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Niin , semmosta vielä ajattelin, että onko tuo puhelinpalvelu pelkästään ruotsiksi vai mahdollisesti pystyy operoimaan myös englanniksi?

Mutta onneksi olkoon vaan lipuista :D

Vafan, tänk om bara nån av skittidningarna Aftonbladet eller Expressen kunde SKRIVA något om Queen konserten... Fan vad dom daltar med U2 just nu! Fast de säljer ju, men inte nog på det. De har ju annonser i tidningarna också...

Nej, mer annonser i tidningarna, räcker inte bara med planscher på stan i Stockholm. =/

Aftonbladet hadde en liten artikkel på nettsiden sin dagen turdatoene ble annonsert. Ellers har jeg ikke sett noe.

Kan bli rimelig kjipt i Globen med bare 5000 tilskuere.

Ja, marknadsföringen har varit eländig, minst sagt. Man tycker ju att EMA borde vara intresserade av att sälja biljetter, men det verkar de inte vara. Jag har sett en liten, liten notis om turnén på Expressens hemsida, och en något större i SvD, men annars verkar intresset vara noll och intet. Inte för att det förvånar mig: Queen är väl inte direkt pressens favoriter.

Vad tror ni? Finns det någon risk att de ställer in konserten? Eller flyttar de den i sådana fall till en mindre lokal?

Å andra sidan: det är ganska långt kvar till 30 april...

Can't say that I'm really surprised about the poor sales of the tickets. It is after all a completely different thing to sell tickets to 10 million potential buyers within an hour's train ride, as opposed to 10 million people who have to fly from other countries, or travel an entire day by ship... There just isn't enough audience in Scandinavia (or Finland) unless you are a current act.

And let's face it... "Queen" hasn't been that for more than a decade.

I think you are wrong... I think Scandinavia has a very huge potential audience. Me myself has ordered tickets to my brother, sister, father and myself...

I also mentioned the gig to some people I play with in a musical and suddenly 4 of them wanted to go with us....

- THE PROBLEM is the advertising.

When Queen tribute bands in Norway alone can make 3000-4000 people wanna attend, Queen has to attract A LOT more... (figures based in We will rock you tribute, and Merqury)

And yes it's still some months before the concert... If they do more advertizing I'm sure it's gonna sell out!!!!

There might be a potential audience, but it's wasted with the enormous travelling distances... After buying a plane ticket and booking a hotel, the extortionately priced concert ticket is less than a quarter of the total costs!

Now... How many of those 3000 people would pay 300€ to see a Queen tribute band?

Tero wrote:

There might be a potential audience, but it's wasted with the enormous travelling distances... After buying a plane ticket and booking a hotel, the extortionately priced concert ticket is less than a quarter of the total costs!

Why do you say it's "extortionately priced"?! It's simply not true! If you compare ticket prices with other events in the Globe it's about the same, I would say.

Some comparisons:
Judas Priest - 300-375
John Fogerty - 300-490
Helmut Lotti - 400-500
Westlife - 350
Queen - 370-550
Mark Knopfler - 360-430
Pat Metheny Group - 430
Rod Stewart - 325-775

So, Queen's most expensive tickets is more expensive than most others, that's true, but they're a whole lot cheaper than those for Rod Stewart's. On the other hand, the cheaper seats on the Queen concert is less expensive than if you want to go and see Helmut Lotti or Pat Metheny (which is weird).

I can agree that concerts in general are too expensive in Sweden, bu not that the Queen shows are "extortionately priced" compared to the others.

Kiitos vaan, BlueRock! Meidän äiti ei osaa ainakaan kovin kontaa sanaa/lausetta ruotsia eli englanniksi se ihan asioi!! Nyt hopi hopi varaamaan niitä!

"Why do you say it's "extortionately priced"?! It's simply not true! If you compare ticket prices with other events in the Globe it's about the same, I would say."

I say so because it simply is true.

Mark Knopfler has a Dire Straits tribute act, and John Fogerty one with CCR and they're both charging a lot less than the Queen tribute act... But I guess the difference with those is that Mark Knopfler and John Fogerty can sell more tickets!
They're even going to play in Helsinki.

You can of course concentrate on the cheapest tickets available, but how many of those are on sale? 15% of all perhaps, while the most expensive seats are the majority.

Tero wrote:

I say so because it simply is true.

So you think that Queen should be cheaper than Helmut Lotti... That's interesting. :)

You can of course concentrate on the cheapest tickets available, but how many of those are on sale? 15% of all perhaps, while the most expensive seats are the majority.

Once again not true. The majority of the tickets are the middle priced ones (480SEK).

The price of concert tickets is reasonable to me. It's about a half of what Sir Elton charges. Plus..to come from Finland to see Queen costs about 200 euros and the ticket is included in that.

Can anyone tell how many percent of the tickets to Globen have been sold already?

If the previously mentioned figure, 2-3000, still is correct, and if you count with about 16.000 when full, then... eh, you do the maths! :)

"Once again not true. The majority of the tickets are the middle priced ones (480SEK)."

Despite my poor wording, that is exactly what I meant... The average tickets for the Queen concert cost as much as the most expensive tickets for those other tribute acts!

But then again, that wasn't the main point I was trying to make earlier today. It was that the casual listeners won't travel for hours or pay thousands (of your currency) to see a "Queen tribute band".