Goldfrapp - Olympia - 26/27 Nov 2010

AdpRo

Hi

Just wondering if anyone has received there tickets from ticketmaster in the post for this concert yet? I have gotten tickets for a couple of gigs happening in December but nothing for Goldfrapp yet which seems strange. Tried ringing ticketmaster and spent over 10 minutes on hold before giving up!

Cheeers.

daenerysstormborn3

Hi guys, just have a quick question about the Olympia. I'm going to Goldfrapp on Friday night (yay!) and the tickets I have are section : ground, standing and have the numbers 54 4 and 54 5 printed on them, I'm just wondering where this will actually place us in relation to the stage? Are the standing areas allocated by numbers as such or is it basically one big queue of people for standing and whoever gets there first gets closest to the stage?

Any replies appreciated.

sabrewulf

hey there,

there's no such thing as assigned standing spaces at the Olympia. The first number on the ticket suggest the ticketmaster outlet (number 54 on yours) and the other number just counts how many tickets this specific outlet has sold for a specific show.

There's some kind of circle close to the stage which you can enter when you get there early. I haven't seen anyone with wristbands there though, so I believe that you lose this place when you go for a drink/smoke/leak.

cheers!

sabrewulf

daenerysstormborn3

sabrewulf wrote: »

hey there,

there's no such thing as assigned standing spaces at the Olympia. The first number on the ticket suggest the ticketmaster outlet (number 54 on yours) and the other number just counts how many tickets this specific outlet has sold for a specific show.

There's some kind of circle close to the stage which you can enter when you get there early. I haven't seen anyone with wristbands there though, so I believe that you lose this place when you go for a drink/smoke/leak.

cheers!

sabrewulf

Ah that's what I was kind of thinking but I just wanted to double check. There will be no drinking/smoking/leaking while alison is doing her thing

Thank you

Phony Scott

Brilliant show tonight. Slightly ruined in the first thirty or so minutes by three little bitches who pushed people out of the way, screamed at others who they accused of pushing into them, chatted as loud as possible to each other not paying one bit of attention to Goldfrapp. Thankfully the bouncers arrived on the scene and had them escorted out. Justice served.

sabrewulf

Phony Scott wrote: »

[...] little bitches who [...] chatted as loud as possible to each other not paying one bit of attention to [the artist][...]

I think they have the same taste in music as I have, since they are standing right next to me at every single concert that I attend!

Furious-Red

sabrewulf wrote: »

I think they have the same taste in music as I have, since they are standing right next to me at every single concert that I attend!

Ha same. You nearly always get girls pushing in and out of the crowd to go to the bathroom every 10 seconds , or start flicking their hair in your face every few mins and as said above just talking until they no the bands 1 song.

Was gonna go to the gig after catching the band at Pukkelpop , there quite good live

CeNedra

Last minute I couldn't go last night (and I had the tickets), could somebody tell me all about how good it was so I can kick myself again over missing it!!!!

Doozie

She was a great performer, loved the costume changes and when she came on first she had a tinsely jacket on that caught the lights brilliantly and she stood in front of a fan that gave a really cool effect... Great stage design.

I find her a bit mellow at times but thats just my taste in music. The crowd seemed to really get into it and the sound was better than some other gigs I've been at in the Olympia.

I was dissappointed she played for just over an hour, maybe 1.15 and just left the stage at 10.20 with no encore. I was home by 11pm, especially after paying 40 quid.

She played in Drogheda on Thursday night at a free gig and played for an hour and a half....

daenerysstormborn3

Show was brilliant, we were right at the front, at the barrier

Alison was great, looked under the weather and that could be why they didn't do an encore, believe they're done two encore songs at most other shows on this tour. They did only play for a little over an hour but it was a brilliant hour.

Costumes were great and she sang her little socks off, whole band were brilliant and as always really got behind her

Phony Scott

One thing that struck me on Friday was their rendition of 'Lovely Head'. I'm not a fan of the song from the album, but the version I heard, or imagined I heard on Friday, was far superior to the album version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bii8v7qk924

Alison's voice was allowed to come across much more prominantly over the synthesizer, which I think it much much better. Did I imagine this? Anyway, how Goldfrapp haven't done a James Bond theme yet is quite beyond me...

Edit: That video isn't from the Dublin gig by the way.