LC London O2 13 November 2008

[phreil]

http://www.theo2.co.uk/event/leonard_cohen.html

Click find tickets. Upper tier only left. But buy the tickets before the touts do.

I was there last night. It was serene.

[hydriot]

CAUTION: don't hurry to buy tickets. Look and think.

Although TIcketmaster has only Upper Tier left (in theory), seetickets.com is offering seats in the much better Blocks 103, 110 and 106 for £67.80.

Also, we all know from bitter experience last time round that Ticketmaster holds back loads of good tickets until later in the booking cycle.

Personally, I don't think I want to go to the O2 ever again, after the disgusting behaviour of the audience, who treated the venue as a picnic site.

[phreil]

Sorry you had a "picnic" experience at the O2. Fortunately the venue is big enough for me not to have experienced that, I sat with true people and where I was it was calm and serene. I worried about the top level but when I saw the tickets on sale I had to buy one having paid twice the face value this time. I see Brighton is still on sale and surely intimate is best so maybe that is one to try.

[hydriot]

The audience in the stalls looked well behaved, but in the low tier (where I was) in the middle of Who By Fire we had one joker walking down the aisle with three packets of crisps and a coke ... and later, another character gingerly carrying two brimful glasses of beer. People were endlessly asking to push past seated members of the audience, even in the middle of songs. In my part of the auditorium, there was no respect at all.

[Maarten]

Hi,
I have to go with Hydriot concerning the way people behaved at the 02... Walking in and out the venue like it was their home, eating, drinking, talking, leaving the concert after the first encore (with a lot more to come!),...etc... I was disappointed aswell. (I was at block 111, lower tier)

Although November 13 is my birthday, I don't think I'll go to see LC then. I took my parents along to the O2 this time and that was on my father's birthday which is quite funny: Cohen playing on both our birthdays at the 02, what a coincidence!

Anyway: looking forward to the concert in Brussels now!


Take care,
Maarten

[Reuben]

Yeah i must admit that i was suprised at dissapointed by the behaviour of cohenites in amsterdam. I made a woman who was talking loudly during a song shut up with some heavy glaring. I was particularly pissed off with people fighting in the middle of hallelujah. And though im no way anti-drugs i was a bit suprised by the smell of people smoking dope. Of all concerts, I would think LC is really not one to be stoned at.

However in the matter of intimate venues, I would say - having seen him at a large outdoor gig - leonard can really pull off the grand concert, and i think his band and his manner is quite orientated to such events on this tour.

[Midnight Choir]

People fighting in the middle of Hallelujah? What next - a gunfight during a cover of Imagine!!!

[yhtrownu]

Luckily, where I was, I didn't see a fight during Hallelujah!

However, at last year's "Peace One Day" concert at the Albert Hall, an older man physically pounced on a young woman to force her to sit down, rather than stand, and they were f-ing and blind-ing each other, laying hands on each other in a most unpleasant way, until Annie Lennox herself intervened to tell them to stop fighting at a Peace concert. . . Peace One Day indeed. . . i've seen the future, brother, it is murder. . .

[yhtrownu]

I see Ticketmaster have raised the price of the Hospitality Package for the O2 this time! It was £280 for July 17, it is £335.50 for Nov 13. There is a service charge per ticket of £41.80!

This is what comes up, if you try to buy tickets, at the moment:

BK 112 Row D
PRICE LEVEL 1
LEVEL 1 Type1
HOSPITALITY PACKAGE
Ticket Price £335.50
Service Charge £41.80

Not even a floor seat. That would have to be a three course meal to end all three course meals to be worth that much. . .

[Bela]

The audience in the stalls looked well behaved, but in the low tier (where I was) in the middle of Who By Fire we had one joker walking down the aisle with three packets of crisps and a coke ... and later, another character gingerly carrying two brimful glasses of beer. People were endlessly asking to push past seated members of the audience, even in the middle of songs. In my part of the auditorium, there was no respect at all.

Hi, I have to go with Hydriot concerning the way people behaved at the 02... Walking in and out the venue like it was their home, eating, drinking, talking, leaving the concert after the first encore (with a lot more to come!),...etc... I was disappointed aswell. (I was at block 111, lower tier)

I was in BK106 and incredibly lucky because surrounded by well-behaved people: no one arrived late, no one went out to get drinks, no one talked loudly, but I was very distracted by all the comings and goings elsewhere; I found it quite difficult to ignore them: they were always in my field of vision. And then, in the middle of Suzanne (of all songs!), there was a bit of a commotion when an usherette tried to sort out some problem with the seating - right there, in the aisle. When we tried to shut her up, the guys she was talking to turned on us. Grrrr!

I go to the theatre a lot and I'm used to silence punctuated from time to time by a cough or two. I didn't expect some members of the audience to be so disrespectful towards the artistes on the stage and the rest of us.

[Knickerless]

"...Of all concerts, I would think LC is really not one to be stoned at."


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your shitting me, right?!

[Paul Trotter]

Too right Knickerless!