Rescheduled dates
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: CONFIRMED TICKET NEWS (08/08/06)
We hope the following clarifies the confusion surrounding Venice tickets once and for all.
- Tickets for Friday 4 August are valid for Friday 11 August. You will sit in the seat which is printed on your Friday 4 August ticket.
- Tickets for Saturday 5 August are valid for Saturday 12 August. You will sit in the seat which is printed on your Saturday 5 August ticket.
- Any ticket holder for Friday 4 August can go to the Box Office on the night of Saturday 12 August and exchange his or her ticket for one for that night’s concert. It obviously cannot be the same seat as is printed on his or her original ticket, but it will be the best seat available at that time. You must do this by 8pm.
- Any ticket holder for Saturday 5 August can go to the Box Office on the night of Friday 11 August and exchange his or her ticket for one for that night’s concert. Again, it cannot be the same seat as is printed on his or her original ticket, but it will be the best seat available at that time. You must do this by 8pm.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: VALIDITY OF TICKETS (07/08/06)
While a full refund is available if you cannot attend next weekend’s rescheduled dates, all ticket holders are now able to choose to attend either of the new dates (obviously you can only attend one concert).
So, if you had a ticket for Friday’s concert, then it is valid for Saturday 12 August as well as Friday 11 August. The same applies if you had a ticket for Saturday’s concert (you can attend on either Friday or Saturday with your original ticket – while seats are available – at no extra charge).
We hope this allows you to attend one of the two nights.
Just to clarify that the two Venice shows have been rescheduled. These concerts will now take place this coming weekend.
If you had a ticket for Friday’s concert, then it is valid for the new date on Friday 11 August. If you had a ticket for Saturday’s concert, then it is valid for the new date on Saturday 12 August.
If you are unable to attend your new date, then tickets can be refunded. Please contact your seller.
If that was TicketOne, then they will be offering refunds from tomorrow until 31 August. You can e-mail them at this address.
Refunded tickets will be put on sale, so if you missed out previously, you might have another chance. Good luck.
Both concerts at the Piazza San Marco unfortunately had to be called off when a structural defect was discovered in the scaffolding on Friday, rendering the whole stage structure unsafe.
Once again we offer our most sincere apologies to all those who are left disappointed and out-of-pocket.
Blimey Charlie!
Do you remember the film ‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’? Well, our attempts to get back to Venice for this weekend are turning into a remake of the film!!!
It looks as though we are gonna be hiring a 7 seater in Bristol on Friday, driving to Dover, ferry to Calais, drive through the nite to Venice, Kip for a bit, Enjoy the concert on Saturday (a ‘Hello’ from David would be nice!) then quick kip and back on the road again to Calais, to catch a 6pm ferry back to the UK & drive back to Bristol, and work in the morning! total cost around £750.00(gbp)
If only the shows were re-scheduled for september 9 + 10th, i’m in Lake Garda then & could’ve driven to Venice easily!! Bum’oles!
Still, it could’ve been worse, death by lighting rig is not a tremendous prospect is it?!!
if i cant make it I got two tickets for Saturday available at the price paid + any postage costs, but be quick cos i’ll need to send em on thursday, recorded delivery.
Fed, thanks for all your hard work, please ask David if he can do some dates in the Uk after his well earned rest following this tour! I’m sure there’s life in the old dog yet!!!
Ciao Venezia, if i cant get back!
Gareth
Some “useful” information that I just received from ticketone, it may be of interest for those who have bought more than one ticket and don’t plan to use all of them:
“We inform you that we could make the refund only when we receive back the ticket that you haven’t use from the Promoter so it’s important that you leave the ticket that you won’t use at Box Office or If you pick up the two tickets will be necessary that you send to us one, what it has not been used neither torn to the income”
Hope it helps…
César.
[David during the sound check or at the end of concert you must sign my strato's pickguard...please it's important for me..Posted by: DB at August 8, 2006 08:17 AM]
DB, This is rather pompous. Consider yourself lucky if you even get to say hi to the man.
I am glad to see that it looks like the Venice situation seems to be working its way out…at least it appears there is a “moment of clarity.”
Andrew
Is there any information about how returned tickets can be purchased? On Ticketone’s site, both online and call center reservation are shown as unavailable. I am writing from Hungary; we would like to attend friday’s show with some friends, but only two of us have tickets from last week. Is our only option to travel to Venice on friday and hope to be lucky?
Last friday seemed so perfect in the beginning (even after 17 hours of travel by train with severe delays!), only to turn to disaster in the evening. :-(
I hope we can be there on friday, and replace this experience with a much better one.
Anyway, thanks for doing your best to help fans in this situation.
[I'm sorry, Daniel. It's quite likely that the tickets were quickly snapped up. - Features Editor]
Thanks !
Genky
(complimenti)
I won`t be there, but I have family in Venezia, staying for another week to attend to the consert.
May be a stupid question, but will David and all the musiciens be covered IF the rain will not stop falling? Maybe somone has already asked?
