New York Get Together

who is coming for the gig , we should  get together before the show, have a few Drinks, Etc. How about a roll call?

i will be there :o

Count me in.

WenOrder wrote: Hey Frank! You can count me in. I'll be heading to NYC after chicago.

whats up mike!?! i was thinking about hitting chicago too , but i am moving on the 1ST and funds are low. you coming down by yourself?

sounds good mike, i m getting out of work late(8PM) so leave me a message or i will ring you when i leave.

I think my brother and I might be game. Nothing could keep us from the show in NYC.

Spotnick wrote: Now if they can only announce it, I'd be VERY happy... so I can book my trip without being ripped off.

It's happening, Nic! Bloody better be. Some of us have flights booked to testify to this!

Otherwise I'm fcuking off to Vegas after Chicago!

If that was to be the case may even join you. Fancy a busmans holiday, may even swing expenses "all in the line of research."

rusty junker squawker wrote: If that was to be the case may even join you. Fancy a busmans holiday, may even swing expenses "all in the line of research."

Do we have to guess which of you plays the Tom Cruise and which plays the Dustin Hoffman role?

Christmas card list. James Thomas.

I'll be there.

i am coming over for this one . lets hope they play two nights

...still in the planning stages at present ( trying to sell it as a romantic long weekend with her indoors ), but am intent on making this one and am up for a pre-gig beer - if anyone is that organised?

Johnny Giles wrote:

We could do with them announcing the venue before we make any further plans !.

Frank - we can rely on you to point out the best bars in NYC ?!

i will do the best i can once we know the venue, me Wenorder and Spotnick will be together already early on  the day  of the gig so i guess we should decide if we want to meet everyone else a few hours before the gig and hit a bar or just meet afterwards and go to a bar.

i'll be there, as well. and i promise not to talk your ear off this time in my drunken stupor, mike!

Hey, sounds good.  Count me in.  Caught Republic tour at Giants Stadium in '93.  Drove 5 hours with a broken collarbone to see the show!

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i've never been to the hammerstein--or at least i don't think i have as it wasn't a music venue when i lived in the city. it's near MSG, i see.

i vote for someplace in the village, since midtown pubs leave a lot to be desired--perhaps d.b.a. (over 100 beers available)? of course, shug and don developed quite a liking for puck fair's when they were in NYC! on the other hand, we'd have to take cabs or the subway up to the show after the pub if we started out in the village. and there's always that place in the east village we went to, run by that irish bloke, that let us play new order on the jukebox all night long!

anyway...anyone know any good pubs in the MSG area?

I'll be at the NYC show (thanks to WenOrder, who saved me from my annoying boss who of course made me run errands during the two times the tickets were on sale... ) I'd love to meet up with you folks, if you'll have me along. :) Unfortunately, despite living in the area for 16 years, I don't have any helpful suggestions as to where to go (as they were my first 16 years, and therefore no bars were involved, and that was a good decade ago anyway...)

LET ME KNOW OF WHERE YOU PLAN TO MEET,WE ARE FLYING DELTA EARLY MAY 5TH.STAYING AT THE HOTEL PENNSYLVANIA ACROSS FROM MADISON SQUARE GARDEN.1/4 MILE FROM CONCERT...

YEAH BILLY & I ARE FROM ATLANTA,GEORGIA AND HAVE NEVER BEEN TO NEW YORK. LAST TIME WE HAD ANYTHING DOWN SOUTH RELATED TO NEW ORDER WAS MONACO AT THE ROXY IN THE EARLY 90'S (92?)

IM SORRY,"LONG MONDAY AND TIME CHANGED TO DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME,1997 AT THE ROXY...

1/4 mile is an overestimation

it's totally a 3 minute walk from the hotel pennsylvania to the concert.

Also, I'd prefer if someone familiar with new york picked a place for us to go. I'm not to excited on going to the village and then going to midtown for a show that's GA. I'd like to be able to see the band thanks. Besides the fact that it's such a touristy suggestion.

I'm going to be in the dinner accross the street in the hotel new yorker. I loved their food when I worked in one of the offices there.

when i lived in the city i NEVER hung out in midtown...so i have no clue as to where we should go in that area. i'll be staying with my friend near lincoln center, it's a bit far north but maybe she has some ideas.

p.s. chriss person: what's so 'touristy' about going to the village for a drink? i lived in manhattan for years so i'd hardly consider myself a tourist, thank you!

Just because it's not times square doesn't make it not touristy. The village is where all the tourists who don't want to be fingered as tourists go.

:D

Really my problem is it's too far from the show.

Chelsea is a good compromise as far as we don't go too far south?

I'm interested. Any info? Location & Time?

I got my tickets on the floor luckily enough and I'm flying back from Houston that day arriving at 6:30.

Where is the get together...I usually go to the Houlihan's on the corner.

The show sold out in 30 minutes and they might have another show. Hopefully it'll be the next night and I can go again.

yyeaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!

eCKOh

Tommy Horan wrote:

Where is the get together...I usually go to the Houlihan's on the corner.

Isn't it a TGIfridays? I think it's a great suggestion because it's sooo close. But I'm sure there will be people here who are too cool for that.

But for people who say that there's nothing to do around there:

Restaurants in the west 30s

TGI FRIDAYS IS FINE WITH ME,THEY HAVE A GOOD SIZE BAR AREA THAT IS SEPERATED FROM THE MAIN EATING AREA...

JUST CALLED TGI FRIDAYS AND TALKED TO KATLIN,SHE SAID THE BAR AREA IS SEPRATED,WITH ROOM FOR 40-50 PEOPLE...THE ONLY THING SHE SAID IS CINCO DE MAYO.MIGHT BE A LITTLE BUSY... BUT WHO CARES WE ARE GOING TO SEE NEW ORDER THATS WHAT REALLY MATTERS, BESIDES IF WE MEET HERE,I'LL BUY A PITCHER....AND STUMBLE TO HAMMERSTEIN. SOUTHERN BOY ,JEFF

I'll be there.

I just found a website that covers nothing but New York bars.

http://www.sheckys.com/

Search under "Midtown" if you want something really close to Hammerstein. But with cabs and the subway, no place is that far. Something in the Village or Chelsea or even uptown a bit would be fine, too!

the TGIFridays is right there, i guess thats a good place to go before hand but we can jump a train downtown afterwards and hit a bar, tgif's closes pretty early on a thursday if i remember correctly

frank smarra wrote: the TGIFridays is right there, i guess thats a good place to go before hand but we can jump a train downtown afterwards and hit a bar, tgif's closes pretty early on a thursday if i remember correctly

I think it's perfect for a pre-show! But I said that already.

Hit the town after the show. Don't risk being too far before!

So is the location settled then?

What about time? 4:30? 5? later? earlier?

doors open at 6? or 6:30?

so i gues we should meet at 4:00 at TGIFridays , are we all planning to go in at the time the doors open? if so we should line up at like 5:15-5:30 we can meet at fridays, maybee exchange some cell phone numbers before hand (i will be with spotnick and wenOrder already) then after we head downtown, there is so many more choices there, we can just stumble onto a good spot.

Whoever is meeting up before the show e-mail me

djeckoh@yahoo.com

I think I'll have some smoke.

I'll be just getting back from Houston so I'm gonna need a kickstart

eCKOh