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modman wrote:Feeling fortunate to be able to have gotten a ticket for NYC @ 7PM!

I'm trying to organize a gathering before the show if anyone is interested, Made a reddit thread here


Any NYC BoC fans are more than welcome to pull up , Spread the word!

I’m driving up from DC and would love to join. Hoping to get here a few hours before doors. Would love any advice on cool local spots for lunch/early dinner or record shops/book shops. Been a while since I had a day on my own let alone in NY. Hopefully we can get a solid contingent pre-show!

writetomhatcher wrote:

modman wrote:Feeling fortunate to be able to have gotten a ticket for NYC @ 7PM!

I'm trying to organize a gathering before the show if anyone is interested, Made a reddit thread here


Any NYC BoC fans are more than welcome to pull up , Spread the word!

I’m driving up from DC and would love to join. Hoping to get here a few hours before doors. Would love any advice on cool local spots for lunch/early dinner or record shops/book shops. Been a while since I had a day on my own let alone in NY. Hopefully we can get a solid contingent pre-show!

Count me in. Coming in from Boston.

I think it would (hopefully will) be fascinating and surreal to meet some of the twoism members I've seen on here for up to 15 years.

robotanalysis wrote:

writetomhatcher wrote:

modman wrote:Feeling fortunate to be able to have gotten a ticket for NYC @ 7PM!

I'm trying to organize a gathering before the show if anyone is interested, Made a reddit thread here


Any NYC BoC fans are more than welcome to pull up , Spread the word!

I’m driving up from DC and would love to join. Hoping to get here a few hours before doors. Would love any advice on cool local spots for lunch/early dinner or record shops/book shops. Been a while since I had a day on my own let alone in NY. Hopefully we can get a solid contingent pre-show!

Count me in. Coming in from Boston.

Let's do it! I made a discord to coordinate it https://discord.gg/9hzjTMBwEs

modman wrote:

robotanalysis wrote:

writetomhatcher wrote:Feeling fortunate to be able to have gotten a ticket for NYC @ 7PM!

I'm trying to organize a gathering before the show if anyone is interested, Made a reddit thread here


Any NYC BoC fans are more than welcome to pull up , Spread the word!

I’m driving up from DC and would love to join. Hoping to get here a few hours before doors. Would love any advice on cool local spots for lunch/early dinner or record shops/book shops. Been a while since I had a day on my own let alone in NY. Hopefully we can get a solid contingent pre-show!

Count me in. Coming in from Boston.

im coming from iowa

Somehow I managed to get a ticket and t-shirt for the late Stone Nest airing.I was at work. At 10:58 I found myself saying to my manager "Er - I'm just nipping outiside to, um, to take a leak" (I know, I know - I was panicking!) the last thing I recall as I left the building was his "What did he just say?" face. Anyway, opened the link, entered code and.......................Spinning circle of death then "504 Bad Gateway" - came out, went back in, same thing. Refreshed it a few times then a page opened telling me I was 12th on the list. 10-15 seconds and I was re-directed to the select the 6:15 or 8:15, chose the latter, t-shirt went into the basket, through to payment page and I'm thinkiing christ, this is painless, clicked pay aaaaaaaaaand screen went blank. Now, my anxiety levels generally track at panic stricken hedgehog, attempting to curl in on itself to the point a new dimension is alighted upon, so this website taking a massive dump on the bed has me on a knife edge that becomes a razor's edge which resolves into Ant Man levels of quantum miniscule-ness. The car park I'm supposed to be taking a slash in is tipping one way, then another and this is only 11:04am. Gathered frazzled remnants of brain and start over. I'm 175th in the queue. Just as I'm inventing new swear words, the page refreshes to advise i'm 68th. Then 10th. Sits like this for about five minutes. Screen blanks out "Contact site administrator" at the top. 11:11am now. Third time's a charm, I'm told. Start again. Link isn't even opening now. Goes straight to "Bad Gateway" - not once did I get the "cloudflare" thing or whatever it's called. Starting to resgin myself to reading breathess reports late on the 22nd - decide on one last roll of the dice - it's almost 11:25 now - there's no way any tickets will be left, surely? Open the link, re-enter code. I am Number Six (Good idea for a telly show, that......) then I'm back in and taken straight to enter payment details page! Basket still shows one ticket for 8:15 at eleven quid and the t-shirt is still there. What??? Re-enter details, click pay - and it goes through! Success! Email pops up "Your ticket and t-shirt codes will be sent to you via email before the event and you must bring these with you" I'm about ready to lay an egg. Or take a massive leak in stinking a car park, out in the country. To be honest, I actually feel quite gulty at having secured a ticket - especially in light of the car crash experiences some of you so clearly had. I'll get whatever photos, videos etc I can in that initial five minutes we've been allotted and offer some sort of write up in an attempt to do this event some sort of justice (p*sspoor ticket application system notwithstanding).

It really does go to show these ticketing queue systems are an utter lottery. Anyone who has ever tried getting Glastonbury tickets will tell you the same. In a way it's soooooo bad it actually ends up being fair.. I guess. Not that I'm bitter. Oh no, not me.

