Fan Club Arrangements for the UK SHOWS!!!!!!!

That "doors will be held" - thing worked just fine at least in Zurich where the instructions were same as in UK... but some FC members almost fücked the whole thing up. I even had to tackle one son of b!tch to the barricades cause she was running like mad to get in front of me. not gonna happen and very sorry for that and if ya read this.... I´d do it again anytime.

But the point is... don´t worry. Kevin will make sure that FC gets their priviledges properly.

M

all i can say is that English concerts always get screwed up by the security, I can give a few examples and these are shows where there was not even fanclub priveleges.

i suppose with dublin(?)/ibrox we will find out what goes on... but i never have much faith in English concert organisation

Milton Keynes 2001 was an amazing show, but enough for me to nearly say i'd never go to a stadium show again

Can you tell me what all this is about? I have seen loads of people comment on how awful it was at this show but have no idea what happened. I was there too - seems I missed out on the ruckus. I queued for my wristband, queued at the gate I was told to be at, got in early with the rest of the FC members and had a great spot in the pit. Everything went smoothly for me.

What the hell happened and how come I didn't see any of it? I'm very confused, please share the details.

well there was a bloody big concrete ramp at about 45 degrees... everyone was let in at once... pushed past the security who were taking ages checking some tickets, people were pushing from the side...

everyone did this gigantic sprint down a 45 degree ramp, people were falling over and tripping others up

then for me i got to the fanclub pit where i could have been maybe 3rd or 4th row and got turned away because i had no FC card (even though in 2000 some non-FC members got in)... but also i later found non-FC members got in no problem

then i was on the barrier of normal GA where everyone was pushing before the show even started. We were shouting at them to stay sat down because it will be good for us all, but they didn't listen and people kept pushing and we ended up standing from moment 1 to the very end

then of course it took about 1 hour to leave the venue etc

i didnt even try at stoke, or did I try at huddersfield, but at cardiff, we just queud up with the fan club members and told the guy who was handing out wristbands that we had simply forgotton out cards, but had been queueing up since 12noon and still wanted our wristbands. He said no problem and got them for us. WELL CHUFFED!!!

Well you know what to do this year then

Im hoping to borrow someones card for Man u and Hyde Park, but if i cant i will be miffed

Thanks for filling me in about that - it awful when stuff like that happens - sounds just like the G & R show I went to a good few years back, where there was a huge crush and I got a fractured rib by being pushed so hard against the barrier by the GA crowd.

At least with GS tickets, you'll get in the pit, so hopefully there wont be any crushing.

i'm sorry about that - painful

but don't worry about these shows... i still have absolutely no faith in UK security, but even they can't screw up a concert on such a large scale

they don't get much worse than they were at MK 2001 and that was still a great show, one of the best on the tour i think personally (though i'd have liked stockholm personally )