Would you see a Bon Jovi residency at the O2...

If they were guaranteed to only play around 90mins each night and ticket prices are your standard London rates eg. £80 for most expensive, £40 least expensive?

Obviously answer as honestly as possible cos many people might resent it but as soon as gigs come around, they pay out reluctantly and go anyway.

I just thought it would be interesting to see.

Personally, I wouldn't. I'd sooner save my money to see them at a proper stadium show on the actual Circle Tour where you get at least 2h 30 shows with a genuine chance of some rarities. Saw them play the O2 in 2007 and regretted it cos of the £100 tickets for what was barely over the hour and a half mark. The sound and atmosphere was great but there was nothing special in the set so...

What about everybody else? Would you go?

If they were the only UK shows, then i would go to one, partly because I've family who would want to go, but I'd try and go to a European date to get the "full" concert experience.

But on the whole, I would definitely be against a residency as opposed to a standard UK leg of a tour.

That said, I did enjoy the O2 last time, apart from the drive home!

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Sure, I'd do a few. London is a wonderful city and to have your day end with a Bon Jovi show that would only cost me 40E it isn't so bad after all. I'd just make it a week of London and be sure to have some money left to spend on other things like tourist attractions and stuff like that.

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Based on that pricing structure, it would be a no, especially for only a 90 minute set.
The O2 is not the greatest venue for concerts, though AEG evidently think it is.

A residency would become incredibly dull.......
At an absolute push I would go once, and that would only be if I knew there would be no standard UK tour in the summer.

I would rather pay £50 for an outdoor show, knowing I'd get 2 1/2 hours, plus some good support.
However, I also know that we're going to get ripped off again and charged around £75 for a ticket for stadium gigs, regardless of being near the stage or right at the back.

We've already decided that when UK gigs are announced we're not going to buy tickets until the very last minute.
If we miss out, we miss out.... Been disappointed with the last two tours and are ready to make the next one our last.

Would probably depend on a number of things .... how much money I had at the time / whether I was working, if they were going to be the only UK shows, if it was going to be all seated or not ....

I might go see a few, or at least one, but I would still rather they don't do this

I'd be really tempted. Airfare from the U.S. to London isn't bad during the winter (as long as you avoid Christmas). However, if this really does happen during November and December, I'm out of luck. My allotment of vacation days for 2009 has been spent on the Bruce tour.

Yeah I'd head down, I'd love a ticket for the last night.

I'd see a November/December residency as being a pre-tour event so assume they are coming back on the European circuit to do a four or five stadium leg in the UK in summer of next year.

If there was a residency before the end of this year I would probably go see 1 or 2 shows, hopefully saving some cash for stadium shows next summer.

One of the problems with an O2 residency is which shows would be good shows?! At least with the full Euro tour you have a rough idea what shows are going to be good (Munich, Dublin, final show etc). The 10 shows in the Prudential centre were very hit and miss.

The thing that would deter me from considering it, if it were to come to fruition, is the reasoning behind it. It's basically AEG wanting to recover the losses of the Michael Jackson shows by leaning on other big name artists.

Don't get me wrong, I am extremely sceptical that this will ever come about (even more so now that The Sun has published something! ) but if a pig actually flew past my window now and the announcement of the residency did arrive, I'd be seriously worried that they'd be doing the shows at 50% due to the fact that the gigs serve the primary purpose of bailing out AEG, not because Jovi opted to suggest them.

We talk about how easy it has been in the past for the band to slip into auto-pilot mode and yet this would possibly be the most likely scenario in which that auto-pilot button would be pushed. A warm up exercise for the tour next year perhaps.