Why are venues so horrible
I have just had one of the worst nights of my life. To my delight on Thursday I found a fan through Twitter search who couldn't make it to the show at Troxy in London tonight, and who was kindly willing to give away his ticket for free to another fan who could name a favourite PJ song closest to his own. Luckily I got the ticket by saying my favourite song was The Devil. He agreed to send his ticket to me by first class post and he did so on Saturday. The ticket did not arrive on time today (Monday) so he provided me with the ticket number and barcode. I knew it was slightly risky but I went to the venue anyway with these bits of info and the kind man's name, thinking they would be able to find his details on the database. The journey was over an hour one way from where I live in Camberwell. When I got there the box office staff requested the booking reference number, which I did not have. I told them this and that being someone I found on twitter I could not contact the man easily (I described him as a friend of a friend to make my case more convincing). They told me to try and contact him so I sent him another message on twitter from an internet cafe. I received no reply.
At this point they had over 10 envelopes left for people on the guestlist who hadn't turned up yet, including +1s potentially over 20 tickets. By 9.30, 45 minutes into PJ Harvey's set the box office people called it a day and took off. At this point the head of security ushered me out of the lobby, being totally unsympathetic and telling me to leave even though I, as a 21 year old man who rarely cries, was welling up. Devastated, I stood by the door, hoping they would find it in their heart to let me in for the final songs, as there were still those unused tickets. The staff just stood inside, staring at me, one girl who worked behind the box office was gently grinning, as if to say I was stupid and ridiculous to expect them to believe me. I had never felt so rejected and experienced how cold people can be
This is in addition to just 3 weeks ago, I lost a Nokia E71 worth over £200 at the Queen of Hoxton in Hoxton. I wanted to re-enter to look for it but as it was the security's policy not to let people re-enter, they flatly refused despite the fact what I lost was very valuable. The security manager even told me ' I don't fucking care, you are acting like a cunt', when what I said to him was something along the lines of 'Mate, I've lost my phone, can I go in and look'. At the moment I have lost all faith in humanity.
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peej @ troxy was last night not tonight
you bought a re-sold ticket, thems the breaks, man up
though that the staff didn't see the opportunity to charge you a few quid to get in late on is pretty poor
She played two nights.
Yeah you can argue that, but shouldn't we just want people to be nicer to each other? Gig venues know that real genuine fans anticipate shows for months and is a real special experience for them, and they should do everything to help them, rather than satisfy industry people with massive guestlists. While I was hurting there were people outside casually smoking while people on the guestlist were turning up half an hour late.
so
you didn't pay for a ticket, nor have the ticket, nor did you buy the original ticket or have any real proof it was ever purchased?
I agree venues can be cunts but it doesn't seem like there was much they could do. Even Seetickets and such bastards are usually pretty good and if you have lost a ticket or something and ring to tell them (they will stick them on the door or whatever)
While I was hurting there were people outside casually smoking
:''''''''''''''D
http://tinyurl.com/5tqbvqk
i can't believe I thought I'd even have a chance of posting this image first
goddamn it
: D
I had the ticket no and barcode, I thought this would have been enough, what money do venues lose by giving me one of the many guestlist places that went unused when the person who kindly gave me their ticket did pay for it?
but you could just turn up to every gig ever and get in for free if they did that
the tickets were probably bought on a ticket site and nothing to do with the venue/they wouldnt have barcodes for them. if you had got the person who bought them to ring the ticket agency there mightve been a chance of getting in, as it is, it cost you the price of a travelcard, was worth a gamble I guess. there are far worse ticket/venue stories.
Well perhaps, I've just been having a tough time recently and this added to my exasperation.
Also what about my story of being called a cunt for losing my phone, that is OK too is it?
yep
You do actually sound like a bit of a dickhead.
If you were THAT desperate to get a ticket then really you could have got one before then somehow (many a time I've been able to get tickets after they're sold out, it's far from impossible). Relying on a free, dubious ticket on twitter is a bit of a joke.
And why did the doorman say you were 'acting' like a cunt?
Oh right cheers, why am I a dickhead for being optimistic? The doorman called me a cunt just because I refused to go and wanted to look for an expensive phone, I didn't swear at him or even use an aggressive tone.
In fairness whenever I have been outside and could not get back in I would use the same excuse.
Usually about a jacket or phone. These places are not cunts for the sake of it. Think of how difficult it would be to get rid of people if you let in everyone that said they had a phone inside or a jacket. The best you can do is call in the next day to see if they have it.
"slip them a tenner to help you look / claim the loss on insurance" toss up
oh wait you didn't get insurance? shouldn't have dropped your phone then
Why should everything come down to money? What about human decency? You've all lived in London for too long, I pity you all.
you dropped your phone in hoxton
So you would do what this doorman did? Customers at venues are human beings with feelings, not just moneybags. I don't know how rich you are, I'm not, I'm a student. The phone was a gift, I won't have one as good for a long time.
