Setlists for a hypothetical late 2019 tour of Australia, NZ, Asia

[cobl04]

No, I was too busy buying one for Laz to prove to him that he's wrong and U2 playing The Joshua Tree in Australia in 2019 is awesome.

 

[LuckyNumber7]

Laz can I have your ticket

 

[kabigon]

Sydney was a little slower but all sorted. On computer I'm still in the 'queue'...

 

[Axver]

I feel like ticket buying has got a lot easier in the last few years. I bought two GA for Melb and one for Bris within 60 seconds. Demand might not be as strong this time around, definitely. But I reckon in general it's become a lot easier to buy tickets. Seems to be less degenerates like ourselves hitting the buy button as soon as they open. And I think given it's been nine years, and there's a $70 gap between the cheap seats and GA, people took those. Those were sold out as soon as I logged in, the category five seats. Probably more of them than those shithouse behind-stage $40 seats from 360. Will be interesting to see how sales go overall, and how many of the extra shows we end up getting.

I actually would disagree - simply because the only times I have failed to get tickets to gigs I've wanted to attend have been in the past two years. I would have loved to attend one of The Cure's shows at the Sydney Opera House last week, but I did not even make it into the ballot for tickets, let alone have the chance to buy tickets themselves. And I failed to get tickets in both attempts to purchase U2 in London in 2017 - admittedly a British system rather than ours. I only got into those shows because friends secured tickets.

The Midnight Oil gig in Thirroul, holy fuck I cannot believe I got tickets to that. They were gone in the blink of an eye. I relied on the strategy of waiting ten minutes until the first rejected sales got thrown back into the pool, and scored one that way. Same deal with, of all bands, Royal Blood a couple of years ago.

Say what we will about how shit Internet sales were around 2005-10, I never failed to get in the venue and almost always got the ticket I wanted. Even in the US Ticketmaster clusterfuck of 2005 I got GAs to two out of three U2 gigs in Boston, and (surprisingly good) cheap seats for the third.

 

[kabigon]

Had a quick look at all the AU/NZ shows and GAs have sold out for Melbourne so far (how many GAs are available in the general sale is anyone's guess).

The new Ticketmaster layout seems to be deliberately hard to navigate compared to what they had before, what a surprise.

 

[Hewson]

. On computer it thought I was suspicious

Very perceptive computer.

 

[kabigon]

What's suspicious is if Headache doesn't make it to the fight

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Uh yea I agreed to fight at the Sydney JT30 show, not Auckland JT32

 

[kabigon]

Melbourne and Sydney GAs sold out
Still GAs for Auckland, but looks like very few seats available for less than $270
Looking good for second shows

Perth is too early to say

 

[LuckyNumber7]

Uh yea I agreed to fight at the Sydney JT30 show, not Auckland JT32

Transfer me some miles, I’ve been trained in kiwi combat.

 

[kabigon]

I thought the fight was meant to be for JT Melbourne. I suppose you could have a best of three.

 

[d.darroch]

Melbourne and Sydney GAs sold out
Still GAs for Auckland, but looks like very few seats available for less than $270
Looking good for second shows

Perth is too early to say

Yeah Sydney GA's sold out, but it did take a long time, over 8 hours. Last time I checked Brisbane this morning, you could still pull up 4 GA's, that's 20 hours into the presale! I guess the presales aren't well publicised, & who knows how big the ticket allocations are for GA.

 

[lazarus]

I thought the fight was meant to be for JT Melbourne. I suppose you could have a best of three.

It only goes to three if different people win each of the first two!

Can't wait for Headache to share with us how differently a swirlie feels when the toilet water is draining in the opposite direction.

And be careful, bro:

Snake bites woman as she sat on toilet in Brisbane home

 

[d.darroch]

Another batch of GA's have been dumped for Sydney. Can currently buy 4.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

It only goes to three if different people win each of the first two!

Can't wait for Headache to share with us how differently a swirlie feels when the toilet water is draining in the opposite direction.

And be careful, bro:

Snake bites woman as she sat on toilet in Brisbane home

Snakes? Fuck that noise.

Fight moved to Tokyo.

 

[LuckyNumber7]

Aw, Brisbane did kinda remind me of Florida

 

[DaveC]

Fight moved to Tokyo.

appropriate, since the two of you fighting would resemble a sumo match anyways.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

These are hurtful statements

 

[DaveC]

hey now i wasn't calling either of you fat. but we all know that this fight is going to be mostly the two of you smashing into each other and grabbing at each other's underwear.

 

[Hewson]

the two of you smashing into each other and grabbing at each other's underwear.

I thought that was the reconciliation later in the hotel.

 

[DaveC]

i had a similar experience with lance's mom.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Who hasn't?

 

[DaveC]

lance, hopefully.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

 

[lazarus]

Snakes? Fuck that noise.

Fight moved to Tokyo.

 

[Hewson]

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Ok I'm done with this thread

 

[LuckyNumber7]

Poop

 

[Axver]

Can we please return to the important topic that is me smashing a chicken parma before JT32 Melbourne and then smashing Headache?

 

[Axver]

The best of three is which one of us can slam down their pints quicker.