From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V9 #57 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Wednesday, March 3 2004 Volume 09 : Number 057 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] BF added show in UK [KB Porter ] Re: [AVALON] BF added show in UK ["Thomas Wallace" ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 10:41:58 -0500 From: KB Porter Subject: Re: [AVALON] BF added show in UK "Tickets (phew!) are #55, #47.50, #35. Sorry if the pound symbol makes that unreadable for some readers. Tickets are 55, 47.50 and 35. Steep, I'd say." Geez. Those prices rival what we have had the pleasure of paying to see Bryan Ferry in the United States since he resurfaced with the old standards of "As Time Goes By"! Why so much? - Are those prices in line with ticket prices for 'comparable' artists playing England? Best wishes. KBP ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 16:46:43 -0000 From: "Thomas Wallace" Subject: Re: [AVALON] BF added show in UK - ----- Original Message ----- From: "KB Porter" To: Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 3:41 PM Subject: Re: [AVALON] BF added show in UK > Tickets are 55, 47.50 and 35. > Steep, I'd say." > Are those prices in line with ticket prices > for 'comparable' artists playing England? Clapton is charging #40 & #50 his Glasgow show so I decided not to go this time round and you get less chance to see him than Ferry on his never ending tour. I doubt very much if I'll be willing to pay this sort of money for Ferry either, personally i don't think any band is worth that sort of money. Tom. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:17:24 EST From: Go2Sweeney@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] BF added show in UK In a message dated 02/03/2004 16:55:02 GMT Standard Time, thom.wallace@ntlworld.com writes: > Clapton is charging #40 2 his Glasgow show so I decided not to go this > time round and you get less chance to see him than Ferry on his never ending > tour. I doubt very much if I'll be willing to pay this sort of money for > Ferry either, personally i don't think any band is worth that sort of money. > Well, The Rolling Stones charged a hell of a lot more. I paid a small fortune for my tickets, but, as I presume this was their last tour, it was worth it. I certainly would not see them again at those prices. Both Lou Reed and John Cale charged less on their recent tours, and I enjoyed the shows of the latter two much more than the Rolling Stones (or BF solo shows for that matter), so you can't really equate prices with "worth it". Cheers, Goodie ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:28:57 EST From: KWil632057@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] The Price of Tickets (They cost you more when you have to pay) I don't think Ferry is doing a hell of a lot of work to justify those kind of prices. He's in his fifth year of touring now and frankly the novelty has long since worn off. I can't believe that (a) the casual fans will buy tickets at these prices and (b) many of us die hards will be wanting to pay the high sums to hear the same tired old set list. Am I wrong? J ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 18:06:23 -0000 From: "Thomas Wallace" Subject: Re: [AVALON] The Price of Tickets (They cost you more when you have to pay) - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 5:28 PM Subject: [AVALON] The Price of Tickets (They cost you more when you have to pay) > I don't think Ferry is doing a hell of a lot of work to justify those kind of > prices. > > He's in his fifth year of touring now and frankly the novelty has long since > worn off. I can't believe that (a) the casual fans will buy tickets at these > prices and (b) many of us die hards will be wanting to pay the high sums to > hear the same tired old set list. > > Am I wrong? No, I think that you've hit the nail square on the head. Tom. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 19:40:16 +0000 (GMT) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Chris=20Turner?= Subject: Re: [AVALON] The Price of Tickets (They cost you more when you have to pay) sigh...OK, here we go for the 1757th time... Ferry doesn't set the price of the tickets. His only responsibility is to turn up and play, for which he is paid. The promoter sets the price of the tickets. The ticket agencies sell the tickets. These are not difficult concepts. The price of tickets on the rest of the tour is #26 - a perfectly reasonable price for a night's entertainment. Try getting into a West End show or a Chelsea match that cheaply. Only Hampton Court are charging the high prices, and you can always complain to the owner about that. Here's her details: Mrs E Windsor Buckingham Palace The Mall London Apparently she needs the money. Of course, if you're not