Well, That Wasn't Quite What I Was Hoping For

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Take That has announced the dates for their tour next year. And the dates are mostly terrible for us.

Not only is Ros still in school for all the dates, but they also coincide with her ice show and its final rehearsals and the standardized testing all kids in her grade are expected to do.

I'd been hoping against hope for end of July dates so we could do a two week family vacation and hit the Camp Bestival music festival and also the Isle of Wight and Brighton.

The choices are now do one week in June and hit one of the last London dates, or I do a TT show or two sans famille and we still do the two week family vacation in England at the end of July.

Rats.

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[asilia.livejournal.com]

I actually doubt they'll release the other dates before tomorrow :/ I guess it's also so European fans will also buy tickets to UK gigs but these marketing strategies are bloody annoying. Same as knowing that the dates released now aren't the only ones because by the way they are spread out you just know there'll be more added in each venue. It's the same every time :(

Happened more than once that we bought tickets for what was supposed to be opening night and then suddenly opening night was two days earlier :/ Probably not gonna try that again this time.

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You're no doubt right, on all counts. And there's definitely room in there for them to add more dates for the English shows. Though I also reckon they're going to want to leave themselves some breathing room so they're not doing shows every night. They're getting older! Almost as old as me! *g*

That's annoying about opening night. I wouldn't even try to do that. I'm currently wondering how best to avoid DVD night if we're seeing them in London, since the assumption seems to be that's where they'll film. As cool as it would be to have a recording of the actual show I'd been at, I'd also rather not see them with cameras flying all around.

They just gave me a heart attack on the pre-sale code. I just got up at 5:00 a.m. our time for my Taekwando class and didn't yet have a code, when they'd said it would be mailed by 4:00 a.m. our time. But it popped into my mail box twenty minutes later.

[asilia.livejournal.com]

The anonymous comment just now was me - didn't realise I wasn't logged in, sorry :P

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I figured that was you. *g*

There is definitely something to be said for having your show on DVD. (I'm jealous of you having seen the Circus live. Oh, for a time machine...)

If the dates work out, it would be lovely to meet up for coffee. Our husbands can commiserate. *g*

I'm glad my code wasn't the only one that was late. I reckoned it was because I have a last name that starts with ZV. I'm always at the end, unless there's a ZY.

[asilia.livejournal.com]

I've managed to see at least one show of all the tours since they've been back :) I could have bought a mansion by now with the money I've spent on TT *lol*

Thankfully my husband loves the UK as much as I do so I think he'll survive a couple of hours of my fangirling, he's used to it anyway :)

My surname starts with an L so it can't have been that... But the whole code thing is just weird, some people never got their codes and others got five, even though they'd only preordered the album once...

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That's awesome, that you've got to see all the tours. This shall be my first. Assuming I get the tickets. (Ten minutes to go!)

My husband loves the UK too, and he's mostly a good sport about TT. Mostly. *g*

Given the problems with the codes, I'm just going to be grateful that I got mine! I usually have horrible luck, so if things are going to muck up, I usually reckon I'm going to be on the receiving end.

[asilia.livejournal.com]

Did you manage to score tickets?

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Nope. Hit the site right at 9:00 UK time and got the dreaded no tickets available notice.

How about you?

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Saw on Twitter that they'd added shows June 11 and 12, and managed tickets for the 12th. Yay!

[asilia.livejournal.com]

Yay :)

I got tickets on the 5th - worked on the first try after the page was loading for 2-3 minutes, never managed to get it done so easily before *lol*

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Yay for you! Though I'm sad it looks like we won't be there at the same time.

This was just a bit stressful, though at least I wasn't stuck in an online queue for four hours, like when I was trying for the Benedict Cumberbatch Hamlet tickets. I shall give thanks for that.