The Ben Folds Orchestra Experience, National Concert Hall, July 8th

delbertgrady

From the NCH website:

The Ben Folds Orchestra Experience, featuring his new Piano Concerto, Tuesday 8th July, 8.30pm

Multi-platinum selling, singer-songwriter Ben Folds will perform on July 8th with a chamber orchestra in Dublin’s National Concert Hall as part of his 2014 global orchestral tour. Billed as “The Ben Folds Orchestral Experience,” the artist will feature his new classical piano concerto as well as a litany of his pop hits arranged for orchestral performances.


Tickets €40, Choir Balcony (Unreserved) €25

Son0vagun

I wanna go to that. Are tickets on sale yet? What's the NCH like? Would the €25 seats be good?

UsedToWait

Son0vagun wrote: »

I wanna go to that. Are tickets on sale yet? What's the NCH like? Would the €25 seats be good?

You can select your seating on the NCH website and see your view of the stage - not sure if you can get a view from the unreserved seats tho'

delbertgrady

The choir balcony is behind the stage, so you'd have a good view of Ben, though you'd be looking at the back of the orchestra.

Squelchy

Son0vagun wrote: »

Would the €25 seats be good?

The view from there is fine and the sound too, you're just looking at the back of the performers, but who cares? If he's playing piano he'll be sideways on anyway.
Only major problem is that there aren't many of those seats and they're unreserved. Get there early is my advice. Though you're probably not allowed bring drinks to your seat.

delbertgrady

No drinks allowed in the auditorium. But one advantage of getting into the choir balcony early is that you can see where the piano is located and position yourself accordingly for a good view of Ben, which - for €25 - is an absolute steal.

marwelie

Im in. Will be in the NCH later, will make further enquiries

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JoanneT

Fizzlesticks, just want to make sure you got sorted. You should have received an email with a PDF attachment - they are your Print at Home tickets. If you have a gmail account, can you check the Spam folder as some tickets are going in there. If you definitely don't have them in your email account, please drop me a mail on joanne.taaffe@nch.ie with your order number and I'll sort something for you.

Kind regards,
Joanne Taaffe
Online Marketing Executive
National Concert Hall

FizzleSticks

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delbertgrady

Great show last night. I'm pretty sure this is the setlist. It may not be in strict order, though.

Effington
Smoke
Jesusland
Picture Window
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Steven's Last Night in Town
--- interval ---
Zak and Sara
Landed
Fred Jones, Part 2
Gracie
(Orchestra Speech)
Not the Same
Brick
One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces
--- encore ---
Rock This Bitch
The Luckiest
--- encore ---
Army (without orchestra)

I thought that the piano was too low for the first part of the show, and Ben's vocal was too low and echoey.
They clearly sorted it out at the interval, 'cos the mix was much better in the second half.