Had a try for standing tickets at Scarborough, but showing none available. Can it really have sold out yesterday to Barclaycard holders? Maybe they'll be onsale tomorrow.
There are seated tickets available, but I don't fancy paying £70 to sit the other side of a road from the stage, seems pointless without the atmosphere of a crowd. I'd rather sit at home at watch my old Park Is Mine / Brixton videos.
I was after a seat (back problem makes it painful for me to stand all day) but didn't receive an e-mail/code for the pre-sale. Looks like I'll have to pray for tomorrow morning.
-- Edited by Pip on Thursday 3rd of November 2022 09:43:22 AM
Had a try for standing tickets at Scarborough, but showing none available. Can it really have sold out yesterday to Barclaycard holders? Maybe they'll be onsale tomorrow.
There are seated tickets available, but I don't fancy paying £70 to sit the other side of a road from the stage, seems pointless without the atmosphere of a crowd. I'd rather sit at home at watch my old Park Is Mine / Brixton videos.
It took me about 4 attempts to get standing tickets. It kept saying they were unavailable and then suddenly they were, weird.
Ach, what a weird experience. I haven't had to 'try' for tickets since the 1990s. Good for Pulp if they sell out venues at 60, and 20 years since an album. Would try for tickets at Sheffield, but can't avoid work on Friday, and based on this, the hometown gigs will disappear instantly.
Transcribed a bit of Jarvis from Lauren Laverne's BBC6 show this this morning, on why this was the right time for the band to go again 10 years after their last gigs:
"Somebody made me an offer, a promoter came up with an idea and I said 'ok that's interesting but you're going to have to let me think about that', I suppose I had been thinking about Pulp a bit because I wrote my book that came out earlier this year which was about when the group first started off so maybe that put some kind of idea in my mind, but I thought about it and then eventually, there wasn't like one thing that made me think 'ok, let's do it' but I just thought 'yeah, why not'."
So nothing really groundbreaking, Jarvis mentions it's only in the UK and Ireland, but then he says 'we'll see' as far as taking things further, and that they are going to be doing some more rehearsing this month, and that he's sure that they will probably play in other places around the world, but it seemed appropriate to do it here first.
Yeah, he also mentioned that listening back to the songs and them sounding "alright" helped him make his mind up.
I like that he was honest about it. Pulp's management must get offers every year from promoters to do a summer of festivals and stand-alones so if the risk is on the promoter and you're going to be handsomely rewarded, why not do it especially as its been a decade since the last time, there's still lots of love for the group and you're not getting any younger? Jarvis is quite a physical performer so I'm not sure he'll still be able to jive around a stage with so much gusto another decade hence.
He also said that rehearsing the songs again surprised him at how high some of them are, vocally. That does worry me a bit as he strains or ducks-out of certain high notes live, as it is. I would rather they lower the key of the song instead of him "talking" the peak notes or having to come down an octave.
Well then, how bad do we think getting tickets tomorrow might actually be? lol Ideally I'm looking to buy tickets for both nights in Sheffield. It all feels a bit weird to be honest.
Im very nervous for tomorrow, Im only trying for one Sheffield date. Standing. I know its probably my algorithms on my phone but it feels like the entire world and its dog are all of a sudden huge Pulp fans.
Good luck to those on the other side of the Atlantic! I was hoping to get a ticket but I don't think my visit to relatives in Europe will coincide. I look forward to how they'll sound and what they'll play regardless!
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Here we go! Good luck everyone! Currently in the queue, and there are 9354 people ahead of me. Hoping to get a couple of seated tickets for the Saturday Sheff gig.
-- Edited by salmon92 on Friday 4th of November 2022 09:05:04 AM
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Here we go! Good luck everyone! Currently in the queue, and there are 9354 people ahead of me. Does not bode well.
On ticketmaster is for every thing including other bands & festivals. I am 17000 or so
Ah, that's reassuring - thanks. Seems to be moving fairly quickly - up to 5814 now. Been a while since I've bought tickets on release - nail-biting stuff!
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Got straight through on seetickets. Ended up getting standing for Sheffield and Warrington weekender. Yayyyyy. Easier than I dreamed off!
Now glastonbury on Sunday
Here we go! Good luck everyone! Currently in the queue, and there are 9354 people ahead of me. Does not bode well.
On ticketmaster is for every thing including other bands & festivals. I am 17000 or so
Ah, that's reassuring - thanks. Seems to be moving fairly quickly - up to 5814 now. Been a while since I've bought tickets on release - nail-biting stuff!
Absolutely bonkers. I ended up with seated tickets for Sheffield on the Friday. Tried for a few others but didn't get anything else. I see Viagogo are already listing resale tickets