How on earth did you manage that??? Every time I've looked on their website I've only found the first gig listed. Nothing at all for the second one...

The 2nd show is definately on the Symphony Hall website although there is a Billy Ocean date inbetween the 2 Crowded House gigs. Try "What's on" click rock and pop and it's on the 2nd page. Hope this helps, I just checked it a few minutes ago and there were a few tickets still available in row A and B left side of stalls.

Here's the 2nd date http://www.thsh.co.uk/view/crowded-house-2nd-date

Hope this helps and just checked and some good stalls still available.

just to clairify billy ocean is in the Town hall not the symphony hall

seems to be a second gig at Manchester (27th) on Ticketmaster yet I have not seen anything posted on here as yet.

The second Manchester will not be announced till tomorrow. Honestly not sure why a few tickets crept out- but it's Friday at 9.00 for 2nd show on the 27th.
Gryph

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Originally posted by gryphon:
The second Manchester will not be announced till tomorrow. Honestly not sure why a few tickets crept out- but it's Friday at 9.00 for 2nd show on the 27th.
Gryph

Anyone heard of Eventim? Or booked tickets with them before?
http://www.eventim.co.uk/cgi-bin/concert-tickets.html
Tickets for second Manchester show are on sale now at this site.

I think they looked after a few Europe shows?

Gryph

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Originally posted by gryphon:
I think they looked after a few Europe shows?

Gryph

yes they did the Amsterdam show. you can register with them beforehand.

Thank you Gryph and Dutchgirl.

I hadn't heard of Eventim before, but threw caution to the wind and managed to get row B centre for Manchester 27th (Neil's birthday).

Consequently you now have one over the moon Scouser

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Originally posted by Vee:
Thank you Gryph and Dutchgirl.

I hadn't heard of Eventim before, but threw caution to the wind and managed to get row B centre for Manchester 27th (Neil's birthday).

Consequently you now have one over the moon Scouser

Me too Vee (and I'm another Vee!) - shall see you there!

so you 2 will be singing happy birthday to him then?

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Originally posted by dutchgirl:
so you 2 will be singing happy birthday to him then?

I think we should......and perhaps bring a pressie. Any suggestions?

I would love to go to his birthday concert, that would be amazing! The audience should sing Happy Birthday to him.

I've been trying and trying to work out the logistics- it's a risk since it's in exam week, and I don't know when exams are yet, so I might have one Wednesday afternoon, or Thursday morning, which would be tight. Trains from Sheffield to Manchester don't run past around 10:30pm which is too early.

Is anyone going in a Sheffield direction at all? I so want to go but it's looking impossible. I feel that if Neil's coming all the way around the world to the UK, and give a concert on his birthday, the least I can do is hop across the pennines!

Mind you I wonder if he'll tour New Zealand while I'm there (gap year August 2010-2011), that would be pretty amazing. But I'm scared I'll miss all the concerts =S

Sparky

I wonder if other UK shows will be announced later in the year,now that the album is coming out after the initial UK tour.

I hope so.

Without knowing anything about what's gone on, it seems to me as if the whole promo train has gone spectacularly wrong.

There's no way the band would plan to tour such an important release so far in advance of the album release the tour is meant to promote.

I know they played a few dates a year or so ago but that was a deliberate one off to keep their hand in before recording the new album. I doubt they intended the latest tour to be "without album".

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Without knowing anything about what's gone on, it seems to me as if the whole promo train has gone spectacularly wrong.

Yep - the whole timing of the tour seems a bit of a debacle now, coming potentially months ahead of the album release - which is still only 'tentatively' scheduled for June/July. These sort of tours are all about selling albums, generating local interest and airplay. But I guess the whole thing was too locked in to change.

Having said that,bands do tend to tour more nowadays for tourings sake.Neil himself has said as much.