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John “Ozzy” Osbourne

Astoness said:
when you read this report its clear that a venue 6 times the size of villa park would most likely have not been big enough...only to be expected though

lyn

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Black Sabbath tickets sellout for Villa gig - fans left 'extremely disappointed'

There's not a single ticket for the Back To The Beginning show left on Ticketmaster
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I was one of the lucky ones lyn. :grinning:

Villa gave their Season Ticket holders an opportunity to purchase tickets online on Thursday morning and although there were no seats anywhere near the stage, that my wife and I could have used, I was able to buy 2 standing tickets for my son (who is unlike us, able to stand for hours at a time ;)).

It is nice to know that some locals, will be able to be in attendance and well done to the club, for not leaving every ticket with Ticketmaster, to sell to bots, touts and those fans who had somehow won the queue lottery race.
 
John L said:
I was one of the lucky ones lyn. :grinning:

Villa gave their Season Ticket holders an opportunity to purchase tickets online on Thursday morning and although there were no seats anywhere near the stage, that my wife and I could have used, I was able to buy 2 standing tickets for my son (who is unlike us, able to stand for hours at a time ;)).

It is nice to know that some locals, will be able to be in attendance and well done to the club, for not leaving every ticket with Ticketmaster, to sell to bots, touts and those fans who had somehow won the queue lottery race.
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Well Done
 
John L said:
I was one of the lucky ones lyn. :grinning:

Villa gave their Season Ticket holders an opportunity to purchase tickets online on Thursday morning and although there were no seats anywhere near the stage, that my wife and I could have used, I was able to buy 2 standing tickets for my son (who is unlike us, able to stand for hours at a time ;)).

It is nice to know that some locals, will be able to be in attendance and well done to the club, for not leaving every ticket with Ticketmaster, to sell to bots, touts and those fans who had somehow won the queue lottery race.
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thats great john...so you wont be going but your son will ?

lyn
 
totally agree john...your son is very lucky to be able to see what is a very special concert...make sure he keeps the tickets thats if you get paper ones these days oh to take lots of photos :)

lyn
 
Astoness said:
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Hotels hike prices by up to 725% as Black Sabbath fans make travel plans

City hotels are cashing in on the influx of fans by hiking up prices for the night of Saturday, July 5
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Sadly, this is so predictable. I guess it's simply a case of supply and demand. Hotels are more expensive when something is happening in the city, because the demand for rooms is higher than normal. Hotels around Wembley are exactly the same on Cup Final/Semi Final dates, with prices much higher on the day and the night before, than they are on other days in the surrounding days. The opposite is the case when nothing much is happening, hotel rooms can then often be booked at a lower rate than usual. Booking family holidays is another example. I remember how prices were significantly higher during school holidays, than they were outside them and I'm sure that will still be the case.

None of us like it, but that is the way things have been for a few years now. That said, I think that some of the prices being charged are way over the top and it does the hotel groups and the city itself no favours, if visitors are paying well in excess of double the normal price for a hotel room.

Just done a quick check of hotel rooms for 2 for the Saturday night of the concert, some seem extortionate* and the ones by the airport are stinging those that may be travelling from abroad:

Park Inn (Bescot) £494*, Novotel (NEC) £369, Ibis (NEC) £338, Travelodge (Yardley) £330*, Travelodge (NEC) £327*, The Belfry £306, Britannia Hotel £304*, Travelodge (Maypole) £275* & Moor Hall Hotel £220.
 
I run a maintenance team for a group of hotels in Blackpool
bank holidays etc they put the tariff up slightly
the big boys as to be found in every Town/City
are now in Blackpool with high tariffs Breakfast/Parking are extra
take a walk down Albert Rd B&B knock a door £30/40 and best breakfast ever
 
Those are ridiculous prices, especially for the more downmarket hotels, but its the market. I have been told, and on occasions this seems to be correct, that if you are searching online and go back to a hotel that you have already visited, then the price quoted goes up.
 
Just noticed while looking for a road in the Witton area on Google maps that Ozzy Osborne's childhood home is now actually marked as such!
I guess the people now living there are not going to be very thrilled if lots of visitors gather in the street during the concert period!!
 
I guess they will be aware of it and would be used to the odd fan stopping to have a look, that said quite a few residents seem visibly shocked every other week, when football fans walk backwards and forwards past their houses, on their way to and from Villa Park on match days. I would have thought that if you lived in Ozzy's former home you might expect it to attract a little attention, if he was doing a concert nearby, as you might if you bought/rented a house near a football ground, when there is a game on, but possibly I'm expecting a bit too much! :)
 
It depends what you mean by "near". In the 1970s I lived in a flat in a house in Leeds which was over a mile away from Elland road on a Saturday if I went out in my car (no garage) and wanted to return to outside the flat in the afternoon there was NO chance , as all the spaces around were full of supporters
 
mikejee said:
It depends what you mean by "near". In the 1970s I lived in a flat in a house in Leeds which was over a mile away from Elland road on a Saturday if I went out in my car (no garage) and wanted to return to outside the flat in the afternoon there was NO chance , as all the spaces around were full of supporters
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I was thinking within 800 yards of a ground Mike, but as you say parking is a different matter and people can park as much as a mile and a half away. Residents only parking was introduced some time ago, to help local residents park outside their own homes on match-days, but it seems it is rarely able to be enforced, perhaps there is a shortage of traffic wardens outside the city centre) ;) . It would help if the old "football special" buses still ran, although Villa do put on their own bus service to and from the ground into the city centre.
 
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