Busted have split, is this the end of music???

[jaseyboy]

tis indeed.

i fear i already have.....

[Quazi Washboard]

Originally Posted by wayneyboy1942

Quazi any chance of you doing a Busted tribute band?
:)

Sorry Wayne, I don't think there's a make up artist alive that can make me look that young again.

[jellytot]

jaseyboy where did dat sudden violent outburst come from? gutting ppl like fish isn't nice! lol! no, greenday aren't like busted, at all! :yelrotflm

[jaseyboy]

i just hate boy bands. and im glad you think that jellytot!

[Quazi Washboard]

I hate boy bands too, but violence isn't the answer.






Underhanded ticket sales knobbling, that's the way to do it! :D ;)

[ollie]

Quasi what is underhanded ticket sales knobbling?

Originally Posted by Quazi Washboard

I hate boy bands too, but violence isn't the answer.






Underhanded ticket sales knobbling, that's the way to do it! :D ;)

[Quazi Washboard]

Erm,..wouldn't know, never did it. ;)

[ollie]

Of course not Quazi but if you did (by accident) do it, what would you have done?

[Quazi Washboard]

Your not going to let this go are you Ollie.
OK then.
Find out who's been given the job of selling the tickets, (for well known bands like Busted, this will be some struggling student who's got a job sitting in a box office because he just want's to earn enough money to spend the week in the pub.) then give them £1000 to tell everyone that's trying to buy tickets that the gig is either; Over 18s only, (this should wipe out half the audience) cancelled, or sold out. (the entire knobble works better if they are on tour and you do this to three or four venues evenly spaced around the country)
Busted (or whoever you're doing this to) come to play their gig to an empty room. Now if this place is somewhere like Manchester Apollo, the venue will have just lost a lot of money because it costs so much just to light and heat a place like that, plus you have to pay the staff, plus they will already have agreed a price to pay the boy band which they will be obliged under contract to pay.
The upshot? Well that band will cirtainly NOT be playing there again, the venue owner will contact other venues, (they all keep in touch you know) infact, if the venue is one of a line of venues all owned by the same corporation, then they won't be playing any of those either. Before you know it, nearly an entire tour has been officially cancelled due to poor ticket sales. The fans, like sheep, will go off them because they don't appear to be popular any more and eventually this will affect record sales so badly that their record company will drop them. They will go down in the history books as one of the biggest flops of all time and will end up stacking shelves in their local supermarket.

[ollie]

Crumb's!:( Nobody better try that with the Three Amigo's, though if we were selling tickets for that, and I was in the ticket box I might be tempted with a £1000......

Originally Posted by Quazi Washboard

Your not going to let this go are you Ollie.
OK then.
Find out who's been given the job of selling the tickets, (for well known bands like Busted, this will be some struggling student who's got a job sitting in a box office because he just want's to earn enough money to spend the week in the pub.) then give them £1000 to tell everyone that's trying to buy tickets that the gig is either; Over 18s only, (this should wipe out half the audience) cancelled, or sold out. (the entire knobble works better if they are on tour and you do this to three or four venues evenly spaced around the country)
Busted (or whoever you're doing this to) come to play their gig to an empty room. Now if this place is somewhere like Manchester Apollo, the venue will have just lost a lot of money because it costs so much just to light and heat a place like that, plus you have to pay the staff, plus they will already have agreed a price to pay the boy band which they will be obliged under contract to pay.
The upshot? Well that band will cirtainly NOT be playing there again, the venue owner will contact other venues, (they all keep in touch you know) infact, if the venue is one of a line of venues all owned by the same corporation, then they won't be playing any of those either. Before you know it, nearly an entire tour has been officially cancelled due to poor ticket sales. The fans, like sheep, will go off them because they don't appear to be popular any more and eventually this will affect record sales so badly that their record company will drop them. They will go down in the history books as one of the biggest flops of all time and will end up stacking shelves in their local supermarket.

[wayneyboy1942]

What an eye opener Quazi! Never thought people could be that sneaky! Ollie do you fancy selling Bluetone's tickets? ;) :yelrotflm

[Quazi Washboard]

Originally Posted by ollie

Crumb's!:( Nobody better try that with the Three Amigo's, though if we were selling tickets for that, and I was in the ticket box I might be tempted with a £1000......

Oh I'd definately take the £1000. ;)
Actualy, the above knobble is supposed to have been done in the past by record companies or management wanting to get shut of problem artists. Dunno if it's actually true or one of them there urban myth thingies

[ollie]

Originally Posted by wayneyboy1942

What an eye opener Quazi! Never thought people could be that sneaky! Ollie do you fancy selling Bluetone's tickets? ;) :yelrotflm

good idea wayne, lets get them playing at Butlins for 30 bob, then see what their rider looks like! 10 fags and a tray of carling if their lucky

[Quazi Washboard]

Originally Posted by ollie

good idea wayne, lets get them playing at Butlins for 30 bob, then see what their rider looks like! 10 fags and a tray of carling if their lucky

10 fags too? That's a bit extravegant isn't it?

A crate of the cheapest beer going to share between them and the support band should be sufficient. ;)