Kraftwerk

Tate FB page a hotbed of frustration

I hate buying tickets for in-demand events these days. Stress and disappointment.

At work, using my phone with a redial rate of roughly once a second, not a sniff :(

what if you just had 'turned up' there this morning?

Tried this number O2O8 887 8888 after somebody mentioned it on the Tate FB link and got through on my second attempt, in the queue now.

ooh...

This from a dude on the Tate FB page.

Just been to the Tate , no tickets on sale there so don't bother going (due to no actual physical tickets). still plenty of digital tickets left though - but only via the phone - keep trying I guess

it's more fun to compute

Conflicting info on the new number, some people say they got tickets some wouldn't be put through, unsure what to do now.

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Trying to get a connection on the telephone line
You're so close but far away, I call you up all night and day

Got tix for night 2, wasn't allowed to book more than one night.

wow! what number? how many redials?

0208 887 8888 is the one I got through on

That's coming through as invalid now.

Tried for roughly 2.5 hours on the original number then I saw on FB that people were getting through on the 8888 number and got through right away.

Oh shit!!! sorry 0207 887 8888 nor 0208

ah, I see what you did there!

Reading FB, people seem to have more luck on the 8888 number.

oh the irony of computer servers breaking down forcing people to book KW tickets on analogue phones

eh? most of these albums were recorded on analogue gear no?

No luck on the 8888 number.. getting familiar with the line busy tone...

come back Ticketmaster, all is forgiven.

I wonder if everyone answering the phone have gone on their lunch break? On hold for 45 minutes and counting.

got tix for radio-activity after 7 hours of trying the phone numbers and then 45 mins on hold, i feel like a shell of a man. guy on the phone said they still had a few for techno pop, the mix, tour de france.

friend got some for Radio-activity too. I had to at least pretend to be doing some work, sadly.

radio6 just ran a piece about the people who turned up at ticket office in person eventually persuading them to sell them some tickets...

Kinda annoyed that I wasn't allowed to buy tix for two different nights, has that always been the case?

It was always so, saw that when the original link was posted.

original posting said:

"There is a four ticket limit per person for a single show and it is not possible to buy tickets for the whole series. This is to ensure a greater number of people get to experience Kraftwerk at Tate Modern."

ah, I guess it didn't explicitly say "only can buy for one night", true.

20 mins on hold, on the standard number, just yielded two tickets for Tour De France - which is the one I wanted all along. Faff and a half!

*sigh* I guess I'm a little slow, still, better that I had to make a snap decision on the phone than agonize about which one to go to for weeks.

So if I called back to buy for a different eve (but with the same credit card) I would be refused?

that is a rhetorical question i hope

er, hypothetical

Yea, kinda :)

ah, unless the answer is "no" right?

Only Techno Pop left...

Nah, to be honest after 3.5 hours of being a redial bunny I'm pretty burnt.

Poor Techno Pop

i wouldnt mind going to see Techno pop - lost gem as they say

Going to nights 1 & 2, getting excited, anybody else?

I am also really curious about how they're going to perform Morgenspaziergang

got Autobahn tonight then Man Machine saturday, very excited.

I'm going to Radioactivity tomorrow, v excited too. Man Machine would have been my top pick.

dying with jealousy at anyone going to Radioactivity.

dying with jealousy at anyone going, period

Going to Radioactivity tomorrow too, this 3D had better be good

Kraftwerk, Knife, which K-band will be next on my presale disaster list

Wishing all of you lots of fun & excitement, of course.