SILVER JEWS & GO TEAM SHOWS - MOVED TO STARLIGHT - MORE TIX NOW AVAILABLE - WOAH !
Yep the demand was getting too high, with e-mails pouring in from all over the place. So we moved both shows to the larger Starlight Ballroom at 9th & Spring Garden Sts. All previously purchased tickets will be honored. Full details can be foun online on the shows page. YEAH !
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Part of the high demand was probably for this "intimate" show. This absolutely sucks. I hope everyone gets to see jenny lewis at some point, but not at my expense. i was really looking forward to seeing her in a small venue. keep up with the times and get your tickets early for small shows.
Except Jenny Lewis is still playing the sanctuary
Look, I love R5 and what you do for the city, but I have to agree here that this trend of constantly moving shows at the last minute is total bullshit. You're advertising one thing to 400 people, than snatching it away from them after you've got their money and giving them something else instead.
I have friends coming down from New York for both the Go! Team and Arctic Monkeys shows because they've never been to the church basement and SPECIFICALLY wanted to see a show there, at what's become a very well-known and storied venue. To say that the Starlight Cafeteria doesn't exactly have the same charm is a huge understatement
Honestly, you couldn't have predicted that demand for Go! Team was going to be high enough to warrant a larger venue than the church? I find that hard to believe, unless you really have no idea what you're doing. And I know you do. If you put shows in the SB to begin with, THAT'S FINE. But don't lie to me and the other people who are actually fucking dedicated to R5 and pay attention to your line-ups. All you're doing is misleading your most devoted patrons again and again.
And don't feed me some line about how more fans can see the band now. This stands out pretty clearly as a decision in the best interest of your bottom line, and not the fans' enjoyment.
On the bright side, it's nice to know, going forward, that if I ever get shut out of a show, all I need to do is create some fake e-mail addresses and spam the R5 account for a few days, and there will magically be more tickets. 'Cause Adam & Alden sold out before I had a chance to pick one up.
You need to make money...you make more by moving it to bigger venue...i dont have a problem with that...that guy down at there is just supper emo.
you know what, there's plenty of money being made. moving shows, not giving refunds, and generally providing awful customer service is apparently the R5 way. meet the new clearchannel, drunk, scruffy, and irresponsible.
glory, hallelujah!
wow, you jaded little fucks.
you should realize if it wasn't for sean and r5 these shows would skip philly because they would be unprofitable for clear channel. get your head out of your collective asses.
are you kidding? do you have that much of an inferiority complex? Philly's the 5th biggest city in America; it had a music scene before r5, it'll have one after r5.
the fact remains: r5 has gotten too big to be as unprofessional as it(he) is. failed shows, ridiculous lines, ticket fiascos, zero customer service? acceptable 5 years ago. as THE indie music juggernaut in town? lame.
what's it going to take? a class-action lawsuit the next time lady sov bolts and sean plays possum? that's ridiculous--but that's what happens to promoters like clearchannel that book hundreds of shows and sell hundreds of thousands of dollars of tickets.
oh wait--that describes little diy r5, doesn't it?
it's time to grow up. or, at least time to stop pretending to be an underdog that can't POSSIBLY be responsible for anything.
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How disappointing and sad to see that these kind of comments about R5 Productions operations are the norm and not the exception. I went to the Jenny Lewis show last night, but unfortunately did not get to attend due to the fact that it was freezing cold and my wife has asthma which is brutal to deal with in cold weather and we had to leave at 8:30. The show was supposed to start at 8pm! I have a funny feeling that no one got into that church until 9pm. I hope everyone who stuck through waiting in that god awful line enjoyed the show. I just have no tolerance for a business who states that it has been doing this for ten professional years, not have their show ready to go when they state it is supposed to happen.
No one from R5 Productions came to tell us what was going on or offered any sort of help at all. They were all locked inside the church doing their sound check at 8:30 while everyone waited outside and froze their ass off. Never in my entire concert going life have I been forced to wait like that. Most places would have at least let you inside at the time stated on the ticket. As of now R5 Productions is on my crap list. Boycott their shows until they realize they need to get their customer service act together, because eventually R5 is going to piss off too many people with their mishandling of these shows and find themselves out a job.
I went to the Jenny Lewis show as well on Monday, and yes, it did suck to wait outside in the cold. We did eventually get in around 8:40, and then had to wait some more. But it was my understanding it was Whispertown 2000's fault, and not Shawn or R5. The band made some sort off announcement/apology for making people wait, but that it was important to make sure it sounded ok, which is true.
And yes, it does suck to wait, but this is the first time I've had to wait past the schedule start time of an R5 show, and I've been to plenty of them. I've waiting outside for much longer outside of venues like the TLA and The Troc. Have you ever tried to get into Warped Tour? Bands are usually playing before they open the line. Why is that acceptable, but R5 can't hold the line for 40 minutes?
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