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November 12, 2006
Genesis Reunion Tickets
I guess everyone (at least in Europe) has noticed the marketing buzz about the Genesis reunion tour next year. Everything has been announced last tuesday at a press conference. In short: it's more or less the "We can't dance" team with perhaps playing more of the old material. There are a lot of rumours about the exact content, but I guess we will have to wait for the first concerts to be sure. But it's confirmed that they will not play "Supper's Ready" which is really really a shame! Again, I can only recommend going to "The Musical Box" (the great cover band replaying the Genesis concerts from the early 70s) for that kind of stuff. There is still some hope, that saying "we will not play that song" in fact means "we will all surprise you by playing it" - but I fear that this will not happen.
Anyways, everything (tour dates etc.) got announced on tuesday, the sale for tickets in Germany started this friday (two days ago), so I went to our local ticket office friday afternoon with the idea of just checking prices. And I was a little bit surprised that some tickets were already sold out; so I changed plans and were able to get two of the last tickets for some seats that are not too far away for the Hannover show. Yuppie!!! (Unfortunately we have to wait until June next year for the show :( )
Now the more interesting part is that there seem to be many ticket store who want to profit by all this buzz. If you looked at the internet before friday for ticket prices, you could pre-order tickets for all shows for prices between 180 and 240 Euros. The real tickets got on sale with prices between 60 and 80 Euros. It might be that its ok to charge more for pre-ordered tickets, but three times of the real price? I hope that not too many people got fooled by these money-makers!
Posted by cziegeler at November 12, 2006 08:10 PM