Mexicola wrote:It really does go to show these ticketing queue systems are an utter lottery. Anyone who has ever tried getting Glastonbury tickets will tell you the same. In a way it's soooooo bad it actually ends up being fair.. I guess. Not that I'm bitter. Oh no, not me.

One year we saw so much of the error message for the glasto ticket queuing system we printed it on t shirts the whole group wore

Loooonnnggg time lurker never poster since way back. Opened new account just to say lucky enough to get two London tickets in the 'lottery' just using my phone, more of less straight in smooth transaction. I could not believe it as no way expected anything knowing capacity and demand. Anyway if anyone from this forum wants to meet up / identify themselves let me know. I don't live far from London and will be taking the day off and absolutely will be making the most of it.

Interface de l'enfer wrote:Somehow I managed to get a ticket and t-shirt for the late Stone Nest airing.I was at work. At 10:58 I found myself saying to my manager "Er - I'm just nipping outiside to, um, to take a leak" (I know, I know - I was panicking!) the last thing I recall as I left the building was his "What did he just say?" face. Anyway, opened the link, entered code and.......................Spinning circle of death then "504 Bad Gateway" - came out, went back in, same thing. Refreshed it a few times then a page opened telling me I was 12th on the list. 10-15 seconds and I was re-directed to the select the 6:15 or 8:15, chose the latter, t-shirt went into the basket, through to payment page and I'm thinkiing christ, this is painless, clicked pay aaaaaaaaaand screen went blank. Now, my anxiety levels generally track at panic stricken hedgehog, attempting to curl in on itself to the point a new dimension is alighted upon, so this website taking a massive dump on the bed has me on a knife edge that becomes a razor's edge which resolves into Ant Man levels of quantum miniscule-ness. The car park I'm supposed to be taking a slash in is tipping one way, then another and this is only 11:04am. Gathered frazzled remnants of brain and start over. I'm 175th in the queue. Just as I'm inventing new swear words, the page refreshes to advise i'm 68th. Then 10th. Sits like this for about five minutes. Screen blanks out "Contact site administrator" at the top. 11:11am now. Third time's a charm, I'm told. Start again. Link isn't even opening now. Goes straight to "Bad Gateway" - not once did I get the "cloudflare" thing or whatever it's called. Starting to resgin myself to reading breathess reports late on the 22nd - decide on one last roll of the dice - it's almost 11:25 now - there's no way any tickets will be left, surely? Open the link, re-enter code. I am Number Six (Good idea for a telly show, that......) then I'm back in and taken straight to enter payment details page! Basket still shows one ticket for 8:15 at eleven quid and the t-shirt is still there. What??? Re-enter details, click pay - and it goes through! Success! Email pops up "Your ticket and t-shirt codes will be sent to you via email before the event and you must bring these with you" I'm about ready to lay an egg. Or take a massive leak in stinking a car park, out in the country. To be honest, I actually feel quite gulty at having secured a ticket - especially in light of the car crash experiences some of you so clearly had. I'll get whatever photos, videos etc I can in that initial five minutes we've been allotted and offer some sort of write up in an attempt to do this event some sort of justice (p*sspoor ticket application system notwithstanding).

Great post similar experience to my one and same will collect as much intel and details as possible and share

bho wrote:Loooonnnggg time lurker never poster since way back. Opened new account just to say lucky enough to get two London tickets in the 'lottery' just using my phone, more of less straight in smooth transaction. I could not believe it as no way expected anything knowing capacity and demand. Anyway if anyone from this forum wants to meet up / identify themselves let me know. I don't live far from London and will be taking the day off and absolutely will be making the most of it.

Aye, lurked a while myself! I was on the early boards and forums and whatnot, late 90s into the very early 00s when our family doubled from two to four in just under two years. Both sons diagnosed really quite early on as being at the severe/profound end of the Autism spectrum (this in the teeth of the Wakefield fiasco), so life, in pretty much every aspect that we had previously known it has been on "pause" for the last 20 or so years. This "do" will be my first night out since (thinks..........) probably White Stripes at the winter Gardens in Blackpool, early 2004! I'll be travelling down from Cumbria for the show, dop me a message if you would like to meet up or (my absolute speciality) nod awkwardly from a safe distance?

Mexicola wrote:It really does go to show these ticketing queue systems are an utter lottery. Anyone who has ever tried getting Glastonbury tickets will tell you the same. In a way it's soooooo bad it actually ends up being fair.. I guess. Not that I'm bitter. Oh no, not me.

I was thinking the same thing. There’s no way to know the best method for getting tickets so it’s really a crap shoot. I hit the link 30 seconds prior to 11:00am and got into the page, entered my access code and got a countdown to tickets until it got “tickets will be available shortly” or something like that. I waited on that page figuring that a refresh would reset my spot in the queue, but soon realized the page wasn’t going to refresh automatically.

Once I tried opening a new tab it was 11:01 and tickets were sold out. 6 minutes of frantic refreshing later, and 3 teases where it said tickets were available and then kicked me out, I finally managed to snag 2 tickets. Feel like I really lucked out with this one.

