Pearl Jam - 22nd June O2, 23rd Odyssey -- All discussion, no ticket advertising

Mushy

http://www.ticketmaster.ie/

There it is on the right hand side. Clicking the link says nothing at all bout the gigs, but they there. What a start to the day. "Back of the net!"

Hyperbullet

According to Phantom Fm they're playing the O2 June 22nd and The Odyssey Belfast June 23rd. Tickets onsale Friday morning.

:eek:



....shall I start queuing now???

Fracture

omg, i've no money

/me going to tell the gf what i want for christmas!

Mushy

Fracture wrote: »

omg, i've no money

/me going to tell the gf what i want for christmas!

Know the feeling all too well. Dunno how I'll get by with it...but I will!

Fracture

any idea who is opening for them?

Mushy

Haha, let the gigs be officially announced first. Say someone from Hard Rock Calling will do it. Although in saying that, last time it was Wolfmother for the tour, but Dublin got Paddy Casey for some bizarre reason.

funkyjebus

Well, nobodys going to be getting any presents from me this year. I've pj tickets to buy now. Oh i'm so excited.

NIBBS

pretty crushed this is being announced now and not after Christmas......

absolutely smashed now, stretched to get tickets for Metallica and Machine Head, and have had most of my Christmas soclialising already.......so sick with a rotten headache (no not a hangover) and now thinking I'm gonna miss Pearl Jam again.....no doubt this will sell out rapidly

DOC09UNAM

Amazzzzzzzzzzzzzzing news.

Doesn't matter who's opening, will be buying if i can!!

Mushy

NIBBS wrote: »

pretty crushed this is being announced now and not after Christmas......

absolutely smashed now, stretched to get tickets for Metallica and Machine Head, and have had most of my Christmas soclialising already.......so sick with a rotten headache (no not a hangover) and now thinking I'm gonna miss Pearl Jam again.....no doubt this will sell out rapidly

When was last time ya saw Metallica? I know thats indoors, but rid yourself of that ticket for this:D My friend slagging me for not buying Metallica cos said this tour was probable, she called me an idiot, I say smart right now!

Fracture

Mushy wrote: »

but Dublin got Paddy Casey for some bizarre reason.

People listening to Paddy Casey is bad enough let alone opening for Pearl Jam, i can't stand him or his 'music'.

Mushy

Fracture wrote: »

People listening to Paddy Casey is bad enough let alone opening for Pearl Jam, i can't stand him or his 'music'.

SO few people watched him. We're adament he was called up asking did he want to support while watching Corrie the night before.

scottie pippen

Didn’t someone from his band walk off during the set?

Brutal choice as an opening act for PJ

fluke

I suspect the concert promoters were being tight *****. Paddy Casey was an extremely bad choice as support.

JJ

It's not listed on O2 Blueroom or PJ's site but I'm sure it will be soon.

Mossy Monk

I would love to go but too close to Rock Werchter. Hopefully they will be playing at that also.

Mushy

Mossy Monk wrote: »

I would love to go but too close to Rock Werchter. Hopefully they will be playing at that also.

Its been confirmed.

delbertgrady

Tickets for The O2 from €59.80
Tickets for The Odyssey from £41.50

Mushy

delbertgrady wrote: »

Tickets for The O2 from €59.80
Tickets for The Odyssey from £41.50

So PJ get same fee per gig. Odyssey is smaller than O2, so promoters make less money on this, as it is ridculously cheaper. I thought the PJ one in dublin would be the €45-€50 bracket. Paying off the debts of the venue the customers are too...beautiful!

Mossy Monk

Mushy wrote: »

Its been confirmed.

Rock Werchter?

delbertgrady

£41.50 = €45.80 approx. :rolleyes:

We can assume these prices are both general admission, unless they're doing what's being done at D***d G**y's gig in the O2, which is to charge less for seats at the back of the venue than they charge for standing tickets.

NIBBS

Mushy wrote: »

So PJ get same fee per gig. Odyssey is smaller than O2, so promoters make less money on this, as it is ridculously cheaper. I thought the PJ one in dublin would be the €45-€50 bracket. Paying off the debts of the venue the customers are too...beautiful!

Mush if I was hittin Metallica alone I'd really consider selling the ticket - but can't let mates down.....

as for the PJ ticket prices - something doesn't add up......
take Peter Kay tickets as an example - Odyssey prices £38 and O2 price is 44 Euros

so the 15 Euro difference for PJ tickets is rotten........

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Mossy Monk wrote: »

Rock Werchter?

