Elbow play MEN

The Mr & Mrs MT power of inspiration is indeed to be revered as me and Mr W can testify. We met them in Oct last year and now I'm a sorcerer's apprentice.

If we do have a meetup, mebbe we should all get a Mexican sombrero - or something - like a devoted fanbase version of a stag/hen party out for the night. I could make the lasses small mirrorball earrings seeing as I have lots of li'l ones from Christmas decs. Hmmmm....

Oh, yeah! Good idea!!

al wrote:

Hahaha! Nah, neither me or Sarah would be able to get time off work, or even afford to get there. If we can't get to London, Manchester's pretty much out of the question!

I'd love to see them play in their hometown though. Must be such a great atmosphere - I want you all front and centre singing along!

Hey Al - If you're in the Bath area, I'm not far away (Newport). I could probably give you both a lift up and back again if you want (no charge of course). Either I could pick you up from Newport station or meet at some point near the Severn Bridge. It's all do-able.

Love to see the Elboys faces when they see a big ole gang of us at the front wearing sombrero's and mirrorballs

ticky wrote:

al wrote:

Hahaha! Nah, neither me or Sarah would be able to get time off work, or even afford to get there. If we can't get to London, Manchester's pretty much out of the question!

I'd love to see them play in their hometown though. Must be such a great atmosphere - I want you all front and centre singing along!

Hey Al - If you're in the Bath area, I'm not far away (Newport). I could probably give you both a lift up and back again if you want (no charge of course). Either I could pick you up from Newport station or meet at some point near the Severn Bridge. It's all do-able.

Elbow fans are swell....

ticky wrote:

al wrote:

Hahaha! Nah, neither me or Sarah would be able to get time off work, or even afford to get there. If we can't get to London, Manchester's pretty much out of the question!

I'd love to see them play in their hometown though. Must be such a great atmosphere - I want you all front and centre singing along!

Hey Al - If you're in the Bath area, I'm not far away (Newport). I could probably give you both a lift up and back again if you want (no charge of course). Either I could pick you up from Newport station or meet at some point near the Severn Bridge. It's all do-able.

Woah woah woah I didn't even see this - that's such a lovely thing to offer, thank you so much! We'll have to get back to you some other time, once I've held a diplomatic discussion with Sarah!

thought about it for all of 5 seconds, love Elbow hate the bloody M.E.N. corporate sanitization of music nah its a miss for me unfortunately, I saw The Arcade Fire there and although they played well it was as exciting as... well it was 'nt, it was average, like Starbucks, like Mc D, start at 7 30 out by 10 30, stupid money for programme, plastic beer etc etc, sorry to be an old grumpy bugger.

If Im in town I will have a drink at Sinclairs or somewhere though

Can you feel the love

Hey Bluey, we were at the AF gig. Did you sing along to the 'Wake Up' chants that everyone kept going as they trooped all the way through Victoria? That was a real top moment - ahhh.

Anyway, it'd be nice to meet you for a bevy though!

Ha ha yeah OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, we could hear them as we went to the scally car park, brilliant ( M.E.N still shit though)

Good luck in getting tickets everyone. My daughter is sitting on the phone for me at 9:00. I'll have a mad two hour dash from work to get there. Wish it was a Saturday. I'll be praying for no trafic on the M6!!!!

Drinks at M.E.N. ok. Sound at M.E.N. pathetic. Need to get up to the front.

count me in. i'll so be there.
yay im happy now.



oh and yes, it being another arena gig, don't mind because wembley was amazing and they can really pull it off those lads. it was ace so im nothing but excited.

On a countdown now till Friday. Not being able to go to any other gigs this year has made this one a must for us. Pity it's at the MEN-a venue I find totally soulless and depressing. Only one thing for it-we will get there hours too early and queue to be at the front. Hope this isn't the end of smaller gigs though.