So look after it better next time
If you can't afford the phone
you should have had it insured. Doesn't help now but I don't understand people who have massively expensive things that they carry around and don't insure. If you're not bothered about it then fine, but if you're that upset at loosing it......
Yeah
sounds pretty shit and everything, but you've got to look at it on the bright side.
You received huge generosity which is well good. Shame you didn't get in cos of some power trip people but at least you didn't lose anything in doing so.
Your story tells me that although there are many penises in the human race (most of them being doormen), there's also the odd gem. This makes it a happy ending.
Thanks for the first sympathetic reply; I've been proved right by people that most people on forums are also bitter individuals who like to laugh at other's misfortune; where did we go wrong as a society.
one of the worst nights of my life
I think most people were more pointing out the ridiculousness of this. Essentially, you took a gamble on getting in, the venue had no way of proving you or anyone ever bought a ticket and you didn't get in. If this constitutes one of the worst nights of your life I am jealous of your life so far.
Agreed about the other tale being shit. General bouncer wankerness.
OK fine, I've been having a shit time recently and I was hopeful over this. I was prepared for difficulties and would have bought off a tout but I got there too late for that, she came on at 8.45pm, which is pretty early. I'm only human, I've had to take on a fair bit of frustration recently.
ho_fo?
blates Timothy
This sounds frustrating as does the phone incident
If you're not a fake account, you've approached this forum with a wide-eyed naivety which has been slowly ground out of anyone using this site and other 'community' forums. Basically, no-one cares about strangers pseudo-woe stories. TBH, you could announce you have a terminal illness with weeks to live and the stock response would be LOL SUCKS 2 BE YOU, BRUV LOL.
Well advised, I'll be sure to avoid this forum next time.
no, just avoid writing extremely embarrassing essays to describe shit that happens to people all the time
I, as a 21 year old man who rarely cries, was welling up. Devastated, I stood by the door, hoping they would find it in their heart to let me in for the final songs, as there were still those unused tickets. The staff just stood inside, staring at me, one girl who worked behind the box office was gently grinning, as if to say I was stupid and ridiculous to expect them to believe me.
21 year old "man"
1. I'm not embarrassed
2. When was the last time something worse happened to you?
bloody hell.
Two months ago
my whole family died in a car crash. They were driving up to see me in hospital because i have cancer and the doctors say it's probably terminal. The same night my house that i'd lived in my whole life as a child burnt down because they forgot to turn the gas off. I can't sleep at night because my uncle is now my legal guardian until im 21 according to my dads will. Having been raped as a child by the very same man, it is a struggle coming to terms with this fact. I'm a 19 year old man and rarely cry but the nurses saw me nearly welling up yesterday (I'm permanently hospitalised these days). They told me to stop being such a whiny bitch.
LOL SUCKS 2 BE U BRUV, LOL
LUV U
nope, nope, i'm not getting trolled any more.
I paid actual money for Arcade Fire tickets in August for the gigs in December, then my flight got cancelled the morning of the gig
I'd also bizarrely and stupidly managed to accidentally book 2 different flights for this trip, when working through the booking process on several websites to compare the final price, cancelled the slightly cheaper yet slightly less convenient flight, got back some but not all of the money - this flight was to Heathrow and went ahead as planned, but my flight to Gatwick was cancelled.
I made a couple moany posts on here in existing threads at the time, but I did not describe it as 'the worst morning of my life' or actually expect any sympathy. Instead I rescheduled my flight for the next day and made the most of things, because it's a very trivial problem. "Ooh I spent some money on nothing." WHO CARES.
Incidentally I slept in and missed my flight home because I am a moron, booked a new one for that evening, spent the whole day in the airport, only to have this flight cancelled too. But I did get put up in a lovely Hilton hotel for the night with delicious free dinner and breakfast.
Overall I had a good weekend and I have an amusing story of idiocy to tell. I don't really care that much about missing a gig and losing some money. Because it DOESN'T REALLY MATTER, DOES IT?
The end.
x
Everything is subjective, I'm glad for you, but the fact is I felt rotten, what do you all expect me to do, apologise? No
I'm just sayin'.
It was actually a response to "When's the last time something worse happened to you?" but you can't really tell with the other replies in the way.
But yeah, you did the ticket for free, after failing to buy one for yourself. It's hard to feel a great deal of sympathy, even if I do think it would have been a nice gesture for them to let you give them a few quid to go in midset. But the people at the desks don't make the rules and aren't going to want to risk a bollocking later just to help some weeping boy in the lobby that doesn't have a ticket.
if you're someone who is passionate about music
then yes, missing a gig really does matter.
