U2 - Ottawa - I'm ticketless - should I go anyway?

[JaneNY]

Do you think I can buy a legit ticket from someone outside? Never done this before. (I have my PJ ticket from the same company so I can compare the tickets to see if it looks legit)

[worldwide_suicide]

DO NOT, even if you have a ticket, DO NOT

[Pearl Jam and toast]

that depends...

do you have a thousand dollars..?

i think that's what their tickets cost nowadays isn't it...?

bah.

fuck them, they're too damn conceited. i'd love to have a world wide boycott of U2 until they ground themselves... but that will never happen.

[bubbamackdaddy69]

I think you'd have a better chance in Montreal trying to get tickets..
They are playing back to back nights there..
Wish I could go to see Arcade Fire open especially in Montreal in their hometown

[JaneNY]

DO NOT, even if you have a ticket, DO NOT

Heh I expected a few answers like that lol. I wouldn't follow them like PJ, but I'd like to see them once though.

and no i don't have thousands of dollars. I'm leaning toward not. Wondering if I'd have a better chance in Montreal tomorrow. The website hasn't released ANY tickets, and I've been checking all day.

[iluvcats]

I like their opening act, Institute with Gavin Rossdale.

[bubbamackdaddy69]

Heh I expected a few answers like that lol. I wouldn't follow them like PJ, but I'd like to see them once though.

and no i don't have thousands of dollars. I'm leaning toward not. Wondering if I'd have a better chance in Montreal tomorrow. The website hasn't released ANY tickets, and I've been checking all day.

The local rock station here "The Bear" has been having a bunch of contest to give away tickets..I think they had like 50 to give out

[bubbamackdaddy69]

Do you think I can buy a legit ticket from someone outside? Never done this before. (I have my PJ ticket from the same company so I can compare the tickets to see if it looks legit)

Or you can come to Ottawa and try to get tickets and if not I'll take you on the town and we'll have some beers !!... LOL

[barcoach]

i'd love to have a world wide boycott of U2 until they ground themselves... but that will never happen.

If you want to start it now count me in (a former U2 fan now completely rehabilitated.)

[Red Lukin]

I always thought I'd take a picture of the scalper I bought a ticket from.

[bubbamackdaddy69]

I like their opening act, Institute with Gavin Rossdale.

Actually for Ottawa and both Montreal shows int's the Montreal band "Arcade Fire" opening...

[Uncle Leo]

I am not certain how far it is, but I guess if you REALLY want to see them, go, so long as you are prepared to spend whatever the people on the street will charge. If you are going to go far, don't just turn around without getting in.

If you have the cash, are willing to part with it and want to see the band that bad, then you have to decide...

But if you are only going to be willing to spend some flat amount and will turn around and go home, I'd just stay home.

[bootlegger10]

It's probably too late at this point, but if you stand in line early enough at the venue for day of show tickets, you should have a good shot. And if not succesful, then scalp one. You should be alright. They are expensive though. Not because the band makes them that way, it is because they sell out so damn fast because they play good music, put on a great show, and have millions of fans.

To all the U2 haters, go drive off a cliff. Pearl Jam's tickets are what, $55 a show? Have you seen the stage setup that U2 has? Have you seen the amount of people needed to operate it? The number of trucks sitting outside the venue. There are probably as many people that sit on top of the stage manning just the lights for U2 than Pearl Jam crew members. And yet, U2's tickets are $50 for general admission, and then $120 for club seats. Let go of the jealousy folks. Number one rock band in the world...U2. My favorite band...Pearl Jam.

[Pearl Jam and toast]

it's not really the ticket prices that make me talk about U2 in such a way... its the way Bono handles himself... he thinks he's a fucking god.

and Pearl Jam tickets should fall back towards the 20's when they go on the main US tour.

[bootlegger10]

it's not really the ticket prices that make me talk about U2 in such a way... its the way Bono handles himself... he thinks he's a fucking god.

and Pearl Jam tickets should fall back towards the 20's when they go on the main US tour.

Even Bono admits he's conceited. I just love their music, and if there is anyone in the world of rock that deserves to act like Bono, it is Bono. Part of being the way he is what allows him to get his foot in the door of the White House and whatever building Tony Blair works in. If Bono acted the way he does while at the same time not doing anything to better the world, then I'd say he is a tool. But he brings about change, and it's the attitude about himself that allows him to come up with huge goals like ending world poverty. The One.Campaign, G8 Concerts, getting countries to cancel third-world debts, it's all part of it. I for one am not against promoting your band. As long as you continue to put out good music, then promote away. I've said it a million times here, if Pearl Jam could handle fame like U2, then they might do the same thing. But they can't, and therefore you don't see music videos or tv appearances.