Jazza wrote:

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just looked up tickets on ebay to see how much people are selling them for - really sickening. I thought there were just a few selling tickets but there are pages of bastards selling tickets at ridiculous prices. Im outraged, probably there were more people who bought tickets just to sell them than people who want to go and actually managed to buy a ticket

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A pair of tickets went for £82 yesterday on Ebay. Not each, that's for both tickets. With booking fee and ebay costs your tout hardly made a penny. I think you're right and they've grabbed too many.

THEN there is this thing, where "ticketsellercompanies" (scum) sell tickets for 1 euro if the show hasn't been sold out, leaving people who genuinely cannot go out of pocket because no one will buy it off you at facevalue.

Deebs wrote:

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There appears to be alot of e-tickets for sale. See Tickets didn't even give the option of an e-ticket when I bought mine, did others sources?

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Ticket web had e-tickets.  I have proper tickets, but would prefer the e-tickets as meeting people in pub before is always a pain when someone is late.

Would be nice if people on fourm could swap/trade, but I have to confess I am not too trusting of new posters as I have had problems in the past with people who wanted tickets and didn't turn up on night.  

Luckily didn't cost me as it was a friend's ticket who had paid, but unless you have been a member for a few years and have at least 100 posts then I wouldn't really want to be buying/selling (moderator hat on here).

Eamonn wrote:

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Thanks to Mr Deebs of this parish I now have a ticket for the 31st.

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 genial! I will def try to c ome along both nights if I can. :)

Currently have a fantasy about these gigs just being COMPLETELY different from anything done at the festivals. Opening with a song like "Love Is Blind" or something like that, just like the Drury Lane set in 1994.

At times I trick myself into thinking it is almost possible!

I'm anticipating a set that might be quite similar to Toulouse, or maybe slightly shorter...ie. the "Festival Set" followed by an encore with a couple of obscurities.

What I would really like though is just for the set to be completely re-jigged. All songs, old AND new(er) thrown together, rather than just "here's a couple of old ones now" and then back to the A-list.

No doubt they would shy away from playing anything like the Drury Lane set again but, if they did, I think they might be pleasantly surprised by just how many of the older songs the crowd might know now. As someone said in another thread; gone are the days where people just know the hits. The people going to see Pulp now are people who buy the whole albums, not just the singles, and know all the words to all the album tracks.

We are also now living in a world where a search for Pulp on iTunes will bring up the whole catalogue...even the old Fire albums...so buyers are bound to have got curious and had a listen to the pre-Island years. Previously, the only way that the casual listener would stumble across the old records would be if they were lucky enough to find one lone, dusty old copy sitting right at the very back of the "Pulp" section in HMV. Now they are available to the world in infinite quantities.

But the few thousand who had to fight to get their Brixton tickets will.

Glad my tickets for the 2nd night have arrived, just waiting on seetickets for 31st now... I don't expect to hear any songs that haven't been played yet but a mix over the 2 nights of everything that has been played so far. Would love to hear maybe 3 or 4 more off this is hardcore over the 2 nights.

how big is the venue? also.how early do you think you have to arrive to get right to the front? and also is it like at the festivals in that gates/ doors open at a certain time then your waiting around for a while before even the support group starts? sorry for all the questions but i am inexperienced since I've never been too bothered about paying a fair amount of money to see a band play (until now).

The standing capacity is 3760 (seating upstairs of 1100 or so). It's a long sloping floor (sticky lager-stained carpet...for that authentic indie-rock experience) leading down to the stage. With a couple of small barriers placed randomly near the front if you want to prop against them. Nice, theatrical architecture at the corners of the walls.
It's a great venue, only recently went there for the first time (the first two Suede album shows in May) and had a great view, with perfect sound both nights.

Hi there, I'm new here. I have two standing tickets for the September the 1st show, and I would like to swap them for two standing for the Wed show as I'm flying to Ireland for Electric Picnic on the 1st September. I already have the tickets so can meet somewhere in London some time in the coming weeks.

Yes, i hate e-tickets but those from seetickets, ticketmaster or from Fnac stores here in france arent better. We'll never see tickets like the ones for Pulp at V96 ever again.