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Going up to Manchester to try and get some tickets from a scout, anyone know how much a ticket will cost?

ask the one with the golden woggle

Ticket scouts?

Whatever next!

I hope they see me in action. I could sell a mean ticket.

do you reckon they get tickets instead of badges?

Fuckers, school boy error!

dib dib dib and all that.

no ideas on cost then? They are 55 on ebay would that be better?

I would have thought so, just depends on what that ebay price finally ends up at?

where are they playing?

in my experience, the bigger the venue, the more people there will be outside selling tickets, driving the price down.

i doubt you'd even have to pay the current ebay price on the night.

Isn't this the one they're doing at Old Trafford Cricket Ground?

yeah

i was going to go to this but am moving house instead! it sucks! im going to go up to manchester to see jimmy carr on october 26th (i think) which is a friday. then coming back via port vale on the saturday for the town match!

Good plan! My mates are planning blackpool for the weekend then oldham on the way back.

*Arctic

Sorry :)

Artic for Arctic - common  mistake but doesn't really interfere with the floe of how you read it. :wink:

I wasnt feeling my best yesterday!

I'm doing it the other way round. Going to the match in the afternoon then off to see the show on Saturday evening in Manchester.

a ticket will cost £100 quid plus Ash  :wink:

You reckon? worth it tho

quite possibly. when i saw them in Rotherham last year my mate got the tickets on Ebay for £62 each. And they were the cheapest ones.....

A ticket came up last night through a mate of mine for Sunday at face value.  Whoop

Went to see them at Benicassim at the weekend, they were really good if a bit unadventurous. Not sure if they're worth 100squid though

Being such a large venue, you'll pick tickets up for a few quid either side of face value no problem.

What was Benicassim like, pvsmark?

I loved Benicassim 4 years ago - more an more brits go every year I believe - very well organised - clean toilets nice showers and a limited numebr of excellent bands - IIRC there was only really a choice of 2 stages so you ahev to be pretty sure the lineup is good before you go - cos once you leave the main arenas it's mostly random spanish music.

Bit of cacky yoo toob on here..

http://www.benicassimfestival.co.uk

Benicassim was amazing, definately a worthy alternative to UK festivals. Lots of sun, the camp site i stayed at (bonnet) was rather shit though there were turds in the showers a few times. If anyone is planning to go next year i recommend getting transport before hand as it is a bit manic. There were definately more brits than spanish this year.

i was going to go to benicasim this year but was warned off by someone who said it was a load of concrete and full of poser indie kids?!

got back from benicassim the other week. was a bit of a nightmare with the heat/hangover/drugs combination. lost my wallet on the first night whilst the girlfriend was being sick, i think i gypsy ran off with it.

the town itself is a shithole, and there are virtually no good eateries to refuel from. organisation of the whole thing was a complete mess with campsites jam packed, gigantic bus queues, quite expensive. the showers were about the only good thing, lots of them and clean.

i hear the one pvsmark stayed at (bono, as people called it) was much better and shadier than ours which was right next to the festival. no turds in the showers at ours, only lovely wabs and naked ladies. the heat at the campsite was unbearable, its horrible to wake up at 10am drenched in sweat having only slept for a couple of hours. then facing a monster walk to town to find some shade for some reasonable kip.

lebowski is not too far wrong, everyone there looked rich and indie types for the nu rave wank. its like reading in that you have to enter the music part separate to the campsites, and the music bit is half concrete half grass.

if you ever go dont camp its far too hot, get an apartment or hotel. 65% of tickets were sold to the english so its basically a brit invasion. dance tents were full of sketchy looking spaniards though, i nearly clocked one who stroked my girlfriends hair, the freak.

i saw:

iggy pop (stage invasion ala glastonbury repeated)
brazilian girls
jo jo de freq (darn good electro)
klaxons (shit)
jamie t
arctic monkeys
amy winehouse
clap your hands say yeah
hives
kings of leon (AMAZING)

could also hear muse from my tent, they drowned out the usually loud dance tent, must have been SO loud anywhere near the stage

bloody missed antony and the johnsons though, would have loved to have seen him.

i wouldn't do it again. not my type of lineup, too expensive and the heat ridiculous. was mostly fun though.

Crikcey from what OF says it sounds likes its changed.  The lineup has always been very important (more than other festivals) due to the lack fo depth, but now there sounds like way too many Brits go, and the price must have gone up, cos it was well under £100 for the festival and 8 days camping before.