Yep, confirmed for Werchter http://www.rockwerchter.be/en/lineup/index.aspx

Mossy Monk

playa3 wrote: »

Yep, confirmed for Werchter http://www.rockwerchter.be/en/lineup/index.aspx

Awesome awesome awesome

JJ

If tickets go on sale Friday, then usually O2 Blueroom tickets go on sale 2 days before on the Wednesday. If that's the case, 10 Club members should get a shot at tickets the day before O2 Blueroom, which would be tomorrow so I'd imagine 10 Club will be making an announcement soonish.

Mushy

NIBBS wrote: »

Mush if I was hittin Metallica alone I'd really consider selling the ticket - but can't let mates down.....

as for the PJ ticket prices - something doesn't add up......
take Peter Kay tickets as an example - Odyssey prices £38 and O2 price is 44 Euros

so the 15 Euro difference for PJ tickets is rotten........

Its not as if PJ have an extravagent show to be transporting around. Something not quite right bout it.

Fuzzy_Dunlop

We're always getting screwed over on ticket prices, sure the Prodigy is like 50 here and £33 in Belfast

JJ

The reason is...insurance. It's a lot more expensive in the Republic than in the North.

funkyjebus

JJ wrote: »

The reason is...insurance. It's a lot more expensive in the Republic than in the North.

What, that makes no sense. How so? Venue Insurance or PJ's own liability?

Its not the insurance, if anything it is promotors taking way too much money.

MCD were in the papers a few weeks ago and expences were shown.

delbertgrady

JJ is right - they always wheel the insurance excuse out, and quote figures to back it up. However, I can't help but think it's just a convenient excuse 'cos they know the average disgruntled concertgoer isn't an industry expert and can't start picking holes in their story.

Also, they used the insurance line when we had the old Point, so it doesn't change the fact that with the O2's increased capacity, ticket prices should be falling. As Mushy said earlier, this is tantamount to the consumer paying off the debts of the new venue, a venue that as yet has no car park or convenient drop-off point for wheelchair users.

NIBBS

JJ wrote: »

The reason is...insurance. It's a lot more expensive in the Republic than in the North.

I know I've been told about the insurance think before - but is there really that much difference between Event type insurance - for example is it only Insurance related to concerts ???
Clearly there's no huge difference with a comedy show.....but a 25% increase in the ticket price just down to insurance - seems excessive, have looked at other concerts and The Prodigy is £38 in the Odyssey and 49 here, doesnt add up really......

funkyjebus

delbertgrady wrote: »

JJ is right - they always wheel the insurance excuse out, and quote figures to back it up. However, I can't help but think it's just a convenient excuse 'cos they know the average disgruntled concertgoer isn't an industry expert and can't start picking holes in their story.

Also, they used the insurance line when we had the old Point, so it doesn't change the fact that with the O2's increased capacity, ticket prices should be falling. As Mushy said earlier, this is tantamount to the consumer paying off the debts of the new venue, a venue that as yet has no car park or convenient drop-off point for wheelchair users.

Well I can pick plenty. For starters, you don't have to buy insurance in ireland, you can go through Lloyds of London (teh main marketplace for insurance in the UK), therefore giving yourself the same quotes that would be recieved if the point was located in the North. There is no added exposure with the point as appose to the odyssey.

In addition they don't buy insurance on a concert to concert basis and would insure the point for all possible events in the year. Therefore if it is the insurance cost it would be spread equally across all events in the year, but as we know the variance percentage differs between event (eg; The Prodigy)

There is no way this could be down to insurance. None.

JJ

Wow, I certainly caused a lot of kerfuffle. Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong but the price for PJ's O2 gig isn't too bad considering the price of tickets for recent music legend gigs and PJ do have a history of keeping ticket prices as low as possible and generally looking after their fans as best they can.

funkyjebus

JJ wrote: »

Wow, I certainly caused a lot of kerfuffle. Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong but the price for PJ's O2 gig isn't too bad considering the price of tickets for recent music legend gigs and PJ do have a history of keeping ticket prices as low as possible and generally looking after their fans as best they can.

Kerfuffle - I love that word:cool:

There is no doubt in my mind that PJ did all they could to get those prices as low as possible, and are the least likley of all involved to have had a hand in a ROI ticket price hike for this gig.

Can wait. I'd pay €100 to see PJ again

JJ

funkyjebus wrote: »

Kerfuffle - I love that word:cool:

There is no doubt in my mind that PJ did all they could to get those prices as low as possible, and are the least likley of all involved to have had a hand in a ROI ticket price hike for this gig.

Can wait. I'd pay €100 to see PJ again

Amen...but don't say that last sentence too loudly.

Jay P

I really want to go to this, money's a serious issue though... Any ideas on whether it will sell out? If so, I may have to wire some funds to my account sharpish!

