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Daily Mail Wed 8th Feb - Shayne To Quit X-Factor Tour?
As ever the Daily Mail can be relied upon to spread doom and gloom!
On page 21 of today's edition there is a small article regarding the forthcoming X-Factor Tour. According to their 'Showbusiness Reporter' Clemmine Moodie, Louis Walsh is trying desperately to pull Shayne Ward out of the tour because of the poor ticket sales. While the rest of the contestants are all happy to perform at the various venues, Louis is keen to distance Shayne from the ITV reality show. An 'industry insider' is quoted as saying that Louis knows that he will be sued to hell and back if he negates on the tour contract, but he is desperate to disassociate Shayne from the show. Also, according this 'insider' only six dates have sold out and that one of the most poorly attended arenas is London's Hammersmith Apollo theatre, which has whole blocks of seating still available for three out of four gigs. Manchester MEN, Birmingham NEC, Nottingham Arenas and Hammersmith Apollo will all apparently be partitioned - significantly reducing the capacity of each stadium. When a tour spokesman was contacted about this, he rubbished the report saying that 180,000 tickets had been sold and that there were no problems. He also said Shayne was still due to headline. This seems very strange to me, as I gained the impression that ticket sales were healthy, given that extra shows were being added to the tour. I also know of people who had wanted to go to shows in some areas, but couldn't buy tickets! Is this likely to have an element of truth? Or is it just another instance of over-inventive journalism at work? |
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If this is anything to go by I'm not surprised there are tickets left ! -
http://www.splendidtickets.com/tickets.php/ticket/631 |
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...........When a tour spokesman was contacted about this, he rubbished the report saying that 180,000 tickets had been sold and that there were no problems. He also said Shayne was still due to headline....................
Is this likely to have an element of truth? Or is it just another instance of over-inventive journalism at work? You missed out that Louis said Shayne would be performing and that he had then added: "180,000 tickets have been sold and to say there is any problem is rubbish." |
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Sounds like media hype from Louis again to me
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Sounds like a load of claptrap to me - that or LW is desperate for more publicity. How can they have an X factor tour without the winner, and as for trying to distance Shayne Ward from X factor - well that's where he came from - only time will possibly make a difference!
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so at the moments there's what 15 dates on the X factor tour and a 180,000 tickets sold so thats 12,000 per date - so whats the capacity of each venue?
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If this is anything to go by I'm not surprised there are tickets left ! -
http://www.splendidtickets.com/tickets.php/ticket/631 That is totally disgusting prices. Simon Cowell makes enough money without trying to rip people off on the tickets. Not trying to pigeon hole, but most Shayne fans are youngsters, you only have to go to Shaynes website to see this. And youngsters cannot afford those prices. And the majority of them will want to go
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Originally Posted by Gillypoots
As ever the Daily Mail can be relied upon to spread doom and gloom!
On page 21 of today's edition there is a small article regarding the forthcoming X-Factor Tour. According to their 'Showbusiness Reporter' Clemmine Moodie, Louis Walsh is trying desperately to pull Shayne Ward out of the tour because of the poor ticket sales. While the rest of the contestants are all happy to perform at the various venues, Louis is keen to distance Shayne from the ITV reality show. An 'industry insider' is quoted as saying that Louis knows that he will be sued to hell and back if he negates on the tour contract, but he is desperate to disassociate Shayne from the show. Also, according this 'insider' only six dates have sold out and that one of the most poorly attended arenas is London's Hammersmith Apollo theatre, which has whole blocks of seating still available for three out of four gigs. Manchester MEN, Birmingham NEC, Nottingham Arenas and Hammersmith Apollo will all apparently be partitioned - significantly reducing the capacity of each stadium. When a tour spokesman was contacted about this, he rubbished the report saying that 180,000 tickets had been sold and that there were no problems. He also said Shayne was still due to headline. This seems very strange to me, as I gained the impression that ticket sales were healthy, given that extra shows were being added to the tour. I also know of people who had wanted to go to shows in some areas, but couldn't buy tickets! Is this likely to have an element of truth? Or is it just another instance of over-inventive journalism at work? When ever the papers have printed stuff up about Steve in the past. A fair bit of what the Mail printed was later found to hold substance, mostly truths in with the untruths. They are also not quite so brutal in their reporting as say the Sun, Daily Star or Mirror. |
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Papers do print rubbish a lot of the time. However the Mail has been one that usually gets a bit of what it prints correct, they are one of the papers that stick nearer to the truth.
