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how many people did all 21?
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Robin Davies
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 2:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

powpowpow wrote:
ahhh the old sparks flu.. did anyone escape it?

Thank goodness Russell did!
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, I did them all too - didn't miss a single minute. And I avoided the Sparks flu, but spent a fortune on travelcards.

My gig withdrawal symptoms are such that I'm off to see Yazoo on Wednesday...
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Andy Whelan wrote:
My gig withdrawal symptoms are such that I'm off to see Yazoo on Wednesday...


Ooohhh, you've got it bad mate.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:54 am    Post subject: Re: how many people did all 21? Reply with quote

powpowpow wrote:

don
mya
steve
yvonne
kirsten
ricky
cliff
john d
patrick
tony
marcela
michael
me
mikey
julie


Is this the order people queued in as well by any chance?
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 6:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

don
mya
steve
yvonne
kirsten
rickey
cliff
john d
patrick
tony
marcela
michael
me
mikey
julie
MarkRae
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Robert
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ha i should put the list in queue order.. or perhaps divide it between queuers and people who sat in the pub til after the support band..
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

powpowpow wrote:
ha i should put the list in queue order.. or perhaps divide it between queuers and people who sat in the pub til after the support band..

After the first couple of shows, I realised that if I caught the 19:56 train I could get to the venue at around 20:35 - just time to buy a drink and pick a spot...
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

MarkRae wrote:
powpowpow wrote:
ha i should put the list in queue order.. or perhaps divide it between queuers and people who sat in the pub til after the support band..

After the first couple of shows, I realised that if I caught the 19:56 train I could get to the venue at around 20:35 - just time to buy a drink and pick a spot...


I'm 5 feet 1 and a half inches tall and always had to collect my tickets at the box office at the beginning of each night (they wouldn't mail them to me or let me collect them all at once). My combined height issue and the inevitable delay caused by having to collect tickets when the doors opened meant I was generally there around four. I was always near the stage so I'm not complaining... you gotta do what you've gotta do.

Sorry this thread's about Golden Tickets and I'm blabbing on about my queueing habits and my vertically challenged nature.


Just look at that queue!!

MiniPop MiniPop MiniPop MiniPop MiniPop MiniPop MiniPop MiniPop MiniPop Stay in line, no skipping!!
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lady Is Lingering wrote:
Sorry this thread's about Golden Tickets and I'm blabbing on about my queueing habits and my vertically challenged nature.

During one of the later gigs, I was standing very near the front at stage-left and there was a very pretty vertically challenged girl standing in front of me and the security guard offered to let her sit right at the front with the photographers - and she refused!
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

haha i think that was me, was it at balls?
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

powpowpow wrote:
haha i think that was me, was it at balls?

Er, yeah, now you come to mention it...
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This me seem a bizarre question...(though thats never worried me before...lol)..
How many people at all 21 shows NEVER met any of the others???


(In fact is there anyone who went to the shows alone..didn't talk to anyone else and went home alone afterwards,without bathing in the afterglow of shared experience...because reading a few threads it certainly looks like there were at least two.????)
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 4:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Alex Robertson wrote:
How many people at all 21 shows NEVER met any of the others???

I met several other Golden Ticket holders.

Alex Robertson wrote:
In fact is there anyone who went to the shows alone..didn't talk to anyone else and went home alone afterwards

Me for one.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 4:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

MarkRae wrote:

During one of the later gigs, I was standing very near the front at stage-left and there was a very pretty vertically challenged girl standing in front of me and the security guard offered to let her sit right at the front with the photographers


Presumably, I wasn't pretty enough to get the offer.

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and she refused!

I think I would have refused as well, assuming I had a good view where I was, that is. I'd feel like a plonker sitting there and it would be harder to get into it separated from everyone and having to sit down. Still, it's obviously something I don't have to worry about as I don't get those offers.

About people going to and from the gigs alone. It sounds a bit grim I suppose but we've probably all done it one time or another and, to be honest, I've always found it quite pleasant. Besides if those people are on the boards here then they do get the chance to rabbit on about how great it was just like the rest of us. They've just avoided boozing it up with a load of strangers, which admittedly can be fun... strangers are friends you haven't met yet and all that... but if you're like me chances are you'll get pissed and make a twat of yourself, thereby sullying the experience.

Having said that I did manage to display enough social graces to befriend a couple of really nice folks. There's was definitely a clannish mentality going on with some people there though who I tried to talk to but they'd just give me clipped answers and turn back to their mates. Well, they're the ups and downs of socialising I suppose. Still, as I say, I do see a certain attraction to just coming and going to the gigs minus the social aspect... It keeps the experience kind of pure... a bit like going to an orgy and not having to talk to anyone afterwards.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ha.

I know some people had to rush off after the shows because they had trains to catch, work to get back to, not everyone was able to hang round. Kinda jealous of the people who were able to take a month off and stay down there.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lady Is Lingering wrote:


MarkRae wrote:
and she refused!

I think I would have refused as well, assuming I had a good view where I was, that is. I'd feel like a plonker sitting there and it would be harder to get into it separated from everyone and having to sit down. Still, it's obviously something I don't have to worry about as I don't get those offers.



i got offered because i had the pass to sit down the front anyway - i left my jumper and bag there but wanted to stand in the audience. nothing to do with my astounding good looks i'm afraid..
i sat down for lil'beethoven and as good as the gig was i felt a bit left out of everything - i'd rather be in the audience, have a slightly obstructed view, and be able to sing my lungs out.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Eve wrote:
ha.

I know some people had to rush off after the shows because they had trains to catch, work to get back to, not everyone was able to hang round. Kinda jealous of the people who were able to take a month off and stay down there.



i was thinking - you were probably the person travelling down on a regular basis for every show from the furthest distance.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

explains why I was so knackered harcore!!!!
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 8:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

powpowpow wrote:
Lady Is Lingering wrote:


MarkRae wrote:
and she refused!

I think I would have refused as well, assuming I had a good view where I was, that is. I'd feel like a plonker sitting there and it would be harder to get into it separated from everyone and having to sit down. Still, it's obviously something I don't have to worry about as I don't get those offers.



i got offered because i had the pass to sit down the front anyway - i left my jumper and bag there but wanted to stand in the audience. nothing to do with my astounding good looks i'm afraid..
i sat down for lil'beethoven and as good as the gig was i felt a bit left out of everything - i'd rather be in the audience, have a slightly obstructed view, and be able to sing my lungs out.


Yeah, that's no way enjoy a concert in that photographers' pit.

You must be the Brick Lane exhibition woman, yes? I'm adding it up, small, good looking and a pass to sit down in front. See my Sherlock Holmes genius?!

Well done again on the great exhibition. You deserve to sit ON stage for all the excellent work :)
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

powpowpow wrote:
You were probably the person travelling down on a regular basis for every show from the furthest distance.

I wonder if I was the incredibly fortunate attendee who had to travel the least distance...? 3.5 miles door to door, according to MapPoint...
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

MarkRae wrote:
powpowpow wrote:
You were probably the person travelling down on a regular basis for every show from the furthest distance.

I wonder if I was the incredibly fortunate attendee who had to travel the least distance...? 3.5 miles door to door, according to MapPoint...


You just won't stop rubbing it in, will you MarkRae?
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