The Holy Bible Tour announced

[Takk]

Originally Posted by NasalScarecrow

Touts have become very aggressive recently, that is awful. What utter cunts in every way.

Maybe cos they are being squeezed out by the touting companies?

[mishima]

Go Finn!

http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/new...anics_tickets/

[il_capo]

Originally Posted by NasalScarecrow

Fucking hell. I know touts have been around for ages but I haven't seen them being aggressive until recent years. What twats.

Anyway. Yeah, I know Roundhouse divides opinion on here but I reckon all four venues are decent, these gigs should be a blast. I can't believe it's happening.

I agree, these are great venues. Having said that Brixton would have fitted more fans in without loss of intimacy, and would have been a good alternative for London but maybe it wasn't available.

[il_capo]

Originally Posted by mishima

Go Finn!

http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/new...anics_tickets/

£220 a ticket! That's over 5 times face value. Having said that, face value ticket prices immediately price a lot of people on modest incomes out. I think I'm paying 4 times as much to see the Manics as I did 20 years ago.

[junkymotown]

Just read a story online where the band was quoted as saying something like: "some of these songs have never been played live"... is that true? If so, which?
I presume... ifwhiteamerica... and... can't think of any others...

also - what would be the chance of them throwing the b-sides in as a special treat? haha

[Takk]

No, it's not true, they have all been played live, although some like Mausoleum only twice.

[The Black]

Originally Posted by NasalScarecrow

Hats off, squire! You're a bigger pisstaker than me when it comes to gigs.

Haha, I know, but this is also The Holy Bible in full, I just had to!


Also everybody:
Every site, like ticketmaster or seetickets, gets a certain allocation of tickets. That's why they sold out so fast. The Roundhouse itself got the biggest allocation. Also there's sites like viagogo that work with promoters/staff etc to get an allocation before the general public does.

That's why you should just avoid secondary ticket websites, if you don't give them your money, they will eventually fade away.

Anyway, I have a spare for the Tuesday like I said, so I'll make someone happy for face value! Just have to decide whether I want to stand or sit.

[il_capo]

Originally Posted by junkymotown

Just read a story online where the band was quoted as saying something like: "some of these songs have never been played live"... is that true? If so, which?
I presume... ifwhiteamerica... and... can't think of any others...

also - what would be the chance of them throwing the b-sides in as a special treat? haha

They have done all the songs live I think. I remember ifwhiteamerica... being in the set in 94. Maybe they've forgot!

[Gusto]

Originally Posted by NasalScarecrow

Touts have become very aggressive recently, that is awful. What utter cunts in every way.

Agreed.

[Bathtub]

Originally Posted by junkymotown

Just read a story online where the band was quoted as saying something like: "some of these songs have never been played live"... is that true? If so, which?
I presume... ifwhiteamerica... and... can't think of any others...

also - what would be the chance of them throwing the b-sides in as a special treat? haha

ifwhiteamerica has been played. I saw them do it at Cambridge PPF tour.

Maybe they'll play Sculpture of Man? I can't think of anything they could really mean. Even Donkeys has been played.

[Anaconda Vice]

Originally Posted by junkymotown

Just read a story online where the band was quoted as saying something like: "some of these songs have never been played live"... is that true? If so, which?
I presume... ifwhiteamerica... and... can't think of any others...

IfWhiteAmerica... was aired a fair bit on the PPF tour. They definitely played it in the Swansea gig I was at.

I just had a look at that set on the MSPedia, actually. Remember when Motorcycle Emptiness was played that late on? Nowadays it's thrown out really early, if not the opening song!

I digress, the rarest one seems to be Mausoleum, by the looks of it. 4st 7lb Probably wasn't played much beyond the 1994 tour either, which is the thing with album gigs like this, with any band. Some songs will be put into the set when they're touring the album when it's current, then drop it by the next year.

[Takk]

That is one of the best sets/gigs ever. .

4st 7lb got the odd (maybe 2?) outing on the PPF tour.

[binary]

There was a hidden camera documentary which showed ticket agency staff with a huge book of credit cards that they used to buy tickets themselves for the reselling sites. They also revealed that the agencies often allocate a section of tickets direct to the resellers before they've ever been on sale. It's absolutely criminal. The government have had years to do something about it but quite clearly don't care or mind that it's going on. I'd love to know what percentage of tickets actually go to fans who are going to use them.

[Siouxsie Sway]

£84 for a ticket??? this is a bit overkill, ye? socialism ain't for all?

[UEF]

Agreed, that really is a stonker of a set.