For Queen fan Club members only!

As a QFC member for almost 20 years I am totally peeved (& that's the worst language I'm prepared to use in public) at the way this lottery for the Brixton show is being carried out. Basically it means a QOL so called "member" of perhaps only a few weeks has as much chance of getting a ticket as really long standing QFC members. It stinks.

I've been trying to work out the probability of getting a ticket but there are too many figures I don't know, such as how many QFC members are there (I've heard maybe only 5000 these days with a lot outside the UK), how many QOL "members" & the capacity of Brixton (I think 5000ish). Also you need to know the likely level of interest (based on the convention interest generally and adding a bit I'd say maybe a third would / could go to the gig). Allowing for the fact you can buy 2 tickets each I reckon we, as QFC members, have about a 75% chance of getting a ticket.

Lets gets discussing this and updating this %age probability if we can firm up the figures and estimates a bit more.

It's all a bit of clever marketing / advertising I think from QPL. They are stirring up all this interest (Brixton, Paris, barcelona, madrid, etc) and really uping the word of mouth out there.

I know we are all being used and made to pay a high price for these tickets but hopefully it will only be the real true fans who get to this gig as I can't see anyone other than a real true fan paying £60ish for this gig.

Comments and more information please.

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My apologies... edited because of maybe too harsh responce in the heat of my disappointment...

Jeroen, if you take that attitude then it should just go on general sale as there are probably 1000's of real fans out there who are not as sad as us lot spending our Friday nights chatting on forums who will all be pretty peeved when the public announcement is made and already the best seats / places are sold out.

The fan club was the original "forum" before all this internet stuff. To me this Brixton show should be fan club members only (not QOL)with priority given for loyalty. OK do another for QOL members only but this one should be a way of finally rewarding QFC members.

Oh, and I really hope (although it is a long shot) that they decide to play at the convention - QFC members only there mate & I've booked already.

The fan club was the original "forum" before all this internet stuff. To me this Brixton show should be fan club members only (not QOL)with priority given for loyalty. OK do another for QOL members only but this one should be a way of finally rewarding QFC members


Pretty sure QTC fans got rewarded very handsomly in the 80's, video shoots what-not.
now QOL will have the same importance as QTC, as the internet being the newage was to be with fans, of course they are gonna use a base from that section of their fan base.

Fanclub members only... loyalty... so I (being a very loyal Queen fan but NOT in the fan club) should have less rights than somebody who's loyal to the fan club (and probably doesn't care about Queen these days anyway)? I get your point but it's not black & white. You will never know if the "loyal" fans are in the fan club, on QueenOnline or in neither of these organizations. Wasting your money in the fan club doesn't make you a more loyal fan - on the other hand, I understand that for the money you expect something more, that's normal.

Don't worry, I'm pretty sure you'll still get your tickets. For this price it can't sell out in the "lottery".

Well, I am a Lifetime member of the Fan Club, Does that show MY loyality? :)

I aggree 100% with cliff, the Brixton show should have been Fan Club members only. I too have been a fan for over 20 years and am annoyed that some edjit who has logged onto QOL at the start of December may get a ticket, it makes a mockery of paying a subscription over the years to the club. I hope that only a very small percentage goes to the internet users and the core support in the FC get a fair deal!!

What makes a member of the fanclub a bigger fan than someone who joined QOL or why are members of the fanclub more entitled? And who is to say that a handful of those members of QOL are not also members of the fanclub? How selfish it is, Cliff, that you feel that you deserve a ticket more than a newer fan. I don't care if you've been a Queen fan for 20 years - a Queen fan is a Queen fan.

Although I can understand your concern, it also just looks like a childish argument and a way for you to flaunt the longevity of your Queen fanaticism in order to make other Queen fans feel as though they are less important.

Having said all this, I hope you are able to get yourself a ticket.

Those of us in the fan club for many years have supported the band through good times and bad, even when nothing was happening. The fact that a "travelling" supporter (jumps on the bandwagon when something big happens) can log on at the start of December and maybe get a ticket for Brixton is annoying. For those of us who have been fc members for 10 years plus and paid subscriptions means that this has been worthless, register online a couple of weeks ago and get the same benefit but I suppose that's the modern world!

Being a fan club member is not supporting the band; it's only giving a job to two ladies. Queen really needed the fan club members only for the video shoots - and being in a Queen video is a great reward for any Queen fan. So don't put it like Queen owe you anything just because you're in the fan club.

This place is starting to sound like a fucking junior school playground, it does matter it you a QFC or QOL member what matter is that Queen + Paul Rogers are going to be touring we all should be grateful they are.

I was once a member of the QFC but couldn’t afforded it and it wasn’t that rewarding so I just stuck to buying Queen + Solo stuff instead the way a fan does. Been a member of the QFC does not give you automatic privileges over anything the band does so that means concert tickets.

The QFC is just the fan club the QOL is the bands website, which is open up to member to subscribe for newsletter concert tickets, etc etc so consider yourself lucky they didn’t just sat the Brixton gig was for QOL members only

I was in the fan club for 10 years - then left cos its shit! So i entered the lottery. Big Deal.

"Those of us in the fan club for many years have supported the band through good times and bad, even when nothing was happening. The fact that a "travelling" supporter (jumps on the bandwagon when something big happens) can log on at the start of December and maybe get a ticket for Brixton is annoying."

- So...what you're saying is, anyone who is not a member of the QFC has not supported Queen? Gotcha, that makes sense.

"For those of us who have been fc members for 10 years plus and paid subscriptions means that this has been worthless, register online a couple of weeks ago and get the same benefit but I suppose that's the modern world!"

- If being a member of the QFC turns out to be worthless, then you really have no one to blame but yourself, because no one has forced you to subscribe all those years to the fanclub. As I said before, I can understand the concerns, but all at the same time I think some of you are behaving childishly concerning this issue. You want the best and expect everyone else to just lose out cos they haven't shown the same "support" that you have.

I've never been in the fan club but nevertheless spent my first dollars on Queen back in 1978. Since then I've purchased all the studio albums on vinyl, casette and CD (not to mention all the DVDs)as well as spending hundreds of dollars to see the band live and Brian solo a couple of times. Does that make myself or those like me less deserving of a shot at a ticket or mean we are not supportive of the band? Give it a rest! That said I am not a member of QOL either (IMO it's shit) and am not entered in the lottery.

I do hope you get your ticket of course but in reality nobody should be eliminated from contention. A case could be made that a block of tickets be available for Queenzoners! Yes that includes all the "newbies" and anyone that considers themselves a fan. I am grateful that the first band I truly loved is being discovered by others. The lottery should be available to whoever wants in.

There are no doubts about the fact that Queen Production is working in a "not so much professional way".
The dates should be announced all at once while we already know about 2 spainish gigs, the Vienna one, the Paris one... and we already can buy tickets!!
So what about the people who still don't know if there will be a nearer date? He has to wait for the full calendar instead of buying the tickets in a hurry, to be sure to get a couple of... Why that, can't QP control all their local promoters??

And then the weird lottery. The most disappointed people should be the OIQFC members, but I have to say that I'm disgusted as well: I never bothered to join QOL mailing list because you can get all the best infos earlier on other resources just like our beloved QUEENZONE.
What about the price, then? 110 euro for a single concert? Totally crazy, that's why I won't go. I will attend all the (many) italian dates and I will also travel abroad, maybe in Germany or Austria and for sure in London, later on.
That and the fact that I think of Queen every single day of my life make a "good and loyal fan" of me, not the 2 weird subscribtions to QOL or QFC.

That's it!!