Oh I Know…I Do
Oh yes. I totally know about it, but I’m not going to mention it yet because…well you know. If you have any idea about what I’m talking about, shhhh for now please. I’m very excited about it.
UPDATE: I’ve been getting some flack about this post, so let me just explain a little. This post was not meant to be showing off at all. I realize it’s not a “secret” but I’m absolutely DO NOT want to piss off fellow newsletter subscribers and loyal fans. Does no one remember the Beck fiasco? Hell hath no fury like a load of newsletter subscribers scorned. Especially for people who have public web sites.
And after the really sad crowd at the two Yeah Yeah Yeahs shows at the Bowery…I dunno guys. Sometimes I think the internet is a bad thing. Like a man buying a 20 dollar Arctic Monkeys ticket for 250+ bucks from Craigslist just so he can say he saw the Arctic Monkeys. (True story.) Or how about the time I won tickets to the special Coldplay concert at the Beacon last year and when I was leaving I witnessed these two DRUNK 30-somethings stumble out of the venue shouting and falling over on one another and bragging to everyone how they bought tickets off someone for over 700 dollars?
Meanwhile I’ll see kids standing out in the cold in front of the venue with a tote bag pinned with a Union Jack flag begging for a spare ticket that won’t cost them a semester’s worth of text books–just because they had to be in class when the tickets went on sale, or they weren’t lucky enough to snag a spot. I mean, that’s just not right. It kinda breaks my heart because I’ve been there.
And who knows, maybe I will be there again.
1. danfun | 2:11 pm on March 28th, 2006
Totally stoked!
2. Anonymous | 2:14 pm on March 28th, 2006
everyone else does too. you may as well talk about the fucking raconteurs show you slut
3. Henry | 2:17 pm on March 28th, 2006
nice job, ass.
Anyone know how this is gonna work on Thur?
4. laura | 2:18 pm on March 28th, 2006
that was so uncalled for.
5. Anonymous | 2:20 pm on March 28th, 2006
no it wasn’t. the show goes on sale on THURSDAY. you think this was gonna be a quiet onsale? Let’s not talk about the fact that it’s already on brooklynvegan which i would guess has at least 5 times more traffic than this shit blog.
6. Henry | 2:24 pm on March 28th, 2006
Hey, thank goodness for spite, huh?
7. danfun | 2:27 pm on March 28th, 2006
The way it is going to work is that everyone is going to push and shove for tickets and lucky one will get them. Good luck! Remember there are other good shows that night so maybe people go see Neko Case instead.
8. ... | 2:50 pm on March 28th, 2006
SHHH.
9. Paulo Rená | 3:52 pm on March 28th, 2006
I live in brasil…
10. laura | 4:00 pm on March 28th, 2006
dude, what is your DEAL?
11. laura | 4:07 pm on March 28th, 2006
the funny thing is that the anonymous person who seems to have issue with this site is working at VIACOM. V-I-A-C-O-M. now i know why they are so angry with the world.
12. Henry | 4:23 pm on March 28th, 2006
…probably better off to not even blog this.
13. Anonymous | 4:29 pm on March 28th, 2006
Laura you’re right! that IS SOOOOO funny!
except, I actually love my job, and who I work for. Funny that.
any more reasons that I’m so “ANGRY” with the world? I’m obviously not a youngster filled with angst. What else could it be?
oh. maybe it’s just that you’re a fucking dolt.
14. Mr. Junior | 4:45 pm on March 28th, 2006
oh chill out man
15. Fo | 4:45 pm on March 28th, 2006
so really, what IS your deal?
16. Kristian | 5:26 pm on March 28th, 2006
Daddy issues?
17. danfun | 5:33 pm on March 28th, 2006
What is even funnier is that he insults you but he obviously respects you because he does read your blog. fucj him and let’s all rock out at this awesome show!
18. crisphotogram vs. midnitetasixxman | 5:41 pm on March 28th, 2006
Soledad Brothers @ the merc!
19. Anonymous | 7:15 pm on March 28th, 2006
maybe they just thought it was rude that you tried to show off, like it made you important. personally i like your blog but i found this post pretty obnoxious. it was just annoying that you tried to make yourself look good at other peoples expense - meanwhile, we all know about the show anyway, so you just come across looking silly. but like i said.. i generally like your blog so i dont mean to be insulting.
20. laura | 8:27 pm on March 28th, 2006
seriously, i can’t win.
21. thighmaster | 9:12 pm on March 28th, 2006
i can’t wait for the Monkees reunion tour tix to go on sale
is this where the line ends?
22. Karen | 9:42 pm on March 28th, 2006
Laura, you’re a winner, no matter what. Fuck all y’all. Naysayers need not attend.
23. johanna | 9:47 pm on March 28th, 2006
i think it’s time to post jack white in a kilt again
24. Jen | 9:51 pm on March 28th, 2006
She wasn’t trying to make herself look good, she was admitting she knew what was up to other uber fans, like herself, in the know. If anyone deserves this effing ticket it’s her.
And Viacom, I’m glad you love who you work for so much you corporate slag. Who the fuck goes around calling people they don’t even know sluts, douchebag? I’d like to kick your sorry, worthless ass from here to kingdom come.
Ok, I’m done.
25. Anonymous | 10:13 pm on March 28th, 2006
wait, i thought this was a “shit blog” written by a slutty dolt? not surprised you love your gig at viacom.
