Oh happy day

So, the support acts are now all set for 2010. Horsens will be treated with two splendid Snow Patrol gigs and Helsinki gets two gigs with Razorlight. To be honest, I don't know much about Razorlight, but I have some time to catch up on their songs. This means I'll get to see Snow Patrol 5 times during the 2010 tour, a true joy. Something happened to me during the Snow Patrol gigs in 2009, something that most definitely could be filed as highly unlikely, turning from a pure dislike of their music to an avid fan. Wonderful things happen under the claw.

Morjestaa!

This is what I picked up from DHL at 7 pm today.

2 x Suomi

This means I can pick up the tickets for Helsinki 1 today at the post office. Do note that I just wrote Helsinki 1.

Yes! There is a second show for Helsinki announced.We have no more presale codes and we desperately need to use a code as the public sales have been a disappointment for us so far.

From Finland

I just love express delivery as I can track the path of the envelope travelling through Europe. This means I should get my Helsinki tickets soon.


ANDREAS - tack för att du valt eventim.fi
Vi har skickat din beställning, bokningsnummer xxxxxx, som expressbrev med DHL. Kollinummer: xxxxxxx.
Försändelsen når dig normalt sett inom ett par arbetsdagar efter att du har fått detta meddelande.

Helsinki 1 goes public

It's been an unusual and strange morning. The public sale of the tickets for Helsinki started at 9 am in Finland, that's 8 am here in Sweden. It was quite hard to get in on lippu.fi but I managed a few times though the GA's were sold out every time and RedZone were available every now and then. I'd say there were a few seconds during a full hour when it would have been possible to purchase tickets. I should have bought 2 more GA's if there eventually is a second show announced, and then trade for Helsinki 2. So far (it's 12:20 pm in Finland) there hasn't been any second show announced. It could happen any second though. Maybe they will wait to be able to offer a presale for the fans? You can never relax in this business.

Helsinki presale

It was too much of a walk in the park getting tickets for Helsinki. The presale code worked like a charm and there was no load on the webserver. Clear and easy-to-understand instructions on the site allowing you to order exactly the tickets you want. Selecting Swedish as the language helped a lot, Finnish is not my cup of tea. I got 2 GA's so I will not have anything up for trade when the second show in Helsinki is announced. That's a lot calmer, not havig to deal with people but on the other hand I'm relying heavily on the open sale for the second show. Ok, now, only 30 minutes til they open sale for Horsens via billetlugen.dk.

I'm sure it will be a lot more unpleasant on Monday when the Helsinki tickets are released for public sale. Not that I need tickets but as the first night will sell out almost immediately and the second night goes on sale immediately, I have to struggle a lot to get 2 tickets for that second show. So, there will be a lot of pushing and shoving on the web Monday morning at 8.20 AM.