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U2 Joshua Tree Tour 2017 / 2019 **No Ticket Sales**

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    #3812
    MisterAnarchy
    Registered Users Posts: 14,585 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    weadick wrote: »
    Why do they feel the need to pander to the UK media like this? It is embarrassing...

    https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2017/1113/919723-u2-set-for-bbc-special/

    It's basically a free ad to plug the new album and tour.
    The only reason any artist does those shows is to plug a tour.


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    #3813
    q2xv9rjei4awgb
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    MisterAnarchy wrote: »
    It's basically a free ad to plug the new album and tour.
    The only reason any artist does those shows is to plug a tour.

    Exactly.

    Oasis, Foo Fighters, Status Quo, Noel and Liam Gallagher, Robert Plant etc

    If you didn't do it, you'd be pretty stupid tbh


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    #3814
    weadick
    Registered Users Posts: 705 ✭✭✭weadick


    MisterAnarchy wrote: »
    It's basically a free ad to plug the new album and tour.
    The only reason any artist does those shows is to plug a tour.

    I remember when U2 didnt need or want to do stuff like that. It is sad to see a bunch of men approaching 60 pandering to the teeny bopper market.


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    #3815
    q2xv9rjei4awgb
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    weadick wrote: »
    I remember when U2 didnt need or want to do stuff like that. It is sad to see a bunch of men approaching 60 pandering to the teeny bopper market.

    Probably because MTV was in existence back then and people listened to the radio...

    Teeny boppers watching the BBC?
    Going to have to troll a bit harder than that...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZTNh7k6l3c

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

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDkou8FErnM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJBFo2RddrY

    Did you forget this one?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUA8LgeLNnA


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    #3816
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,379 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    weadick wrote: »
    I remember when U2 didnt need or want to do stuff like that. It is sad to see a bunch of men approaching 60 pandering to the teeny bopper market.

    ah bless, don't be so sad... esp. as nobody believes you...

    cheer-up-charlie.jpg


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    #3817
    JKerova1
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    Andres Brave Ping-pong wrote: »
    Probably because MTV was in existence back then and people listened to the radio...

    Teeny boppers watching the BBC?
    Going to have to troll a bit harder than that...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZTNh7k6l3c

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

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDkou8FErnM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJBFo2RddrY

    Did you forget this one?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUA8LgeLNnA


    FFS you can't compare the Old Grey Whistle Test with some cheap 'an audience with' style show presented by Cat Deeley. Go back to the 1990's and find U2 whoring themselves to the likes of Ant & Dec. You'll struggle to find examples because they were above it back then whereas from 1998 onwards they just became a Bon Jovi / Coldplay / Snow Patrol style band with watered down, radio friendly rock songs. I love U2 but that is a fact.


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    #3818
    irishgrover
    Registered Users Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭irishgrover


    JKerova1 wrote: »
    ........ I love U2 but that is a fact.
    In fairness, I think you'll find its really just an opinion.....


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    #3819
    tritriagain
    Registered Users Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭tritriagain


    irishgrover wrote: »
    In fairness, I think you'll find its really just an opinion.....

    And you know what they say opinions are like.?

    Why do people on here who clearly dilike u2 for whatever reasons waste their time. I'm not saying they are above criticism but if you're not into them I'm sure there are plenty of threads where your facts will be welcome.


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    #3820
    q2xv9rjei4awgb
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    JKerova1 wrote: »
    FFS you can't compare the Old Grey Whistle Test with some cheap 'an audience with' style show presented by Cat Deeley. Go back to the 1990's and find U2 whoring themselves to the likes of Ant & Dec. You'll struggle to find examples because they were above it back then whereas from 1998 onwards they just became a Bon Jovi / Coldplay / Snow Patrol style band with watered down, radio friendly rock songs. I love U2 but that is a fact.


    There is nothing like the Old Grey Whistle Test anymore. The guy said they were whoring themselves out to the BBC... Unless I'm mistaken, that was a BBC production?!

    This is what it is today. This is the way it is! This is the music world today.


