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Radiohead - 4th July - Manchester Arena/Cricket Ground Concert - COMPLAINT

Posted by Felipe on June 30, 2017 at 2:33pm

Hey there, to whomever reads this. I´m really angry right now. 

I´ve been waiting a lifetime to see Radiohead and I always told myself when the moment came I´d do it right. 

When the venue was changed for this concert I was told my ticket could be exchanged for a Front Standing Ticket or I could have a refund instead. Given that I was offered the Front Standing Ticket I decided to go for it instead of the refund. However, if I had known the possibility existed of getting a seated ticket by selecting this option, I WOULD HAVE ASKED FOR A REFUND. I´ve been in the Cricket Ground before in Manchester and being seated is the worst possible sound and concert experience I´ve had in my life. 

But this wasn´t said to me. I am so frustrated and so angry. Now I can´t even resell my ticket at face value, get a refund, or see the concert the way I wanted to see it. 

I am so sad, frustrated, and angry. I have no where to go and nothing I can do. Bought my train tickets which no one will refund either.  Man, it´s just a matter of making the front area slightly bigger in order to fit the 40/50 of us that have the same scenario where we were supposed to get Front Standing but instead we´re now seated (Eventim mentioned I was one of the very few that had to be seated...) . Below is a screenshot of the email where I´m offered a refund or the replacement ticket. I was promised one thing and given another one, in any place in the world that is unfair.

Please help somebody? Is anybody in the same boat as me?

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365Stories

Posted by Steph Mark on August 7, 2012 at 12:21pm

Coming to an end soon will be my project, 365Stories, to write a story a day every day for a year. It's been fun, annoying, hard working, monotonous, labouring and above all disruptive to my evenings, but in exactly 60 days I will be finishing my project. In fact, I started on Thom Yorke's birthday and will be finishing the day before. I've had views from around the world and even mentioned in a literary magazine. 

It's been fun writing for people, though I'm not sure how many read the entire story! It's also been fun reading the google searches - I do get some odd ones! Some ex-rated ones too!!! 

Would love more people to read my stories - any and all feedback is welcome. They are not long - usually between 500-700 words and some of them are serial - so there are several parts to them.

If you are interested in reading them, please visit my website - www.365stories.co.uk 

Look forward to singing with you all who are going to the Amsterdam gig on the 14th! 

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Radiohead at Glasto

Posted by Paola on June 29, 2010 at 11:08pm
Well, how can I start this blog without sounding too...well... pissed off? We are at W.A.S.T.E. -CENTRAL. I am a Radiohead 'fan' and I hope all of you Radiohead band members, or at least one of you, will pay attention. Now, I have been following you people around regularly for a number of years. OK, here goes: Edimburgh 2006, Victoria Park 24-25 June 2008 (both nights) , Arras 2008, Leeds 2009 and also...Reading 2009 (yes I drove down from Leeds to Reading on the Sunday to get a double fix and no, I wasn't driving a Fiat but a Toyota Prius Hybrid so no guilt there!).

I am not an infatuated music lover nor a music geek. I am a mother of three, I am a teacher (of Italian, and so being Italian I know all about style and quality). I also know about genius and what I hear with RH is quite a lot of it and I get excited and dreamy and I sway and jump and dance and do things I normally don't do.

Now for the pissed off bit. Now, imagine how a 'fan' of yours (like me), might have felt when after spending an absolutely glorious first day at Glasto on Friday, she picked up the Guardian on Saturday to find, lo and behold, that the objects of her admiration and respect had been and gone, in one of the far away tents, the night before, to do a set which I expect was not seen by the people who really love them, but by whoever happened to be there....I mean is this fair? No, it is not I say!! And in a world far from fair, should we not try and make as many people as possible happy, because happiness generates happiness as we all know.

I know I am not the only one who felt this way...my friend Joe was gutted just to mention one! I mean, not even a hint in your blog?...Not a hint at Glasto on the day? Nothing!?!... (Biffy Clyro did distribute flags but who cares about them).

