This link takes you to ticketweb where you can get tickets today http://www.livenation.co.uk/artist/matt-cardle-tickets

Really I wonder why? We want tickets,

Hi Annie,
There will be loads of us there - keep checking on the thread - there will be details about where we are meeting amongst all the general squealing and excitement.

Your right the sound in this one is clearer ....................I love listening to the different performances and the little differences in each one.

Yep 'squeeling' being the operative word.

Unfortunately some of them link to ticketmaster rather than ticketweb.

I've just booked a computer at the library for lunchtime so hopefully I can do it then (if they haven't blocked the sites and there are still good seats left)!

The London gig takes you to ticketweb. I didn't click on any of the others

fingers crossed, Humbug!

Good news! Tell us about it tomorrow

I've ordered the official Matt calendar from Amazon - http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/178054040X No news on despatch yet and no image available! But hopefully soon. Going to get a Chanel Bleu sample next time I'm in Debenhams or John Lewis

Welcome Abigail - it's fantastic that more people are really taking notice of Matt's work. It really is a knockout album.


Think someone has already said - 8 of us in row N, seats 44-51 (right side as facing stage) not the best, but definitely not the worst either, and JaMak up on the balcony with 3 others - hopefully including you now ootp!! We will definitely sort out meeting up nearer the time - probably worth booking something since so many of us!! I'm certainly going to arrange to leave work early that day (and take the following day off!!)

Bells and Highbarn trip tomorrow - Lots of big grins (I've run out of smilies despite borrowing some!!)

Good luck humbug..hope you get them

Yep Bells and Highbarn Yippeeee

Where did you see it? Was it Calendar Club?

Thanks

ha ha, very much a 'specialists' edition then They could do a whole series of 'special interest' ones - The Drunk Calendar; The Tanning Calendar; The Hugging Women Calendar; The Hugging Men Calendar......


That's very interesting that they're doing this now, given the type of publicity they used for RFYL which was focused on radio coverage and, I'm assuming, cheap (presumably free apart from transporting Matt and Will around). Which makes me wonder something. Remember the interview where Matt spoke about having been offered the keys to Joe's ex-flat and Matt said he turned it down because the contract showed it wasn't free at all but came out of the winner's £1mn 'prize'? To me that demonstrates that Matt and his family went through the 1-year contract with a fine toothcomb to see what came out of the money. Presumably poster ads cost a lot, tv ads cost a lot, and Matt had the say in what to spend money on and what not to. Which would explain the relative lack of promo perhaps - am I right in thinking more money's been spent on promoting the album? I'd also guess that the promo, or relative lack of it, has at least partly been a conscious way of finding out what is Matt's core fan base.

And, maybe, now, if there's a tv ad already for the tour, they're spending more on the tour. Which raises another point - the tour dates fall outside the reach of the one-year contract with Syco so presumably it's Columbia stumping up for it? Not quite sure where I'm going with this, except that I think these are good signs for Matt's longevity with Columbia, and also for his personal financial viability.


Humbug, why don't you go through the fan e-mail links rather than LiveNation? Ticketmaster's working fine for me through that, but there's hardly any decent seats left in London (though we won't really know the true picture until tomorrow when the general sale starts).

Now that's spooky! I should have done what I wanted to do - sing along (I mean, when I was washing my hands!). You could have joined in, we'd have had a Matt conversation - and it would have been great! Then we'd have come onto DS, read about it and gone

I did actually very quietly sing along a bit but didn't want anyone else to hear me I should have been a bit louder and then you might have said something to me!! I would have loved a Matt conversation as no-one in my real life wants to hear about him. Are you going to any of the gigs? Matt is fantastic live

I have tickets!

Birmingham, circle row b - that'll do nicely

Taking nearly 13 year old, so i think front of circle is better for him than halfway back in stalls. Symphony Hall accoustics are wonderful - very excited.

I had to come back on and answer this post as that is exactly what has been going through my mind too.....especially the Syco bit very interesting ..............Columbia really like him all these covers of other artists have not been a slap happy thing. Matts singing the Adele song was a fantastic piece of promo...........they are both on the same label is that what Columbia are trying to do ensure people know they are drawing him into the fold so to speak?

lol at you two in the loos!! I suppose you might not have been there at the same time though, maybe they played it more than once

That is very interesting. For someone who is a bit off with the pixies at times, he does seem to have a good grip on stuff like this. What struck me is that Matt's tour will be at the same time as the XF tour - I'm assuming plenty of people will do both (not us lot though!) and it will be interesting how people compare the two. It's also a kind of symmetry (sad Maths teacher here) in that there seems to have been a cycle of busy Autumn, Spring tour, quiet Summer. Do we expect Matt to then go back in the studio and work on another album next summer? If so, I am really hoping they go for a summer single that will have a better chance of making number 1 like 1D and Cher did without albums coming out a week later. I know it isn't the be all and end all, but I just want him to have that. Or will he set off around the globe? I suppose someone will judge what his sales are in other countries and make a judgement about this.

Completely selfishly I'd rather he stayed here!!! Flight phobia, twitter sightings etc. Come here Matt - we'll look after ya!
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I'm curious to know how YT records it's stats - ie, the 'honours for this video' bit. Just 'cos RFYL is now on 1.024mn views, which I'm sure is up at least 40k-50k over the last week, but it has no 'honours', whereas MCDL's video of SFTTR has 31.6k views in the week it's been up but has four 'honours' which are improving every day

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/

Don't forget album of the week at about 11:15am. I will be listening in the car today - going shopping with my 2 eldest.

Fingers crossed for success at the library Humbug - you could try phoning them if all else fails.


I think you're right Jamak, Matt's intelligent enough and experienced enough to know that contracts like these generally take as much as they give if you don't watch out. His dad's been in business for years so he'd be pretty savvy too. I've heard of successful recording artists who thought their management were giving them clothes, cars and all kinds of things when, in fact, they were not only billing them, but also having houses, holidays and all sorts at their clients' expense. Some stars even ended up in massive debt.

It may also account for all the acoustic performances he's been giving, rather than getting the whole band involved. Quite a lot will have been unpaid as they are seen as promotion ie free advertising. As I understand it, Matt employs the band and I'm not even sure they were all involved in recording the album so they'd expect to be paid to play (only fair).

I think that the album is getting more promo than the single got and am surprised but happy that a tv ad has been seen advertising the tour. The other day in the paper there was quite a big ad for Letters very well placed on the tv pages of The Sun. I've also seen ads on Channel 5 and ITV2. I'll keep a look-out for an ad for the tour in the Sunday Mirror this weekend as they have a lot of artists advertising their tours.

I would love to see a summer single from Matt next year. He won't have to wait until just before his next album is out to release it like he had to this year. I'm sure the label will be keeping an eye on sales and how well the tour tickets go to assess what will happen next.