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.

Life saver

I'm really starting to like those trips to the post office. Thanks P, you've saved me!

You're the owner of

I made a deal with a friend P in Finland. He is in desperate need of a Horsens 2 ticket and I need 2 Ga for Helsinki 2. He promised to get me 2 GA's for Helsinki 2 if I'd give him my GA for Horsens 2. He allready got one Helsinki 2 GA spare via a friend's presale code and he's going for one more in tomorrow's public sale. It's very hard not to fight for tickets in the public sale. What if P doesn't succeed? But, P is a very trusty guy who'd fight for tickets with his own life at stake. If he doesn't succeed, no one will, I'm sure. He told me he'll camp outside the ticket sales office all night. So, I trust P to get me the tickets I need and then I have the ticket he needs. Needless to say, I'll pay for the second Helsinki 2 ticket, even if Horsens 2 tickets are quite ”the rocks hottest tickets”.

Today, 2 days before the public sale, I got this wonderful e-mail:

Från: P
Skickat: den 22 oktober 2009 12:12:32
Ämne: Andreas, you're the owner of TWO Helsinki 2 GA's‏

Hey,

after some negotiations I now have TWO ga's from todays pre-sale for you, so Helsinki 2 is covered :) I'm going for a few more tomorrow so it's a possibility that I can already send out your tix by tomorrow too, that would be nice.

Cheers, P

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.

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.