30 quid (ie $55) is incredibly cheap for an arena show. the average cost of an arena down here is $90-100 with the better seats being $130+

 

but the thing is the production costs of bringing a show here are incredibly high. you're travelling to the other side of the world for starters and then you're travelling on average 1000km between each show when you get here. so the prices are completely understandable.

It's not an arena show, though. It's in a theater. Nobody knows who Elbow is here (massive shame) so I'm surprised they're even playing in a venue that big. Two years ago, they played to 2,000 and had trouble selling it out.

 

Arens shows here sell for $75 MINIMUM. I've paid over $100 for some.

i meant their manchester shows haha.

 

sometimes bands play venues that are too big for them because they want to use their full set up which wouldnt otherwise fit in a small venue. that might be the case with Elbow. had a friend in the "industry" telling me today that a lot of bands with a big production, hire out a 10 000 seat venue but make a deal with the organisers to limit the capacity to 6000 with lower hire costs and so on.

Yeah, if they intend on using those giant portraits that I saw in videos of their Manchester show, that probably requires a larger stage.

I wasn't too bothered with the price....it was 50 with the convienience charge, so a 35 dollar ticket or something

 

I'm just happy I am going to see them! :D

seen their southside festival performance today (online, i wasn't there) - it was ace :heart:

Elbow Live from Glastonbury is on BBC 3 next Saturday at 9pm :)

Is it broadcast on the BBC website as well? Otherwise I hope I can find a stream presuming I've got internet access then.

No idea about the bbc website, but there will probably be a stream showing it from the bbc feed

Elbow celebrating 20-year anniversary like 'hippies' at Glastonbury

 

 

Elbow celebrating 20-year anniversary like 'hippies' at Glastonbury

 

Elbow's Guy Garvey has chatted to NME about how the band will be celebrating their 20-year anniversary at this year's Glastonbury festival.

 

The band play tonight (June 25) on the Pyramid Stage below headliners Coldplay.

 

"It's, like, 20 years this month that the band formed, so to be celebrating here is pretty special really," said the frontman. “Playing second headliner on the Pyramid Stage is something I never thought I'd do. It's mindblowing – it’s one of those things you can’t actually take in.”

 

Garvey went on to explain how the festival brought out his inner hippy. "There's something about the land and the sky round here – it's pretty trippy really," he said. "I'm from the north, so there are all these hills on the horizon and there isn't in this part of the world... there's more sky, and if that sounds pretty hippy, it's because I am [a hippy]. You can understand why they believed in magic and stuff like that round here, because there's just something vibrant about it."

 

He also praised the attitude of the punters and staff at the famous event. "You get here and everybody's happy, all the staff are happy," he said. "There's no 'computer says no' attitude like there is in the rest of the world. It reaffirms your faith in human nature, being here for a couple of days a year."

 

Elbow take to the Pyramid Stage at 8.15pm (BST).

 

http://www.nme.com/news/elbow/57558#1

Elbow Live from Glastonbury is on BBC 3 next Saturday at 9pm :)

 

Less than an hour away now! :D

I've got the bbc glastonbury website up and running ready for the Elbow

I've got as well as no internet where I am right now :( A little let down I miss their stream again.

It's not live.

I think i love Guy Garvey - funny, charismatic and sings like a fucking angel. :wacky:

it is live ? :uhoh:

http://magictv.co/ LOW INTNRNET!

http://es-es.justin.tv/glastonbury_2011#/w/1385258768/2 FAST INTERNET!

Nope, running at a delay (at least for the bbc feed)

either way, I don't think I can watch a video.

I think i love Guy Garvey - funny, charismatic and sings like a fucking angel. :wacky:

 

YES. :heart:

wow the bits of the glasto show that the bbc aired were fantastic :wacky: Bloody loved it.

 

On one side of the stage they had one of them air sock people thingies in the build a rocket man colours, blue with a yellow head. It looked ace. I wish I could find a picture of it.

Uncut go through Elbow's discography in the newest issue with the band :awesome: apparently you can hear Guy hitting himself on the head with crate at the end of Bitten By The Tailfly.

Blimey Uncut do a modern band discography :o

 

What no Dylan/Young on the cover this month, there will be uproar!

:P Who cover actually. And they did My Morning Jacket last month. There's also a good interview with Matt Berninger of The National.

Their will be reader rebellion, all these 'new' bands taking up space in the magazine :P

 

(And I've been on a reader research panel back in Feb for Uncut, so I know what some other readers think)