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Poochface

There has just been a 'newsflash' about the Take That tickets on Loose Women (ignore the fact that is badly worded)

They announced that people are panicing because they are unable to get tickets online and are frightened that tickets have sold out. There are tickets still available for all venues, be patient and keep trying. The sheer volume of people trying is affecting the servers!

Oh what a surprise!:p

Poochface

geordie_ben wrote: »

Ditto

I keep an email to each of the threads I class as important in a 'Cinema' folder and at home i have button bookmarks which I check all the time too. Defs a good idea and worth doing

I keep special links in my drafts because I can then access them via my phone or if I'm at the library.

Rainey_LB

I have pm'd a BG to see if it can be made a sticky and also to see if some of the older posts can be removed like with the cinema codes thread.

geordie_ben

Rainey_LB wrote: »

I have pm'd a BG to see if it can be made a sticky and also to see if some of the older posts can be removed like with the cinema codes thread.

Good thinking batwoman

jonty03

Whoa, what a day! Spent 5 hours trying to get onto various sites for Take That tickets. :mad: Eventually had to give up and go out, then heard another date had been released for Manchester, Rushed back home, couldn't re-connect broadband :eek: (Grrr TalkTalk). Managed to get on and looked at the TT thread on MSE, tried the websites again, no luck
THEN .. spotted a phone number for ticketmaster that a lovely MSE'r had posted,:smileyhea tried it and wooo hooo, I am now the proud owner of 2 TT tickets.

Unfortunately, because I was determined to stay at my computer until I got tickets or the machine blew up, I had to give my Darius tickets away :sad: but I am now a very happy, if very tired, bunny :A

And a big thank you to fruitcake for the Jackass 3D code, I have also managed to get tickets for the Manchester Printworks, for my son:T
:j What a day!

Poochface

Congratulations Jonty03, they were still broadcasting 'be patient' appeals to fans on the radio when we were on the way to Manchester and that was around 5:30pm:eek:

Did they add only one additional date for Manchester? I expected more.

Poochface

I would like to thank all the people who have previously posted about Darius and the History of Big Bands otherwise I may never have gone to see this show.

What a very enjoyable evening my friends and I had. I knew/know that Darius has a very good voice and it is well suited to this kind of music. I have two minor gripes - the young woman gyrating and stripping off every few minutes was quite distracting and although I understood that she was meant to represent the forces pin up of the time but I think the show doesn't need her.

Secondly, Darius love, that was the least sexy version of Fever I have ever heard. Your voice was far more sexy when you sang your newer songs towards the end of the show. Just sing like that when singing Fever and you'll be brilliant.:p

Apart from those minor gripes, it really was a great show with a wonderful Big Band. Maybe you could add Pennsylvania 65000, that woulld get the audience singing along for sure.

The official site gives the impression that the tour ends at Eastbourne on 4th November.

http://www.historyofthebigbands.com/

However the tour brochure lists dates and venues for 2011. Maybe people in the following areas will get the opportunity to see the show for free as Manchester and other places did.

8th February - Wycombe, Swan Theatre
11th February - Croydon, Concert Hall
13th February - Birmingham, Alexandra Theatre
4th March - Hayes, Beck Theatre
12th March - Poole, Lighthouse
18th March - Bournemouth, Pavillion Theatre
25th March - Ipswich, Regent Theatre
2nd April - Bradford, St. Georges Concert Hall
12th April - Swansea, Grand Theatre
7th May - Dartford, The Orchard
13th May - Barnstaple, Queen's Theatre
3rd March - Tunbridge Wells, Assembly Rooms (this date seems odd)
5th June - Leeds, Grand Theatre
30th June - Truro, Hall for Cornwall

jonty03

Poochface wrote: »

Congratulations Jonty03, they were still broadcasting 'be patient' appeals to fans on the radio when we were on the way to Manchester and that was around 5:30pm:eek:

Did they add only one additional date for Manchester? I expected more.

Morning Pooch

When I phoned up, I was given the option of 8th or 10th :huh: but I didn't know about the 10th until then and just went with the one I had heard about (bird in the hand ).

Glad you enjoyed Darius (apart from the gyrations ). I really wanted to go, but there are times in life when difficult - nay, almost impossible - decisions have to be made :think: and the Take That v Darius decision was one of those times

After the adrenaline rushes and near heart attacks of yesterday - thinking for the hundreth time I had got tickets only to have the sites - along with my hopes - crash on me, there is a bit of an anti-climax this morning. I have to wait nearly 8 months to see them. So now I am on another:) mission!

I missed out on tickets for 'the Search for Santa Paws' in Manchester, so will keep checking for returns and hopefully get to see it with my grandchildren. Although I don't think I will feel quite the same sense of euphoria as I did with Take That if I succeed, the thrill of the chase could be just as exciting .

AndreaE

Poochface wrote: »

the young woman gyrating and stripping off every few minutes was quite distracting and although I understood that she was meant to represent the forces pin up of the time but I think the show doesn't need her.

I couldn't agree more.

A bit of dancing and posing - fair enough - but did each section need to end with her flashing her :eek::eek: at the band?

I felt it cheapened it.

Poochface

jonty03 wrote: »

Morning Pooch

When I phoned up, I was given the option of 8th or 10th :huh: but I didn't know about the 10th until then and just went with the one I had heard about (bird in the hand ).

Glad you enjoyed Darius (apart from the gyrations ). I really wanted to go, but there are times in life when difficult - nay, almost impossible - decisions have to be made :think: and the Take That v Darius decision was one of those times

After the adrenaline rushes and near heart attacks of yesterday - thinking for the hundreth time I had got tickets only to have the sites - along with my hopes - crash on me, there is a bit of an anti-climax this morning. I have to wait nearly 8 months to see them. So now I am on another:) mission!

I missed out on tickets for 'the Search for Santa Paws' in Manchester, so will keep checking for returns and hopefully get to see it with my grandchildren. Although I don't think I will feel quite the same sense of euphoria as I did with Take That if I succeed, the thrill of the chase could be just as exciting .

Jonty, if I had been in your situation poor Darius woulnd't have been given a second thought. Quite rightly TT took precedance I remember all too well the dialling two mobile phones, a land line and trying on the Internet all at the same time and that feeling of sheer frustration. I gave my dad a warning the night before some tickets went on sale. I told him that I would be grumpy to say the least and not to speak to me when he got up as he would more than likely get his head bitten off. For once he took notice of me but there had been massive problems this particular day and instead of the tickets being released at 9am, we were being told to try again in an hour but of course people were trying much sooner. The tickets didn't go live that particular day until around 4pm. I had sat on the settee all that time without eating, even though it was the middle of winter I hadn't put the heating on so I was numb with cold and it suddenly dawned on me that I couldn't see to read out my credit card when I eventually got through because it was getting dark. Poor dad still got his head bitten off for not asking if I wanted a hot drink Why do we do it to ourselves?