Capital Summertime Ball 2024

[*becky*93]

post below if you are fed up of the frozen indigo angel and big weekend talk. i certainly am! it is the first time i have woken up with a cd playing because i cannot hack radio 1 talking about this stuff any more. it is an average line up and i would much prefer reading or leeds tickets

[Bumble_85]

I only listen to the radio for Scott and Zane so don't really mind the big weekend stuff but I would rather shoot myself than read the frozen indigo angel thread again

[stevengarrison]

i'm still dreading the thought of adam coming back on monday and rubbing our noses in it. surely someone else won tickets from unofficial mills? we have two choices - i switch off now and listen to the event or miss the event

[Geezer7348]

cant say I am really bothered about the Big Weekend talk, as for FIA it is becoming tediously boring.

[sebdevlin]

Radio 1 one always plug everything to death anyway even mr moyles is sick of the constant OBW jingles not that bothered about really as I generally only listen to mills & moyles out of radio 1's daytime output. As for FIA thing i got bored of that tedious thread ages ago and would rather listen to the hellogoodbye single in one ear and the kooks in the other than read that thread again. Anyway smile everybody the suns out yay

[*becky*93]

i thought it was going to be a genuine chance for those outside the north west to win tickets. it looks like the bbc have just been using this forum for easy promotion and to try and make us look stupid. they didnt give a monkeys about us getting tickets they just wanted to promote their little project how tedious and what a big disappointment!! thanks a lot 'paul denchfield' how about considering the real fans next time

[pauldenchfield]

There are 15 pairs of tickets up for grabs. You can get friends in the area to pick them up for you if you can't make it there yourself. I'd make sure it was someone you can trust, though... ;-)

The main thing is to get people along to the Big Weekend who have followed this investigation for a while. You deserve those tickets, so have a go at getting them!

Keep an eye on this page: http://www.silburngriggsmining.com/projectfia/

Cheers,

Paul

[*becky*93]

and what do you propose those from down south do? i am more than happy to pay to go up for the weekend but you do realise how expensive it is to go up twice. thats not the real fans at all thats just for the rich. we might as well buy off ebay its about the same price

[pauldenchfield]

As I said, you can get mates in the area to pick up the tickets at the Road to Preston events - you don't have to go in person.

This might be a good opportunity for you to make friends up there - its what the internet is for. :-)

[*becky*93]

you arent doing well to spin this one. how about picking them up on the day of the event?

[Jono]

Cool it chappies... I wouldn't worry too much, I'm pretty sure most of Preston's cheap hotels will be booked up by now. I believe the going rates are about £70 a night now...

[sebdevlin]

and what do you propose those from down south do? i am more than happy to pay to go up for the weekend but you do realise how expensive it is to go up twice. thats not the real fans at all thats just for the rich. we might as well buy off ebay its about the same price

You could always try moving to the north east, finally living in cumbria has an advantage:* . Agree with on the ebay ticket fiasco though

I'm assuming you have to complete some challenge or something or at least thats what the msg you get after solving that puzzle thing

[Grace]

Just think, two days out of 365 this year they get to go to OBW, the other 363 they have to live in the north east...

[Geezer7348]

You could always try moving to the north east, finally living in cumbria has an advantage:* . Agree with on the ebay ticket fiasco though

Eek, just checked out E-Bay and found these. Radio 1 should really be doing something about these touts.

[sebdevlin]

Just think, two days out of 365 this year they get to go to OBW, the other 363 they have to live in the north east...

Granted my plan does have its flaws :shock:

Eek, just checked out E-Bay and found these. Radio 1 should really be doing something about these touts.

They cancelled my old a/c when I fake bid on loads of tickets for OBW after writing them an e-mail asking them to explain there shamless profiteering on such sales all I got back was a standard form email which didn't address any of my issues ebay & customer service words that don't really go together

[DC]

i lik this thread. i agree with the original post.

[Jono]

I've been running this site three years now, and still no offering of tickets to this major event.

Looks like I left the press office too late. It wasn't a no - but they said they didn't have any press passes left.

[stevengarrison]

it's this idea of it going to preston that gets me. alright, 98% of tickets went to the people of preston or north west in the huge giveaway. i didn't expect them to then bias the whole phone-in competition towards them too. and this frozen indigo angel stuff as well.

the people of the uk listen day in day out, the people of preston don't. they suddenly listen as soon as this big event turns up. radio 1 seem to think we're incapable of travelling to preston, and think we're all ticket touts if we live outside preston.

[Behelzebub]

I would rather shoot myself than read the frozen indigo angel thread again

I feel exactly the same, I have far more important things to worry about than yet another ridiculously overhyped Radio 1 publicity stunt. Because that's essentially all it is... simple as. Finished. So accept it.

[Jono]

I don't think that's really the point though. It's a game, and you win tickets. Not really a 'stunt'. There's more to it.

[DC]

i cant have a go at radio 1 for trying, but as usual like anything thats daytime that they are involved in. it gets used to often and people get bored of it. like one big weekend, i remember dundee and it was only a matter of time until it came around again. and of course it was going to be bigger and better than ever before, and sooo much better than dundee which is crap in comparison. if it was so crap then why do it to begin with?!

im going on here, if you cant beat them, join them i say:-

"GET READY FOR RADIO 1'S BIG WEEKEND IN PRESTION! COMING SOON!"

[Monitorabbit]

Most people don't listen as much as us - I do get sick of all the promo but see no harm in still trying to get tickets.

I agree though that it's a bit much to expect people, especially hard up young students, to travel a long way. The tickets are hardlty "free" then, and winners can't be expected to suddenly aquire friends in the area - or is the idea anyone who wins in the South has to be accompanied by a Lancastrian at the event? Can hardly ask them to pick up tickets without giving them at least one of said tickets..

[KingTutsWWH]

Marketing is marketing, s'pose. UP to HERE with FIA and boboboboing Big Weekend in Preston.

What's it with this big girl's blouse hotel stuff? There's plenty of agricultural land around Preston. Rucksack and tent, and stop wingeing! Don't forget the loo roll.

Feel sorry for poverty stricken students being unable to attend, but their teachers don't earn much more than an average grant! Believe me , I know.

Decided to make alternative arrangements for summer music. Benicassim in Valencia, if poss. Will cost me an arm and a leg, hopefully I can choose which! Fingers crossed. depending on which arm.

Webcam and red button for my Big Weekend. HAVE FUN Willy Wonker-ites!

Nx

[rjn2001_uk]

Jono - did you not get tickets!?

I thought that them shamelessly using your site for the FIA thing would be enough on its own!, never mind the content you have assisted with!

Your bandwidth must have gone through the roof this past month or so...and they dont have a ticket for you! Disgusting!!!!!!!!

[Jono]

Haha, get the pitch forks, we'll march on Great Portland Street!

No, I did get tickets. Unfortunately I didn't get any till Friday night, and subsequently I took the choice an ICT deadline on Monday was more important. Had I have known earlier nothing would have stopped me.