He should have bought a fucking ticket beforehand then.
LIKE I DID FOR THAT GIG.
(Obviously I was annoyed at the time, but I knew that in 3 months time, ie. now, I wouldn't really care that much anymore)
Funnily enough
when I was over for the weekend I did go to a sold out Bombay Bicycle Club acoustic gig in Queen Elizabeth Hall at the last minute and got half price 'restricted view' tickets that it turned out didn't really restrict our view at all.
There was a 10 minute period of PANIC and frantic searching when I then managed to lose the newly bought tickets IN THE FUCKING LOBBY, but when we went to the desk they'd been handed in and the girl remembered us buying them - until her colleague told her they'd been handed in she was going to print us off some new ones.
Lesson: venues aren't always horrible. There's just not a lot they can do for gigs that don't have allocated seating because trust can't be relied on in this age of ticket touting. So buy a ticket or at least get the fucking booking reference.
PS. I'm aware my tales of this single brief trip aren't painting me as the most intelligent guy in the world. It was an odd weekend, ok?
HEY
only using this account for cynicism, yeah? And poorly worded expressions of love.
Thx
THIS DOESNT MAKE SENSE
BUT I HOPE YOU GOT THE MESSAGE ANYWAY
I feel terrible. So sorry
All of love,
Enderlin
Obviously a wind up
Quite enjoying it, carry on!
You should really have got the booking ref, to be fair.
Most important part, surely?
This thread makes me sad.
even this bit?
<I don't fucking care, you are acting like a cunt>
i did a gigglesnort
i think the saddest part is that
in my twenty-odd years on this planet, I've never heard a single note by PJ Harvey.
He'd already posted the tickets though.
They just didn't come in time.
Why didn't he send the ticket...
guaranteed next day delivery?
or indeed get the booking reference.
Well he was giving me a ticket for free, I did not feel right asking him to spend extra on guaranteed delivery. It's easy to say in retrospect he should have given me the booking ref, but I've never faced a situation like this before.
Could have phoned the venue before.
If I'm ever in a situation such as tickets not arriving or being on the door only I'll at least phone the venue before setting off. Suppose you'll know for future reference!
hmmm.
PJ ticket: You didn't pay anything for it. You didn't make the necessary arrangements for the ticket to arrive in time. You didn't confirm with the venu/promoter exactly what you'd require in lieu of a ticket. Loss: one evening of your time and minimal travel costs. Gain: a valuable lesson in preparedness.
E71: Agreed. Nice phone. You didn't pay anything for it though. Yeah, the bouncers sound predictably arsey, but that's life innit. Loss: There shouldn't be any data loss if you've synced up to Nokia's free Ovi service online or on your PC. And there shouldn't be any financial loss if you have insurance, which you blates should have if you can't stomach the cost of replacing something. Failing that they're not worth £200 anymore. You should be able to pick one up off ebay for well under a ton - probably for ~£70. And when you replace it, install the 'Track & Protect' GPS enabled tracking app so you know where it is. You can even get remotely taken secret photos sent to your email. Gain: another valuable lesson in preparedness.
You: not a 'man'. A man doesn't equate crying with manliness. And even boy scouts know you should be prepared. Possibly a wrightylew alt - the OP reads like it, and he's the only one who's given (suspiciously pally) condolences.
This forum: not an uncaring hovel. There are hunners of positive replies on here. Plenty currently on page 1. It's just that, like the wiser internet, it doesn't respond fawningly to unjustified calls for the waaaahmbulance.
*wider internet
No, you were right the first time
carry on.
If I was your dad
Id break your fucking neck and deny all knowledge of you. What a waste of sperm
hmm.......this?
^^^^^guffawing at work ^^^^^^
great thread
would read again
I was hoping this would be complaining
about how poorly suited the Troxy is to holding gigs. Nice building, attracts decent acts and all that, but really not a good place to watch a band.
I hate watching bands there
I live in neighbouring Kennington...
...and got to that gig in 30 minutes. Maybe you should check your transport options?
:D
I love that this is the part of the initial post you have a problem with.
I like to address the issues in a practical manner...
...rather than a whiney "woe is me" fashion.
I was going to point out that The Queen of Hoxton isn't actually, strictly speaking, in Hoxton
But thought that might be taking issue with the wrong thing.
Thanks for giving me the opportunity to point this out!
OK, we might as well make this a dedicated subthread
Are there any other factual errors, inconsistencies and queriable statements in the initial post?
Not an error but I'm a fan of his well-written prose and his keen use of grammar.
Thread title should include a question mark for a start!
Could/did you not call the venue the next day (about the missing phone)?
I had some problems with a wristband once.