happy with the cost of tickets, the setlist or anything else, you also have the right not to go. That's your prerogative. Oh, and as for the 'tired old setlist?' Those songs are Bryan Ferry's life's work, and the reason we're all here. You are fans, right? Chris ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:49:16 -0800 From: "Helene K. Dreyer" Subject: Re: [AVALON] The Price of Tickets (They cost you more when you have to pay) What about the venue? Don't they have any say in the cost of the ticket for the use of their facilities?? Bravo, Chris. back to lurking..... Helene On Tuesday, March 2, 2004, at 11:40 AM, Chris Turner wrote: > sigh...OK, here we go for the 1757th time... > > Ferry doesn't set the price of the tickets. His only responsibility is > to turn up and play, for > which he is paid. > The promoter sets the price of the tickets. > The ticket agencies sell the tickets. > > These are not difficult concepts. > > The price of tickets on the rest of the tour is #26 - a perfectly > reasonable price for a night's > entertainment. Try getting into a West End show or a Chelsea match > that cheaply. Only Hampton > Court are charging the high prices, and you can always complain to the > owner about that. Here's > her details: > > Mrs E Windsor > Buckingham Palace > The Mall > London > > Apparently she needs the money. > > Of course, if you're not happy with the cost of tickets, the setlist > or anything else, you also > have the right not to go. That's your prerogative. > > Oh, and as for the 'tired old setlist?' Those songs are Bryan Ferry's > life's work, and the reason > we're all here. You are fans, right? > > Chris > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" > your friends today! Download Messenger Now > http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > ____ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 22:24:56 +0100 From: Daniel Atterbom Subject: Re: [AVALON] The Price of Tickets (They cost you more when you have to pay) At 19.40 +0000 04-03-02, Chris Turner wrote: >Mrs E Windsor Should that not be Mrs E Mountbatten? The family changed its name from Battenberg to the English translation Mountbatten during WW1. Or have they changed again? - -- Daniel ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 21:55:13 +0000 (GMT) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Chris=20Turner?= Subject: Re: [AVALON] The Price of Tickets (They cost you more when you have to pay) No. Philip is a Mountbatten, Elizabeth and her progeny are Windsors. Chris --- Daniel Atterbom wrote: > At 19.40 +0000 04-03-02, Chris Turner wrote: > >Mrs E Windsor > > Should that not be Mrs E Mountbatten? The family changed its name > from Battenberg to the English translation Mountbatten during WW1. Or > have they changed again? > -- > > Daniel ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 17:34:30 EST From: Stevesiren@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] The Price of Tickets (They cost you more when you have to pay) In a message dated 02/03/2004 21:40:56 GMT Standard Time, daniel.atterbom@odata.se writes: > The family changed its name > from Battenberg to the English translation Mountbatten during WW1 The family changed its name from Saxe-Coburg to Windsor during WW1 , as George V (Elizabeth's grandfather} thought that the former was to German Steve Scharma ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 17:58:45 -0500 From: "Caledonia Controls Inc." Subject: Re: [AVALON] The Price of Tickets (They cost you more when you have to pay) So what has this got to do with Bryan Ferry or Roxy Music? - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 5:34 PM Subject: Re: [AVALON] The Price of Tickets (They cost you more when you have to pay) > In a message dated 02/03/2004 21:40:56 GMT Standard Time, > daniel.atterbom@odata.se writes: > > > The family changed its name > > from Battenberg to the English translation Mountbatten during WW1 > > The family changed its name from Saxe-Coburg to Windsor during WW1 , as > George V (Elizabeth's grandfather} thought that the former was to German > Steve Scharma > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 18:22:13 EST From: Jocelynfiske@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] BF added show in UK >Why so much? Ticket purchase does actually include the freehold to the West Wing of the stately pile, so all things considered, a pretty good deal I'd say. Lady Muck ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 18:55:05 -0500 From: Duarte Mendonca Subject: [AVALON] Aberdeen Tree Offer Thanks to Dan, I can offer the Aberdeen tree to three lucky North Americans who are willing to re-weed on-list. Please contact me off-list. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V9 #57 *************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest