A Miracle!/Nearfest ticketing

[John Majka]

> On Apr 3, 2007, at 2:49 AM, Keith Henderson wrote:
>
>>   P.S.  What happened with NearFest?  Anybody get/not get tix?
>
> I got up at 5AM and drove a couple of hours up to the box office and 
> waited for tickets to go on sale. Mission accomplished. Tickets sold 
> slightly slower this year because the theatre had a new online  ticketing 
> system that couldn't cope with the rush. Hopefully it will  all go as 
> planned, as I haven't seen Hawkwind since moving to the US  shortly after 
> Hawkestra. Inspired me to rejoin the list, so *wave* to  folks I know, and 
> "pleased to meet you" to those I don't. :)


Living in Indiana, I couldn't drive there, so I had to settle for getting my 
ticket online, which was a hellish ordeal.  The online ticketing system was 
perplexing (i.e. being forced to buy a "10,000 full" whatever that is--I 
hope it's a ticket!), and it was obviously swamped with people.  It was 
least an hour after tickets went on sale that I was finally able (after 
thousands of refreshes and button presses) to make my purchase, which wound 
up being in the balcony *sigh*.  Being an early bird definitely did not pay 
off in this case.  And then of course let's not forget that HW haven't even 
confirmed the show....

John Majka