[I should think there'll be a certain amount of cover on stage to keep everyone - and, perhaps more importantly, everything - dry. - Features Editor]
Holy crap…I go away on vacation for a week and all hell breaks loose!..I recall a couple of years ago,the David Bowie concert that I had tickets for was postponed because he had the flu.Had to wait four months for that reschedule.Seems like a stirling effort to me to make this one up so quickly..Class act for sure!
Thought I should mention this, but latest news is that due to a planned a plane attack which was halted, there are severe delays on all outbound and inbound flights from the UK, which no doubt will cause me and other fans travelling from the UK to rescheduled gigs this weekend in venice. Please check local flights and websites.
Just heard the news about the chaos at Heathrow Airport – this comes from http://www.bbc.co.uk
Apart from any consideration about the problem itself, which makes me think we all should consider migrating to Mars, will the shows be affected in any way? Are the band and crew in Italy yet?
Well, to say that I’m speechless would be an understatement.
All the best
Giovanni
[It'll be alright this time, don't worry. - Features Editor]
Dear F.Ed.
I’ve just heard the bad news from U.K.: I hope you all are well : are Mr.Gilmour, Mr.Wright, the Band and the crew safety leaving?
I try to understand this kind of mankind but I cannot do it.
I suppose you are very busy and worried since the last days……Keep well, God bless you all: I’m praying for U.K.
Hugs
ciao Elisabetta
[They will all be in Italy for tomorrow's concert, don't worry about that. - Features Editor]
In Venice last weekend and got tickets at 5pm last Friday only for the concert to be cancelled.
Managed to get new flights out from the UK (at great expense I may add) for tomorrow night and now there’s all this UK airport chaos. Is someone trying to tell me something?
We’ll be there as long as our flight from Liverpool isn’t cancelled and I hope the rain stays away.
Unable to contact ticketone tried all ways can you advise how to get refund
[Please read the comments above. If you have the tickets in your possession, the address you need to send them to is stated on this page more than once. The e-mail address is also very clear. We can't do more than that, I'm afraid. - Features Editor]
Good night Fed tomorrow is the day….. I am a bit nervous and I can’t sleep.
I’ll tell you all about the concert, I hope that the show of saturday will not be the last of David in Italy….I don’t want to wait for ten years…..
Bye Fed!
[Enjoy it, Claudio. Have a great time. - Features Editor]
Dear FED,
On a serious note, I don’t know what possessed me to hold on to my tickets, but I am fortunate that I did. [In my best Darth Vader voice," Your Jedi intuition serves you well."] lol
Megiste was an experience !! I did not spend nearly enough time there. Next summer I am going back ! It is a shame that the local population has dwindled to a scant few left, but the richness of their individuality of their culture left me with memories I’ll always treasure.
As an American travelling abroad on numerous other occasions I had already experienced some anti- American sentiments over the years. But when I travel alone I find myself assimilating into a local culture very easily.
I took with me my old beat-up, trusty Nikon and I can hardly wait when I get back home to share some of the wonderful pictures I had taken with you all.
What fantastic bit of good fortune that David’s management company was able to arrange the re-scheduled shows. I’ll be arriving back in Venice tomorrow a.m. and I’ll be able to see Gilmour !! Yay !!!!!!!!!!
Last Friday, when they had announced that Friday night’s show was to be cancelled I was crestfallen. But when the announcement came about Saturday night’s show was to be cancelled I was heartbroken. I almost went to the queue lines to get my refund, but for whatever reason I hadn’t. Now I am ecstatic again. When I got into my hotel here in Athens I set-up my laptop to check up on the site, you can imagine, I let out a big whoop of excitement !
Let me tell you all, until you actually visit Kastelorizo,( Megiste ) and then listen to OAI, it’s like…..well, words can not entirely express how I feel. Contentment, yes. Loss, definitely. Tranquility. Serenity. Well, when David gets up on stage tonight I’ll be experiencing all those emotions with tears in my eyes.
God, I love you FED !!! Thanks for the up to date information!! I was so sure that I’d be not seeing David and Rick and Co.. I have taken a breath and it’s one of wonder and love of David’s latest endeavour. With my travelling and love for this album, 2006 will go down as one fantastic year.
Oh, and BTW, Phil is one talented and great musician, looking forward to give a rallying cry later tonight. ” DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVID !!!!!!!!”
Cazart !
[I hope you have a brilliant time, mate. I'm pleased that you could make it. - Features Editor]
It’s a humid, stormy night here in Tennessee…. Just reading the blog before bed as I always do. Thinking about every one of you across the pond sound asleep. I was thinking of a possible rainy day blog…
Just think as you are reading this, I am somewhere in the mountains, tucked away in my cloudy bed, dreaming of better times, better places and friends just out of reach of my Two empty arms.
Melissa(*_*)
[I like your idea. Thanks, Melissa. Take care. - Features Editor]
I’m very lucky because last night I enjoyed the Venice show in the first seats and I felt one of the most beautiful sensations I felt in all of my life.Mr Gilmour’s music is the passion of my life since I was a little child,now I’m 22 and David’s music is always better.
Congratulations David for your last album and for your wonderful career.Grazie
Piero