I'm totally in 2 minds over an arena gig too, and hope they play some smaller venues in future (with pre-sales so we can actually get tickets) but if we get to the front I suppose you don't notice the rest of the venue (or non-intersted people in the audience) and I'm sure when it comes to Friday 9:00 I'll just be thinking of seeing Elbow not the huge soulless venue, and be in there buying tickets.

Love the idea of sombreros & mirrorball earrings lol - though being a considerate soul we'd have to take the sombreros off when they started so the people behind could see. Shouldn't a pre-gig meet up be in the queue to make sure we get our front centre positions?

Glendarian wrote:

I'm totally in 2 minds over an arena gig too, and hope they play some smaller venues in future (with pre-sales so we can actually get tickets) but if we get to the front I suppose you don't notice the rest of the venue (or non-intersted people in the audience) and I'm sure when it comes to Friday 9:00 I'll just be thinking of seeing Elbow not the huge soulless venue, and be in there buying tickets.

Yes im in the same mind set as you, but its Elbow so woop woop!
Im leaving it in the capable hands of the other half to get tickets on Friday as I shall be off for the weekend for my mates hen do.
Loving the idea of a meet up

Agree with most on here, when I saw the announcement, I didn't think, oh balls it's the MEN Arena, I just thought, hey ! another Elbow gig !!

Been to a few gigs there but not for a long time, Oasis, Manics, Ian Brown, Charlatans, Happy Mondays to name but a few, in the main they turned out good, just depends on your vantage point.

I reckon it'll be absolutely brilliant, just hope I can bag standing tickets.

nellie wrote:

I STILL haven't got my B/W tix yet hopefully picking them up on thursday though.

I'd give them a call if I were you - they had a batch which didn't reach people, including me - they sent me duplicates and I've had them a while now ..... cheers everyone

One of the best gigs I ever saw was Muse at the MEN.

I'd prefer to stand a bit further back tbh, the sound and visuals are usually better.

HOW TO GET FANTASTIC ELBOW TICKETS FOR NEW MEN SHOW

Sorry i found this...ebay again,

but its the future.

mrswoman wrote:

If we do have a meetup, mebbe we should all get a Mexican sombrero - or something - like a devoted fanbase version of a stag/hen party out for the night. I could make the lasses small mirrorball earrings seeing as I have lots of li'l ones from Christmas decs. Hmmmm....

Great idea!!!! Sometimes at that pub, during big match games, you get hordes of football fans swilling beer and chanting football songs and generally making a racket....WE COULD DO THE SAME!!!! But with Elbow! In our hats and mirrorball earrings! Love it!!

Oh, can't wait til Friday 9am!

Glendarian wrote:

I'm totally in 2 minds over an arena gig too, and hope they play some smaller venues in future (with pre-sales so we can actually get tickets) but if we get to the front I suppose you don't notice the rest of the venue (or non-intersted people in the audience) and I'm sure when it comes to Friday 9:00 I'll just be thinking of seeing Elbow not the huge soulless venue, and be in there buying tickets.

Love the idea of sombreros & mirrorball earrings lol - though being a considerate soul we'd have to take the sombreros off when they started so the people behind could see. Shouldn't a pre-gig meet up be in the queue to make sure we get our front centre positions?

Ha ha, I'm surprised my friends aren't giving me flack for eating my words; "I would NEVER see Elbow at the MEN!! Never!!" But like you I'm just thinking "Elbow gig!" And it will be a cool new experience seeing them in a place like that. And the big meet up before hand is such a great idea. But, yeah...I'm thinking it should be an early meeet up and then in line by...what...5ish? To secure our place!!! Deffo!!

I'm getting pre-ticket buying nerves....what if the site is down? What if it get jammed? What if it sells out in seconds? Ugh. I hate the wait!!!

I was dreaming about it half the night, then ended up getting up at 5.30am cos I couldnt sleep, its getting out of hand but I'm convinced I'm not going to get a ticket.