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[AlanUK]

Not sure if anyone knew this but Green Day are touring the UK in Jan/Feb next year and tickets went on sale today.

One of the venues was announced as Plymouth and I thought, excellent I'll pop down on Saturday morning and secure a couple of tickets

So I arrived this morning DW in tow in the cold dawn air at 8am the box office didn;t open until 9:30 and whilst there were plenty in the queue it didn't look too bad.

Anyway after waiting for over 2 hours an official looking gentleman came out and picked a point about 50 people ahead of me and said to everybody waiting behind that point that they definitely wouldnt be getting tickets . I was slightly annoyed at this point as a lot of tickets seemed to be going to people who were turning up late but joining in with their mates further up the queue, which just isn't cricket in my mind

Anyway I have stewed about it all day and I have decided that it's a chance that I might not get again so I have bought some tickets on-line for the Manchester Evening News Arena. This might be a bit of a trek but it's better than giving the money to one of the queue jumpers who bought a couple of extra tickets that I could have had in order to make a fast buck on ebay where a £22.50 ticket is selling for £60 or more

Anyway the problem I now have is that I have never been to Manchester and have no idea where the MEN Arena is and what hotels are in the area to stay at So if someone has any information on this and could offer me some advice I would be very grateful.

Thank you for rreading this long winded post

Alan.

 

[KayleeUK]

Any info on shopping would be good too

 

[Tammy Stringer]

Bad luck Alan,

We were lucky enough to get tickets for Brighton. Went online at 9.30am and just kept trying until the site became free.

Kev

 

[AlanUK]

Well Done sounds like you are going to have a bit of a trek too though.

I'm not too disappointed now that I am going, I would of preferred to stay local as it's only 15 minutes from the house in plymouth, but it was not to be

It will be ok going to Manchester me and DW will stay over and make a weekend of it, even if it does mean I have to be dragged around the shops all day on saturday

I still get to see a great band peform on the friday night.

 

[Miffy2003]

Alan,

Is the MEN arena the old G-Mex? If so I have been here but won't give you any info until I know it is the same place!

By the way, I think all people that push into queues should not be allowed tickets and the people that save a place for them should have their tickets taken away from them too

Green Day are fantastic and I would love to see them live, so good news that you got hold of tickets in Manchester

Cheers

Karen

PS Kaylee - shopping is great in Manchester

 

[Bexx]

I thought the MEN and G-Mex were one and the same. But I asked DH and he insisted that they weren't - and he was right. The MEN used to be called the Nynex. Here is a link to hotels nearby. And if that fails, we have a reasonably priced spare room!!

 

[rhysd2]

green day plymouth

alan theres a link to ticketmaster.co.uk

it seems to have tickets for all the various gren day gigs. im planning on booking myself and jessica a ticket for either cardiff or plymouth too. super excited to see them.

 

[AlanUK]

Thanks for the info

Rhys, although it says ticket are available on ticketmater if you click through on the links to actually buy them it tells you that they are sold out

The only place I could find that had half decent tickets left by the time I got back from queuing up was in Manchester on the friday night.

I tried asking the box office at Plymouth how many tickets had been in the allocation and whether any more were likely to become available and the girl on the phone told me she wasn;t allowed to say how many had been sold but to keep phoning up everyday to see if more had become available

 

[Hilary]

Ashamed (but not too proud ) to admit I'd never heard of Green Day until youngest DD begged me to try for tickets yesterday morning for the Cardiff date.

I was on permanent re-dial for nearly 2 hours, as well as trying the Ticketmaster site, and eventually got through on the venue phone line and got 6 tickets for DD and her gang !

However, I was a bit miffed to find that the venue booking office charged a £2.50 booking fee per ticket I would have expected this from a ticket agency, and would have been happy with one fee for the whole transaction direct from the venue, but to add it to each ticket seemed downright greedy. Why not just say the tickets are £25.00 each?

Anyway, DD's happy, her mates are happy, and I'll be happy when they've all paid me back when the cc bill comes in!

 

[KayleeUK]

Becky

Thanks for that link - I have booked us in at the Travelodge Looking forward to shopping

 

[Kevin Stringer]

Typical!

Alan's excited about going to see a band that will blow your brains out with their brand of American punk and Kaylee is excited about going shopping!
Priorities ladies, priorities.

I said to Tam that we would have to leave in plenty of time next Saturday for the DIS Meet as it's half term and the roads would be quite full. Her response was 'Oh good. We can get there early, Exeter's good some lovely shops'.

And I get branded 'one'dimensional' because I like sport and beer! (Shouldn't that be two-dimensional?)

Kev

 

[Bexx]

Happy to help Kaylee - hope you have a great weekend. And ignore Kev - enjoy your shopping!!

 

[Goofyish]

I hadn't heard of Green Day until I saw them on Jules Holland the other night. Have since download a few tracks to put onto a CD for the car

 

[AlanUK]

{Moves to the one dimensional part of the room where there is Sport and Beer }

 

[ejones999]

Must admit I have never heard of the group either but the MEN Arena is situated near VICTORIA Railway station. One of the entrances leads to the station and from inside the station you climb up more stairs to get in the Arena.
There are a lot of central hotels close by within walking distances.
Eric

 

[shellbell]

Kaylee Manchester is fab for shopping you have the city centre and deansgate. In the centre there is so many shops theres the The Arndale Centre its got about 200 shops. A massive M&S over about 5 floors. thers lots of designer shops too and of course the Disney store. Deansgate is very posh, on deansgate theres a great department store called Kendals a great childrens shop called Daisy and Tom. Theres also the Lowry designer oulet www.lowrydesigneroutlet.com It hasn't been there that long and i have only been once when it first opened so i don't know what its like now

The best for me is The Trafford Centre It has everything that you need. www.traffordcentre.co.uk

Wherever you go shopping you will have a great time and Alan will be very tired having to carry all those bags

Michelle

 

[UKANGEL]

wow! I think you're all really lucky as Id love to see them!

 

[KayleeUK]

Michelle

Thank you for those links Dh won't be too impressed LOL