New Order live @ Apollo, Manchester, 2005.11.14

tickets are online at central tickets.co.uk for £70 i had to get mine off their coz only foi=und out about it saturday night!!!

I was buzzin when i heard though!!

Cannot fcukin wait!!

i cant believe this, only got back from holiday today and i hear this news!

fecking gutted! this would have been the first time I've seen this since Move at Lancashire in 2002!

I never miss a manchester show.

i am beyond upset.

Spotnick wrote: I have to wonder why the hell when New Order does a show, it's announced and the sale goes on 24h later.

Gee, when I bought my Depeche Mode tickets, I knew the sale date ONE MONTH in advance.

Is it too hard to do? so people can actually know it's going to happen?

I guess it goes to show that they didn't need to spend any money promoting the gig, as well as being a last minute booking...

As far as promotion went, it was just word of mouth through this (and worldinmotion) websites as well as a story in nme.com? :)

i know this was probably arranged intentionally like this, a small-ish club style gig, but still, I never miss them in Manchester and I'm gutted I'll be missing this. Its not really all that fair to the real fans, who spend a fortune following and supporting them, I ain't paying silly ebay money, like I said in my previous post, am just too upset for words!

Nick King wrote:

Spotnick wrote: I have to wonder why the hell when New Order does a show, it's announced and the sale goes on 24h later.

Gee, when I bought my Depeche Mode tickets, I knew the sale date ONE MONTH in advance.

Is it too hard to do? so people can actually know it's going to happen?

I guess it goes to show that they didn't need to spend any money promoting the gig, as well as being a last minute booking...

As far as promotion went, it was just word of mouth through this (and worldinmotion) websites as well as a story in nme.com? :)

Yeah, it also keeps the armchair fans away. Who needs 'em - they just want Blue bloody Monday anyhows....

Matt Hicks wrote: i know this was probably arranged intentionally like this, a small-ish club style gig, but still, I never miss them in Manchester and I'm gutted I'll be missing this. Its not really all that fair to the real fans, who spend a fortune following and supporting them, I ain't paying silly ebay money, like I said in my previous post, am just too upset for words!

Er, and it also also breaks the hearts of those who don't check on here every day!! Hope you get a ticket, mate!

actually i do check on here every day, except when i am on vacation, and note the join date, not a fecking armchair fan either, jesus this site is cliquey!

i dont have the contacts i used to, i never used to go without a ticket, and if I had know about this earlier then I would have bought a ticket or two.

Hi Folks;

Trigan and me pay a Lot for the tickets on ebay.uk

my last hope is booth tickets are coming.the flight ist Booked.

Trigan,Lordsy (bernd),Confusion and myself have the same Hotel.

Greets to all

We see us!!

wahey.......the bitching begins about who has the biggest cock!!!!!!!

Matt Hicks wrote: i know this was probably arranged intentionally like this, a small-ish club style gig, but still, I never miss them in Manchester and I'm gutted I'll be missing this. Its not really all that fair to the real fans, who spend a fortune following and supporting them, I ain't paying silly ebay money, like I said in my previous post, am just too upset for words!

Get on Ebay then. You're only looking at £15-20 tops added to what you'd have paid the day they went on sale.

Your best bet (if you haven't got a ticket yet) is to go for this on ebay for 55 quid "Buy It Now", which is probably the cheapest out there? Of course, you may get lucky and someone will have a spare, but at the end of the day, a standing ticket (together with booking fees and postage) came to about 40 quid anyway, so an extra 15 quid (+postage) is not that much (in the circumstances)...

A pain in the arse, definitely, as if I'd been on holiday last week, I'd probably be in desperate need of a ticket, but to be honest, I think that this gig was a last minute thought (possibly as a warm-up to the "Hall Of Fame" awards a couple of days later)?

Oh, and people who buy tickets to later sell on ebay for a profit are scum, but that's the problem with supply and demand...

CuanaD wrote: :D :D I'm in! - Thanks to DoN for the spare ticket (and Ryanair) I will be flying in on the day with Clock (who looks like he will be getting a spare ticket from sweetness?).

Looking forward to meeting everyone (& being too drunk to remember anyone ) - there's got to be a few of you guys who I owe a drink. . . .

No worries matey :)

Well now u deffo owe me a beer!!

Al Jarvis wrote:

JOHN SLIMIN wrote: the bitching begins about who has the biggest cock!!!!!!!

I've got the biggest cock. Easy.

WA-HEEEEEY!!!!! The John Holmes of poultry.

Al Jarvis wrote:

JOHN SLIMIN wrote: the bitching begins about who has the biggest cock!!!!!!!