Well, I think personally it would be most gracious and hugely appreciated if you decided to do a gig for your 'fans' in the very near future. It need not be a big one, even just an acoustic like at Glasto, and, and, we are prepared to travel, say a venue in Oxford so you don't have to move too far.

That would be just MAGIC, just like Glasto really was this year!!!

Love you guys.

Paola
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Oct 1,Oct 2

Posted by aya on October 11, 2008 at 1:33am
I went to Osaka !:)And I saw radiohead fot the first time...I was impressed first of all.There were many songs I wanted to listen,especially...CreepNo surprisesKalma PoliceFake Plastic TreesCreep, I couldn't litsen(as expected)but I could listen other 3 songs.songs of in raimbows were splendid!!!!their songs are better in gigs than with the CD.In japan,usually photo is forbidden in gigs.I was surprised that this time photo was OK.I bought water botol and white t-sirts :>;>
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TORONTO Rainbows... thank god there is a Greyhound bus afterall....!

Posted by inez on August 18, 2008 at 11:30pm
So it’s over now. The Toronto gig. The East Coast leg. Which is why making it (and the most out of it) has reached a ‘no matter what’ priority level… as I was watching flight cancellations at JFK for 6 nerve-wrecking hrs, I have long departed the land of reason. THANK YOU ALL for numerous ‘keep safe’ messages in response to my Greyhound Bus blog!! It really isn’t (WASN’T) that bad in my particular case. Exhausting – yes. And COLD. I wasn’t exactly dressed for a spontaneous overnight trip. No sleep. Arrived in Toronto around 9AM, I dropped of the bag at my brother’s… He wanted to drive me downtown, but I figured - YOU HEAR THAT, THOM? - I figured, I was conscious enough for a subway/tram combo. And, while we are at it: in theory (hmmm), I did NOT travel long distance JUST for the gig. I have lots of family here and my parents arrived from overseas… blah-blah-blah. True, I may have blown off this reunion because of the crazy work schedule… (should my family be thanking RH for the pleasure of seeing me…?) But I DID have an unrelated perfectly legitimate reason for being here… ARE WE ALRIGHT ON THIS ONE, THOM? ;-)12:45pm – perhaps 30-35 pit people at Molson closed doors. Was ok. A few people were a bit neurotic at line-watching – which really is a pointless endeavor as those first 80 will invariably get reshuffled through the security checks etc, and will ultimately end up at the rail anyway. I understand: sitting there since 8am and all… I’ve been on the road for 22hrs and had no energy for being neurotic (which would otherwise be the baseline). I settled with a nice group and embraced myself for a 5 hr wait. The rumor spread that the doors open at 5:30pm, earlier than expected. So things were fine, until nature started fucking with us. The sky was getting progressively more intimidating and finally exploded with a storm. Within seconds, it was pouring. Not everyone had umbrellas, newspapers were soaked instantly. A little gift shop 20 ft away sold umbrellas and ponchos – so while holding each other’s stuff and places in line we all made trips there – still, we were drenched. Forget rain, it started HAILING (!) - “fucking special”, indeed! I took pix of a rather miserable bunch under pouring rain → on my page. I was amused at how this whole adventure seemed to be someone’s revenge on too easy a time I had getting to All Points West! Besides, a healthy sense of humor kinda helped us through it - fortunately, it stopped raining before the latter drowned completely ;-). I quite appreciate the Canadian crowd immediately around me (coming from the South of the Border ;-) ) – we chatted about all kinds of things to pass the time. The sound check started around 4pm (right??). Morning Bell, Talk Show Host, Like Spinning Plates... - definitely lifted the spirits triggering a round of applause after each song, as if they could hear us ;-)… Finally at 5:30pm, like a clock, Molson people tightened the line (a couple of hundred people by then?) and set up security stands. I have to say, I admired Canadian organization! For at least half hour prior, they were making sure that every person in line was standing for the pit, picking out and relocating those who were seated elsewhere… I hear stories of some US venues, when after standing in line all fucking day, people are suddenly told that they have to RUN (whoever’s fastest?!?) to an altogether different entrance... Then, everything went into a VERY HECTIC motion; security checks: some go right through, others get stuck – which is why WHERE EXACTLY you are within the first 100 is kinda meaningless. THOSE ON THE WEST COAST: No problems with umbrellas or (at least little) cameras – no matter what the venue ticket says. Everything WAS allowed in. Now, just HOW MANY GODDAMN DOORS AND BARRIERS are there in Molson?! We must have been channeled through a dozen! But –that was it!! A bunch of ecstatic people at the rail, a few feet from the stage. Some RH equipment boxes were piled up – I could