by "functionoverfashion" (functionoverfashion)
Published 09/13/2017 at 11:49
by "functionoverfashion" (functionoverfashion)
Published 09/13/2017 at 11:49
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My wife’s birthday is in October. We always have tried to
do something
for birthdays, rather than focus on buying some random thing that we may or may not need. I mean, a good present is still welcome, but tickets to a show we both really want to see? Even better.
The problem is, this show was going to be in a small venue in a city (Portland, ME) with a thriving music scene and lots of hipsters who probably had nothing better to do than wait for the instant the tickets went up for sale, then re-sell them on ScamHub for 3x face value.
So I saw a random thing on social media that you could order tickets two days early with a password; mind you, this was totally in the open, for public consumption - hardly an “insider” deal. But I noted it, put it in my work calendar, even moved a meeting so I could be at my computer with two browser windows prepped at the moment these tickets went on sale. I had my phone open to the webpage, too - no chances taken.
Bam, 10:00am, tickets went on sale, I got two tickets at face value for the floor (who wants to sit way up in the balcony?), done. A quick search on StubHub just now reveals that, already, people are selling these tickets for double face value. That is another rant in itself, but WTF. I’m glad I got in early.
I am not sure I can contain myself until my wife’s birthday, over a month away.
Oh I guess I should mention it’s for “an Acoustic Evening with Dispatch.” I’ve seen them before, years ago, when they played in Boston for free as a “farewell” show as they were breaking up at the time. I later heard (via Rolling Stone) that it was the largest single independent concert ever, with an estimated 110,000 people in attendance. I was standing about 500 feet from the stage and can confirm, it was a sea of people all the way.
And we saw just the lead singer (Chadwick Stokes) play an acoustic set by himself in a ski lodge once, that was awesome. He’s tremendously talented and this should be a great show. We may be standing on the floor, but there’s nothing like being close to the stage at a live show. It should be far closer to the experience at the ski lodge than that in Boston.
Cheers!
"Hammerdown" (hammerdown32)
09/13/2017 at 12:20, STARS: 1
My girlfriend got my tickets to Sturgill Simpson and Red Rocks for my birthday this past year. It sold out in 24 minutes and tickets were instantly double the price from resellers. Glad you were able to score them before they were all snatched up!
"functionoverfashion" (functionoverfashion)
09/13/2017 at 12:45, STARS: 0
I’m assuming they didn’t release all the tickets during the “pre-sale” period, and some are saved for general public release on Friday.
I am actually *slightly* annoyed, in that it seems some floor seats have been made available and subsequently sold out, since I first logged in. This venue sometimes has floor seats, sometimes doesn’t - which means, something wasn’t right when I logged in, because I for sure would have booked as close as possible to the stage. Now my GA tickets are for a section 8 rows back. Still very good, but WTF. And of course those tickets are 3x what I paid for mine.
I’ll give it a shot at the general public release, but doubt I’ll get anything better. I’m just psyched to be in there, it’s a small venue and it will be awesome.
"Hammerdown" (hammerdown32)
09/13/2017 at 12:51, STARS: 1
Yea, I’ve seen that a few times. Usually those are mostly for sponsors/VIP’s and very few hit general sale.
"FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com" (alphaass)
09/13/2017 at 13:00, STARS: 1
TIL Dispatch is still (back) around. I listened to them in high school and though they had been gone since 2002 or so. I still listen to their live Gut the Van album every once in a while. They are actually coming somewhat close to me in December - might have to check it out.
"functionoverfashion" (functionoverfashion)
09/13/2017 at 13:10, STARS: 1
Seriously, they broke up but not for that long, really. They’re touring now to promote their new album but this is a little different, I guess. I like their older stuff best, too.
When we saw just Stokes playing solo, he stuck with mostly older stuff. We’ll see!