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Queuing Etiquette tips?!-IT HAS TO BE ASKED! o.k. London fans clue us peasants in the North up. I am expecting to stand around in the cold & rain for c 10 hours on Friday & Saturday [really am wayyyyy too old for this!] The question is this - if the venue are dishing out numbers to fans say 2 or 3 hours before a gig I assume you can leave the queue & come back later? Were any of you able to just get your number & leave for a bit of warmth & food!
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Tip 1 - Don't barge your way to the front of the queue half hour before show time, or join your "mates" who are at the front of the queue....you're likely to get hurt...probably by a large stick with a nail in the end...or a sack of doorknobs.... www.filmsfilmsfilms.co.uk - The internet's best movie site! | |
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I've queued up a few hours in advance of almost every gig I've been to at Manchester Academy and every time I've been able to leave the queue for food/drinks and rejoin in the same place.. not due to numbering, but due to the kindness of fellow queuers! | |
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Just let the guys around you in the queue know that you're going for a bit, and they'll no doubt let you back in when you return.. then you can do the same for them. Us northerners are good like that 
Hold hands with the person behind you even if you dont know them.
Smell nice Make some awful sandwiches sell them at 5 times the going rate for a london sandwich which cost more than a the debt of a small country. talk only about the weather for 10 hours Take a foldable chair and rent it out at extortionate rates In case of rain buy some umbrellas at poundland flog them for 27 times their worth. [Edited 2/18/14 18:09pm] Baby, you're a star.
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funkyhead said: o.k. London fans clue us peasants in the North up. I am expecting to stand around in the cold & rain for c 10 hours on Friday & Saturday [really am wayyyyy too old for this!] The question is this - if the venue are dishing out numbers to fans say 2 or 3 hours before a gig I assume you can leave the queue & come back later? Were any of you able to just get your number & leave for a bit of warmth & food!
Also share any other tips please!! I queued for 11 hours at KOKO on Sunday...just make sure everyone around you knows you and you'll be fine for toilet break,food, bit of a stretch. However it's probably nut good form to just disappear for hours on end as one person did...I shan't describe them as they may be on here but let's just say, ironically, they'd made themselves so we'll known that nobody cared P-p-e-n-g-u-i-n......the P is silent | |
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It's about communicating. Make sure to be seen. Talk with people, acquaint them a bit. Tell them you are leaving for a sandwich or whatever and be back soon enough. Do not leave the queue within an hour of the expected time of `doors open`. Do the toilet break etc before that.
Pills and thrills and daffodils will kill... If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry. | |
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DaveT said: Tip 1 - Don't barge your way to the front of the queue half hour before show time, or join your "mates" who are at the front of the queue....you're likely to get hurt...probably by a large stick with a nail in the end...or a sack of doorknobs.... nishapisha | |
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funkyhead said: o.k. London fans clue us peasants in the North up. I am expecting to stand around in the cold & rain for c 10 hours on Friday & Saturday [really am wayyyyy too old for this!] The question is this - if the venue are dishing out numbers to fans say 2 or 3 hours before a gig I assume you can leave the queue & come back later? Were any of you able to just get your number & leave for a bit of warmth & food!
Also share any other tips please!! We came to London and managed to see prince twice. We left the queue for short amount of times and for toilet breaks...make sure the people around you know who you are haha... How ever for Ronnie Scott's we queued for over 12 hours and as soon as all the "VIPs" started to turn up the queue became complete chaous. Have fun!! The overall experience is amazing and meeting other Prince fans... The wait is all worth it to see prince so close up...I Love prince!!!! nishapisha | |
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Get to know those around you. Share your little known facts about Prince, his music, gigs etc etc Get to know security. Ask them if there will barriers up an hour before doors opening to stop queue jumpers. If not get your elbows ready and be prepared to deal with some chancers. | |
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luckily I am a bit of a gobshite so chatting is neber an issue!!!. More concerned about leaving the queue as I have read posts saying that people got their numbers allocated ages before the doors opened so were able to toddle off!. Likewise others seem to have arrived late & got in without issues!.
Will play it by ear! | |
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funkyhead said: luckily I am a bit of a gobshite so chatting is neber an issue!!!. More concerned about leaving the queue as I have read posts saying that people got their numbers allocated ages before the doors opened so were able to toddle off!. Likewise others seem to have arrived late & got in without issues!.
Will play it by ear! It'll be fine, if enough people in your area know you then it won't be N issue at all. I was 30 at KOKO on Saturday, queued 11 hours and went out if the queue 4 or 5 times for toilet and coffee - no issues at all. P-p-e-n-g-u-i-n......the P is silent | |
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half my problem is that I just know I'll be in securities face as soon as I get there - just to make sure they are on the ball & prewarned! There will be loads of casuals out , especially on Saturday so am prepared for knobheads to be turning up drunk / queue jumping etc. All part of the fun!!! | |
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All the numbering doesn't actually amount to much. They tried that at Ronnie Scotts and then gave up. A couple of fans were numbering people at Koko, but the venue security just said it doesn't mean anything. Having a numbered hand is kind of comforting though!
Comp slips at EB were pointless as there was a rush when the doors opened...
You can only hope that in the main everyone is decent and honest, and just be prepared for some people to be arseholes...it's going to happen!
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what about sex on line??? | |
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luvsexy4all said: what about sex on line??? You can only do it with people who have a number that is devisable by yours P-p-e-n-g-u-i-n......the P is silent | |
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OR JUST LOOK HOT!! | |
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funkyhead said:
OR JUST LOOK HOT!! In such circumstances I bring decimals into the mx...thus not breaking my own rule  P-p-e-n-g-u-i-n......the P is silent | |
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Overrated. It has done nothing for the solution to the so-called crisis. Pills and thrills and daffodils will kill... If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry. | |
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it would take their minds off the problem | |
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That will just make the IQ look overstated to certain people. In shirt: it won't work.
Just arrive early. Pills and thrills and daffodils will kill... If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry. | |
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