Aspiration

Driver and JJ, thanks for yer replies.

Soundman, my thread got merged into yours so sorry if it looks like i just butted in. Should be a great gig though.

Soundman

No worries Aspiration. The more the merrier. I was wondering how these replies suddenly appeared without me noticing though. Hehe.

electronichaze

hmm quick question, please revitalise this thread!:

i've been lead to believe theres no support, also that TMV won't be on stage till nine (though ticket says 8)..
can anyone back up/correct my assumptions??

otherwise can't wait!! my excitement has been escalating ever since they put the posters up in my village

bubonicus

electronichaze wrote: »

hmm quick question, please revitalise this thread!:

i've been lead to believe theres no support, also that TMV won't be on stage till nine (though ticket says 8)..
can anyone back up/correct my assumptions??

otherwise can't wait!! my excitement has been escalating ever since they put the posters up in my village

Any time I've seen Mars Volta, they never had a support act. They usually come on and play for 2 hours and walk off.

Funglegunk

Looking forward to this. Other times I've seen Mars Volta they were great. Do they still play the Ennio Morricone thing as they walk on?

Mushy

Don't think I can go:( Ticket is on toutless. Stoopid exam Friday morning.

electronichaze

right: no support.

but can anyone clarify if they're on at eight or nine?? i'm going on my loner so don't want to be milling around for too long, devoted as i am..course on the flipside don't want to arrive midway through the set..

fistful of dollars! well soon find out :cool:

honru

No ticket advertising allowed guys.

If you have tickets available, advertise them elsewhere or place a post up on Toutless.

cool_jerk

No support eh sounds graaaand! What's this 8 or 9 business? Anyone know fer sher?

Can't wait!

Technicolour

Edit; My bad. Didn't see the no advertising thing.

Roland27

Is there defo no support acts tonight? Tickets say "plus special guests"?

pkumohideeile

The drummer was Dave Elitch. I wasn't expecting a new drummer! And although he was decent enough at doing the mars volta job their jamming capabilities weren't that great. Hence the short show at 1hour 50mins i think. I saw them in Paris a year or two ago and they were phenominal. At least Cedrics vocals were there or there abouts good, nothing would suck more if he was off tonight.

Who were the Green Day fools with the "can we jam" poster?!

On wiki : "Towards the end of the Octahedron tour, Thomas Pridgen left the band. No official statement has been given by the band. Rumors about his departure from the band range from an argument he had with Cedric to financial concerns. Weeks later, it appeared on Pridgen's facebook page that he was "no longer in TMV." On November 29, 2009, the band performed a show in Oslo, Norway with drummer Dave Elitch. No official statement has been made if he is a member of the band, or is still in an audition phase. The band is scheduled to play throughout Europe and Australia until the end of January, 2010."

Anyone got any other information? Not that i trust wiki but it's the only info i've got so far.

Giblet

I heard about the new drummer before going, so wasn't too surprised. I thought he was pretty good.

Seating in the circle made the sound a bit muffled, which was disappointing after the amazing Oxegen gig.

I was surprised at the amount of Deloused stuff, pretty much the whole album. Great start with Son Et Lumiere

Easy Rider

The drummer was great, and 1hr 50 minutes is fine for a gig, nothing worse than an over bloated set...short and sweet. Good gig. Anyone know what he said when he was speaking to the crowd? Something about camera's or what?

devlinsisland

there were two guys in the crowd holding up signs sayin "can we jam" - dont think he could see what they said. He basically just said if you've paid to see us then you know what we're about so you can put your signs down, we dont do requests, we're not Oasis.

so they put the signs down...

jk86

devlinsisland wrote: »

there were two guys in the crowd holding up signs sayin "can we jam" - dont think he could see what they said. He basically just said if you've paid to see us then you know what we're about so you can put your signs down, we dont do requests, we're not Oasis.

so they put the signs down...

Saw those idiots. Did they think they were at a WWF event?

cool_jerk

Hahaha that was me and my friend Aarif. Huge Volta fans both of us, and we wanted nothin more than a chance to have a jam with our favourite band, thought they woulda been cool enough to dig the idea. No biggie, amazing gig. Guess yer all a bit too stuck up for somethin like that eh?

And "Green Day Fools"...aye aye aye...

pkumohideeile

Nah i take it back, the guys got a point. I wanna jam with the RTE symphony orchestra sometime. I'll bring a sign and give it a crack.

jk86

I want to duet with Paul McCartney. Time to get out my crayons :pac:

ofthelord

was brilliant gig!

cool_jerk

jk86 wrote: »

I want to duet with Paul McCartney. Time to get out my crayons :pac:

Break them out

Guess none a yis saw us havin a rhythm/clap/vocal jam before and after the gig eh ha