read weights, dimensions and a fucking small print on the shipping labels! I took a few snapshots just for the hell of it ;-)Grizzly Bear came on at 7:30pm. “We are just a support band”… They were really sweet. Half way through their gig, I noticed Jonny at the far right end of the stage watching them. I pointed it out to a couple of guys around me, and everyone got so psyched and eager to take pix of jonny that they completely forgot about the Bears. I actually felt bad… Between the songs, I looked back at the crowd behind us; it was raining on the lawn again (most of the seated area at Molson is covered) and the sun was peaking out – and THERE IT F*CKING WAS! – a BRIGHT RAINBOW crossing the sky. It soon doubled. In fact, that rainbow again attracted so much attention that the Bears had every reason to be upset. They seem to have taken it well though. Even announced the aforementioned rainbow for those missing it! All in all, they played a rather short act – 45min or so…Ok, now, I shouldn’t really be describing RH gig itself. I mean, you can go to the Toronto page and find a dozen descriptions and I’m sure they are all correct. And everyone experiences these things through their own personal lens… skin? heart? Afterall, this is not a critical review – neither is it a fine piece of literature. This is just me, spilling over feelings and emotions that end up being so profound that it has taken me days to recover… so… In my opinion, the set-list (I posted a picture of the actual physical entity thrown off stage at the end) was incredible. Not just because the non-obligatory (non In Rainbows) part of it varied wildly from that at APW2 I saw a week earlier, and not only because the two songs I craved almost physically (Climbing Up The Walls and The Wolf…) both made it to the main set (YES!!), but the whole feel and the compound energy was a knockout. The sheer intensity of it. You can’t really swallow Jigsaw ---> Idioteque ---> Climbing up the Walls sequence and expect to retain any level of sanity and a normal pulse rate. The Walls alone with thom screaming into his guitar and the green evil lights breaking into bloody red – I mean, this is OUT THERE, who needs drugs?! Same goes for The Gloaming ---> Wolf at the Door or Airbag ---> Talk Show Host ‘combos’. Curiously, the printed set-list left an option of doing Talk Show Host OR I Might Be Wrong – they picked the former ;-) And the mood of the gig was …odd, unexpected. Idioteque 'delivery' was like I've never seen before. Instead of frantic dancing, thom froze in place, completely MOTIONLESS for that entire segment – which was freaky in its own right! Through the gig, he did not speak, almost AT ALL, till the encores… But his singing was outrageous. Several songs featured vocal outbursts different not just from recorded versions, but from his ‘traditional’ live delivery. And god, there was so much fucking raw power in this – it blew my mind. It really seemed as though he embraced the Toronto audience, he must have gotten something out of it (I sure hope so!) and whatever he felt was expressed through music only, no chatting no talking… I think (and I could be totally off base!) that there was this openness in his singing, the “all in” emotional commitment that does not happen every gig. I cried to Street Spirit.Now, standing at the rail directly in front of jonny was a treat. We all know he’s amazing, but my god, he looks ICONIC, I can’t find a better word to describe it! (Sorry, Jonny, but you MUST have heard this enough times by now to just accept it as a fact of life). Seeing him in action is unbelievable. AND HE SPOKE! (Thom: “Jonny speaks!!”) He thanked Grizzly Bear (he also wore a Grizzly Bear T-shirt /as did Coz/ with a 3-eyed cat on it, and it took me some time to grasp what the heck was wrong with it… I’m slow). How many of us heard jonny say ANYTHING at a gig?!I am also thrilled by what this gig turned into ‘cause of the Morning Bell incident early on when the organ thom was playing began to die. ...he repeatedly tried fixing the plug on the keyboard while singing, motioned to jonny for help (who tried and failed as well), then the roadie ran onto the stage, started messing with the cable on the side… they played the song to the end, but thom’s distress was anything but subtle... seeing it ‘close and personal’ was painful and it freaked ME out big time – as if I was right up there (oh shit… oh, no! what will this do?). Of course, these things do happen, and they can sure handle them (and most of the crowd likely didn’t notice a thing!), but I was relieved that it didn’t color the rest of the gig. Hope not. Isn’t it peculiar how we feel so connected with these guys that we go through the motions and feel for them as we would for our close friends?? ;-)OK... On this note, guys, I will stop. Tons of pix and videos on my page… hope you like the pix, 'cause I was torn between photographing and simply absorbing IT with every cell of my body – so I feel like I stole something from myself… Was it worth it? THANKS to you all.
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Chula Vista...

