March 7, 2007
Go Home Already: I'll Be Your Mirror Edition
> >UPDATE: As a commenter notes, The Dismemberment Plan tickets for the second show, Friday, April 27 are on sale NOW. Go, friends, go!
> > Best birthday present ever? Hmmm. Submitted for your approval: How about booking the Thievery Corporation? To play the birthday boy's living room? Well played, ma'am. Well played. [The Upstate Life]
> > Why isn't Butterstick playing in the snow like his parents? Maybe it's because he doesn't want to end up like Jack Bauer--shipped to China in a box to be subjected to the tender mercies of totalitarian rule. It's time for the Butterstick Liberation Front to speak up! [ReadExpress]
> > The Washington Post earns some well-articulated--and much-deserved--praise for the web innovations that are making their sports features a must-go destination. [The Big Lead]
> > For seven years, The DC Kings have chucked gender identity, artistic genre, racial boundaries, and audience expectations into the blender to create avant-garde performances that combine drag, comedy, music, theatre and burlesque. Tonight they celebrate their seventh anniversary with The Best Of Show. At Chaos, 1603 17th Street NW, 10pm. (Take Red Line to Dupont Circle Station).
> > Ever wondered what a $25,000 Velvet Underground album sounded like? [Product Shop NYC]
[Photo by Flickr user krwaltondc.]
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you guys slept on the second dismemberment plan show - tix are on sale now.
amazing. i just happened to look at the black cat's website and it said tix were on sale. fantastic. people on craigslist last week were trying to totally rip people off.
sweet. actually got tix this time. and there is a 4 ticket/person limit, with tix only available at will call. the scalpers are screwed.
Cheers for the VU link, that's some good stuff there!
OK, the D Plan tix are gone now.
what total crap. The first time they let scalpers buy 50 tickets at a go, the second they don't even announce it in advance so you have to basically be mainlining the internet to have a chance. Awesome.
Hey "angry at d-plan," Black Cat sent this message to DCist earlier this week:
It seems as though a rumor has surfaced on DCist about scalpers purchasing 50 tickets for our upcoming Dismemberment Plan show. Rest assured, this is not true. We regularly review the ticket manifests for our shows, and for this show, the vast majority of purchasers bought four tickets or less per person. A few (six) people bought more than four tickets, but no one purchased more than 10. Numbers like these are standard for our shows, and our will call ticketing system has multiple checks in place to insure against scalping. That's one of the reasons it takes so long to get in the door at a sold out show here. Had anyone purchased a large number of tickets for this event, we would have caught it on the manifest and invalidated those tickets. Hope that helps.
Thanks.
that does makes me feel a bit better. Thanks, Vicki.
and i know its not d-plans fault.
So for those who are buying tix and selling on craigslist, it's got to be a small operation, just 4 or less tickets, and in some cases, quadrupling the cost.
Do we know if 9:30/Black Cat have done any recon work? Buying tickets from a Craigslist poster, trying to figure out how to stop on line scalping?