Blog ≫ 2024 ≫ I get up when I want, except... Oasis
Title was going to be "I get up when I want except when I'm in the queue for Oasis tickets", but I think that is a bit long.
I'm not actually in a queue, but I set my alarm to get up and try and get Oasis tickets, so will have to skip parkrun this week.
There was a public ballot for tickets, they went on sale last night. It's an odd old set up, was it really limited last night? There must have been tickets for sale for all the shows, is there really just unprecedented demand? Who really wants tickets and did not get them in the ballot yesterday? I don't really want tickets, counting myself out here. Only really going for it now to help the nephews out. Clare and I did say last year, if an Oasis reunion happens we'd probably go and it would be the boys first gig. They've not shown much interest in music but this is probably the only thing they'd sit up and notice. However when it comes to the hassle and expense we could all take it or leave it. So I'm going for tickets today but not bothered if I get them. Kez did get a place in the ballot, has she got tickets? I don't want to text anyone quite this early to find out. It's 7:20 as I write this. Friend Ro does want tickets, did not get them in the ballot yesterday, is disillusioned with the whole thing and not going for the 9am bunfight today.
Obviously a load of crap that tickets sold in the ballot are up for thousands on the secondary market today, I hope they do get cancelled. Oasis could have stepped up here, taken a 1% hit on costs and said they were actually going to control reselling like they do for Glastonbury. Or, the fans would have happily taken that hit I think, make it clear, tickets are more because we're trying to stop the touting, you're having to pay a bastard tax, but it's for the greater good.
Thirty three years ago today I was at a gig at Wembley Stadium actually, Guns'n'Roses, Skid Row, and Nine Inch Nails I think. Tickets were £18.50, using an inflation calculator that's the equivalent of £41 today.
Sunny intervals and a fresh breeze, 16 - 21℃.