Anybody seeing the Magnetic Fields tonight?

#3
jeez tony, it's not like you're saying your performing for them. but sigh, i wish i were going. MJC and I saw them last spring and they were great. you're sure to have a great time.
 
#6
jealous. listening to them right now on my ipod.

I tried to get Stephen to do my show, and his manager actually wrote back and said if it weren't for him being so busy he would have liked to do it.

Who knows if that's a line of bullhonkey but I'm braggin about it anyway.
 

goldfish boy

Otium cum dignitate
#10
Floy and I feel we enjoyed them so thoroughly when we saw them last spring that there's no need to see them again.*

*this statement should not be considered literally true, or even figuratively or metaphorically true, or indeed true in any way, shape, manner, form or respect, by any stretch of poetic license or anything else.
 

VarietyUndrgrnd

@the Parkside Lounge
#11
UPDATE:

Although it was "sold out," there were easily 50 empty seats, including 2 front and center and a bank of about 7 in the fourth row. And dozens scattered throughout.

What gives?
 

VarietyUndrgrnd

@the Parkside Lounge
#13
No! Great show!

The band did mention the empty seats though, which always bothers me. Don't talk about the people who aren't there. We all came to see you! We're here! Be happy!

(This goes for comedians too.)
 

sarahnowak

standing in the new style
#14
Most theaters call it sold out before they sell every last ticket. When I worked for the philharmonic we used to stop selling when we sold all but 50 or so, and saved them for vips or for trouble seats (which just means for whatever reason two people were sold the same seat, one person needs a new one.) Sometimes people buy/are given tickets and don't go.
Isn't that wonderfully interesting? I actually miss that job.

And then sometimes people don't know about it until after it is sold out. (wah.)
 
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