I hear your pain.
sub-thread; Favourite PJ Harvey song?
i like all of em
This is my veil
the dancer
yuri g
That's the only one I DON'T like!
No one has tackled the initial query though...
venues are generally unpleasant environments as they are usually
a) filled with drunken fuckwits
b) inappropriately set up for music as the venue owners don't really like music and are more interested in stripping as much cash from everyone involved as is possible.
I think that about covers it to be honest.
I think you've got to look at it from their point of view
My missus used to work as a box office manager at Koko and for any given gig depending on popularity there would be a stream of people trying to chance their way in. I appreciate you weren't, but look at from their perspective - guy with no tickets or details arrives trying to get in. Also yeah there were lots of unused guestlists. But they weren't your guestlists were they? If they dished em out of any old punter it would cause them loads of problems.
Likewise the problem with your phone. Doormen are arseholes. They kind of have to be. They have a no re-entry policy and them's the breaks. It sucks I know, but if they let one person back in and people see, they'll be all over them trying to pull the same stuff. Plus they have no idea if you're telling the truth. It's easier and safer for them to just say blanket no.
Re: people mocking you, turn down the whine and you'll be fine
disappointing thread
I was all hoping for some ranting space because I genuinely think that a majority of the venues in London are awful places run by money grubbers, but instead I got someone who really just needs to call 999 and ask for a waaaaambulance to be rescue him.
make a sub-thread
I'm curious as to whether or not you followed up the phone thing though
I mean I'd imagine you WOULD have contacted the venue the next day to see if it had turned up, but you've made no reference to it...
Then again, you didn't have a phone to ring them. Heh.
all i have to add is
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7Mml-PG-BBA/TV2GN7YiuXI/AAAAAAAAJMA/CfWGEA1cBw4/s1600/you_fail-12825.jpg
Maybe this venue anecdote will make you feel better, by comparison.
That guy's forgotten his change. Stop him for me, would you?
What the fucking fuck is happening to all my posts?
I'm not writing it again. So to summarize:
When I was barman...
Innocent guy walks off without change.
I shout to a doorman to tell him to come and get his change.
Doorman misunderstands and thinks the guy has walked off without paying.
Doorman grabs guy, guy gets confused and struggles.
Three doorman beat the shit out of him.
Worse things have happened in nightclubs.
Fucking hell.
."A DiS bug means that single paragraph quotations get stripped of the quote marks."
As does everything after a single paragraph quote if you don't fool DiS.
."A full stop before of your quote marks fools DiS."
Inline 'mid-sentence' quotes in double or single quotes "are fine".
There's also a problem when full stops are directly before links.http://www.bbc.co.uk/
sean:
I'll send the invoice for each of these explanations, @ £3 per post, in one handy, easy to pay bill.
Good anecdote. Would read again.
you know
you'd have had a lot more success with this thread if it'd been pitched as 'bouncers are cunts' rather than 'my night was RUINED when i'd spent no money and not been prepared'. so we are not uncaring, but can see through silly bullshit very quickly.
Why is money the only thing that matters to you people? Do none of you care I missed a gig I really wanted to go to, the fact I had friends I was planning to meet with, and the fact the venue lost no money as I had sufficient evidence in my opinion that someone bought a ticket that they couldn't use? Sure the guestlist tickets were not mine, but they are of no use if the people who's they are don't turn up. A gig is a service, not a product, it's not like I was saying to a shopowner 'no one is using this car you have, let me have it'.
Maybe you just have an annoying face?
it's more the fact you've flounced on here acting like an immature, entitled fuckwit that's making people not care
Or that
Good luck getting someone to love you.
Good luck getting into the gi ..... oh sorry too late
:D
the reason i love this post so much is the lack of a subject.
still amazing
venues generally have no control over guestlist tickets
and a number of them would probably have been paid for by the label / PR agency
i'm impressed by your persistence on this matter, however
a gig isn't a service
it's a product. imo. and it is kind of like that.
what she said
If a gig was a service, you could call up and book an alternative time for PJ Harvey
As it is, that things only exists at a tangible and immutable time making it a product
Why didn’t you buy a ticket for the gig?
I ask purely out of interest.
I was prepared to from a tout or someone outside, but I didn't expect her to come on stage at 8.45 as she is the headliner. I got there too late to buy one on the door.
Not what I meant. Obviously.
Why didn't you buy a ticket for the gig when they went on sale?
As everyone knows it is hard to keep up to date and they sell out very quickly anyway. Not everyone is some industry crone.
joeymahone: industry crone
Coming to Channel 5 this summer
:D
JoeyMahone: Industry Crone
Episode 3: Vaccination Plan
Industry Crone Joey Mahone acquires guestlist places to the Vaccines show at the Carling/Heckler and Koch Douche-bowl, and flogs them to desperate teenagers for £300 a pop. Features guest appearance from him out of Kula Shakur.
