Anyone get Radio 1 tickets for the 1 Big Weekend...
30 April 2008, 03:34 PM
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Anyone get Radio 1 tickets for the 1 Big Weekend...
As its in Maidstone where we live and the Mrs Birthday I thought i'd register as its a free gig/concert local to us. It was advertised as those who live locally will get priority blah blah but guess what although we live there we didn't get any ticket. So tickets will have gone to people all over the country but someone who lives local to the event can't actually go 
I thought it shut down at the end of the 90's
30 April 2008, 09:40 PM
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same last year in preston a friend who lives in preston said there where hundreds of coaches from all over the country, not exactly local prefrence. but whats was happenign was the local universitys email addresses got prefrences so it went to there target audience
30 April 2008, 10:14 PM
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i'm off to leeds! hungarytang off of here is a ticket getting god.
just because they say preference will be given to locals, doesn't mean all applying locals will get a ticket
stevie
just because they say preference will be given to locals, doesn't mean all applying locals will get a ticket
stevie
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12 May 2008, 10:35 AM
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Well found out what a **** up the BBC made over the weekend. Was talking to a cashier in a shop about how quiet it was in town etc and then started talking about how no one we knew had got tickets. She said she has a friend who works for the BBC and they cocked up the post code when assigning the tickets. They mistakenly thought Maidstone was ME4 and assigned the majority of tickets to that post code and surrounding post codes when in fact that is Chatham and the Medway towns area. She said hardly anyone from Maidstone got tickets and the majority went to the Medway towns because of the post code error and some households got as many as 6 tickets sent to them. Someone else then spoke about they know family in one of the houses right outside Moat Park's main entrance who applied for tickets and got turned down and then were told they had to actually apply for a permit to leave and return to their house by car over the weekend, not automatically be given one but had to apply FFS (although that is the police/local authority who are to blame for that idiocy). Also it should have been advertised as a gig for 18-21's only as the intended audience was students.
The BBC really are a total shambles with phone in votes being rigged, not giving money to charity that they said they were and not even being able to get a post code right when deciding who should be getting tickets for a local event
The BBC really are a total shambles with phone in votes being rigged, not giving money to charity that they said they were and not even being able to get a post code right when deciding who should be getting tickets for a local event
12 May 2008, 01:48 PM
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The story about the tickets and the postcode confusion is apparently a red herring, although forgotten where I read it. But the BBC gave detailed figures of where the tickets had gon and to which postcodes. The post codes used where supplied by Maidstone Borough Council.
Presumably the town would be quiet as those with tickets were in Mote Park, those without were avoiding the town as it would be busy.
Presumably the town would be quiet as those with tickets were in Mote Park, those without were avoiding the town as it would be busy.
12 May 2008, 09:04 PM
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I had an email come in the other week saying I didn't get any tickets, didn't know where it had come from as, obviously, I'm not exactly in the right location to be able to attend. Found out it was my brother using a few email addresses to try and get tickets, but his efforts were not rewarded.
I didn't actually know it was in Maidstone until I saw the BBC story about Usher saying "Hello Manchester!", which probably went down like a turd soufflé.
I didn't actually know it was in Maidstone until I saw the BBC story about Usher saying "Hello Manchester!", which probably went down like a turd soufflé.
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