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Posted: Thu Nov 5th, 2009 11:57 am |
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Now, I might be missing something here(I doubt it, but Ill play along). But, wouldn't "FREE CONCERT" mean you dont need tix? Besides, if everyone else is viewing a "Free" concert, why not let everyone else view the "Free" concert as well?
Outrage over wall blocking free U2 Berlin concert
BERLIN – Fans hoping to catch a glimpse of U2's free concert celebrating 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall will have to "scale these city walls" after organizers threw up a massive barrier to block the view for those without tickets.
The move has triggered outrage from Berliners, who see the irony in building walls around a concert dedicated to the wall that has come down.
Music network MTV, which organized Thursday's concert in front of the Brandenburg Gate, did not respond to requests for comment.
Some 10,000 tickets were made available online for the Irish rockers' free show — and they were snapped up in just three hours.
The Berlin Wall fell Nov. 9, 1989, ending almost 30 years of east-west Cold War division.
Last edited on Thu Nov 5th, 2009 11:57 am by stingmark
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Posted: Thu Nov 5th, 2009 02:53 pm |
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| Leave it to the Germans to put a fascist spin on a free gig.
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Posted: Thu Nov 5th, 2009 07:36 pm |
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| If it's a free outdoor show, the big word being free, why do they even need a wall? For security purposes, so as not to become over capacity at an outdoor event at a venue that needed walls added?
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Posted: Thu Nov 5th, 2009 07:52 pm |
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Probably a logistics/crowd control issue. It's free to those holding tickets for the 10,000 seat venue, but the fear must be another 100,000 or so choking out the surrounding area.
This could be a study for bad conceptual planning.
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Posted: Thu Nov 5th, 2009 08:37 pm |
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100,000? Hogwash. The Rolling Stones played for a million in Rio.
From the BBC:
An estimated one million people have flocked to Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for a free concert by rock legends The Rolling Stones.
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Posted: Fri Nov 6th, 2009 12:33 am |
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| MTV sponsored this and I can almost guarantee that all they filmed was the rioting so they can make some silly-ass reality program out of it. Oh the horror of it all.
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Posted: Fri Nov 6th, 2009 12:49 am |
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Kid_Naitch wrote: Leave it to the Germans to put a fascist spin on a free gig.
The Germans were not fascists. They were National Socialists. I think U2 would have been Joseph Goebbels favorite band.
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