onenitealone said:

lol. plural even! i don't really know if i can make it. i would love to,
but it's probably a lot of money just for the tix, let alone the journey
and the extra cash i'd like to spend on the trip (tequilla not included)

so 1 concert might be something i could, perhaps, somehow, maybe manage



if you'd like to go see all those shows in a row, i think i might have
to go out and buy a new mini skirt and go turn some tricks




j/k

metalorange said:

but isn't that just america? i mean, english children can hold their drink

Appollonia said:

...so EXACTLY WHAT is the password...isn't it?

Man, on the one hand it's great he's coming back to the UK, but it is appaling the way O2 have organised this!
Forcing people to buy their phones just to get priority seats is just a disgusting money-making ploy.
This monopolization should be illegal.

I don't believe this is Prince's doing, he wants the true fans to get the best seats. It's probably his incompentant tour organisers.

I guess (reluctantly) I'm gonna have to buy the cheapest damn O2 phone I can find, and then maybe break it and send it back as damaged for a full refund!
(after I've got my ticket of course!!)

You can do a dry run with the Scisor Sisters priority tickets....I think its simply a promotional code.

But there is bound to be something like you have to bring your o2 phone with you to pick up the tickets on the door...just like you have to take your orange phone for ornage wednesdays

swdee said:

No different to the NPGMC giving priority seats or Controversy giving priority seats...O2 own the venue and,as Prince isnt doing anything from his end for teh fans, we just need to be grateful that there is ANY priority (this is from an NPGMC member who had shit seats at the back of ONA because teh crappy NPGMC website didnt recognise me).

Im not an O2 user but I'll give it ago as I have family members who are

purpledoveuk said:

which is trange as there site mentions it is NOT allowed to bring cell phones into the Arena !!!

metalorange said:

from their site :

Safe Child Wristbands: Families visiting The O2 with a child can register and collect a free Safe Child Wristband from the Reception desk. Parents provide their contact information and if they become separated from the child The O2 staff will use the information to contact the parents as quickly as possible.

Graycap23 said:

Good now people in Europe (well at least London) can calm the hell down about him not performing there.

xenophobia2002 said:

thanks for the info about the wrist band and I have reservations about the age limit already.

TchoFessio said:

Yeah, and hopefully you won't mess up things for everyone else in the future b/c you posted the password. I don't think you should have posted it. What's the point of having pre-sale tix if everyone can get the password (including scalpers). Who knows how many pre-sale tickets are available? I'm not in Europe, so I'm not worried, but if I were and had an O2 phone but couldn't get pre-sale tix because the password was posted on a website, I'd be pissed. Same thing when the old NPG sent out a pre-sale password for the first few 3121 Vegas shows.

swdee said:

I agree with you.
But you don't need to buy an o2 phone, all you need is an o2 SIM card.Just get your current phone unblocked and put in the new o2 SIM. It only costs a few quid

metalorange said:

I've been promising my 8 year old nephew that I will take him to see Prince for the last 3 years. But all the other events at the Indigo Bar are 18+. He will be SO disappointed. Prince isn't for "all the family" anymore, by the looks of it.

leecaldon said:

well thats going to go down well 'like a kick in the crutch with a diving boot' and thats just from the wife

jone70 said:

I agree - not a good idea to post the password on a public forum. Let's hope this doesn't ruin it.

IstenSzek said:

true though, we teach em' young over here!

beautifullandb said:

You don't even need to do that, I just went down the local park and mugged some little kid for his mobile phone, though after getting 2 vodafones and an orange I started asking the kids if they were on O2 before I stole their phones.

IstenSzek said:

Well, I was half-expecting that but it would be GREAT if you could make it. I will keep my fingers crossed. I totally understand, though - *I* can hardly afford it but I have to go. Fambot that I am.

Oh, and I bloody *knew* there was something I forgot to do in Amsterdam - buy you a tequila! I remember what you said it does to you.

IstenSzek said:

What was that?? ~slurs~

Hooray! I'm so happy for our orgers in the UK! Enjoy the shows guys.

sorry for posting the password earlier, i can't see it really being a problem ticket number wise, only trying to be helpful guys....

leecaldon said:

Co-sign, not fair to us O2 users who may miss out on the priority tickets to some non o2 users now. I know it was done with the best of intentions, but I'm glad luv4u snipped the post.

ZARIA7ETAN said:

Why should an O2 customer have priority over a prince fan who has supported him their whole life? Just because someone is on a certain network does not mean they should get any priority over a vodafone customer.

What about the NPGMC members. Priority should be for those fans who joined his fanbase.

I do not agree with this process and will get the tickets by any other means. Friends who are on O2 should help the Prince fan community.

Savage said:

Co sign 2
As NPGMC members we were all in the same situation.. Prince fans, going to a Prince concert.
Now it is a Prince fan, who happens to have an O2 network who gets priority ???
BULLOCKS !!!

but will he release a new cd BEFORE these shows?

Savage said:

Oh lord, here we go with the "true fan" stuff again. So by your logic O2 customers aren't Prince fans who have "supported him their whole life"? If someone orgnotes you the password, that's their choice. I just think it's a bad idea to post it on a public website.

How would you feel if there was a password for vodafone customers and someone posted it for all to use. Then you, as a vodafone customer, logged on to get your pre-sale tickets....oops too bad, they're all gone because some scalper got the password from a website post. Now if you want tickets you'll have to pay twice as much to someone who (horror of horrors) may not even like Prince!

Yes, I'm exaggerating a bit, but that's why people shouldn't post the password. Next time, there may not be a password for anyone....and that will suck for everyone.

Im a O2 customer and a fan, was I peed off when the npg was getting the pre sale tickets or the sound checks NO. If Vodoaphone had sponsored him then i still wouldnt be peed off I would still go to the concert.



So please no more org notes about the pass word thanks

jone70 said:

Oh come on! The simple thing is, mobile network has NOTHING to do with ANY concert being held ANYWHERE. This priority thing is ridiculous. People getting a phone because of a concert? What? I really hope Prince wasn't talking about this at the NAACP award show:
>>>And I would just challenge the phone companies and the new digital providers to allow us to be the gatekeepers to stewart the new jazz renaissance hip hop and soul music in the 21st century rather then the accounts and lawyers who ruined the music industry this first time around. <<<

What exactly is wrong with a concert without a password? That wouldn't suck for me. That's how it almost always goes, and frankly, I'm quite fond of it!

Getting priority seats because you paid more. Fine!
Getting priority because you joined a fanclub. Fine!
Getting priority because you go to a certain hairdresser. Eat dirt!

Savage said:

I'm not saying I agree with the whole presale to O2 customers only - I don't. It's clearly unfair to Prince fans who happen to be on other networks.
As a member of the dearly departed NPGMC I agree that we are the ones who should have been given priority, but unfortunately it hasn't happened that way.

I have no problem with people giving their friends passwords if they are a fan, the point I was making is that a password should not be on a public forum as it makes a mockery of the whole presale process, just as it would if an NPGMC presale password was posted on an open forum.
[Edited 5/7/07 12:23pm]

ZARIA7ETAN said:

Here Here!