oldgit
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Grrrrrrrrrr
Did any body else waste a day trying to buy some Cream tickets.
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paulineb
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Re: Did any body else waste a day trying to buy some Cream tickets.
no luck ?
no luck ?
JKay
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Re: Did any body else waste a day trying to buy some Cream tickets.
Are they off? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Are they off? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
oldgit
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Re: Did any body else waste a day trying to buy some Cream tickets.
Sob...spent all day trying 2 x 0870 ticket agency numbers all the available Albert Hall numbers and was on the ticket website all blinking day.Arrrghhh if I hear that engaged tone again.................Website now saying contact venue and venue saying you have to contact ticket agency.Phooey missed them in 1968 and now again in 2005.Anybody know Eric Clapton as a mate........
Sob...spent all day trying 2 x 0870 ticket agency numbers all the available Albert Hall numbers and was on the ticket website all blinking day.Arrrghhh if I hear that engaged tone again.................Website now saying contact venue and venue saying you have to contact ticket agency.Phooey missed them in 1968 and now again in 2005.Anybody know Eric Clapton as a mate........
paulineb
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Re: Did any body else waste a day trying to buy some Cream tickets.
Tum ti tum ............... guess who has some /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Tum ti tum ............... guess who has some /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Trazie
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Re: Did any body else waste a day trying to buy some Cream tickets.
some on e-bay but they not cheap
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=16067&item=6509071844&rd=1
Sorry no good at hyperlink
some on e-bay but they not cheap
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=16067&item=6509071844&rd=1
Sorry no good at hyperlink
oldgit
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Re: Did any body else waste a day trying to buy some Cream tickets.
If I bring down the Whip and the baby oil...Plus the personal phone numbers from both those posh shoe designers Blanick and Choo who I know personally and was talking to in my local pub only yesterday(The Rat and Ferret) /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
If I bring down the Whip and the baby oil...Plus the personal phone numbers from both those posh shoe designers Blanick and Choo who I know personally and was talking to in my local pub only yesterday(The Rat and Ferret) /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
paulineb
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Re: Did any body else waste a day trying to buy some Cream tickets.
I definitely have 2 ... more in the pipeline I hope. And it'll take more than a whip and baby oil - that's old hat !
I definitely have 2 ... more in the pipeline I hope. And it'll take more than a whip and baby oil - that's old hat !
whisper
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Re: Did any body else waste a day trying to buy some Cream tickets.
Pauline, what date/s are they performing on, please ?
Pauline, what date/s are they performing on, please ?
oldgit
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It was a total fiddle.
Albert Hall holds approx 8000 peeps.
4 x days = 32,000 seats.
The web indicated at 11am all seats gone.
Lets assume it takes 5/6 mins to do credit card transaction to sell the max 4 tickets per application = 1 ticket per 2 mins
Assume 20 ladies manning phones how can they sell out in 2 hours.
Do I assume a lot of corparate entertaining going on here.
Ps.Tickets were costing 50/75/125 pounds
Albert Hall holds approx 8000 peeps.
4 x days = 32,000 seats.
The web indicated at 11am all seats gone.
Lets assume it takes 5/6 mins to do credit card transaction to sell the max 4 tickets per application = 1 ticket per 2 mins
Assume 20 ladies manning phones how can they sell out in 2 hours.
Do I assume a lot of corparate entertaining going on here.
Ps.Tickets were costing 50/75/125 pounds
whisper
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Re: Did any body else waste a day trying to buy some Cream tickets.
It's ok I've got it - 2nd,3rd,5th and 6th. Glad I couldn't get a ticket as I'm chartering in the Cyclades then. Mumble mumble mumble.
It's ok I've got it - 2nd,3rd,5th and 6th. Glad I couldn't get a ticket as I'm chartering in the Cyclades then. Mumble mumble mumble.
whisper
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Try www.getmetickets.net BUT prices are extortionate. Cost a lot more than a week's sailing in Greece.
B
bob_tyler
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Re: Did any body else waste a day trying to buy some Cream tickets.
Single, double or clotted? What or who the hell are Cream?
Sounds like a bunch of catterwalkers.
Single, double or clotted? What or who the hell are Cream?
Sounds like a bunch of catterwalkers.
