Tourstart 28.3.05 London Brixton Academy

That's use of the shift key as opposed t caps lock - again - another assumption on your part that you simply can't back up.

I'm leaning more towards Eggy's points of view. They make the most sense to me.

About the lottery.....I'm entered Eggy. I guess I'll find out if I'm to get two tickets Jan. 21st right? Is that the date? It's not looking good for me to go. I want to very bad but with that being the week before our spring break I will feel guilty about taking that extra time off. So if I get the tickets I'll get the tickets to you.

But the announcement clearly states:

"Any customer attempting to resell their tickets will immediately have all of their booking refunded, without notification and with no option to repurchase."

Therefore, I'm assuming that when you get to the door on the night, you will be asked if you are the person that the tickets were won by and if you're not, you will be refused entry.

Imagine being turned away.....the embarassment.

I imagine the tickets will have your name printed on them and perhaps you will have to show some ID

I'm thinking the same as Cliff but no one knows whats going on at the minute.
Besides the name on the ticket can only be right for one of two people, your guest won't have the same name. They tried similar at Glastonbury and it doesn't work. It's quite easy to provide fake ID.

Lisser - Thanks, I've someone else in for me, so maybe if you use your services somewhere else they'd get better usage.

There will be a serial number on each ticket and they will all be on a list against the individual winner's names.

Somehow the box office / venue security will have to check each person against the tickets that they say they have won. If each person takes two tickets, they will be presumably linkd together - one of the two tickets will need to be held by the "winner" and one by his / her "guest".

Now, when it comes to booking the tickets,are they going to ask you to nominate who you ae taking as your guest so that they have a record?

It's all setting it's self up for a complete shambles - you can bet your life that touts will be there on the night flogging tickets.

My plan is to hang about until right before they go on stage and get one off of a tout for about £10 when they find that they still have a bunch of tickets left and need to get rid of them - after I have sold them my two sometime in the afternoon.

What if you are buying the tickets as a gift for another Queen fan? Like if I'm registered on Queen Online but my dear old parents aren't bc they have no pc but I want to get them these tickets? My parents and I do not have the same last name.

That would be bad if I got the tickets, gave them to my parents, got them airfare to London to see this concert and they were turned away at the door.

None the less, I'm in the lottery. If no other fan wants them from me if I get them, then I'll make more of an effort to attend or I'll decline my two tickets if I am chosen to get them and can't attend.

So, doesn't this all go to prove that the whole thing wasn't properyly thought out by QPL in the first place? They are going to have no control on the night as to who's got the right tickets and who actually is / isn't a member of the fan club. Best thing to have done would be to make it a fan club ONLY show and that entry can only be gained by providing your membership number at the door.

What this does do of course, is open the way right up for the touts to make an absolute killing. They will be monitoring all this.

I agree in a way Benn..i am a firm believer in that the Brixton Show should have been for FC Members ONLY. This would have solved a lot of the problems that have come about. The FC was around long before the internet world, so i think all those Memebers should be rewarded for STAYING with the Club through the lean years when they could have easily dumped it like so many other people did. This would be the reward for hanging on in there....the ultimate reward in some ways.

Sadly though, apart from what Brian contributes to his own website, Queen fans just aren't thought of highly enough by anyone for them to actually be considered when *anything* is being organised.

Remember the launch for the MIH album at Hammy Apollo? Quite frankly, the whole thing was an embarassment - Roger turning up for all of 20 seconds was a complete joke (and the story about him "popping in before he went on holiday" was complete lie) and there was nothing to see / hear that wasn't familiar to the hard-core. And, as the star prize in the raffle; the wall-mounted box set that no one wanted in the first place.

Fand are seen as a source of money - a bunch of people that QPL can happily exploit because they are pretty certain that 70% of them will just blindly part with their money.

Sad, but true.

One might think this is a life and death matter rather than a rock concert. I am sure the "no selling" rule aims at people who try to sell the much wanted tickets on ebay to make a profit, anything else would just be outrageous. You cannot ask 4900 people for passport, what kind of atmosphere would that be creating?

In the mean time QOL has sent another email encouraging people to enter the lottery. This may indicate that not enough people to sell all tickets have entered yet. So, there may well be a chance for other fans to purchase a ticket. Of course, this is just speculation.

I think you are right Barb.

I think you can only buy two.

The no selling thing is quite explicitly direct in terms of what it says. But, what they haven't done is to outline to potential customers EXACTLY how they are expected to be able to prove that it is actually the person in the queue on the night that bought the ticket(s).

As for the reminder e-mail, that's a standard thing that they would do just to try to get as many people aware as possible. They can't be seen to not got hat extra yard to ensure that no one can say "well, they didn't tell me". Unfortunately, EVERYTHING seems to be done via e-mails these days and I would imagine that a great number of people are missing out here, just because they don't have e-mail.

I just can't wait to hear the nightmare stories from the night.

You are correct in saying that there are indeed MANY Queen Fans who would love to know about this lottery and have absolutely no clue due to the fact that they are NOT online or have internet access.

I was one of these Fans until very recently...i was out of the loop as far as late breaking news goes regarding Queen. My only source was the FC Mags...and living here Stateside ment that by the time the Mag arrived, it was terribly outdated. I was still thankful to get it though.

If i was STILL that Fan who was not online like i am now (amazingly) i would be VERY anxious and downright livid about this whole thing. Angry as to the fact that i may well have found out far to late to get tickets or learn the tour dates.

I often think of those fans who are still out there that are still in that boat...still have no computer access to the internet. They are probably going crazy trying to find out what's going on, and i'm sure there are loads of them who have absolutley NO CLUE whatsoever about Queen touring at all!

That would be me if i was'nt here now, so my thoughts go out to that unfortunate lot.