    I wish I was in their position

    If people wanna sit and wait for a 60 year old man to come out in his oversized shades, leather jacket and pvc trousers, as he dad dances beside a TV screen and smokes a cigar and acts like a 28 year old, singing songs about The Edge and his ex missus and not think it's embarrassing, by all means go for it.

    It ain't 1992 anymore. People get older. Plenty of younger bands in the country who are not at the level of U2 to listen to


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    #3821
    q2xv9rjei4awgb
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    Looks like the American pre sale has ballsed up.

    People, subscribers getting e-mails saying they're not entitled to a code, despite renewing and attaching their American TM account


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    #3822
    innuendo141
    Registered Users Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭innuendo141


    Andres Brave Ping-pong wrote: »
    Looks like the American pre sale has ballsed up.

    People, subscribers getting e-mails saying they're not entitled to a code, despite renewing and attaching their American TM account

    I read a post on some forum that people affected could get a refund for their membership thing too.

    Just read this post on U2Start

    "I just got off the phone with the U2.com customer service. I can't believe this is actually true but apparently they did in fact use the BS verified fan lottery for presale tickets for fan club members. Those of us who first got the email saying you were getting a presale code and then later got the email saying they made a mistake and you're not getting a code - we are in fact shut out of the presale and will not be getting a code. The verified fan thing means that there's some arbitrary method by which you're picked - or not - to get presale access this time for this tour. So, we're not getting presale access at all. It's over."


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    #3823
    johnpatrick81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,752 ✭✭✭johnpatrick81


    haha what a clusterfvk! They're a disaster!!


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    #3824
    q2xv9rjei4awgb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 823 ✭✭✭q2xv9rjei4awgb


    innuendo141 wrote: »
    I read a post on some forum that people affected could get a refund for their membership thing too.

    Just read this post on U2Start

    "I just got off the phone with the U2.com customer service. I can't believe this is actually true but apparently they did in fact use the BS verified fan lottery for presale tickets for fan club members. Those of us who first got the email saying you were getting a presale code and then later got the email saying they made a mistake and you're not getting a code - we are in fact shut out of the presale and will not be getting a code. The verified fan thing means that there's some arbitrary method by which you're picked - or not - to get presale access this time for this tour. So, we're not getting presale access at all. It's over."

    There will be absolute carnage if it happens on the European tour...


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    #3825
    innuendo141
    Registered Users Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭innuendo141


    Andres Brave Ping-pong wrote: »
    There will be absolute carnage if it happens on the European tour...

    Is this the subscription presale, or the verified fan one?

    It's looking like the only way forward against the touts is going back to queuing. Pre-sales just seem to be an extension of the stress of the official ticket release days!


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    #3826
    johnpatrick81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,752 ✭✭✭johnpatrick81


    Touts are easily stopped by making it up front at ticket purchasing "entry by ID linked to purchase only". Bands and venues don't want to bother with that though as it costs them too much to implement. Ticketmaster/Livenation are the biggest touts of all anyway with Seatwave/Viagogo so they won't be tackling the issue seriously anytime soon.


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    #3827
    q2xv9rjei4awgb
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    innuendo141 wrote: »
    Is this the subscription presale, or the verified fan one?

    It's looking like the only way forward against the touts is going back to queuing. Pre-sales just seem to be an extension of the stress of the official ticket release days!

    Subscription I believe. They sent out e-mails offering refunds because people didn't get a pre sale code..


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    #3828
    innuendo141
    Registered Users Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭innuendo141


    Andres Brave Ping-pong wrote: »
    Subscription I believe. They sent out e-mails offering refunds because people didn't get a pre sale code..

    A refund until they decide to renew their memberships when they were originally due I'd imagine. Thank god we only have the regular clusterfvck pre-sale here.


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    #3829
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    innuendo141 wrote: »
    A refund until they decide to renew their memberships when they were originally due I'd imagine. Thank god we only have the regular clusterfvck pre-sale here.

