I've never been to the Cabooze, only driven past it. I would assume it's capacity is not huge. Anybody have an idea of how many they squeeze in there?
There's an on-sale tomorrow for a show that my daughter and niece want to go to and, reading the ticketmaster page, there are three pre-sales. For the regular on-sale, there are "premium packages" (two VIP and one experience) and then regular old tickets. So basically there are 7 types of tickets out there for this show. I wonder what chance I have of actually getting any tickets during the regular onsale and how big the fee ass raping will be.
I see that you can buy tickets for shows at the Cabooze at a couple of places - Know Name, Treehouse, Electric Fetus. Are these places tapped in to the TM system or do they have hard stock tickets? Where I'm going with this is 'might I have a better chance (and fewer fees) buying tickets at one of these outlets?
Mr. Chan - if you read this, feel free to reserve two tickets for me. It's your show. :-)
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They sell tickets at the Joint (right next door). I've never had to pay any extra fees buying them there.
My guess would be the Cabooze probably holds around a thousand heads. I could be off, but I was at a pretty packed show there last night, and it seemed like good number.
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I hope I get tickets. That's a pretty small venue for some pretty big bands. I figure odds may be okay as I think a lot of parents wouldn't let their kids go to a show at the Cabooze due to neighborhood and name and I'm guessing most of the audience for this is under 18.
I was curious about what the hell this was, so I looked it up on Wikipedia. They list the venue as "Cabooze Plaza." Sounds like it would be outside and higher capacity.
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Chica!: I've never been to the Cabooze, only driven past it. I would assume it's capacity is not huge. Anybody have an idea of how many they squeeze in there? There's an on-sale tomorrow for a show that my daughter and niece want to go to and, reading the ticketmaster page, there are three pre-sales. For the regular on-sale, there are "premium packages" (two VIP and one experience) and then regular old tickets. So basically there are 7 types of tickets out there for this show. I wonder what chance I have of actually getting any tickets during the regular onsale and how big the fee ass raping will be. I see that you can buy tickets for shows at the Cabooze at a couple of places - Know Name, Treehouse, Electric Fetus. Are these places tapped in to the TM system or do they have hard stock tickets? Where I'm going with this is 'might I have a better chance (and fewer fees) buying tickets at one of these outlets? Mr. Chan - if you read this, feel free to reserve two tickets for me. It's your show. :-)
CHICA! The Cabooze Plaza is the parking lot NEXT to the cabooze that will extend into the street for this event. Two stages, lots of vendor crap, its going to be a blast...if you are a 16 year old girl. You can actully buy tickets at the NEW Red's Savoy Pizza in Uptown on Hennipen Ave starting tomorrow. Or you can go to the Joint, whatever you think is easier. Let me know if you need any more info.
Josh: I was curious about what the hell this was, so I looked it up on Wikipedia. They list the venue as "Cabooze Plaza." Sounds like it would be outside and higher capacity.
Oh yeah, and its outdoors. We will be pushing the fact that its 20 feet away from a light rail stop, so folks can park elsewhere and take the train there.
Mr. Chan:
That clears up SO much. The ticketmaster page just says the Cabooze and I was really confused about how this would work (and how anyone was making money on this show...I was thinking...1k capacity...$35 tickets..for that math to work, those bands must be working for nothing)
These tickets are 2 girls who are almost 16, so it will be heaven for them. Well, one almost-15 and an almost 16-year-old who needs more convincing since she's already seen some of the bands. She clearly has not yet acquired the concert going mentality. Her favorite band and seeing them once is enough. Then again, this is a girl who, after waiting with my daughter to meet the band after a show a few months ago, politely declined an autograph from the lead singer of one of the support acts. She told me that she doesn't really like them that much, so what's the point?
I wonder if school still being in session still will impact what time people start showing up. I'm thinking no.
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Mr. Chan: You can actully buy tickets at the NEW Red's Savoy Pizza in Uptown on Hennipen Ave starting tomorrow. Or you can go to the Joint, whatever you think is easier. Let me know if you need any more info.
You can actully buy tickets at the NEW Red's Savoy Pizza in Uptown on Hennipen Ave starting tomorrow. Or you can go to the Joint, whatever you think is easier. Let me know if you need any more info.
I live way the hell out in White Bear Lake so I'm sucking it up and paying ticketmaster fees.
Chica!: Mr. Chan: That clears up SO much. The ticketmaster page just says the Cabooze and I was really confused about how this would work (and how anyone was making money on this show...I was thinking...1k capacity...$35 tickets..for that math to work, those bands must be working for nothing) These tickets are 2 girls who are almost 16, so it will be heaven for them. Well, one almost-15 and an almost 16-year-old who needs more convincing since she's already seen some of the bands. She clearly has not yet acquired the concert going mentality. Her favorite band and seeing them once is enough. Then again, this is a girl who, after waiting with my daughter to meet the band after a show a few months ago, politely declined an autograph from the lead singer of one of the support acts. She told me that she doesn't really like them that much, so what's the point? I wonder if school still being in session still will impact what time people start showing up. I'm thinking no. :-)
Is school really not out by then? Is it at least like finals week or something? Has it always gotten out that late, or have I been out of school to long and missed something? And yeah, I have to get them to put Cabooze Plaza on the ticketmaster page so there is less confusion. We have actually done a few things out there ( a couple of Gogol Bordello shows, Built To Spill). It should be fun! I look forward to seeing if any "old timers" show up JUST to see Third Eye Blind (still confused as to why they are on this bill...).
My kid goes to White Bear and their last day fo school is the day after this. My neice goes to Stillwater and their last day isn't until the following Tuesday. Labor Day was late this year so school is ending a later. School can't start before labor day and the law is that you must have at least the same number of instructional days that you had in 1993(?) and that's usually around 185-195 days.
My kid is just going to leave school early that day. We know the important things in life. :-P I figure if school will let her out to cheer at pepfests (we have a split campus high school) and sports tournaments, she can leave early for a concert..
Third Eye Blind is a strange addition to the bill since, like you said before, most of the bands appeal to the high school school crowd.
Just bought her tickets. Two $32.50 tickets = $87.80 after the fees. For S&Gs, I checked what the fees would be on the VIP tickets, expecting about $30-$40 each since ticketmaster seems to run 20-30% of face value in fees. There weren't any fees except the $4.75 order processing charge. That was a big surprise.
I guess I really do avoid TM...the last tickets I bought online:
- Walking With Dinosaurs (star tribune promo for cheap tickets - had to buy online)
- Metallica (Presale - had to buy online)
- Miley Cyrus ('paperless' concert - had to buy online)
- U2 (presale - had to buy online - tickets were not being sold at the venue anyway)
- Bamboozle Roadshow (didn't want to drive 40 miles roundtrip to save the money. Probably would have if I didn't have people coming over today)
I noticed for the first time today that on my order completion page, right there is a "sell my tickets" button to connect you with TicketExchange. That is so fucked up.