bungle said:

realistically an announcement over the tannoy would've just encouraged them... and to be fair to the security staff it was close to impossible to spot where they were coming from...

some crowd vigilante justice was in order i think

jandaman said:[quote]

But in england its actually a pretty normal occurance when certain people get drunk,to be arrogant rude and destructive.It wasnt so long ago that their fans were banned from europe.It sticks in the throat that this happened..but from a country that calls there self "great britain" ..what more can u xpect.


Oh FFS i give up, what a tosser

For weeks I was trying to get hod of two tickets for the final concert, ordered my glowsticks as well. Sadly luck didn't come my way. Now I find out about all those morons, what a waste, me and my best friend could of had those seats, enjoyed ourselves and managed to keep hold of our sticks.

No wonder they made everyone put them in a big bin before the aftershow.

If the idea had been left to the org members perhaps this would not have happened, proves Prince reads the site and joined in with the theme!

HotPaisleyGirl said:

Or maybe someone from Skynews reads the site.

jandaman said:[quote

It wasnt so long ago that their fans were banned from europe.It sticks in the throat that this happened..but from a country that calls there self "great britain" ..what more can u xpect.
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Ermmmm,,,,,22 years ago so, no, it was a long time ago.

firstly, 'great britain' is not a country, you dunderhead

secondly, "there self"?

what? oh wow, that's dumb.

personally, i never want to feel proud or ashamed of anything my country does or doesn't do. nationalism is the last refuge of the scoundrel etc and the reverse is similar too. i was born in england but so what? i barely consider myself 'english'. it's just a patch of land.

let's get off this subject.

yeah, england has got a lot of stupid meatheaded publads who drink a lot. and in other countries...they simply have different accents. let he whose country is without sin cast the first...glowstick. hehe

you really would think that the whole of the upper tier was launched anti tank missiles at prince's head the way this thread is going.

magictree said:

If that was the case then I guess the Arabs would be getting a pounding instead of the Brits

Nothing like a sweeping generalisation to make baby Jesus cry

I heard that at one point Prince was hit directly by about two dozen glowsticks
(including a peach and black one) and that during the aftershow Marva spent the whole time picking them out of her fab afro. Please tell me it's not true!!!

allthemidnights said:

Kudos to you for taking the glowstick out of that woman's hand, I commend you for doing that. I can't believe she then found another glowstick to throw at you later. Some people have absolutely no class whatsoever.

last night i saw that cross eyed dustin hoffman having it off with poor old one armed steven spielberg in the vip seats whilst burt lancaster threw poo at them from the rafters.

magictree said:

NOOO!!!!

magictree said:

What a great image

I just peed myself laughing

I laughed so much when I saw they were handing glowsticks to everyone on the way in!

Left to the org the throwing wouldn't have happened, because we saw it coming... if you read the website we built, you'd know we were doing what we could to avoid them ending up in the hands of idiots. But we obviously wouldn't have achieved the blanket coverage that they managed last night.

It would have been so cool to see our sticks light up suddenly mid-show. We got rid of all 600 sticks that we bought (thanks O2Review, Glyn, guvnorx07 and TheCherryRoom for helping distribute them), and at least another 200 that people brought independently.

But seeing everyone in the audience with a glow stick gave the arena a party atmosphere fron the off. I lit mine up in PR anyway... If you did too, I saw you - the freshly-cracked ones were much brighter than all the rest.

For some people in the upper tiers, I guess throwing them was just too tempting... like throwing stones off a cliff. Maybe P thought the effect was worth the risk of the things being thrown. I didn't see any hit him, but I did see one bounce off the right hand side of his keyboard during the encore.

We also suggested NOT taking them in to the aftershow... which does make you think that someone involved read our website. For safety's sake, I'm pretty sure they would have made us dump them in that bin even if no-one had thrown them at the main show.

hey bert, I only woke up about an hour ago

i'm off to a party in a bit and i'm going to be mighty disappointed if Prince isn't playing in the front room

popelife said:

Thanks popelife - I was pleased for you that Prince's people were so impressed with your idea that they expanded it. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!

Sorry I didn't get to meet you. Would like to give you some money for the glowstciks I got - Orgnote me or post if you have something set up through Paypal.

