| goldenglobe 16.02.2005 06:10 |
Ok, about 50% is sold out by now, but in France, Spain, Sweden, and so on, there are plenty of tickets left! I live in Basel, and it was fast sold out, but I never saw any promotion! (exept a newspaper who printet that Queen will play in Basel, but this was made by their own). I think the promotoers should do a little more, and the rest would be sold out within days... |
| Raúl 16.02.2005 06:24 |
That's true. Here in Spain there's no promotion. NOTHING!! |
| The Mir@cle 16.02.2005 06:43 |
Well, in Holland they didn't need to promote the tour. The media did it for them. |
| Mr. Scully 16.02.2005 06:52 |
I don't know... here in CZ the only promotion was done by newspaper (1-2 articles in each of the newspapers) and still all the 14500 tickets were sold out in 72 hours. REM played here in January and tickets were sold out after 2.5 months. So it's pretty obvious that Queen have a huge fan base here and lack or promotion doesn't matter at all. I don't think there are many Queen fans in Sweden, Switzerland or France. |
| We Are The Champions 16.02.2005 07:01 |
I've seen nothing in the UK National Newspapers either!(the ones I've read anyway). As the tour sold out very, very quickly in the UK, on the day of general release, there was little point in promoting or advertising the tour as all tickets had gone! Tour details, venues, booking tel numbers had been leaked on the Internet anyway and given to FC members. The tour would have been yesterday's chip paper by the time it was printed in the press or shown on the media especially with a name like Queen. My Point: What's the point in giving ticket booking numbers if all you get is a message" All tickets for Queen + Paul Rodgers are sold out" as is the case for Cardiff CIA. Hard sell promotion would have been in force if ticket sales were poor...that's for sure. That doesn't stop people ringing Box Offices in desperation though. Promoting tours is all about maximising selling potential, selling tickets and making money I guess. You only have to look at getmetickets for example where they've negated the need for any advertising by snapping up loads of tickets to sell at sky high prices. That's the reason for a sell out....tickets gone on first come, in the know, and having right contacts. Anybody trying to get tickets on general sale after 11.00pm on 221/01/01 was a case of "tough shit" you were too late. |
| Voice of Reason 2018 16.02.2005 07:15 |
I think you're right we are the champions. No point spending on soemthing that's selling out anyway. I did see one ad in a UK paper - already had 'sold out' written next to Brixton. Which dates still have tickets available? Cheers! |
| The Mir@cle 16.02.2005 07:34 |
There are plenty of tickets left: - Fancourt, Hotel & Ressort, South Africa - Paris, Le Zenith, France - Madrid, Palacio de los Deportes, Spain - Barcelona, Palau Sant Jordi, Spain - Rome, Palalottomatica, Italy - Milan, Forum, Italy - Firenze, Nelson Mandela Forum, Italy - Pesaro, BPA Palasm, Italy - Vienna, Stadhalle, Austria - Budapest, Arena, Hungary - Stockholm, Globen, Sweden More info here: link I'll keep saying that they've made a huge mistake with their four Italian dates... Those four gigs would have been sold out already here in Holland. |
| Mr. Scully 16.02.2005 07:49 |
I believe one of the Italian dates is sold out already (Milan?). But I agree that 3 dates in Holland and 2 dates in Italy would be more fair. |
| Sonia Doris 16.02.2005 08:39 |
Raúl wrote: That's true. Here in Spain there's no promotion. NOTHING!!i've seen one commercial for the tour in the metro tv in madrid a few weeks ago. since then, zero... |
| Hitman 16.02.2005 10:23 |
Milano is apparently sold out since 5-6 february. some tickets available for Pesaro Firenze and Roma. But Roma should be completed soon. but NO ADVERTISEMENT at all here in Italy!!!! :( ( and personally i have neither seen articles on newspapers and tv ) |
| Rien 16.02.2005 12:24 |
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) |
| Danne 16.02.2005 13:36 |
goldenglobe wrote: Ok, about 50% is sold out by now, but in France, Spain, Sweden, and so on, there are plenty of tickets left!I agree with you about the advertising, at least regarding Sweden, but where have you got this "50%" figure from? Paul Rodgers' website says "EUROPEAN DATES 90% SOLD OUT"... |
| Zak Royen 16.02.2005 18:58 |
apparently, paris is now sold out. |
| akindofmagic 17.02.2005 00:15 |
In Portugal the tickets would be sold out by now! |
| We Are The Champions 22.02.2005 12:11 |
akindofmagic wrote: In Portugal the tickets would be sold out by now!Such confidence from a Portuguese fan!! Pity they're not playing there!!! I wonder why? |
| We Are The Champions 22.02.2005 12:34 |
Rien wrote: 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!! |
| goldenglobe 22.02.2005 14:03 |
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?? |
| goldenglobe 22.02.2005 14:04 |
By the way, why how about Budapest selling? How much left? |
| furbz 22.02.2005 15:02 |
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... |
| Joma 28.02.2005 14:01 |
In Germany 15million people saw Brian announcing the tour... |
| RohemianBapsody 02.03.2005 11:42 |
I think he had to after Roger let some information slip :) |
| gnomo 03.03.2005 06:08 |
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 -- Gnomo (Rome, Italy) |
| Hitman 10.03.2005 16:48 |
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... |
| hcrvelin 11.03.2005 04:13 |
This morning while reading Matro I saw an advertisment for Hyde Park (whole page of course). |
| RMT-Nick 11.03.2005 09:20 |
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. |
| hcrvelin 11.03.2005 09:41 |
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. |
| RMT-Nick 11.03.2005 09:45 |
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. |
| robbosmith 13.03.2005 08:47 |
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. 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. |