MyKneesAreCold wrote:

Mexicola wrote:It really does go to show these ticketing queue systems are an utter lottery. Anyone who has ever tried getting Glastonbury tickets will tell you the same. In a way it's soooooo bad it actually ends up being fair.. I guess. Not that I'm bitter. Oh no, not me.

I was thinking the same thing. There’s no way to know the best method for getting tickets so it’s really a crap shoot. I hit the link 30 seconds prior to 11:00am and got into the page, entered my access code and got a countdown to tickets until it got “tickets will be available shortly” or something like that. I waited on that page figuring that a refresh would reset my spot in the queue, but soon realized the page wasn’t going to refresh automatically.

Once I tried opening a new tab it was 11:01 and tickets were sold out. 6 minutes of frantic refreshing later, and 3 teases where it said tickets were available and then kicked me out, I finally managed to snag 2 tickets. Feel like I really lucked out with this one.

Did you enter a name for the person who is using the second ticket? I am currently confused about whether one actually needs to do this or not.

Interface de l'enfer wrote:

bho wrote:Loooonnnggg time lurker never poster since way back. Opened new account just to say lucky enough to get two London tickets in the 'lottery' just using my phone, more of less straight in smooth transaction. I could not believe it as no way expected anything knowing capacity and demand. Anyway if anyone from this forum wants to meet up / identify themselves let me know. I don't live far from London and will be taking the day off and absolutely will be making the most of it.

Aye, lurked a while myself! I was on the early boards and forums and whatnot, late 90s into the very early 00s when our family doubled from two to four in just under two years. Both sons diagnosed really quite early on as being at the severe/profound end of the Autism spectrum (this in the teeth of the Wakefield fiasco), so life, in pretty much every aspect that we had previously known it has been on "pause" for the last 20 or so years. This "do" will be my first night out since (thinks..........) probably White Stripes at the winter Gardens in Blackpool, early 2004! I'll be travelling down from Cumbria for the show, dop me a message if you would like to meet up or (my absolute speciality) nod awkwardly from a safe distance?

That is a class response, thank you, let's do that we can nod at each other. Allot of life has happened since TH.

Negamuse wrote:

Mexicola wrote:It really does go to show these ticketing queue systems are an utter lottery. Anyone who has ever tried getting Glastonbury tickets will tell you the same. In a way it's soooooo bad it actually ends up being fair.. I guess. Not that I'm bitter. Oh no, not me.

One year we saw so much of the error message for the glasto ticket queuing system we printed it on t shirts the whole group wore

Glastonbury is responsible for the death of so many plastic F5 keys it should be heranged by Greenpeace dingheys.

robotanalysis wrote:

writetomhatcher wrote:

modman wrote:Feeling fortunate to be able to have gotten a ticket for NYC @ 7PM!

I'm trying to organize a gathering before the show if anyone is interested, Made a reddit thread here


Any NYC BoC fans are more than welcome to pull up , Spread the word!

I’m driving up from DC and would love to join. Hoping to get here a few hours before doors. Would love any advice on cool local spots for lunch/early dinner or record shops/book shops. Been a while since I had a day on my own let alone in NY. Hopefully we can get a solid contingent pre-show!

Count me in. Coming in from Boston.

congrats robso -- experience it for me mate

I had a code for Berlin but way to late to share to someone around there

Interface de l'enfer wrote:

bho wrote:Loooonnnggg time lurker never poster since way back. Opened new account just to say lucky enough to get two London tickets in the 'lottery' just using my phone, more of less straight in smooth transaction. I could not believe it as no way expected anything knowing capacity and demand. Anyway if anyone from this forum wants to meet up / identify themselves let me know. I don't live far from London and will be taking the day off and absolutely will be making the most of it.

Aye, lurked a while myself! I was on the early boards and forums and whatnot, late 90s into the very early 00s when our family doubled from two to four in just under two years. Both sons diagnosed really quite early on as being at the severe/profound end of the Autism spectrum (this in the teeth of the Wakefield fiasco), so life, in pretty much every aspect that we had previously known it has been on "pause" for the last 20 or so years. This "do" will be my first night out since (thinks..........) probably White Stripes at the winter Gardens in Blackpool, early 2004! I'll be travelling down from Cumbria for the show, dop me a message if you would like to meet up or (my absolute speciality) nod awkwardly from a safe distance?

Ah love how you managed to get a ticket! Good to know they went to good homes. Enjoy it mate!

modman wrote:Feeling fortunate to be able to have gotten a ticket for NYC @ 7PM!

I'm trying to organize a gathering before the show if anyone is interested, Made a reddit thread here


Any NYC BoC fans are more than welcome to pull up , Spread the word!

Update to this, I made a Discord since I figured it would be easier to communicate with folks, https://discord.gg/Xe6Bw7pNYC

Even if you didn't get tickets but are in NYC you are more than welcome to join and come to the meet up!! Please join up I have most of it set up!

I'm gonna be at the late Berlin session! who else?

apologies for the double post but I did a little something for us lucky ticket holders