    Indeed. Although, they are saying they haven't decided what way to sell them over here yet..... :eek:

    In the meantime, I might make up a NA ticketmaster account and hook it up to my subs account on U2.com and try for tickets for New York....I wouldn't use a pre sale code for anything other than Dublin


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    #3830
    MisterAnarchy
    Registered Users Posts: 14,585 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    innuendo141 wrote: »

    "I just got off the phone with the U2.com customer service. I can't believe this is actually true but apparently they did in fact use the BS verified fan lottery for presale tickets for fan club members. Those of us who first got the email saying you were getting a presale code and then later got the email saying they made a mistake and you're not getting a code - we are in fact shut out of the presale and will not be getting a code. The verified fan thing means that there's some arbitrary method by which you're picked - or not - to get presale access this time for this tour. So, we're not getting presale access at all. It's over."

    That is absolutely disgraceful if true.
    Another colossal mess of a presale by U2.

    This Verified Fan thing sounds like a load of nonsense,all it does it increase the price of tickets on the secondary market .


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    #3831
    q2xv9rjei4awgb
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    MisterAnarchy wrote: »
    That is absolutely disgraceful if true.
    Another colossal mess of a presale by U2.

    This Verified Fan thing sounds like a load of nonsense,all it does it increase the price of tickets on the secondary market .

    Someone said they got a code, despite using their JT tour presale code, when it was advertised you need to subscribe if you did use it....


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    #3832
    innuendo141
    Registered Users Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭innuendo141


    Andres Brave Ping-pong wrote: »
    Someone said they got a code, despite using their JT tour presale code, when it was advertised you need to subscribe if you did use it....

    That's an entirely new can of worms then. The people who's memberships weren't up until next year will go spare at that I'd say.


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    #3833
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    innuendo141 wrote: »
    That's an entirely new can of worms then. The people who's memberships weren't up until next year will go spare at that I'd say.

    I wonder are the band aware of this cluster****?


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    #3834
    q2xv9rjei4awgb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 823 ✭✭✭q2xv9rjei4awgb


    Uh oh.....
    Just got off the phone with u2.com customer service. For those of us that received an e-mail saying we were going to have access to pre-sale, and then another message about half an hour later saying we weren't, and it was an error. U2.com customer services is saying 'it really was an error'. Access to today's presale was like a lottery, not everyone got selected. So, I'm super pissed at the moment.......


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    #3835
    innuendo141
    Registered Users Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭innuendo141


    Andres Brave Ping-pong wrote: »
    I wonder are the band aware of this cluster****?

    If any of the superfans are affected then I'm sure the band will be made aware via the red telephone


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    #3836
    The Nal
    Registered Users Posts: 12,551 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Andres Brave Ping-pong wrote: »
    I wonder are the band aware of this cluster****?

    Doubt it. I'd say they do know the price per square foot for Lithuanian retail property though.


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    #3837
    q2xv9rjei4awgb
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    The Nal wrote: »
    Doubt it. I'd say they do know the price per square foot for Lithuanian retail property though.

    Have to say, this is absolutely disgraceful.


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    #3838
    Redo91
    Registered Users Posts: 1,859 ✭✭✭Redo91


    Is it too late to claim our free gift for subscribing last year?


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    #3839
    johnpatrick81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,752 ✭✭✭johnpatrick81


    The Nal wrote: »
    Doubt it. I'd say they do know the price per square foot for Lithuanian retail property though.

    Genuine LOL :D


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    #3840
    MisterAnarchy
    Registered Users Posts: 14,585 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    Had a quick look at the ticket prices for New York and New York ,needless to say they are outrageous.
    Most of the side seats upper and lower are 330 usd plus fees.
    Seats at either end with limited views of the screen are much more reasonable .

    Strangely enough Standing tickets are not credit card entry ,so much for trying to stop the touts !


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    #3841
    innuendo141
    Registered Users Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭innuendo141


    MisterAnarchy wrote: »
    Had a quick look at the ticket prices for New York and New York ,needless to say they are outrageous.
    Most of the side seats upper and lower are 330 usd plus fees.
    Seats at either end with limited views of the screen are much more reasonable .

    Strangely enough Standing tickets are not credit card entry ,so much for trying to stop the touts !

    Christ... It's almost like whoever is in charge went "OK we are doing some things wrong, now let's make them worse"


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