When a concert is sold out in 10 minutes or even on the day the tickets can be bought, how can you even think that the promoting of the tour is bad? Sounds a bit too negative to me.
Spread the word I would say (about the concerts that is)
I'm all for spreading the word about this tour and more publicity the better. I'm not being negative or contraticting myself here just saying that as far as ticket sale promotion for Queen + Paul Rodgers using the tour logo in the press is concerned, it's a waste of time. Why waste valuable money on advertising space in National Newspapers when all tickets have sold out. The only thing they can do is put the logo in the press with "SOLD OUT" over it and pat themselves on the back!!
Only progressive adverts would be ticket agencies/package deals selling concert tickets at over inflated prices as they've snapped up the best tickets strictly to make a profit. That's publicity alright but for the "wrong" reasons as its not advertising the ticket prices at face value.
I've seen many of these in the National press in the UK so there is no negativity as such...just ticket agencies promoting the tour for their own benefits. In a way they're doing Queen + Paul Rodgers a favour even though they are ripping off gullible and desperate fans. The tour is being promoted as such even if it doesn't use the tour logo to sell tickets!!
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goldenglobe
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I especially mean France. France and Paris itself has many thousands of Queen-fans (who would go to the Queen+Paul Rodgers concert). But I mean as only 7500 tickets are available for France / Paris, it looks a bit strange that it is not yet sold out.
There I see the need of probably only a little publicity like a hand full of wallpapers in Paris--this would go around ike a fire, and those who would like to go (but do not know it from the internet) will get their tickets, and ---sold out!
and a few wallpapers are not expensive, believe me.
Italy has probably the problem of having 4 dates.One less, and again it could all be sold out.
But Spain??
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goldenglobe
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By the way, why how about Budapest selling?
How much left?
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furbz
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all i have to say is, if you visited the brian may website or the official queen one there was tour news on there. Also, after the UK music hall of fame where Queen played with Paul Rodgers it was *fairly* well promoted.
Here in the UK we were all sold out withinn days...
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Joma
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In Germany 15million people saw Brian announcing the tour...
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RohemianBapsody
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I think he had to after Roger let some information slip :)
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gnomo
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AFAIK none of the Italian dates is sold out yet, though only "general admission (standing)" tickets are still available for all of them (I checked last Saturday, 26 Feb., at a ticket agent's).
The reason that they are not available online ATM is the anti-touts scheme adopted by the promoter.
Tickets for the Italian dates are offered for sale in limited batches, one batch at a time; each is divided into quotas among the various retailers.
Individual retailers who sell out their quota of tickets will have to wait for the entire batch (i.e. ALL the quotas of all the other retailers) to get sold out as well, and the next batch being made available, before they can get more tickets to sell.
Which means that the fastest retailers (i.e. the tickets websites) will have to momentarily display the event as "not available" and wait the longest, until the slowest sell out their quotas too (which may take a few hours or a few days) and the next batch arrives.
Unfortunately, no way for me to know how many batches are still to be sold for each date, though!
HTH
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Gnomo
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Hitman
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I have just seen on an italian channel the first advertisement of the Queen+Paul Rodgers gigs in Italy.It's well done, with a little part of the video of the band in NY.
...at last...
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hcrvelin
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This morning while reading Matro I saw an advertisment for Hyde Park (whole page of course).
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RMT-Nick
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hcrvelin wrote:
This morning while reading Matro I saw an advertisment for Hyde Park (whole page of course).
Yep, it now hangs proudly on my wall.
In terms of newspaper coverage, the Tour has been well publicised. Also, a lot of UK Music Magazines have devoted space (and whole issues) to Queen so things Promotion has been helped hugely.
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hcrvelin
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RMT-Nick wrote:
In terms of newspaper coverage, the Tour has been well publicised. Also, a lot of UK Music Magazines have devoted space (and whole issues) to Queen so things Promotion has been helped hugely.
Agreed. Uncut was the first one and now Mojo&Q. I remember buying Uncut here in London and when I went back home to Croatia some friends asked why so much talk about Queen now. After they heard that new tour is coming up they all grabbed the tickets after for one of the shows in Europe. Sometimes these small things do make difference. It is hard from the point of view of person who follows Queen news on regular basis to see those things.
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RMT-Nick
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hcrvelin wrote:
Agreed. Uncut was the first one and now Mojo&Q. I remember buying Uncut here in London and when I went back home to Croatia some friends asked why so much talk about Queen now. After they heard that new tour is coming up they all grabbed the tickets after for one of the shows in Europe. Sometimes these small things do make difference. It is hard from the point of view of person who follows Queen news on regular basis to see those things.
And I agree with that. Hyde Park promotion is vital- the place is massive. I'm sure demand for around 40000 tickets is there, but filling the rest is not easy; this will obviously come from those people who pick up their magazines and newspapers and think that they wouldn't mind going.
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robbosmith
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And I agree with that. Hyde Park promotion is vital- the place is massive. I'm sure demand for around 40000 tickets is there, but filling the rest is not easy; this will obviously come from those people who pick up their magazines and newspapers and think that they wouldn't mind going.[/QUOTE]
I hear 80% of hyde park has alrady sold out, but i know what you mean, all the advertisement i've seen was online on queen related sites, apart from one anouncment on a london radio station. Its not the queen fans that need to be reached by advertising, were all gonna go anyway, its the fans of general music who will see an ad and go for it.