Posted by kuddos on April 15, 2008 at 3:30pm
Finally I got my tix yeii!.. I got lawn, but I least I got tickets! .. this is barely my second RH concert and after being 3 feet away from Thom last time, this time is going to be... traumatizing :Sif anyone of you guys are going to that show, we can meet there...
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The BBC and the coming summer holidays

Posted by vodka1 on April 7, 2008 at 2:27pm
wow Blog number 1, lets see if I can keep this updated longer than the 7 others I have posted on in the past!Well i suppose i should start by talking about last Tuesdays BBC radio gig that i went to. I won a pair of tickets for the afternoon performance through the giveaway on w.a.s.t.e. Obviously i was pretty excited but coming from Glasgow all the way to London midweek can be a proper hassle so I didn’t have a +1 to take with me what with most of my friends having to work that day.I decided to offer it round Atease as i knew there would be quite a few people on there that would jump at the chance and i was right. The first person that i spoke to, also the guy i chat to most on there, Superdave, was right up for it and so we decided to meet up at 11.00 on Tuesday in the Big Smoke.I spent the night before staying with my parents in Ayr, which is right next to Prestwick airport, as my flight was at 0650 the following morning and I had to be there an hour before. Got up at 5am and text Dave who was just getting up and getting ready to get his bus from Dudley in the west midlands. Flight was pretty uneventful, got to Standstead at 0755 and then had an hour to read my book as the train tickets after 9am came with free underground travel and I figured I would probably need it during the day. I was on the 09.15 train to Liverpool street and in London for 09.59. 4 hours from Ayr to the centre of London and pretty easy.I took a wander through Soho and checked out a couple of vinyl stores where I picked up the Eraser remixes 12” for £5.99, just in case there was an opportunity for autographs. I never did get it signed as although a few people hung about outside to get sig’s I was not that bothered. Dave phoned about this time to say that he was just coming into the city on his bus and would be arriving at Victoria around 11.15. So I headed down that way, after getting confused about where exactly Victoria coach station is, I eventually spotted him and took a couple of Pap shots from across the road and then gave him a wave!We took the underground round to Oxford street and then wandered up to Portland Place where the BBC radio studios are. There was maybe 3 or 4 people sat across the way on the steps of the All Saints Church but no queue at that point so we popped for a quick pint and to get some lunch. We took our food back round to the BBC about 30 mins later and there was a small queue forming so we joined on the back.Near enough 1430 they began to allow us in the building, there were BBC and w.a.s.t.e staff there to check the names off and give us an envelope containing 2 tickets. We passed through a security station where Dave (the genius that he is) got his pocket knife taken off him! Then we went into a large lounge where we milled about and chatted for about an hour. There was a bar in the lounge and probably something like 60 to 70 people, including some of the BBC staff and DJs that were there. We saw Lard from Mark and Lard, a couple of Radio 6 DJs and the incredibly tall Stephen Merchant.Around 1540 they asked us to start making our way through to the radio theatre, where at the door they took our tickets L and we were made to just start filling up the rows from the first row back. This was good for Dave and I as we ended up 4th row centre, right in front of Thom’s mike stand and with a great view of Plank tuning up Johnny’s guitar. (which I am sure has had a few more chunks knocked out of it since the last time I saw it up close).At about 1555 Steve Lamaque did a nice wee introduction, where he made fun of Colin Murray and the BBC health and Safety people and the lights went down.I am sure most people will have listened to the gig so I will not go too much into the songs, just my personal recollections. The band looked good, healthy and like they were enjoying being there.15 Step – great start, got the crowd