Steve Clayton
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Who are Cream?
Guess you don't get out much down there in Cornwall. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Cream were a rock group formed in the 60's. Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker; the most acclaimed group of their time next to Led Zeppelin.
You have to have been there to appreciate how these 3 musicians rocked the world.
They split up in the late 60's. Eric went off and formed Derek and the Dominoes (saw them in Hyde Park); Ginger formed his own group "Airforce"; not sure what Jack went off to do.
To get these 3 back together after 40 years is a historic event (similar to the Eagles in 94/95) - no wonder the price of the tickets is absolutely unbeliveable.
Guess you don't get out much down there in Cornwall. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Cream were a rock group formed in the 60's. Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker; the most acclaimed group of their time next to Led Zeppelin.
You have to have been there to appreciate how these 3 musicians rocked the world.
They split up in the late 60's. Eric went off and formed Derek and the Dominoes (saw them in Hyde Park); Ginger formed his own group "Airforce"; not sure what Jack went off to do.
To get these 3 back together after 40 years is a historic event (similar to the Eagles in 94/95) - no wonder the price of the tickets is absolutely unbeliveable.
oldgit
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Cosy little ripoff.......? 125.00 Tickets for only 775.00.NM.
NM
NM
paulineb
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Re: Cosy little ripoff.......? 125.00 Tickets for only 775.00.NM.
mine aren't for sale !! i wouldn't miss this concert for the world
mine aren't for sale !! i wouldn't miss this concert for the world
jhr
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Re: Who are Cream?
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To get these 3 back together after 40 years is a historic event
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Yes, I suppose so. However (and I know this is heresy): will it be worth going to see them? 35 years ago, from all of the film I have seen of them, they were pretty amazing (I was just that bit to young to have seen them in the '60s). I've seen a number of revival acts over the years, and I've come to the conclusion that, too often, they're just going through the motions. I don't know whether this is Eric doing a charity routine to raise some money for his old mates, or a genuine desire to revisit the past and do something interesting, but I don't think I'd spend all that money just to find out; I'd rather listen to the records and imagine what it was like when they were in their prime......
PS Jack Bruce has done this and that, over the years, with a variety of line-ups, and mostly on the fringes of Rock/Jazz/Blues. Worth tracking down some of his albums, because there's some interesting stuff on them - in particular "Songs for a Tailor", and his contribution to Carla Bley's "Escalator Over the Hills", which is one of the Great Lost Barking Mad Jazz Masterpieces and was available as a Virgin Records cheapie for a while. He was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2003, and had a transplant which, no offence, makes me even more suspicious of everyone's motives in doing the concerts.
Tin helmet on..............
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To get these 3 back together after 40 years is a historic event
[/ QUOTE ]
Yes, I suppose so. However (and I know this is heresy): will it be worth going to see them? 35 years ago, from all of the film I have seen of them, they were pretty amazing (I was just that bit to young to have seen them in the '60s). I've seen a number of revival acts over the years, and I've come to the conclusion that, too often, they're just going through the motions. I don't know whether this is Eric doing a charity routine to raise some money for his old mates, or a genuine desire to revisit the past and do something interesting, but I don't think I'd spend all that money just to find out; I'd rather listen to the records and imagine what it was like when they were in their prime......
PS Jack Bruce has done this and that, over the years, with a variety of line-ups, and mostly on the fringes of Rock/Jazz/Blues. Worth tracking down some of his albums, because there's some interesting stuff on them - in particular "Songs for a Tailor", and his contribution to Carla Bley's "Escalator Over the Hills", which is one of the Great Lost Barking Mad Jazz Masterpieces and was available as a Virgin Records cheapie for a while. He was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2003, and had a transplant which, no offence, makes me even more suspicious of everyone's motives in doing the concerts.
Tin helmet on..............
paulineb
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Re: Who are Cream?
I'd rather go and see for myself than miss it and be told they were blinding
I'd rather go and see for myself than miss it and be told they were blinding
PhilF
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Re: Who are Cream?
I went to their farewell concert, I want my money back
I went to their farewell concert, I want my money back
paulineb
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Re: Who are Cream?
I'd keep schtum about that if I were you
I'd keep schtum about that if I were you