2024-11-18: Melbourne, Australia

[B]

[greendisease]

Got GA!

[Sgt. Crackpot]

A reserve premium seats baby!

[injuddstree]

Seems like barely anyone landed Golden Circle for this, even those who got in straight away. They're holding a lot of them back.

[coptheriotact]

I'm happy to stand at the back of GC on night 1 to have a bit a space, but i don't want to be at the back of the whole stadium in GAnight 2 so i'm going to have to get amongst the morons

I havent done a real GA in a long time..

[brisjam]

Seems like barely anyone landed Golden Circle for this, even those who got in straight away. They're holding a lot of them back.

I got Golden Circle but it was luck and got in quick.

[Higgs]

I've got seats for this one. GC night one though. Happy to park my arse down and watch from afar.

If the seat map I've seen is correct shouldn't be a bad spot, but on L1 rather than L2. Pretty sure we are at the end of a row too, which is excellent for beverage purposes.

[greendisease]

Thought I was lucky to get GA but they are still available lol.

[coptheriotact]

Melbourne is nice I wish I lived there

[Frumpy]

By the time i got through the ticketmaster online queue (30,000 in front of me), they had annouced this show and was taken straight to night two to get tickets. They had the Golden Circle option available so snapped up a couple of tickets - and got tickets through someone else for GA for night 1 - all worked out well!

[Birds in Hell]

I'm in, switched from night 1 (still in GC).

Seems like there's still tons of tickets available for this one.

[Sgt. Crackpot]

Well shit Spenno, this might out us in breach of our AVO

[Higgs]

Well shit Spenno, this might out us in breach of our AVO

Happy to act as legal representative for you both on the night.

Spoiler: show

I am not a lawyer. But I am fairly certain Spenno is.

[Birds in Hell]

Well shit Spenno, this might out us in breach of our AVO

Happy to act as legal representative for you both on the night.

Spoiler: show

I am not a lawyer. But I am fairly certain Spenno is.

Not in the state of Victoria, so we're on equal footing in that regard.

We'll keep VICPOL on standby, just in case things get out of hand.

[greendisease]

[brisjam]

Walked past the Volcom pop up thing on my way to Queen Victoria Markets this morning. Crazy line up.
Came back past 90 minutes later and if anything line is longer.
I would guess about 100m long.
Had a good look through doors and didn't see anything you couldn't get at merch stand beyond skate decks. They did have the skull event poster from Gold Coast up on wall. Did not see poster for tomorrow night up though.

[brisjam]

Just on the off chance anyone doesn't know - I didn't until about 5 oc'clock.

THERE ARE NO POSTERS BEING SOLD AT MARVEL MERCH STANDS.

I spoke to the dude running the Volcom pop up and he said Marvel cracked the shits about poster tubes in the venue.
Same reason no skate decks for sale at venue. He also said they drastically underestimated the demand for Pearl Jam posters and Merch. Which I find amazing as in thirty years of going to shows the demand for merch has always been high. Shit even the dudes selling knock off shirts at the gigs would be making a killing. He did agree if they had four pop ups they would have been kept busy this weekend.

I managed to get into Volcom with only a 15 minute wait. The lines today were insane all day until about 530. Guy did tell me they have been ridiculous all weekend so I'd imagine tomorrow will be much better. There was plenty of the Sulphur crested cockatoos posters and the god awful AFL themed ones.

It is strange to me to that they sell made in Bangladesh shirts for $60. Fair enough they are cotton but surely they could get a much better shirt for 3 bucks more. Still selling in their thousands judging by how many I've seen around Melbourne. Between that and not paying the poster artists for their work I think Pearl Jam management needs to have a hard long look at itself.

[injuddstree]

$60-$70 is a standard price for a large-scale concert t-shirt.

[brisjam]

$60-$70 is a standard price for a large-scale concert t-shirt.

No issue with price. I'd imagine profit margin is major concern for a concert shirt.
Bought plenty this year for the kids with Tay Tay and Pink etc.
But very little difference in price to go to a better quality shirt.
I know they are practically throw away shirts for many people, buy it and wear it to gig and never again. But right now I am wearing a shirt I bought in Cambodia for about $20 USD and it is ten times the quality.

[brisjam]

Not a big one for picking songs I'd like to hear before a show.
But I think Binaural is only album untouched from 2 Aussie Shows.

Could handle Nothing as it Seems or even more unlikely Of the Girl. Even Insignificance.