Originally Posted by bedlyblue:
“Has anyone been without photo id, my dad is going next month but doesn't have photo id , but has bank cards etc, will these suffice?
Tried to get through to ticketmaster but this is nigh on impossible.”
I had photo id and credit card, but was not asked to show either. I arrived at 7:15pm for the 7:45pm performance. I am told that people at the front of the queue were checked for photo ids before the queue started moving, but once it was moving, noone else got checked. So coming later, rather than earlier, makes it more likely you won't be checked. If you think about it, by the time it's thirty minutes before the performance, it's not practical to check people, because it's a 3 hour show, and the guards would be delaying the show faffing around looking for ids. All this said, I'm condident security would be happy with a bank card. If you have a bank card, it proves you're not a tout, and that you haven't bought from a tout.
Originally Posted by mickmars:
“I guess almost everyone else who is famous from the 70's and 80's has got it completely wrong by playing "the hits" + a few other odds and ends and that new track that the general public aren't really interested in.
It's the casual fans that keep proper bigger tours going,the hardcore fan bases for these artists have drastically shrunken.
If Kate Bush is doing this because she is a little short of money,which is entirely possible,then someone in her organisation needs to be brave enough to tell her to wake up to the commercial possibilities,rather than pussy foot around her "artistic" sensibilities.
It's called show business, and the business part can never be sustained to its potential by playing a show mostly made up of album tracks from less successful albums”
What you are doing there is comparing an artistic pioneer with journey(wo)men.
Great artists like Picasso came up with new styles of painting, then immediately changed to something else when other artists jumped on the bandwagon. A greatest hits show is a tired and forgettable concept, wallowing in wish-fulfillment and nostalgia. It's like eating a Big Mac at Maccers, very satisfying for the evening, but forgotten once consumed.
Building her show around two themed half-album suites makes for a phenomenal and meaningful theatrical experience. This is much more than an average music show. It is an artistic vision of what music shows could be if they integrated theatre and film and poetry, passion and intent. If this is about money, it's only about pouring the money right back into this incredible show to make it as memorable, surprising and spectacular as possible.
Noone could tell Picasso how to paint, noone could tell Samuel Beckett how to write a play, noone could tell James Joyce how to write a book, and noone can tell Kate Bush how to put on a show. This show will be remembered by those who see it, long after other shows have been forgotten.
Bother!! 
Be interested to see what 91 year old Kate comes up with 