Kula Shakur
that's one for the Imaginary Tribute Bands thread. Gangsta Bangra!
Better get tickets before they sell out!
Or before they get shot up in a drive by
By a wizard in a blizzard
with a mystical machine gun?
:(
Haha!
I (California) Love it!
It is not hard to keep up to date.
Thanks for this in depth explanation of why it is not hard.
Erectile dysfunction is the correct term
In response to your in-depth explanation of why it is...
1) Sign up to the mailing list of an artist you really like and you'll get regular updates on their gigs and releases
2)'Like' them on FB for the same updates
3) Check on music websites you are familiar with (drownedinsound, for example)
4) Check their website and/or myspace from time to time
Artists don't hide gig listings from their fans, in fact they announce them publicly. As do many other people.
SONG KICK
...
But you're a mega-fan you nearly cried because you missed the gig :S
I listen to a lot of music, there are 40-50 artists/bands I am dying to see, I found out about the gig a few months ago I don't remember when, it was already sold out
seriously MTFU
my car lost its steering down the motorway this morning, I nearly fucking died trying to get in the hard shoulder, and it cost me £350 just to get home.
You don't see me starting a thread about it.
WAAAH WAAAAAH FUCKING WAAAAAHH...
If you make another thread like this I'll send you a free Bright Eyes ticket.
you should've
posted a thread, not died trying to get into the hard shoulder
i thought i should point that out.
Good one, Captain Sensitive
Don't you know there were people casually smoking while he was trying to get into the hard shoulder?
good work
nah, because no one cares
of course one of the immediate things I did was post it on Facebook.
OMGZ NEARLY DIES N THT! MUMZ GUNNA AVE TO GET TAXI FOR £250 ND AM PURE BUZZIN OFF DE ADRENALINZ!!
You said £350 earlier
Something you want to tell us, Jim?
So you had a few months to secure yourself a ticket?
...
Should be some more grammar in there, but what the hell
Missing a comma isnt the end of the world, it's not like I travelled all the way to the troxy just to be met with disappointment eh?
More lack of forward planning
U IZ PJSHARVEYZ NUMBA WAN FAN! !!11
Following on from my below comment as well
If you really wanted to see her, and were prepared to pay a tout, you should've really got there as early as possible to ensure you could...
You should have got the booking reference, that's pretty standard knowledge.
Otherwise, if it was a gig you really wanted to go to, you should have bought your own ticket to make sure such an incident was avoided. You were lucky to have gotten hold of a free ticket anyway, so you've only got yourself to blame for still not getting into the show.
And the guestlist tickets weren't yours, regardless of whether they are used or not. It stands to reason that if they didn't think you could prove you had a ticket that they don't give you someone else's...
Have the tickets turned up yet?
^ yeah, very good question.
dude was probably taking the piss.
the fact that the guy on twitter didn't give you the booking reference (the only thing you really need)
but gave you a bunch of other unnecessary stuff makes me think he was taking the piss.
or an idiot.
either way, commiserations for missing a gig you were excited about. just know for next time that name/"barcode" (????)/postcode on their own aren't enough to guarantee entry.
PJ Harvey is ugly anyway
Can't believe it took us 120 replies to get to the point.
:'D
Pollys not a cracker
Cunts
Postal Japes Harvey
well luckily for you
she's doing a free london show soon, info on how to get tickets here: http://tinyurl.com/yeto93c
fuck you internet
He should have just said he was Jamie Summers.
I heard that's a surefire way of getting into gigs these days.
sounds like someone needs taking down a peg
:'D
This thread: delivers.
Unlike the postman with his tickets
I'm going to have to leave the office.
YOU'VE NOT EVEN LEFT YET?!!
You postmen disgust me
Indeed
instead, he was at said gig with a free ticket while this poor lad was outside, looking through a rain-sodden window, weeping.
i actually wish i had been working
the guestlist for this show.
When I get really upset like this I like to put on White Chal...
oh.
This one time I farted
and a bit of turd came out cos I was already excited. I'd been having a tough week but I 'followed through'.
Even as a man of 27, I considered crying. I was wearing a grey suit.
Essentially I know what you mean - I tried really hard for something and it all ended up shit.
Right, now you've been suitably learned
(and count yourself lucky it wasn't worse, I was in a nice mood today)
Put your head down, get to 15k posts and in three years time repost this story and we'll all laugh and slap you on the back
ONE OF US
ONE OF US
you're still bitter about that pub quiz anecdote huh
FIRST!
Didnt want you at my gig anyway
You weepy cunt
oh dear
oh dear oh dear oh dear...
Oh shit.
In tears now.
Oh shit.
