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Friday, 24 October 2008 07:24 pmSo, last night, then.
MEH.
The 'secret show' for 150 people wasn't a secret show at all. It was a press party. The crowd was made up entirely of competition winners (less than 50 of them) some invited people and press. There was no more than 80 people there.
You couldn't buy tickets - although at one point they were going to give any left over wristbands to the people in the queue who didn't have tickets already.
The invites said to be there at 8.45pm. So people waited. And waited. And waited. And by the time a young Boardie, named Katie, and I had given up and gotten the 10.11pm train home,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
haterswannabeme texted Katie to say that at 10.50pm they were ONLY JUST letting people in.
I don't know yet whether she got in herself, but even if I'd won a pass it would have been impossible for me to get home after a forty-five minute show, which I'm guessing would have started after 11.15pm - the train left Victoria at 12.05pm.
Security told us that they had to soundcheck "again", at one point, which makes it sound like something went wrong somewhere...
On the positive side, we chatted to Diaz and gave Joe's card to Dave, the Production Manager, who was with him. I hope they remembered to pass it on.
It was all a bunch of bullshit and totally mis-represented gig-wise, though. That was NOT a secret gig as we know them. And the most galling part? We asked the competition winners behind us if they were fans and they shrugged and said, "Not really..."
MEH.
The 'secret show' for 150 people wasn't a secret show at all. It was a press party. The crowd was made up entirely of competition winners (less than 50 of them) some invited people and press. There was no more than 80 people there.
You couldn't buy tickets - although at one point they were going to give any left over wristbands to the people in the queue who didn't have tickets already.
The invites said to be there at 8.45pm. So people waited. And waited. And waited. And by the time a young Boardie, named Katie, and I had given up and gotten the 10.11pm train home,
haterswannabeme texted Katie to say that at 10.50pm they were ONLY JUST letting people in.I don't know yet whether she got in herself, but even if I'd won a pass it would have been impossible for me to get home after a forty-five minute show, which I'm guessing would have started after 11.15pm - the train left Victoria at 12.05pm.
Security told us that they had to soundcheck "again", at one point, which makes it sound like something went wrong somewhere...
On the positive side, we chatted to Diaz and gave Joe's card to Dave, the Production Manager, who was with him. I hope they remembered to pass it on.
It was all a bunch of bullshit and totally mis-represented gig-wise, though. That was NOT a secret gig as we know them. And the most galling part? We asked the competition winners behind us if they were fans and they shrugged and said, "Not really..."