JJ

Not much is selling out these days. I think their last gig sold out so fast because the only UK dates they did were festivals and some (travelling) fans wanted to see them do their own show so they came to Dublin.

grimm2005

Definitly going to this, got my O2 priority code ready

Mushy

grimm2005 wrote: »

Definitly going to this, got my O2 priority code ready

Where you get the code? My mate is waiting for it to get me some tickets, will be much needed.

dcr22B

Cannot wait for this, fingers crossed I'll get sorted for tickets on Friday.

grimm2005

Mushy wrote: »

Where you get the code? My mate is waiting for it to get me some tickets, will be much needed.

up on www.o2blueroom.ie chances are he'll get a text about them tomorrow anyway

Mushy

grimm2005 wrote: »

up on www.o2blueroom.ie chances are he'll get a text about them tomorrow anyway

Yeah he got it all sorted thankfully. Cant wait now!

lil*lady

Just before Christmas... hmmm, need to raise funds quickly...

Will swap one "well conditioned" liver for a Pearl Jam ticket.

Aw yay. Excited!

keeponrockin

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NIBBS

JJ wrote: »

Not much is selling out these days. I think their last gig sold out so fast because the only UK dates they did were festivals and some (travelling) fans wanted to see them do their own show so they came to Dublin.

The only thinks that will stop this from selling out (and these are only possible things that will stop the shows selling out, I still think they will sell out) are the fact that there is a Dublin and Belfast date and secondly there have been a raft of rock/metal gigs on sale recently and people are smashed with Christmas approaching, having said that, there were a lot of people in Ireland that couldn't get tickets last time out, so you need to add them to the pot (I'm one of them) and theres always plenty of people that want to travel to the first show of a Euro Tour - especially when it's in Dublin.....

kennyu272

I reckon this is certain to sell out going by the demand of Pearl Jams previous shows here.

Fingers crossed i'll get tickets in the presale tomorrow:D

funkyjebus

kennyu272 wrote: »

I reckon this is certain to sell out going by the demand of Pearl Jams previous shows here.

Fingers crossed i'll get tickets in the presale tomorrow:D

I'm going with the assumption that they will sell out as before, I wouldn't risk leaving this to chance. Just signed up for priorty tickets with o2.

All this excitment when we have the tickets and will have to wait 6 whole months to actually see them, life's not fair:P!

Mushy

funkyjebus wrote: »

I'm going with the assumption that they will sell out as before, I wouldn't risk leaving this to chance. Just signed up for priorty tickets with o2.

All this excitment when we have the tickets and will have to wait 6 whole months to actually see them, life's not fair:P!

Try the ten month wait for Muse for Wembley:eek:

Its so worth it though.

NothingMan

I never got the text from o2 but it's on the blueroom so if you're an o2 customer text JAM to 51020. I have my o2 password ready for 9am tomorrow and my 10c membership for the fan club tickets at 5pm for Dublin and 6pm for Belfast.

So I have all bases covered and should be able to get 4 tickets to DUblin and 2 for Belfast. Maybe London too. Credit cards taking the hit for all this too. Announcing this close to Xmas is a bit crap.

Got tickets for London in August no problem through 10c and my sis managed to get standard ticketmaster tickets in 2006 so hope my good luck streak continues. Any extra tickets I have will be going to unlucky boards fans for cost price, but I reckon they'll be snapped up before you can say heyfoxymophandlemamathatsme.

Mushy

NothingMan wrote: »

Got tickets for London in August no problem through 10c and my sis managed to get standard ticketmaster tickets in 2006 so hope my good luck streak continues. Any extra tickets I have will be going to unlucky boards fans for cost price, but I reckon they'll be snapped up before you can say heyfoxymophandlemamathatsme.

Very decent of ya. And also very realistic. I'd do the same myself, but I cant afford extras for belfast at the moment, and its a mate getting me the dublin ones. Hope everyone does get it sorted. Should we start with odds on how long it'll take for tickets to be up on ebay?

For pre-sale, O2 should implement a thing to prevent touting. As in, the tickets bought with the code are traced to a phone number, and then all benefits of pre-sale are cancelled.

Loveless

NothingMan wrote: »

I never got the text from o2 but it's on the blueroom so if you're an o2 customer text JAM to 51020. I have my o2 password ready for 9am tomorrow and my 10c membership for the fan club tickets at 5pm for Dublin and 6pm for Belfast.

Many thanks for the heads up on the O2BlueRoom. It's not going to be a matter of if it sells out, but just how many miliseconds it's gonna take. I reckon 5ms.

Got to see them 4 months ago in the MEN Manchester, it's been a long wait