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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Oct 13, 2017 20:13:13 GMT
CG and QI, you're probably right of course. I guess I was just trying to explain to myself why they would have done this and to me, a mistake was preferable to an unfeeling, calculated business manoeuvre. Ticket sales must be really down to sink to this desperate state of affairs. I totally understand why you would want to think that way Viv. I've had a look on the Quo fb page this evening and they posted the announcement 3 hours before a post in memory of Rick's birthday. Make of that what you will everyone. That in itself was a poorly worded post by saying it "would have been Rick's birthday". That is not a good use of English. Did they mean it would have been his 69th birthday? Or that it is his birthday. He will always be born in the 12th October. Sigh. Still plenty of great tributes to Rick underneath the photo. Fan Club Facebook? Lovely trib from RPJ. (Wierdly the Quo FB site shuts me out because I don't have a facebook login. Bit daft, it's supposed to be a commercial site open for everyone.)
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Post by curiousgirl on Oct 13, 2017 21:44:23 GMT
I totally understand why you would want to think that way Viv. I've had a look on the Quo fb page this evening and they posted the announcement 3 hours before a post in memory of Rick's birthday. Make of that what you will everyone. That in itself was a poorly worded post by saying it "would have been Rick's birthday". That is not a good use of English. Did they mean it would have been his 69th birthday? Or that it is his birthday. He will always be born in the 12th October. Sigh. Still plenty of great tributes to Rick underneath the photo. Fan Club Facebook? Lovely trib from RPJ. (Wierdly the Quo FB site shuts me out because I don't have a facebook login. Bit daft, it's supposed to be a commercial site open for everyone.) No this was the official Quo page. FTMO would never had got the tone so wrong. That is weird because I would have thought you could set the page to public for reading only. And then you'd have to in to comment. A bit like here really but from your comment, it seems that isn't so.
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Post by threechordboogie on Oct 16, 2017 9:23:12 GMT
This is basically the second press release put out because tickets aren't selling - the switch from Aquostic to Electric was embarrassing enough, but this reads like a begging letter. A quick search of the UK venues' websites will show you there are lots of good seats still available, so it can't be selling great. And they're playing the last chance to see us card again? It's not even funny now. Every statement they put it out seems to be crass, insensitive, desperate and written in bland marketing speak these days. Hard to argue with that.
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Post by threechordboogie on Oct 16, 2017 9:37:46 GMT
Comments Francis Rossi, “This year has been one of change and reassessment following the sad death of Rick Parfitt. Although Rick had already retired from touring for six months before he died, it was still a major shock and my immediate reaction was to honour existing contracts and then knock it on the head." ??!! Shock? Oh, yes! Absolutely! I never got on with my younger brother, but when he died suddenly, I was all over the place - on a different planet.
Rossi's immediate reaction would have been "****! Insurance won't cover this!" His second reaction will have been "We'll have to honour existing contracts."
Knock it on the head? Not in a million years will he do that, but if ticket sales remain as poor as alleged, something will have to give.
Wait for the "due to overwhelming demand" line sometime next year to announce a UK tour for 2018 - probably at an small venue (such as The 100 Club) (ahem) for the fans.
As for the tribute songs, don't bother. What they could do, however, is borrow an idea from Queen. When Queen play Bohemian Rhapsody, they play a video of Freddie Mercury. So why don't Quo play a short clip of Rick playing the just the intro to Caroline or Whatever You Want?
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Post by unspokenwords on Oct 16, 2017 10:09:34 GMT
Comments Francis Rossi, “This year has been one of change and reassessment following the sad death of Rick Parfitt. Although Rick had already retired from touring for six months before he died, it was still a major shock and my immediate reaction was to honour existing contracts and then knock it on the head." ??!! Shock? Oh, yes! Absolutely! I never got on with my younger brother, but when he died suddenly, I was all over the place - on a different planet.
Rossi's immediate reaction would have been "****! Insurance won't cover this!" His second reaction will have been "We'll have to honour existing contracts."
Knock it on the head? Not in a million years will he do that, but if ticket sales remain as poor as alleged, something will have to give.
