[ti]sad[/ti]Time Out page for Hammersmith

Yes, that's what I was wondering too. But with tickets going for 90p...

It looked quite full from the front where I was but I couldnt see how full the upper tier was.

  Thank you Viv, that is great news for you, and answers all my questions. (It also indicates that you can pull out of the sale if you aren't able to go and collect ... WHY on earth they won't explain that to people who ask, is beyond me. My guess is that their agents have been told not to answer questions about specific gigs to people who don't have an order number, and will just say anything off the files.

  If tickets are downloadable, it will say so before you buy them, and I realise now that the tickets won't be collectable at the venue, as they are nowt to do with the venue - they are all tickets that have been sent in by people who can't go and are trying to sell them on. I have no objection to that, I would just appreciate better customer service. I can't see why they would put off a potential customer when they could give a helpful answer without revealing anything confidential.

  This is the first year in 35 years that I have missed Quo. (This is not Viagogo's fault, they just failed to facilitate a last minute possible change of mind. I was already decided to leave it to fate, and fate has spoken.) I am still not 100% why, but for some reason I "needed to". They gave a perfectly good show with Richie last year, and one no better, strictly speaking, with Rick the year before. But the fact is, the absence of Rick has made a difference, mainly as a singer, I do think, like the loss of Alan in the 80s. I know this sounds UNBELIEVABLY OBVIOUS but it wasn't obvious enough to me that the difference would be enough to keep me away. And indeed if everything had run smoothly, it wouldn't have done. I think the tell tale evidence is that I was not prepared to bust a gut to get myself and himself to Hammersmith, the way I would have been any year up to very recently. That means I don't feel about the band now, the way I used to.

  The other side of this (in case anyone thinks I have seen the light in some way) is that bits of last year's show, and the reunion, shows  me that Francis still has it when he tries, and still fascinates me as a performer and singer. When I will have a chance to see that in action again, I don't know. I'm not obsessed by the notion that I may have seen "Quo" for the last time. If they return after next year, I may still be there for them, but I have a feeling that they will have to produce something better and fresher than they have been doing. And it would help if he stopped Messing Aroun'with Roll Over Lay Down. That is what has taken some of the energy out of their performance for me.