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Sam only supporting Beyonce for one night
Stuart1000
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It's been confirmed that Sam will only support Beyonce for one night of her UK tour. She'll be the support act on 24th February 2014.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/s103/the-x-factor/news/a539342/x-factor-winner-sam-baileys-tour-date-with-beyonce-announced.html
This is a little disappointing. It's a shame that the prize was billed as 'supporting Beyonce on her UK tour' when, in reality, it's only one show. It's also sad for the fans who bought tickets to the Beyonce shows in the hope of seeing Sam. Of course, they've only announced this now that the tour is sold out.
(for the record, I do have tickets for the Glasgow show but I had these before the X Factor prize was even announced)
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/s103/the-x-factor/news/a539342/x-factor-winner-sam-baileys-tour-date-with-beyonce-announced.html
This is a little disappointing. It's a shame that the prize was billed as 'supporting Beyonce on her UK tour' when, in reality, it's only one show. It's also sad for the fans who bought tickets to the Beyonce shows in the hope of seeing Sam. Of course, they've only announced this now that the tour is sold out.
(for the record, I do have tickets for the Glasgow show but I had these before the X Factor prize was even announced)
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And also, the possibility that people have bought Beyonce tickets only to see Sam Bailey is a bit illogical.
I doubt there's any fear of that. People will buy tickets to see Beyonce the star, not Sam Bailey, the amateur.
Why would anyone do that? Queen Bey tickets are bloody expensive iirc
people were going to buy tickets for beyonce in the hope of seeing sam bailey ?
Not to mention, people might have bought Beyonce tickets instead of X Factor Tour tickets thinking they'll see Sam at the Beyonce gig anyway.
But Bouncy is a bit rubbish though. I couldn't even be bothered going to see her at Glastonbury a couple of years ago, when it was, essentially, free.
I have no idea whether you have ever been to a gig or if you have, how many.
I have been to dozens and you would be amazed at how many people buy tickets for a Metallica gig only so that they can see the support act.
A lot of acts will never have their own headlining tour and quite often, buying tickets in this manner is the only way to see them live.
While this may be true, Beyonce is at the pinnacle of her career right now, everyone in the world knows who she is, and she tours rarely, especially in the UK.
Whereas Sam Bailey is a reality TV show contestant who's only been on the radar if at all for three or four months. Literally. She wasnt a singer before, was she? She's not going to have had a small local fanbase following her from her humble beginnings; she was a prison officer before this.
Its not like she's a small local band who's worked her way up the industry and can now play with a big star and people will buy tickets to celebrate this success. Add to that Beyonce tickets are prohibitively expensive for a casual fan; its extremely unlikely that people have bought tickets for Beyonce - which sold out very quickly, by the way - just in order to see Sam Bailey's support slot.
Its not really comparing like with like.
I disagree.
Metallica have been at the top of the tree for the last 25 years. I saw them at Wembley Stadium in 2007. There were three support acts and 90,000 people in the crowd. I know for a fact that others were there to see Mastodon and Bullet For My Valentine and not Metallica. That was a 50 quid ticket and a whole days entertainment only to leave and miss the headline act.
Its not a case of comparing like with like but a case of who you want to see and more importantly, WHEN you can see them. People will take all opportunities possible when there is a chance that the opportunities don't come round too often. At this point Sam B is little known and for those who do want to see her, opportunities might be few and far between.
They repeatedly stated at "one of her shows"
She is supporting her on the tour, just one of the shows on the tour - not all of them.
The only people duped are those who choose not to listen properly.
Except on the X Factor Tour.
I doubt anyone was buying tickets thinking "I really hope they decide to have the x factor winner as the support act" when it had never even been mentioned as a possibility previously
if anything the only people who have been duped are the ones going to the Birmingham concert who will now have to put up with a one dimensional karaoke singer as the support act
Lol that would not have happened since the weekend.
Except Sam Bailey will be on the X factor tour and there are loads of dates for that and more cheaper.
I do get your point though and have seen people there for the support act but not that many that it would make a huge difference, its quite expensive for a 30 min set.
I'd rather watch Mastodon than Metallica - though maybe not in 07 as it took until their fourth album for them to find their niche. £50 is not that much over the odds for a ticket to a second-tier band so it would be worth a punt. I'd still stay for Metallica though; even if I did have to drink lots of coffee first.
I think it's ever so slightly delusional to think people bought expensive tickets to Beyonce's tour to see the X Factor winner do a couple of covers.
Yup. Some people don't listen when the blatantly obvious is being said. I remember Dermot stating clearly that it was one night.
It will also be a good excuse for Sam to sing that bloody One Night Only song, I suppose.