Subcultural engagement for the 21st Century...
Barbelith is a new kind of community (find out more)...
You can login or register.

Live 8 texting frenzy

Mourne Kransky

09:43 / 06.06.05

For Barbelites wearing white wristbands who'd like tickets for the London Live 8 concert in Hyde Park on July 2.

To thrill to Madonna, Robbie Williams and Sir Paul McCartney, with a half mile trek to queue for a pee and falafel at a fiver a poke, you must answer a simple multiple choice question by text.

Here's the question: Which city is nearest to the G8 summit in July?
A) Berlin
B) Moscow
C) Edinburgh

The text number is 84599 and each will cost £1.50 plus the operators' standard network rate. O2 is the company organising the text war isn't it? Wonder how much they'll make out of it.

Lines close on June 12 when the correct answers go into a lottery. A computer will randomly select 66,500 winners to receive a pair of tickets.

Yay Paul

12:28 / 06.06.05

And to help raise the expected 20m from said texts you can enter as many times as you like. Get those thumbs tapping!

Mourne Kransky

16:00 / 14.06.05

Well, enthused by the thought of the Scissor Sisters and the reformed Floyd, I did send a text but to no avail. I see the lucky texters are selling them for megabucks on eBay now. And it's £400 for seats in the Corporate Stand. So, no show for me but it's the Pride march that day anyway. Did anybody succeed in getting tickets for Hyde Park then and is not going up to Edinburgh?

sleazenation

16:11 / 14.06.05

Does this strike anyone else as a clusterfuck. Tickets to a 'free' even costing money regardless weither you get tickets or not - those 'free' tickets being resold for larger amounts of cash on Ebay with the proceeds going into less than charitable back pockets. I have a feeling that more money has changed hands this way than if the tickets were not 'free' . And at least if people had been allowed to purchase tickets directly the chances of people who wanted to go getting tickets would have been greatly increased.

Tryphena Absent

17:57 / 14.06.05

I think it's pretty cheeky to put on a concert that only people who have mobile phones can attend... possibly.

Jack Denfeld

18:07 / 14.06.05

What's falafel? Is it like a waffle?

w1rebaby

18:29 / 14.06.05

Mobile phones or internet access. (But really, who doesn't have a mobile these days? Old hippies? Oh hold on, given the line-up....)

Much as I can't understand why anyone would spend a significant amount of time and money trying to attend this thing, the eBay aspect does support my general maxim of "one tout one bullet". About the same level as stock traders; worthless parasites.

Mourne Kransky

18:38 / 14.06.05

Falafel is the staple food of the British music festival, Your Jackness, especially if you are a veggie or a superannuated hippie (such as I). It's also a handy snack if you're travelling round North Africa or the Middle East, where they originate.

Mostly ground chick peas with some onion, garlic and spices, made into little balls, coated in breadcrumbs and deep fried. Truly scrumptious, very nourishing. Probably cost about 2p each to make and get sold for a huge rip-off mark-up at festivals.

Morpheus

05:00 / 15.06.05

Is it really worth it to see that show???
Mad donaaaa, Robbie williams? and then neo-postmorte beatle boy (lordwhyisn'thedeadinstead) Paul. To think you would even walk across the street to hear these train wrecks.

Add Your Reply