I've got the biggest cock. Easy.

jesus,alan partridge was right about them 12 foot chickens

It looks like you guys in the UK are going to have a kick ass time!!!! Get drunk, party like if it was the last NO concert.

But please give us the update on what they played and what they did.

Cheers from Chicago!!!!

Is anybody whos bought tickets actually going to these gigs or are they all selling them on Ebay for extortionate amounts of money?

3 F**kin' pages. Jeez

Yup, booked flight/hotel/Heathrow Express, contemplating choice of pub, so am definitely going, otherwise I'll be severely out of pocket! :)

Unfortunately, for gigs with big names, there are only a finite number of seats, so excess demand as against (relatively) small supply = profit on ebay and for touts...

Sucks, as if I'd bought more tickets than I needed and/or couldn't go to a particular New Order gig, I'd either (preferentially) offer it to people on this forum for cost price (i.e. ticket price + booking fee), or (failing the first option) put it on ebay for the same price at "Buy It Now".

When there's money to be made, people turn into greedy bastards... Way of the world, unfortunately... :\ohwell:

So chuffed about the Brixton date, spent 3 days away from my PC last wek only to find the Apollo shows announed, and could I get a standing tix ?

Then they anounce Brixton and my mate from the south has sold me his standing tix for the Apollo so he can attend the Brixton show.

Happy ? Just a little bit.

Cannot wait, missed the 1998 Apollo show and had to be contented with the Reading show, and after the mixed weather and punch up in the crowd I got emboiled in during Wireless I cannot wait.

Jesus, just noted my join date, and my number of posts. I'm embarassed. Must post here more and keep away from that pesky DM forum.

They are playing the Brixton accademy too. £38.00 in fees for this venue is a rip off, a cynical cash in. I have to ask myself if I can see a better show for less money and the anser is YES!!.

Paul Elmore wrote: They are playing the Brixton accademy too. £38.00 in fees for this venue is a rip off, a cynical cash in. I have to ask myself if I can see a better show for less money and the anser is YES!!.

Well the question then has to be who? :)

Prices for gigs, especially popular groups, are sufficiently priced to copy with whoever pays that much (i.e. us fans). If we all refused to pay the 38 quid per ticket, then the price would have to be lower, but (as has been shown with the Apollo gig), it only took a couple of days to sell out the venue.

Sure, I don't agree with it, but aren't other popular bands' (e.g. Depeche Mode, U2, etc) tickets similarly priced?

Nick King wrote:

Paul Elmore wrote: They are playing the Brixton accademy too. £38.00 in fees for this venue is a rip off, a cynical cash in. I have to ask myself if I can see a better show for less money and the anser is YES!!.

Well the question then has to be who? :)

Prices for gigs, especially popular groups, are sufficiently priced to copy with whoever pays that much (i.e. us fans). If we all refused to pay the 38 quid per ticket, then the price would have to be lower, but (as has been shown with the Apollo gig), it only took a couple of days to sell out the venue.

Sure, I don't agree with it, but aren't other popular bands' (e.g. Depeche Mode, U2, etc) tickets similarly priced?

Yep, I'm going to see Depeche Mode next year - but when me brother quoted the near-£35 it was gonna cost I wish I'd never said yes. And we're right at the back of the MEN enormodome.

That said, it IS expensive to see NO, and there is part of me that just knows they can charge that much because we're idiots and love them too much, but personally (and I guess this goes for most of us) I couldn't imagine being anywhere else on those two nights. £40 is a small price to pay.

I saw Carter USM at Glasgow College of Technology In 1991 and the ticket price was £2.50. Still got the stub as proof!

On another note, I'm travelling back from Manchester Victoria train station (via fecking Bolton and Edinburgh). How central is this place? Only know Picadilly.

Its not central but at least Picadilly is on the right side of town. On the mapfollow the A6 north and off the edge to get to central Mcr.

Pogues 1985 £1 NO/Smiths/Fall etc 1986 £10

Still rather pay £40 for this than a similar amount for any football match.

Victoria is pretty central, just hope on a tram heading towards Bury and it will deliver you right into the bowels, so to speak; but its only a short walk.

right to be a little bit clearer- get a bus back into the town centre from the Apollo (should take about five mins) which will probably deliver you back to piccadilly gardens where you can get on a tram. the tram is free cos you have a train ticket so might as well use to make sure you don't get lost, and also wandering around that part of town at night, well lets say having a quizzical look on your face probably isn't the best idea. Anyone at the gig will be willing to help you though, especially your fellow noolers.