In tears now.
oh shitting christ
Early contender for thread of the year.
wow, most of you in this thread are real cunts.
the thread is basically rhetoric for why you should lose faith in all humanity. why can't you show some sympathy? you all say MTFU or w/e, well seriously why don't you MTFU, and start to genuinely care about other people. It takes more of a man to care about the misfortune's of someone you don't know than it does to chastise and belittle them for acting like a little bitch.
Dude, I feel sorry for your troubles. And even more so now, since everyone else responded like a twat. I like you want to keep faith in mankind, and I can sympathize with how you felt in that situation because I've had similar experiences dealing with dickhead's just doing what they're told.
http://bit.ly/9DhtDy
MTFU
If I had sympathy for every person who turned up to a gig without a ticket
and called failing to get into the gig they hadn't either paid for or produced a ticket for one of the worst nights of their life ...
Well actually, I'd have loads of sympathy left. No one does that. NO ONE.
why does everyone have make a mockery of him for being hopeful.
To the slightest degree, I think i may pity some of you because you've probably lost out on loads of good opportunities (eg. getting witha hot girl) because you thought to your self <nah, it won't work. something will go wrong>. And for what? Just to save face.
They aren't making a mockery of him for being hopeful as far as I can tell
Looks more like it's for being entitled and melodramatic.
I disagree with that statement.
But I can see how it's easy for our views to differ.
Fair enough
I reckon you're well off with your above post though. I'd imagine a lot of people here are more likely to be taking the piss because they've suffered some comparable (but not the same, because NO ONE goes to a gig without a ticket and expects to get in) misfortune and not told the internet about it in such a tone.
I haven't taken the piss because I refuse to believe it happened.
K
Cheers.
hahaaaaaa
no you wouldn't.
Yeah we would.
It would have been a 5 reply thread, but more than likely 5 replies of "Ah sorry to hear it, the guy really should have given you the booking reference" etc etc. People underestimate this forum, I've been on boards that are far more hostile than this, far more regularly and with far less reason.
This only happens
if it's a regular poster.
Anyone who doesn't post regularly is a dickhead.
MTFU.
Go away
You are out of the fan club, you are out of the street team. Tear down my posters and burn my Cds. I dont ever want too see or hear from you again you snivveling chapstick belmer
I don't even like your music, so please go away.
I hit the wrong button
My awards were in the way
:-DDD
fucking amazing
i am glad i have my own office
Nice
That's probably the best reply you could of possibly written.
:""D
Seriously
If the dude is looking for some faith in mankind/humanity he should steer well clear of the internet.
The massive cry-baby.
True, but we're all susceptible to making quick impulsive judgements when we're stressed out.
ultimate
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a269/ehwhat/there.jpg
The second s-s-scoop of icecream just r-r-rolled off my cone....
That's a sad story, sure.
This happened to me once. Except I got in through sheer persistence (and some small lies).
^ Good point
Should have told some lies.
I didn't say this but what really tipped me over was that when the box office employees packed up to go the head of security came out to usher me out of the lobby, and when I went out they shut the door on me, as if I had done something wrong for even being there. When I tried to catch their attention again they just ignored me, and the one security who opened the door to talk simply said 'The show will be over soon, you are letting the draught in and I'm getting cold'. It really hurt me that they couldn't even afford me the decency of letting me wait in the lobby until I decided to give up and go.
Are you serious?
It clearly wasn't going to happen so why did you hang about? I'd have fucked off after 10 minutes of being told no.
Sweet zombie Jesus, is this guy for real?
The only thing that makes me even slightly wonder if its not fake
is the detailed profile.
I imagine it is an old fake account a regular user / troll set up a few years back that they have revisited though.
This guy cannot be for real. Are you for real rliu? If so, well, I'm sorry.
Age: 17
Ok, now I feel a little bit bad.
Not reeeaally though.
21 year old man
Yeah your age doesn't automatically update
I'm still 23 according to my profile - I wish. So if it is real the guy probably signed up 4 years ago (explains why he rates The Long Blondes as 10/10 LOL).
Cannot be real though.
Oh yeah I forgot that.
As you were!
No way
Can't be
Hey rliu
Have you ever been to New York?
I'm sorry, but
:')
aw was poor ickle you upsetted by the meany-weany bouncers?
This whole thing
makes for some kick-ass mental images. The casual smokers, the tears in the eyes, trying to attract their attention.
I'm thinking film noir.
obligatory :D
:D
the staff should have provided food and shelter until
they could find adequate and sustainable space for the gentlemen in question
I won't go as far as condoning how they treated you,
And how the people in this thread have responded. But given your last post, perhaps you were unknowingly giving the security people, the same vibe that you're giving to a lot of these people on the forums. I'm not saying you're at fault here, but you may have given them some reason to be dicks.