When ever the papers have printed stuff up about Steve in the past. A fair bit of what the Mail printed was later found to hold substance, mostly truths in with the untruths. They are also not quite so brutal in their reporting as say the Sun, Daily Star or Mirror.
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Papers do print rubbish a lot of the time. However the Mail has been one that usually gets a bit of what it prints correct, they are one of the papers that stick nearer to the truth.
When ever the papers have printed stuff up about Steve in the past. A fair bit of what the Mail printed was later found to hold substance, mostly truths in with the untruths. They are also not quite so brutal in their reporting as say the Sun, Daily Star or Mirror. Quote:
That is totally disgusting prices. Simon Cowell makes enough money without trying to rip people off on the tickets. Not trying to pigeon hole, but most Shayne fans are youngsters, you only have to go to Shaynes website to see this. And youngsters cannot afford those prices. And the majority of them will want to go
These are from an agent rather than from the main box office - where they are around £25
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You missed out that Louis said Shayne would be performing and that he had then added: "180,000 tickets have been sold and to say there is any problem is rubbish."
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[quote=sybil]That's not my experience. They are often very fabricated. They just write in longer sentences than the Star etc so it feels more authoritative.
Very true, the Mail tries to sell its self as a "serious" newspaper when its actually no better than The Star or The Sun. And its views can be so right wing it frothes at the mouth about asylum seekers, gays, etc etc |
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Of course another point of view regarding ticket sales is the quantities taken by the likes of Ticket Master and similar companies.
On paper that looks great, the problems only start to emerge when they send unsold seats back near to the date of a concert. I have been to big concerts in the past that were supposedly 'sell out gigs' but if you looked around the arena, there were sections of empty seats that these companies had snapped up, but not sold. |
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My question is - why start off by reducing the arena space, only to add dates and do the same thing all over again, and on top of that have loads of empty seating even so? Surely if all this was true it would have been a better option to sell the complete arena seating at each venue in one go. |
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That is totally disgusting prices. Simon Cowell makes enough money without trying to rip people off on the tickets. Not trying to pigeon hole, but most Shayne fans are youngsters, you only have to go to Shaynes website to see this. And youngsters cannot afford those prices. And the majority of them will want to go ![]() The real price of the tickets are £24.50. |
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Shayne has posted on his website, saying that these rumours are untrue, and that he will be at the tour.
It would have been a bit of a travesty, anyhow, if the winner didn't show up. |
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all goes to stir interest in the tour - don't they say that any publicity is good publicity
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don't they say that any publicity is good publicity
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I think this is just publicity for the tour. Louis Walsh is an expert at generating Media interest.
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Yeah you do realise they are touts selling them.
The real price of the tickets are £24.50. |
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There are quite a number of websites selling tickets at big concerts at very inflated prices. The point is that they seem to be able to get blocks of good seats before the fans have a chance to book. I spent hours trying to book decent seats-presale- for the next G4 tour but couldn't get through to the venues I wanted. By the time I did there were only average seats left but there are much better seats to be had if you want to pay big prices. That is what needs stopping - it is not fair to the fans - but how can it be altered?
I can't even find any seats for G4 in Newcastle city hall. Left it too late
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I can't even find any seats for G4 in Newcastle city hall. Left it too late
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I can't even find any seats for G4 in Newcastle city hall. Left it too late
![]() http://www.ticketswitch.com/tickets/...Upon-Tyne.html |
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Yeah you do realise they are touts selling them.
The real price of the tickets are £24.50. If that's the case. How on earth do they get away with it Why has there never been any crackdown on this sort of thing going on. Those prices are unbelieveable
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That is totally disgusting prices. Simon Cowell makes enough money without trying to rip people off on the tickets. Not trying to pigeon hole, but most Shayne fans are youngsters, you only have to go to Shaynes website to see this. And youngsters cannot afford those prices. And the majority of them will want to go
Why has there never been any crackdown on this sort of thing going on. Those prices are unbelieveable