DM

have to say that the people blaming this on 'council estate twats' are no better than the people doing it by the way

Linsalicious said:

I hear Cora was attacked during Kiss by a group of hoodies!! tell me it's not true !!!!!

darlingnikki78 said:

Credit Glyn for the idea. I'm just the fool that ran with it!

Sorry I didn't find you, but we were eating in Las Iguanas when they announced the show was starting at 8:20. Rushed to finish, get the bill etc, and still only made it to our seats just as he came on stage.

magictree said:

o sorry i cant spell or have probs with punctuation but last time i looked the full title is United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland..yea they got that great bit in there
If its just a patch of land why is your back up so quickly?
I said certain people not all .

jandaman said:

Garrybaldy said:[quote]

jandaman said:

What do you give on?
Your selective memory or the fact u called me a tosser for saying sertain people will do this
129 England fans banned from quarter-final city
By Nick Allen and Tim Moynihan, PA, in Germany
Published: 26 June 2006

A total of 129 England fans have been banned from following the team to Gelsenkirchen for their quarter-final against Portugal on Saturday, German police said today.

The supporters, who were among 500 detained in Stuttgart over the weekend, will be barred from Gelsenkirchen between today and 9 July, the date of the World Cup final.
yea that was ages ago..funny how people forget.

seanbee said:

The Great part comes from the French " Grande Bretagne" as opposed to "Bretagne" ( Brittainy in France).....nothing to do with the Brits thinking they're "great".....

DreZone said:

Nah - we'd just buy him a pint o guinness

jandaman said:[quote]

Garrybaldy said:

I couldn't give a flying one how many England supporters were banned at the last tournament, the fact is Hooliganism is dwindling in this country compared to Germany, Poland and Russia to name a few.

Of course talking about England fans has no bearing on what happened at the O2 last night , which makes your rant a bigger crock of cack than at first appeared

The Tosser remark , while unsavoury maybe , is best Applied to anyone who slags my country off , and generalizes that all English concert goers are Beer crazed thugs

you do the homework

wheres the love you guys? this thread is starting to feel like an angry housequake male dominated agressive thread!!!

Which why I dont go there too often!

I laughed when I saw the glostix being handed out having just got the last couple off of o2review only a few feet away!!!!

The effect was fantastic and made the final show superb, I think it all started with a few being DROPPED from the upper tiers but then others caught on and started lobbing them about. It was very dodgy for a few minutes on the floor as they were pelting down all over. I was lucky I had my husband to fend them off but it was a bit nerve racking for a while and I was amazed the twin came back out sitting on the box. Maybe they thought this would calm everyone down.


In all a fantastic show and even better afterparty!!!


dont get angry and viscious about this one small thing, Its a big venue and people get over excited. And for the record i was surrounded by Europeans not brits!

This country is the pits - you'd've thought that a gesture like that could be harmless fun for all but oh no, not in binge drinking Britain.
Disgrace.....but what do we all do?
Carry on letting the fwits get away with it.
Time to emigrate to a land where people actually consider others.
Any plane times?

Garrybaldy said:

My homework,u said i generalized ,i didnt i said CERTAIN PEOPLE ,
and as for the tosser remark ..well i didnt realise the whole of england went to the 02 to see prince ,and low remarks about my opinion on this is uncalled for.

I was there last night, and was disgusted at the first throw, let alone the rest of the sheep.

However, lets not get this out of context. Maybe 50-100 were thrown out of 20,000. Idiots, yes... but statistically in an audience that size there will also be 100-200 people who would clinically be called a psychopath too! 1 out of 20,000 people decided to throw a glowstick at Prince - still today I cant see what they were trying to achieve - I think if Prince stood up and walked off for his own safety I don't think the thrower would have left alive!!!

What I am saying is it was a huge minority of the people there, and I think it would have happened the same in most places around the world for the reason above. There will always be 1% of idiots wherever you go.

Example: We were in the second row of the aftershow balcony last night and had a great time apart from the 2 drunken idiots who must have gone for a wee/drink 10-15 times during the show, falling on top of us each time. They were hammered by the time they got there and just kept drinking. One of them got thrown out as he was seen falling down the stairs and the other guy actually was slumped over asleep for the majority of the rest of the concert!!!

When you think there was so much demand for tix they were being sold at £500 on ebay... what an astonishing waste!