nodding away (it just did not seem British to stand up!) The outro rocked!Bodysnatchers – wow, what a rock song, and when the lights go out for you, pure delirium. Cant wait to rock out at the live gigs to BS’s.All I need – the beginning drums are pretty tribal and the outro rocks.Then Thom made a comment saying that when they agreed to play this BBC day they were asked to do a mixture of old and new songs (how I wanted to shout out ‘pop is dead’ at this point, but I guess that is an AtEase in joke!) and the launched into one of the best, rock out, versions ofMyxomatosis – Amazing. And I think Thom was enjoying this one immensely as well, he looked it anywayThom: ‘If radiohead were to ever to release a love song this is what it would sound like’…Nude – what a voice. The song is amazing and the timing of the bass/drums with thom is something that reminds you of the chemistry this band have, but thoms voice…… you’ll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking….(audible gasp from audience) oooooohhh ohh oh……Thom jumps back behind the electronic piano forMorning Bell, still holding all the melodies that make this one of those tracks that work well on CD but come alive live.Thom then said something along the lines of ‘here is another one from Kid A, might not be the one the pundits would choose but we like it, its odd, but not too odd’…Optimistic – The drums start early and lead everyone into the song, Thom sounds great but the bass and lead guitar levels sound a bit off, making the lead melody played by Johnny sound like it is in the background. However it still F’in rocked! But you could see the band were trying to catch each other and sort out the hiccups. The highlight of this version was definitely the joint ‘la la la la ‘ bit during the instrumental parts with thom and Ed looking like they wee putting their all into it.Then the piano comes rolling out again and thom sits, one hand placed on top of the keys andVideotape. Johnny doing the drum effects using a different mixer to the one from the webcasts, and using a couple of new samples I had not heard before but I am sure we are all familiar with now that the BBC have released the download. Brilliant.Thom thanks people for coming and we are on our feet cheering and yelling for more. The techs take a bit of time checking the tuning of the guitars and then out come the band again.Thom then says something along the lines of ‘we have really been digging playing Optimistic lately but that time we didn’t really click, so we are going to do it again’ Only at a Radiohead concert does the idea of hearing a song twice in one afternoon lead to the kind of cheer that went up for that one. They playedOptimistic (II) and we rocked out. This time the lead guitar was crisp and clean and the bass was pounding, Thom and Ed were singing away at the same level of intensity as before and if anything the drums sounded louder and more rocking! The finished off the song and we went mental, off out the door they went and it was over. As I was walking out the main door, Colin Murray was coming into back into the theatre and he walked past me quietly singing ‘I’d really like to help you man’ which made me smile.We were let out the side door and back out into the sunlight.Was definitely the most intimate gig I think I will ever see of Radiohead and it was amazing. It has wetted my appetite for my summer holidays, where I am following them around like a crazed stalker (a stalker who has to be back at work 2 days later).See you all out thereKeithaka vodka1
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Can´t believe they are not coming

Posted by fraNdroid on April 4, 2008 at 11:00pm
I still can´t believe it. They were soo close this time.South America is such a place to rock...but probably they don´t now that,,,yet.So dissapointed...Please...give us a chance. Just a small gig.Come in a boat. That won´t hurt the earth.But..please...play here. Just once.Todavía no puedo creerlo. Estuvieron tan cerca esta vez.Sudamérica es un buen lugar para rockearla...pero probablemente ellos no lo saben,,,todavía.Que decepción.Por favor,,, una oportunidad. Sólo un pequeño concierto.Vengan en barco. No le va a doler a la Tierra.Pero,,,por favor...toquen acá. Una sola vez.
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