Wait for the "due to overwhelming demand" line sometime next year to announce a UK tour for 2018 - probably at an small venue (such as The 100 Club) (ahem) for the fans.
As for the tribute songs, don't bother. What they could do, however, is borrow an idea from Queen. When Queen play Bohemian Rhapsody, they play a video of Freddie Mercury. So why don't Quo play a short clip of Rick playing the just the intro to Caroline or Whatever You Want?
Too late for a Rossi band 'official' tribute I am afraid. As Derryquo and others have already stated the proper and it appears beautiful and dignified tribute has already taken place at the Fan convention over the weekend. The fans, family and remaining members of Status Quo did the tribute themselves which is right and proper...Hallelujah..lets leave it at that perfect tribute.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Oct 16, 2017 10:50:22 GMT
"We would love as many fans as possible to come and really help us make some noise on this year’s dates as we definitely won’t be touring in 2018." This is basically the second press release put out because tickets aren't selling - the switch from Aquostic to Electric was embarrassing enough, but this reads like a begging letter. A quick search of the UK venues' websites will show you there are lots of good seats still available, so it can't be selling great. I went and had a look-round on ticketmaster, and though there are still some standard seats available, the only venues that seem to have a lot of seats left are Glasgow and Manchester. (I'm not looking at "Platinum" and "VIP", they don't exist as far as I am concerned.) The Apollo is smaller than the London O2 of course and I think they are generally doing smaller venues. But they seem to be "going" OK at the moment. (Ticketmaster has me listed as "South", which apparently includes Devon and Cornwall, but not London. Tossers.)
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Post by Jimmy G on Oct 16, 2017 10:59:08 GMT
I've been looking at the venue websites where you can click what seats you want.
Sheffield has plenty of the Centre Front Stalls available - multiple seats on the sixth row in the centre available right now.
And plenty of seats on the third row at Hammersmith are available too.
That's the real reason why there's no UK tour next year, I think.
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Post by wolfman on Oct 16, 2017 15:13:18 GMT
I hate the phrase team this and team that...its all American you know....team rhino ect.....anyway as far as I'm concerned the mighty status quo ended decades ago....rick and john and alan should have joined together in the eighties... rossi would have been doing big brother and I'm a celebrity...if people still did remember who he was...
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Oct 16, 2017 20:55:21 GMT
I've been looking at the venue websites where you can click what seats you want. Sheffield has plenty of the Centre Front Stalls available - multiple seats on the sixth row in the centre available right now. And plenty of seats on the third row at Hammersmith are available too. That's the real reason why there's no UK tour next year, I think. I must be looking at a different Ticketmaster then ... there are a couple of dozen seats at the back of the platinum section, nothing in front of that (unless you are seeing seats kept for the VIP Experience people, but it says those are sold out.)
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Oct 16, 2017 21:06:04 GMT
Got it! I found the Eventim's own site, and not only are they showing a lot more seats, they don't have sh*t Platinum tickets either. I should know by now always to check the venue's own site. Never put your trust in Ticketmaster. I wasn't seriously thinking about buying at the time, but in case I got impulsive, thanks for drawing my attention to this ... AXS doesn't have a choose it yourself diagram. Does anyone know who the "official" presale ticket seller was (if there was a presale)? PS I notice that Viagogo and Stub Hub seem to have plenty ... so, if there are so many seats as yet unsold, who bought the ones on the resellers then? It cannot be possible, can it, that the "resellers" are selling tickets that haven't been sold yet?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2017 1:28:09 GMT
As for the tribute songs, don't bother. What they could do, however, is borrow an idea from Queen. When Queen play Bohemian Rhapsody, they play a video of Freddie Mercury. So why don't Quo play a short clip of Rick playing the just the intro to Caroline or Whatever You Want? That would be too sensible. Porter doesn't know the meaning of the word.
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Post by ptquo on Oct 17, 2017 7:54:30 GMT
Just had a look at Hammersmith and its shocking how many tickets are still available. The circle is only 1/4 sold at best, whilst there’s still availability in the front block of the stalls.
It’s sad it’s come to this but they only have themselves to blame.
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