Rush.

[Woodinblack]

21 minutes ago, RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE said:

fwiw , the last good experience I had of purchasing tickets , was for the Jean michel jarre oxygene  gig in 2007 at the Royal Albert Hall.  I actually went down there on a Monday morning  around 9am , and there was hardly anyone there ! I got a great pair of tkts very close to the stage .

 

I went to see NiN at scala in (I think) 2013 - the tickets were for the warm up of a tour (which I also saw), they were on line so they went fast but they weren't expensive and you had to use ID to buy them. When you went to the gig you had to show the ID that you had used to book the tickets to pick them up and get in, it worked well, it was a smallish venue and it was a fantastic gig.  I later saw them at the O2, but it was a completely different gig

[Woodinblack]

12 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

But you are far more likely to get the atmosphere and energy at grass roots level that made bands like Rush exciting back in the early 70s, then you are watching some old band on a video screen from a seat at the back of a stadium.

 

Agreed - I think it is the Scala gig that made me realised how I felt about stadiums, especially as there are 6 months between these two:

 

NiN, scala oct 2013

 

NiN, O2 May 2014 (actually pretty close to the stage)

 

The O2 gig was a lot more expensive. I enjoyed both, but in a very different way

 

[prowla]

1 hour ago, RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE said:

 

(I think you embedded your reply into my post.)

Anyway, I've seen them, got the T-shirt.

[Bassassin]

19 minutes ago, prowla said:

(I think you embedded your reply into my post.)

Anyway, I've seen them, got the T-shirt.

 

Hah - still got mine, somewhere...

 

That's an objectively awful design.

[Woodinblack]

All my rush tshirts died a long time ago, even if they still fit me, which they wouldn't!

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

7 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

 

I went to see NiN at scala in (I think) 2013 - the tickets were for the warm up of a tour (which I also saw), they were on line so they went fast but they weren't expensive and you had to use ID to buy them. When you went to the gig you had to show the ID that you had used to book the tickets to pick them up and get in, it worked well, it was a smallish venue and it was a fantastic gig.  I later saw them at the O2, but it was a completely different gig

was never a Nin fan for some reason. I have the head like a hole cd single . It as around that time as far as I can remember, they played a sold out show at the Astoria.

I used to get on really well with the nice chap at the booking office who told me there were tkts going fast / do I want any ? I declined , and one of my friends said it as a fantastic gig !🤦‍♂️🙂

Edited Friday at 17:54 by RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE

[Bassassin]

4 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

All my rush tshirts died a long time ago, even if they still fit me, which they wouldn't!

 

I never said it still fits me...