When they moved the Chappell Roan gigs last year from Hammersmith Apollo to 2 nights at Brixton Academy and 18,000 people tried to get the handful of new tickets for it.
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Inspiral Carpets were at the Lemon Tree in Aberdeen which must be 500 max. I was livid when they went on sale as the whole lot went in less than an hour and no returns.
Should have played somewhere much bigger!
did we ever get an update on that huge Catfish & the Bottlemen summer gig which was then double-booked with Oasis at Wembley?
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A friend pointed out that when I see her name written down I say it “Shap-elle”. I don’t know why because I know it’s"chapel" in fact.
Ooh, yes this must be why. Blanked the TERF from my main memory but that’s still hiding there I guess. Cheers
No, because nobody went in the end
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Remember this lad?
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Motley Crue and Def Leppard playing Wembley may have seemed ambitious, but it may shock you to learn that it was in fact ridiculously fucking ambitious
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Came sprinting for this thread as soon as I saw this.
Empire of The Sun! Cardiff Castle! In the year of our lord 2026!!
Assume they’ve got a big TikTok song or something have they?
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Officially it sold out, but fairly sure they didn’t open up chunks of the seating that would have been available for say Beyonce or the like.
Good for them!
I’ve been to a couple of arena gigs (NIN at Birmingham ages ago and Yung Lean at Wembley Arena last year) where the whole upper seating area was closed off. In both cases they had black awnings covering that area so it’s obviously a thing they can plan for. I guess as the tickets are allocated they make that decision before they go on sale? Or is it a reaction to poor sales and they reallocate those seats later? I guess what I’m saying is I’m not sure whether this is an example of the thread title or not.
A lot of arena gigs will only put the upper blocks of seats on sale as the lower blocks sell out. I think it’s rare for them to have to move people, although it does happen.
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This was true of all my old band’s gigs, of course. Tiny toilet venue after tiny toilet venue when we should’ve been playing Wembley and the like. Criminal, it was.
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Suppose it’s the only thing you can do when a band is too big for your academy size venues but not big enough to sell out arenas
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they quite often bring the stage further forward as well, so it’ll be like half the floor space and just the lower tier of seating
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its very much planned when they go on sale, remember seeing a seating plan for babyshambles at manchester arena which was only about a third or a quarter of the actual capacity i used to work for ticketmaster
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