as someone who seems to have every single tour stat available at your fingertips i'm sure you know that it's regular practice for acts to book multiple shows and not announce them at first, even though they know full well that they will "add" it on.
phanan said:Gold Hot Seat Package tickets are still available.
How shocking.
STING2 said:
I checked at 2 and half hours after the on sale started and there was not even a single ticket available at regular price, silver hot package or gold hot package for either of the Fenway Park shows or Madison Square Garden shows.
Headache in a Suitcase said:as someone who seems to have every single tour stat available at your fingertips i'm sure you know that it's regular practice for acts to book multiple shows and not announce them at first, even though they know full well that they will "add" it on.
phanan said:
Check again. I just tried a single gold hot package ticket for the second Fenway show and section B1, Row 2 came up.
U2FanPeter said:
Were they locked into fixed setlists 23-30 years ago?
Yes but it was quite well known locally that there were 2 dates to be played.STING2 said:
True, but they only announced a single Police show at first.
STING2 said:
Right, and thats the only ticket available in the whole stadium at the moment. When you bring up the ticket, it gets taken out of circulation for at least 2 minutes. When you try going back in during that time, nothing else comes up.
More tickets may periodically become available because credit card purchase don't go through, someone given tickets does not use them etc.
Only 2 shows are allowed at Fenway per annum.STING2 said:
They could easily play a 3rd show at Fenway Park, but I don't know if thats allowed or if there is room in the Schedual for it.
phanan said:
Well, then it's not a sellout yet.
Hewson said:Only 2 shows are allowed at Fenway per annum.
And I expect the secondary markets to be flooded and a lot of relases later like with the Stones at Fenway.
Lots of tix have yet to be sold for fenway, held for Sox season tix holders to buy if they want etc.
Anyone who got shut out at Fenway don't pay stupid prices now...tix will be plentiful in July for reasonable dollars, many around face.
martha said:Crap. They're playing Dodger Stadium in LA.
Maybe I'll go to Vegas instead. But it's a school night.
Hewson said:Don't be fooled too much by Fenway just yet Sting2...the Sox typically hold back a pair of tix to offer for each season ticket account....thats 10s of thousands of seats not put up for sale today that a percentage of which will later come available.(Many season tix holders will likely pass when they see the price as many got burned thinking they could profit off of $tones tix at $450 and $165 face in 2005)
They could not do 3 or 4 Fenway shows if rules allowed (which they don't).
phanan said:Considering that I was still able to get some sort of ticket two hours afterwards, I'd think they'd be stretching it thin if it went to a third show, which of course it won't as they won't be allowed.
kellyahern said:You're still working June 15? When does school end for you guys?
The OOTS said:McAffee Stadium? Booooo!
I was hoping for Bay Area arena show(s).
I'm not paying $225+ to sit 2 miles away.
I'm not paying $90+ to sit 5 miles away either.
Hopefully, the 2nd North American Leg will be all indoors.
STING2 said:
There is no guarantee that the band will be returning to the bay area in the fall. They will be in Europe for September and October, and will only return to North America for shows in November and December in which they will likely play much of the south south eastern part of the United States. Starting in 2008 they will be hitting shows in Mexico, South America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. In Boston, the $225 tickets were only for the first section in front of the stage, probably at best 5,000 tickets. The rest of the seats on the field were in the $90 dollar range. No seats in the stands were in the $225 range.
I'd say a stadium show is a great opportunity for everyone to get tickets and makes scalpers ability to make money more difficult. I wouldn't pass up the opportunity because they may not be back in the Bay area in the late Fall.
The OOTS said:
I'll take a wait and see for the 2nd leg.
I've already seen The Police in a stadium 24 years ago. U2 did 4 bay area arena shows on both Elevation and Vertigo and had no problems selling out. The Police could do the same. It will depend if they can stand each other long enough to make more $$$.
If they don't swing by during Leg 2, I'll opt for the $20 dvd come Xmas and listen to my 1979 bootlegs which will kick more ass than anything they could pull off in 2007.
martha said:
Kids' last day is June 20.
STING2 said:
In my experience, the sound in a stadium is just as good as the sound in an arena, sometimes its even better. The key difference for most people will be the distance from the stage. But hey, this is music, not a runway fasion show in Milan.
The OOTS said:
I've already seen The Police in a stadium 24 years ago.