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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: situtu on May 20, 2003, 01:41:00 pm
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on june 5th or 6th. might they have time to pay us a visit as well? it would be the right thing to do. has seth, or anyone for that matter, tried to work this out?
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That would be like way cool.
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it's on the 5th.
it was just confirmed today.
i doubt they'll be doing anything else before the actual tour in august.
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Where is Beacon Theatre?
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New York. Or at least that is what Google told me.
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Looks like one of those MTV shows since the ticket price is $2.
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august tour? more details please
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Yes, it's an MTV $2 bill show. Pre sale lottery for w a s t e members on the 27th, tickets on sale at the Beacon on the 31st.
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This is a good site to check out for news. There is not much really confirmed yet for august, especially for DC.
http://www.ateaseweb.com/index.htm (http://www.ateaseweb.com/index.htm)
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oh, that pisses me off even more. thom and the boys can't venture to dc but they can do a show for mtv? wtf?
Originally posted by keithstg:
Yes, it's an MTV $2 bill show. Pre sale lottery for w a s t e members on the 27th, tickets on sale at the Beacon on the 31st.
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Bull Run might be a nice place to put on a show in August . . .
Ok, seriously, they owe DC big time. And they're sounding a bit political these days too calling their album "Hail to the Thief" and all. How can a band with any political inclinations NOT play DC? If they really want to make a difference, they could play 2 nights at 9:30 (assuming I could get tickets) or hell, Constitution Hall. This would probably have a life-changing effect on some up-and-coming left-leaning politicos, inspire them to dedicate their lives to fighting for truth and justice, and thereby bolster freedom and democracy in immeasurable ways. How can they not realize this? How can Radiohead consider themselves a legitimate band when they continue to dick around the world avoiding DC?
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I am still angry about August 2001...that was just criminal. 2 nights, no less, and we still never got a proper make-up for that. Radiohead should really compensate their fans for that travesty. Why couldn't they just have played Merriweather?? ARGH...
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Originally posted by bunnyman:
I am still angry about August 2001...that was just criminal. 2 nights, no less, and we still never got a proper make-up for that. Radiohead should really compensate their fans for that travesty. Why couldn't they just have played Merriweather?? ARGH...
What was so criminal about it? Sure it was a bad weekend for me too, but people are a little dramatic about it.
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Originally posted by jadetree:
What was so criminal about it? Sure it was a bad weekend for me too, but people are a little dramatic about it.
i would like to officially announce that it is time for everyone to get over it with regards to the radiohead events at bull run park, unless you meet three or more of the following criteria:
1. you waded through shit water up to your waist, and are at least 6' tall
b. you spent more than 3 days at the bull run site
III. you got hepatitis c there
4. you were within 10 feet of being hit by lightning more than once
e. your golf cart sank
all of this and more happened to the people that busted their asses for more than a month to make those shows a possibility. nobody knows the disappointment of a show cancelling more than those that were trying our damndest to make it happen, but even we have gotten to the point where the stories are funny.
really, people. what happened to you? you got a little wet and muddy and couldn't see a show. big fucking deal. get over it. radiohead doesn't owe you anything. move on with your lives.
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Originally posted by thatguy:
i would like to officially announce that it is time for everyone to get over it with regards to the radiohead events at bull run park, unless you meet three or more of the following criteria:
1. you waded through shit water up to your waist, and are at least 6' tall
b. you spent more than 3 days at the bull run site
III. you got hepatitis c there
4. you were within 10 feet of being hit by lightning more than once
e. your golf cart sank
all of this and more happened to the people that busted their asses for more than a month to make those shows a possibility. nobody knows the disappointment of a show cancelling more than those that were trying our damndest to make it happen, but even we have gotten to the point where the stories are funny.
really, people. what happened to you? you got a little wet and muddy and couldn't see a show. big fucking deal. get over it. radiohead doesn't owe you anything. move on with your lives.
Well I qualify for 3 out of the 5 I think, and actually I do have some fond memories of the weekend now. I agree that people should get over it.
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Hmmmm... in my glovebox I still have $10 dollars or so worth of drink/food tickets that I purchased that day. Any idea of when and where I can cash those in?
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Originally posted by Mobius:
If they really want to make a difference, they could play 2 nights at 9:30 (assuming I could get tickets) or hell, Constitution Hall. How can Radiohead consider themselves a legitimate band when they continue to dick around the world avoiding DC?
2 points:
1) i think there is too much of a demand for tickets for them to play either the 930 club OR constitution hall. 930 is like 1k and constitution hall is like 3k? they played club shows and such in 97 and ever since then they've played places that cold hold around 10k or more.
2001 tour they even did MSG. i think there would be even more pissed off people if they did choose one of those two venues.. because a lot less people would be able to get tickets... plus the whole 2001 thing.
2) i don't know that it's necessarily that they don't like dc. they don't seem to like the US, especially not the southeast. they DID schedule 2 shows for 2001 in the dc area, it's just that it seems to have been a bad choice of venue with the way the weather went. if it had been an actual amphitheatre or something (not that i would have wanted them to play nissan or anything), at least one of the shows would probably have happened. radiohead simply hasn't done a major tour of the us since 1997. 98 datese were sporadic and were mostly canada. only 3 north american shows in 2000. the 2001 dates were really sporadic and only hit the major cities. 2002 was just spain/portugal. if you really look at it, they haven't played a full show in dc since 1997 (not including the "secret" 930 club show after the TFC got cancelled in 98 -- that show was pretty short anyway).. if you call anything south of dc and east of the mississippi the "southeast" and just make a big rectangular box of it, the _ONLY_ city they have played in that entire region is atlanta since 1995. you have to go back 8 years to find somewhere in the southeast they played besides atlanta.
it's definitely not about them just avoiding dc.
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If i was Radiohead i would schedule another date in DC and then purposely cancel it , just to see if this time they could actually HEAR the whining all the way from Europe.
Some of you do seem like high school kids when Good Charlotte cancelled at the HFStival.
as far as i am concerned, Radiohead , being my favourite band, still jinx everything. My plane flight was late and i missed them in Chicago in 1999, Lightning struck and i missed them in 1998, and then the rain in 2001. so you know what...fuck em cause all they do is mess shit up. :)
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
If i was Radiohead i would schedule another date in DC and then purposely cancel it , just to see if this time they could actually HEAR the whining all the way from Europe.
i just think it would be nice to see them moderately close to my house for once. i've seen them four times and never within 300 miles of my house (300mi, 300mi, 450mi, 650 mi).
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As far as I know the DC shows were the only shows cancelled on their last tour so I think an effort should be made to play here on this tour. Merriweather in August would be perfect.
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I have fond memories of that Saturday out in Bull Run park...would have loved to see the band, but I got my money back, it's okay. My shoes never recovered, but that's what I get for being a girl and thus unable to pee into a bottle while sitting in a car.
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Originally posted by lily1:
[QB] oh, that pisses me off even more. thom and the boys can't venture to dc but they can do a show for mtv? wtf?
maybe because they're an MTV kinda band?