andyb
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Post by andyb on Dec 24, 2009 12:00:57 GMT -5
Tickets bought , hotel booked , work leave booked and travel plans made then you go and postpone !!. Really hope the UK dates are postponed and dont eventually get cancelled.
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Post by John on Dec 24, 2009 14:43:26 GMT -5
i feel your pain my brother. i had the same thing happen to me back in 2000 on the holy tour. i flew across the u.s. to see u.d.o. and the shows that i had tickets for were all cancelled but there was no warning about it at all. i didn't find out until after i'd flown 2000 miles to see them. luckily they had a great manager at the time and he got me hooked up a few months later when they came back to the u.s. on my side of the country. i'm forever indebted to frank T. for that!
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Post by andyb on Dec 25, 2009 3:36:49 GMT -5
At least its a UK show this time , in August we booked up to see the Aerosmith/ZZ Top tour in Chicago , tour cancelled (again!) and ended up enjoying 4 days at leisure in the windy city. Sometimes I dont think bands have any idea how much their fanbase is willing to spend in order to see them !
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Post by Tomcat on Dec 25, 2009 4:37:56 GMT -5
i feel your pain my brother. i had the same thing happen to me back in 2000 on the holy tour. i flew across the u.s. to see u.d.o. and the shows that i had tickets for were all cancelled but there was no warning about it at all. i didn't find out until after i'd flown 2000 miles to see them. And I know another affair which was even more horrible. The one when you travelled a lot to your own Vykyng show and found out that the show was cancelled... By the way just lurked on the .U.D.O. website and checking the last couple of news I found lots of them ending with "postponed" and "cancelled"... What the heck is going on? |
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Post by John on Dec 26, 2009 2:11:12 GMT -5
yeah, that did suck to show up to the venue and find out that the promoter has cancelled the show. i'm surprised you remember that tomcat!! bart and i had a beer afterward and tried to laugh that whole day off.
i wonder too what is happening. could it be that this tier of metal bands is having a hard time drawing people that getting their price from the promoters? i know it's happening here. the economy is so bad. many shows are cancelled.
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Post by metalheart2 on Dec 27, 2009 10:24:06 GMT -5
I feel your pain Andy. Luckily I've never had that happen to me. Looking at the upcoming year I can only hope none of the great shows in the horizon gets cancelled. Im mainly referring to the Accept, Blaze and Ac/Dc shows.
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andyb
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Post by andyb on Dec 29, 2009 14:28:36 GMT -5
I dont wish to keep coming down on the UK dates but out of the three venues , two are still showing that tickets are on sale , only London is showing as postponed. The advertising for these shows has been zero in any magazines at least , with only a small listing in the gig calendar in "Classic Rock" which does not hit the shelves for a few more days yet !.
If the shows have been postponed due to ticket sales how the hell will anyone buy a ticket if they dont know the show is going on. Poor management or poor promoter ? who knows ??.
Its hard enough getting money out of people at the moment but surely half the battle is won by advertising gigs.
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Post by John on Dec 29, 2009 18:17:41 GMT -5
welcome to the puzzle that is u.d.o. promotion my brother!!! i've been wondering the same since 1998!
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Post by andyb on Jan 6, 2010 12:44:32 GMT -5
Just had an email from the Rescue Rooms (not Rock City !) in Nottingham informing me of a new show date for May 24th. Good news and for once a promise of a "reschedule" has been kept by a band.
p.s. U.D.O. need to get some kind of advertising done for the dates this time here in the UK.
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Post by Tomcat on Jan 7, 2010 1:57:17 GMT -5
May 24th is a great date for a .U.D.O. show. I saw them in 2004 on that day. It was their ThunderBall World Tour and the show was just amazing! Maybe the best .U.D.O. show I've ever seen  |
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Post by jenokellner on Jan 7, 2010 3:24:05 GMT -5
May 24th is a great date for a .U.D.O. show. I saw them in 2004 on that day. It was their ThunderBall World Tour and the show was just amazing! Maybe the best .U.D.O. show I've ever seen I have to agree,I had been there too myself ! Jeno |
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Post by andyb on Jan 18, 2010 13:08:01 GMT -5
Latest news today , Nottingham cancelled now ! , after two attempts it is now full refunds from ticket people. Dominator UK Tour 2010 , good while it lasted !!
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Post by John on Jan 18, 2010 14:56:26 GMT -5
wow. that's bad news man. sorry to hear about it.
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Post by Tomcat on Jan 19, 2010 3:14:51 GMT -5
Really sorry to hear that. That's really "bloody brilliant"  |
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