Parents are calling me complaining how An Lanntair organised the sale of Mumford tickets. Why were their sons and daughters allowed to queue for hours in the February chill without being told they should go home?
I am told management did regular headcounts so they would have known the cut-off point in the queue after which these kids had no chance at all. Some of these youngsters were seriously cold.
They say An Lanntair, unlike many other privately-run venues where the band is to appear, would be bankrupt without taxpayers’ cash. They say that is why they expect An Lanntair management to behave in a more socially responsible way.
Others say it was incompetence for such a popular act to be squeezed into a comparatively small space like An Lanntair. There are bigger halls. What do you think?
People could buy a maximum of 2 tickets each, what if they’d sent people home, only to find some further up in the queue only got one ticket and that those who went home would have got one? More serious problem was the reports of queue jumpers!
It was a shambles and An Lanntair should be ashamed of themselves. They should have sold the whole lot online, limit of two tickets per person. End of. Or what are their expensive ticketing systems for?
Anyway, on a brighter note, it was the first time I’ve seen my teenage daughter before 8am on a Saturday for a very long time.
Where do i begin with this…
1.Iain, if you knew anything about this carry on, you would know that it is ITB(International talent booking) who books the bands gigs, they also decide ticket price.
2. A Hall? so when you book something like back hall/sports centre for a concert, what do these places need? They need a decent PA system, security, a bar.
3. As mentioned above, halls as big as these would need security, and a decent amount of it. As it is an over 14′s gig, bags would need to be checked for alcohol.
4. An Lanntair is one of thee best music venues on the island, why? Cause it has all the things i mentioned that a hall would need, under the one roof, ready to go. Just look at the acts they have had up here over the last 6 months, and i hope it only gets better.
I know the carry on that gigs in halls and any other un-official music venue’s require. And it is a an event organisers nightmare, running around chasing everything up.
No one asked these people who were queuing for hours to do so, it was their decision. And i agree with you that anyone jumping the queue or selling tickets for more than face value shows nothing but sheer disrespect.
A brit award winning band is coming to Stornoway, to owe a promise they made a few years ago, and all the community can do is just moan about it.
This place needs to get a grip and not turn anything and everything into such a big drama.
Donald.
Donald Mackenzie is entitled to his view that we should all be really grateful that such a big band is coming here and that it is okay to be ripped off because they were on the brits. To him queue jumping is just disrespect, not many who lost out would agree. We were treated like dirt by people who would not even talk to us.
Just because it was our own decision to queue does not make us fair game to lose out, the promoters and the Lanntair gave us no other option. The parents in the blog above are right, the Lanntair is not a private venue like the Ironworks but is run with public money, shame on them. I still dont see why it is impossible for Lanntair management to be professional and get people together to use a bigger venue for popular events.
Would that be too much drama for you Donald.
Would tend to agree with the other Helen. Why not sell the tickets on line and therefore limit the numbers and save a scrum at the box office. And you also know who has bought the tickets.
You don’t suppose that part of the An Lanntair queue had got mixed up with the queue at Willie John’s just around the corner. Are there some distraught teenagers now sitting at home pondering over some pork chops, 1lb of tray mince and a leg of lamb?