Didn't he say something like "Last time they played here they charged £10 and that was £5 too much"? Can't find the exact quote, but I did enjoy it.

With regards to reselling tickets, I'm going to see Blur in Wolverhampton and my name is printed on my ticket- I have to bring I.D. and the card I bought said ticket with along to the gig. That sort of thing may not completely put touts off as it would be difficult to check the identity of everyone going to a gig, but at the very least it vastly reduces the resell value of tickets as there is always a chance that the buyer may not be able to get in to the gig. So if something like that was in place for some small Pulp gigs then we'd hopefully be able to avoid the tickets all going to touts.

My daughter and her mates went to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers in Birmingham, and it said on their tickets they would need to show the card the ticket was booked with,which was a problem as they were all students and had booked on their parent's cards (of course). They decided to risk it and not one of them got asked to show the card.

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Has The Limit re-opened yet? Maybe they could do a secret show there.
Apparently the new owners approached The Human League to play the re-launch but Phil and the girls were asking for too much money.

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 Doesn't look like it's reopened yet and anyway it's not in the same place it used to be so it isn't really The Limit.

... why were they so desperate for people to stay and watch The Verve? Maybe they were The Verves new marketing team.

Slightly on-topic but last year I went to one of Adam Ants first come back gigs and ended up at the barrier. Que a 40 year old man and his wife telling me I (a 20yr old girl) didn't "deserve" to be at the front because "we bought Prince Charming the first day it came out!", intimating me and actually grabbing my arms until I moved. Unfortunately security didn't see and wouldn't do anything - when I told them I was scared for my safety and showed them the red marks on my arms one actually told me I was "free to leave the gig whenever I wanted". I later found out they had flown from Italy to follow Adam on every date of his UK tour. Got my own back when I gave one the wrong directions to the train station and he missed the last train - I know this because he complained on the Ant People forums about me!

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keithc1983 wrote:

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Im also going to see Blur in Wolverhampton and definitley if Pulp played smaller gigs/ warm-ups to the sheffield show then I think that would be a good idea.

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 I am jealous of you. Just thought you should know :)

Didn't find out about the small Blur gigs 'til it was too late. Ho hum.

Meh meh meh.

I did get to see them about four rows from the front at Glastonbury back in, when, 2009? which was pretty special, but due to the crush my girlfriend wasn't able to stay near me, so it was a bit of a lonely gig.

Blur at Wireless wasn't great due to all the nobs around. They were very good at Leeds in '03 though, but even then, when I was in The Pit, the people around didn't move around for Popscene. Pah!

I've also seen them at Manchester Apollo ('03/'04?) which was seated and thus a bit dull.

And glimpsed them at V97, but wasn't impressed as I hadn't taken the then new album to heart back then...

Hmm. I've seen Blur rather more times than I'd thought!

Yeah sorry about that mate. Something about you just really pissed me off!

BLUR Glastonbury 2009 was a joyous occasion. I watched from the back but it was a perfect finish to a great weekend.

I managed to get tickets to Blur at Margate on Wednesday, my birthday as well!

Liltman, your story reminds me watching Darren and Jack from Hefner playing Hefner songs at Clwb Ifor Bach in Cardiff a few years back. They were joined on bass and drums by two of the Wave Pictures and it was an amazing gig.

Unfortuntately, stood at the front (front centre) was a man of around 6'4" who stood, facing the band and chewing gum resolutely throughout.

Bear in mind

a) Clwb Ifor Bach barely has a stage
b) Darren Hayman was playing a whole set of Hefner songs!
c) Darren & Jack had played a few gigs on the tour - just the two of them - but only this and the previous night had featured a full band (with the rhythm section being manned by Hefner fans)

All in all, it was an amazing gig...but that tall, dull, chewy man permeates all of my memories of it.

Not always, Sir. I seem to remember the second Brixton Pulp-gig being entirely free of 'dickwads'. Likewise Blur at Glastonbury 2009 (for me anyway) was fine. These are just random ones off the top of my head.

Oh yes, and every single gig (bar one) at Indietracks. The exception was being on front row for Veronica Falls. The twee next to me put an umbrella up. I said "Do you think that's really fair to the people behind you?" He made a face like I'd just killed his rabbit, left his place on the barrier and disappeared.

Twees are easy to deal with :)

How big was the circle? Were you all trapped in?

I remember at V98, people created a circle of fire around the back of the Verve's audience in order to stop them leaving. That sounds quite farfetched at this juncture, but I definitely remember it happening. Creating this was easy as a lot of the metal bins were already on fire, so it was just a matter of linking them up with more flames.

The Verve were *awful*