Oliver Twist has nothing on this guy
I left a Caribou gig last week before they came on,
as I felt it was my gentleman's duty to escort the girl I was with back to Shepherds Bush Station.
Wish I had made a thread about it now. :(
um
why? was she a whiny bint, or a good reason?
Well, there was alot of trouble around the station whislt I was waiting for her
earlier in the night, so thought it best. HOODED YOUTHS, Police etc...
Also didn't wanna go "oh well, i'm gonna stay...c'ya"
make a change in your life
throw your bad fortune from the top of a tall building
So ......
Why ARE venues so horrible?
Guys, let's stop feeding the Frank. I mean Troll.
TheBeautifulOnes comes back 6 months later and a number of years older and delivers. :D
So...
Has the ticket turned up yet?
I was wondering that, too....
<:-\
I still don't get how anyone could claim that
"I have just had one of the worst nights of my life [...] I have lost all faith in humanity."
when they've received a free nice phone (which they can't keep in their pocket, didn't have insured, and apparently didn't ring the venue about) and an offer of a free PJ Harvey ticket (which they didn't even bother to pay next day delivery for when time was tight).
Two jobsworths being predictable jobsworths is hardly a lifewrecker.
I know all this has been pointed out, but I'm still slightly dubious that anyone could be so naive/melodramatic.
...AND THEN GO LOOKING ON THE INTERNET FOR SYMPATHY.
Because we're being trolled?
Exactly why the OP deserves nothing but ridicule.
As plenty of people have pointed out, this is a really friendly forum. If genuinely shitty things have happened to someone and they choose to let off a bit of steam (which many don't because they consider it unwise/inappropriate to share with the internet, but whatever) the response is almost always sympathetic.
What's offensive is when someone comes on here, trolling debate aside, and starts moaning about this ridiculous chancer story as 'one of the worst nights of my life' and THEN has the temerity to accuse everyone calling him out as being uncaring.
Great thread though.
From the OKCupid thread....
Posting this great deserves maximum coverage...
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/social/4279341#r5898145
lovely stuff!
I can't help but read the thread title now as
WHY ARE VENUES SO HOWWIBLE? :'(
lol
http://bb01.sov.uk.vvhp.net/pjharvey/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=983
l
m
a
o
Is this guy now going door-to-door to get sympathy?
Better get some tissues in in case he swings by my house later
WAHAY!
All you had to do was show them your breasts and you'd have go tin no problem
I rather like the OP and his heartfelt pantwetting. Want more of this.
I wonder if the tickets have turned up yet.
deleting my DiS account...
...because you are all cunts and I don't to be affiliated with such a forum anymore. Any decent doorman would let them in, they are clearly a genuine fan with a genuine dilemma. I've been let into gigs where I'm supposed to be on the guestlist but my name hasn't been there, it's called being nice. This is just further confirmation that 99% of English people are cunts, have fun watching Pendulum at Reading.
:D
LOL
Pendulum are playing Reading?
Awesome! i would love to support those guys
Also English people are cunts
Let them shake!
I can't really argue that 99% of English people /aren't/ cunts
but I am scottish, for the record. Just so you know.
Also, might I add that you 'deleting' you're DiS account is akin to me saying 'I'm never going to vote for the Tories'. I would have never voted anyway, so it ain't going to make any fucking difference pal.
I'd love to know how long he spent looking through Settings for the 'Delete profile' option
AND I'M NOT ENGLISH EITHER
SO TAKE THAT, TEVESY.
I heard what you said about Iceland too
on Youtube, no less
I'm going to use this sign off, in general, for pretty much any abuse I give now
HEY BUDDY:
HAVE FUN WATCHING PENDULUM AT READING! PRICK!
It reminds me of when they set up a Facebook group
to rid Facebook of Craig Meehan (the bollock-eyed mouthbreathing pederast accomplice in that Shannon Matthews affair).
The title was CRAIG MEEHAN IS A SICK PERVE NOB ROT GET HIM OFFF!!!!!!
Fine,
but if one day you come back to tell a mildly amusing anecdote about cheese only to remember you deleted your account, you won't be allowed in on some casual guest type basis. You'll have the door shut in your face, then we'll just stare at you and squash our rude parts up against the glass and leave you to perish in the cold amongst the casual smokers.
Hadn't thought of that now had you? HUH?
NOT TEVESY!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
yeah well, I've been let into 104 gigs where I'm supposed to be on the guestlist
but my name hasn't been there.
It's not going to be the same round here without tevesy
I'm deleting my account too
HAVE FUN WATCHING PENDULUM AT READING
I have just had one of the worst internet experiences of my life.
