I'm curious and I'm getting older so can anyone tell me what shows have standing room and what shows are all seated?

I think these have standing room:
ANTWERP, BELGIUM - Sportpaleis
FRANKFURT, GERMANY - Festhalle
ROTTERDAM, HOLLAND - Ahoy
OBERHAUSEN, GERMANY - Arena
PARIS, FRANCE - Zenith
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND - Hallenstadion

And I doubt about these (or simple don't know):

HAMBURG, GERMANY - CCH 1
BERLIN, GERMANY - ICC
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK - Falkoner
OSLO, NORMWAY - Konserhuset
ALBORG, DENMARK - Kongresscentre
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN - Annexet
MILAN, ITALY - Palatucker
DUBLIN, IRELAND - Point

The all seated Prince concert is a whole new experience for me (I'll stand most of the time, though) so please help me.

udo

Hamburg CCH (hall 1) is fully seated. Capacity 3000 seats.
I went there to check the venue and got a ground map. The venue looks beautiful and promising.

A standing crowd has its advantages! As it can b much more wild, Prince will get wild 2

pray4rain said:

Seating is comfortable? ;D
The seats are reserved for all seated venues?

udo

udo said:

unfortunately, there R no reserved seats..

when U go 2 the soundcheck u can choose an available seat & that will B ur seat 4 the whole evening.

talk2thejay said:

That's for the NPGMC section, I understand?
And the rest of the venue(s)? These seats are business as usual? (i.e.: reserved)

udo

udo said:

yup that´s right!

i talked with markus from goodnews and asked him how about
the hallenstadion concert. he told me that there r no seats
in the infield. so that means about 12'000 people here in
zurich.
about how they will manage it with the npgmc member he told
me that they now actually NOT how they will make it but they
work on it.
[This message was edited Sun Sep 22 11:43:38 PDT 2002 by wundi]

wundi said:

Just tell them to put up some barriers to create a separate area in the front, just like they do with most Dutch Prince concerts. I'm sure you've witnessed one of those.

udo

Will Alborg be seated or not? If they'll be using the Aalborghallen it'll be just an empty hall; will they place seats or what will the setup be?

udo

I've heard Dublin is all seating

Miss Saigon is about to finish there so the Theatre setup will remain in place for Prince.

bfletcher said:

is that a big or small venue?

talk2thejay said:

Hmmm. An all-seated Ahoy?

Aaargh!!!

udo

udo said:

man, i paid 65 euro to stand, not to sit. if i'd known this before i'd probably settled for a cheaper ticket..

I have Ahoy tickets fot the Arena. On my ticket is a row and seat number printed (row eight). so I figured it was an all-seated show. Just like the Sign "O" the Times concerts.
[This message was edited Mon Sep 23 6:54:42 PDT 2002 by Henk]

Henk said:

Aaargh! Really!?
Shit...
Pff. So the tixx could have been even cheaper.

Can anyone confirm the seats for the 'arena' of Ahoy?

Hi there!

I think is great, all seated. I'm getting old (35) and liked the seating during the Washington ONA show.
But I have a question:
If Henk has a ticket on row eight. What rows are for members then? The first seven??? Are there that less rows for members. Have there been sold only that few member tickets?

Anyone?

Thanks,
Art, Amsterdam, Holland.

P.S. I assume Henk has a non-member ticket. Because we members have no tickets at all yet...

art said:

I think there are more members than the fist seven rows

Guus

Manchester is all seated. I'll be stood on my chair getting my funk on!

Henk said:

i have an arena ticket too, but mine says 'vrij staan' (dutch for just standing where you want). so, maybe you're wrong. hope so.

I checked my tickets last night and it says Tribune, Arena. So I'm guessing now that I have reserved seats for the tribune in the back of the arena. That's not so good since that's pretty far away from the stage.
I bought my tickets at 10:01 and even than the standing places were already gone?!

it seems 2 me that eye am the only one who likes an all seated show..

cuz eye just don´t like it when somebody is grinding his/her body up mine & eye sure don´t want anybody breathing in my neck! YUK!
Not 2 mention those bad body odours...

Nobody is gonna sit anywayz, but it´s all about the space U have between all the people.
[This message was edited Tue Sep 24 1:54:32 PDT 2002 by talk2thejay]

talk2thejay said:

It's about freedom of movement. To be able to be up front is OK but I'd rather choose where to stand than be forced somewhere due to the way I got my tickets.

udo

Henk said:

Hi Henk,

The strangest thing is that the e65 tix are for the seats in the back of Ahoy. the e60 are vrij staan/standing only.
This time the most expensive tickets weren't vrij staan/standing only.

I wonder how thos NPGMC tickets are gonna work. Do they have a separate section inf front of the stage??

Greets, Erik

Thanks 4 the info.
I'm not so happy to sit and look to the backs of all the standing people.

before the stage there's a seperate area from the rest of the arena like always !Only thing is that it's now reserved 4 npgmc members instead 4 people that waited more than 24 hours in front of the stadium to get this privilege space before the stage! the rest of the arena is standing,the tribune(A.trbune:1212tickets) at the back of the arena(arena:6000tickets) is only accesable thru the arena so ur free 2 leave the tribune and dance in the field & tired people from arena can take your seat ! Or they have 2 put barriers between arena/arenatribune !
[btw. my 15-10-02 tickets stamped 10.00 U. r arena tickets can't imagine that in 1 minute al the tickets sold out !]
[This message was edited Mon Sep 30 3:49:36 PDT 2002 by gollem]

Anyone been to London Apollo recently. I went there a couple of years ago and they kept telling us to sit down. I can't sit to watch Prince! I don't mind all seaters as long as they let you stand up.