[Music] Anyone else going to the opening of an envelope?

Having a quiet one tonight and the Mrs is watching that Wham documentary.

Regarding a gig at Wembley she asked herself out loud “why didn’t I go to that?”’

Anyway I’ll get to the point, does anyone else recall how easy it was to get tickets for gigs like this in the 80s/90s?

I went to all three of Englands group games at Euro 96 by simply filing in a form and handing it in at Midland bank.

I bought several tickets for the Stone Roses (and indeed numerous bands) at the Brighton Centre by simply turning up at the box office during my lunch, there was no queue.

I don’t recall missing out on anything during that era because these events were populated by those that REALLY wanted to go.

A lad at work proudly showed off some tickets for a Rugby World Cup match in Japan (was it?)
despite having never been to a rugby match

With things like this Oasis business being over subscribed 20 fold when did it become fashionable that you’d just buy a ticket because everyone else did?

A quick phone call to Stargreen and then send a cheque off for payment got me into most gigs I wanted to attend in the mid eighties.

Between 1978 and 1990 I went to hundreds of gigs (that's why my hearing is f*cked).
Local ones were pay at the door or buy a ticket at Virgin or the box office.
Went to a lot in the London and mostly it was send a cheque or postal order and a SAE and hope. When I finally managed to convince those gullible fools Access I was suitable for a credit card I would ring up (from work, I wasn't lining BT's pockets) and buy tickets by phone.
I don't think there were any gigs that I wanted to go to that I couldn't get a ticket for apart from the Led Zeppelin reunion gig in 2007.
These days I think a lot of it is that people want to go to see bands in order to say and, perhaps more importantly (to them), be able to show thay were there on instergram/ticktock/whatever.

I think the Internet and social media changed everything.

Bands and artists have so much more exposure now and therefore loads more fans who want to see them live.

A big change from Top of the Pops and a few mags.

James Brown at the Hammersmith Odeon.