To my delight on Thursday I found a DiS user through okcupid who was unwilling to delete their own DiS profile, but who was kindly willing to delete the profile of another user who could name a favourite thread closest to his own. Luckily I got the nod by saying my favourite thread was either POJWTO or SOJWAO. He agreed to delete my profile and promised to do so on Saturday. The profile was not deleted on time today (Monday) so he provided me with the the idiot's guide to ruby on rails and a printout of my last X-thousand posts ask me anything thread. I knew it was slightly risky but I went back to the Social forum anyway with these bits of info and the jumped up indie prick's username, thinking they would be able to find my details on the database. The original thread was over three pages away from the front page where I'd last seen the thread. When I found it sean requested my password, which I did not have. I told him this and that being someone I found on okcupid I could not contact the user easily (I described him as someone who's team i'd played on in haxball to make my case more convincing). They told me to try and contact him so I sent him another message on nutsy bolts from an internet cafe. I received no reply.
At this point DiS had over 10 users posting in a thread about Smashing Pumpkins on the music board who could probably have deleted my profile, including ^This's and advert spammers potentially over 20 users. By 3.00, 45 minutes into a tinychat session sean popped up and rebooted the site. At this point tom__ told me to re-install my browser, being totally unsympathetic and telling me to check my saved cookies even though I, as a 21 year old man who rarely deletes his internet history, was welling up. Devastated, I started a new thread, hoping sean and tom__ would find it in their heart to at least delete my threads, as there were still some nasty replies in them from PJ Harvey herself that made me angry. Theo just posted another reply, calling me a momo, one girl who said she plays with tires in car parks was offering no solace, as if to say I was stupid and ridiculous to expect them to believe me. I had never felt so rejected and experienced how meta people can be.
This is in addition to just 3 weeks ago, I lost a my iTunes library worth over £9.99 on my Macbook Pro. I wanted to re-download to get all my music back it but as it was Apple's policy not to let people re-download, they flatly refused despite the fact what I lost was very valuable. TheWza even told me 'I don't fucking care, you should have bought a Dell', when what I said to him was something along the lines of 'Mate, I've lost my iTunes, can I redownload'. At the moment I have lost all faith in DiS.
Hey! I used the 'favourite thread closest to my own' before!
(Though I'm secretly pleased someone else has done one of these!)
ah. soz.
was the guess POJWTO or SOJWAO?
i am not sure how to construct one of these though.
I'll put a guide together later.
soawjo
SOAWJO
Slices of jam with apple on?
Now THAT'S fucked up.
he's deleted that page now
at least i got my highlights
Yeah, he deleted them all.
Because of us. Imagine the opening post of this thread turned into a complaint to Sean.
SEAN POST THIS MESSAGE NOW!!
No.
Let's just leave the guy alone. He made a mistake and he's paying.
I was joking, sorry
It didn't really work the way I wrote it.
I'm still trying to get my head around the fact that this appears now to be a real person and a real situation. It just can't be though?!
I do feel a bit bad for him actually
I mean, if that was the worst night of his life, just imagine how badly he must be taking this thread...
:D
To be fair he hadn't updated that site in about 5 years, I don't know why he was still linking to it from his Last.fm.
I wonder if the tickets have turned up yet.
Bet the tickets STILL haven't turned up.
They turned up yet?
incredible scenes
so
did these tickets ever turn up?
I'm sorry but you go to a venue
you go up asking for someone elses tickets
don't have the reference number
and when they say contact him you say you can't
I think that's fair enough & the couldn't give out the unused tickets without the purchasers permission.
It sounds shitty n all but they're in the right here
Fuck old thread
must learn to read the post dates
at least
it wasn't one you replied to at the time
wow. incredible thread
Any sign of those pesky tickets?
This kind of bump makes me laugh...
...please continue.
seriously though....
have the tickets turned up yet? My Pendulum ones have.
HAVE FUN.
Just over a year now.
They turned up yet?
c|:D
good work bumping your own thread, james_
nick
what thread was it that your games workshop take-off of this was in?
I can't remember!
One from around the same time period..
Tough on the ticket
It would have been great if they had let you in, but you didn't have enough info to go on really. As for the phone, they probably get loads of people trying to blag their way in places "just to chat to their mate" or "look for a phone", so I don't entirely blame them for being pricks either.
Basically you were dealing with people in jobs which make them hate the human race, hence they are arseholes to people.
Bloody Tories!
have the tickets turned up yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABqh9N-Mw5E
any sign of the tickets yet?
Nice^
so those tickets
Spent all of 3 minutes looking for this thread.
Worth it. But where is the post where someone (I think it was ThingsThatFly) wrote a really fucking funny alternative version of the original post? That's what I want.
And no. I have nothing better to do on a Saturday night.
One year on...
anything turned up yet?
*2 years