26. Eric620 | 5:09 am on March 29th, 2006
Are all New York Rock Blogs populated by nasty, know-it-all phony purists? Poor bloggers can’t catch a break. This place has nastier comments than Brooklyn Vegan!
27. Anonymous | 6:13 am on March 29th, 2006
Laura Laura Laura……again with the elitist comments.
Get off your high horse…..you don’t deserve to be there more than any one else. Not more than the guy who paid 300$ for the arctic monkeys or 700$ for Coldplay. They deserve to be there just as much as you. Casual fans, fanatical fans, everyone deserves the same treatment. This is the elitist attitude that makes the music scene shitty.
28. laura | 7:32 am on March 29th, 2006
um, sorry if i don’t think people should horde up tickets just to hawk them off to the highest bidder.
29. Anonymous | 7:41 am on March 29th, 2006
thats just ridiculous logic Laura. You’re assuming that the scalpers are the only people who wouldn’t know about the show.
You would leave a lot of fans out in the cold with that kind of attitude. The ones who don’t follow every blog or issue of the village voice.
It’s elitist that you think you’re above the casual everyday fan. Don’t pretend to make it about scalpers. it’s about you feeling that you “deserve” a ticket because you’re a better fan than someone else. And that, quite frankly, is bull-shit.
30. laura | 8:29 am on March 29th, 2006
is this a therapy session?
31. laura | 8:37 am on March 29th, 2006
for any of you anonymous people who have issue with my posting skills/ attitude, let’s just meet up in person. i can’t keep fighting like this via comments. this is getting retarded. i would definintely be willing to meet up. if you still think i’m this elitist crazy person after that, then so be it. at least you would have formed your opinions about me after actually having spoken to me, rather than just deciding what kind of person i am on your own.
32. Anonymous | 8:49 am on March 29th, 2006
the bitchy posts sound like they’re all from the same person. what’s so difficult about signing up for a newsletter? the band makes it easy to keep up with what they’re doing. if you can’t be bothered, that’s your loss.
33. ... | 9:27 am on March 29th, 2006
yeah, i don’t see where the elitist criticism is comming from.
as one of those students planing to use book/food money to get tickets, i appreciate how you handled the situation.
34. Gina | 10:55 am on March 29th, 2006
Why do people bother posting comments if all they are going to do is shit on the blogger, or shit on the artist that is being blogged about, or shit on other posters? Geesh.
Laura, you’re cool.
35. la la | 1:25 pm on March 29th, 2006
Been laughing for ages throughout this post. It’s not a secret! Anybody signed up to the newsletter knows they are playing the Irving Plaza. I dont even live in the States and I know about it.
It’s genuninely secret gigs like the last minute one with Dirty Pretty Things in Birmingham (England, not Alabama) or the second London show that I would pimp my grandmother for.
Am trying not to be too smug cause I already seen them and all the secret squirrel stuff was a laugh, not a serious attempt to prevent those not ‘in the know’
Besides Laura, it’s your blog and you can say what the bloody hell you like!!!
Yay to Jack in the kilt though.
36. Alyse | 1:26 pm on March 29th, 2006
this Anonymous tool needs to take a serious vacation… far away from this blog… off a cliff or something… and all this hubub over jack white!?! laura is making a really valid point. stop the hating.
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37. Anonymous | 4:53 pm on March 29th, 2006
what really valid point is laura making?
38. mk | 6:44 pm on March 29th, 2006
sigh
39. idioten | 9:03 am on March 30th, 2006
damn. that was fast. Sold out. And I didn’t get a ticket… =(
40. Henry | 9:04 am on March 30th, 2006
yeah, that was fast. I got one.
Oh oops. Am I boasting? God forbid. I might get my head bitten off by Anonymous now.
41. Constant Dater | 9:10 am on March 30th, 2006
Fuckers. By 12:00:30 it’s sold out? Obviously there must be about 10 tickets available to plebes.
42. The Modern Age » The Raconteurs Sell Out Irving Plaza | 9:14 am on March 30th, 2006
[...] Um… is it over yet? Tickets went onsale for the April 7th Raconteurs show at Irving Plaza at noon. Bummed out fans are telling me that it’s sold out and they are unable to get tickets. Air your grievences/happiness here. Or if you want to yell at me, this would be a good place to do it. [...]
43. sarah-maria | 9:15 am on March 30th, 2006
damn i didn’t get one either. i just don’t understand. as far as i know there weren’t even any pre-sales. bastards! i was so excited.
44. sarah-maria | 9:16 am on March 30th, 2006
and yes i’m looking for 2 tickets!
45. Anonymous | 9:17 am on March 30th, 2006
I take it you got tickets, Laura?
46. goose | 9:17 am on March 30th, 2006
got my tix somehow
47. laura | 9:19 am on March 30th, 2006
luckily for everyone, i snagged a ticket in the sale. there will be no bloodshed today.
48. Mr. Junior | 12:51 pm on March 30th, 2006
Laura we lost Biggie and Pac already. Please don’t take it to the streets.
49. Anonymous | 7:56 pm on March 30th, 2006
i left comment #19. im sorry - definitely wasnt intending to insult you or your character or the kind of person you are. i thought the post was rude, but like i said, i like your blog and meant it more as just an honest opinion but not meanness. again, im sorry, it was too harsh.
50. georgia | 8:26 am on April 1st, 2006
i got mine. hahahahahaha
51. Amira | 2:19 am on April 5th, 2006
yes, i think i’m retarded, i don’t really understand any of this.