Why didn't they Sell out? Thoughts...(Re:Chicago)

If the lackluster ticket sales for the 4,000 seat Aragon are any indication, NewOrder might be feeling the effect of ignoring their North American fanbanse in their pocketbooks. I am a frequent poster at another Chicago message board and when I posted that tickets were on sale, a lot of people were surprised that they were still around and thought they never toured the states. A lot of people have seemed to have given up on the band, which is rightfully so, because they have paid little if no attention to their audiences in the states.

If you think about it...most fans will buy 2 tickets...one for themself and another for a friend that might not be a "superfan", like us...so, NewOrder couldn't even muster 2,000 fans in the Chicago area to "pony-up" and buy a ticket to their monumental show for the ages and that is including all the crazy asses that are traveling from all over the globe to see these guys play in the crap-hole Aragon Ballroom.

I have even told a lot of my friends about this show and I am sure many of you have done the same and they have all purchased multiple tickets as well...The signs are all there, Neworder is slipping...they better start marketing themselves a little better otherwise they will be playing the local pubs like "The English Beat" are presently doing...

I am just a little worried about the show not selling out....They will certainly never want to return to Chicago if they don't get a sell-out for this show, otherwise, it would be a waste of effort on their part.

Like Spotnik said, this gig was rushed.  Not alot of time to advertise.  I only knew about it from this website.  Still have time to sell more tickets.  How many are left?

a bunch of my friends who are casual fans purchased tickets. None of them knew of the show at first because they don't visit this site or listen to xrt. i posted this in another thread called "Aragon, I blame poor promotion" on this forum.

the show was officially announced on Monday and went on sale Saturday. XRT can only do so much promotion in less than a week. They hit the papers with ads, advertise on the station, their website, etc... And honestly, I hate XRT and all the radio staions except 670 the Score which does'nt play music and college stations, but I respect XRT for promoting cool bands. Q101 and 80's @ 8 on 101.9 won't mention the show at all cause its an xrt show (unless they are owned by same company). i think it will sell out before May 3rd.

My biggest fear, is that they waited to announce a NYC show to see how well San Fran. and CHI sold.. we know Chi. didn't sell out, but I am not sure about San Fran... I just hope they don't just give up on NYC all together..

they really need to promote the shows more.. had I not been on this site or worldinmotion.net I never would have even heard of the other shows..

on the plus side, maybe they will think twice about charging so much money for those tickets.. I mean I love New Order but 47 bucks! How about 25-30.. it isn't that it is 47 bucks. but with all the horrendous ticketmaster bleeping charges.. it is way too much a surcharge for a ticket.. a 47 ticket has a surcharge of almost 10 bucks! Ridiculous.. and they have a complete stonghold over the business.. most venues only use ticketmaster..

oh well... crossing my fingers for NYC..

i didn't think 47 was that much for GA tickets

Well I am disappointed, I really wished to show some more support of the godlike genius band that influenced pretty much any hot act out today. But I dont care if we have more space to ourselves at the venue. I dont care I dont care. If its just the real fans that feel like showing then all the better i guess. Let the fair-weathered fans piss off. Might make a better show knowing that we're there cos we really lvoe them. Also, if Billy shows up it might be better with less people to say "oh my GOD! look who it is! oh this is so cool...etc..." and then we'll all be so cool for being htere when it all pays off and itll be good times and all that.

What makes me wonder is: how do you know that it DID not sell out? As far as I know the gig is still to take place...

Just wait and see, nobody expected it to sell out in 2 hours after ticket offices opende.

i agree. as of this posting tix are still available for the chicago show. i bought 2 tix from ticketmaster for a total of $118.88 after all those damn fees (with the free slow snail mail). unfortunately aragon doesn't have a convenient box office like some other chicago venues where you can bypass the online fees except on the night of the show and by then it's sold out.

the CA show with the Chemical Brothers is a great double bill. if new order needed an ego boost to see how well they'd do without announcing an opening act I guess they have their answer.

Another local concert venue/promoter the Metro (where I've seen quite a few good shows) just sent out the following email. this should help get the word out.

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