Thursday, August 24, 2006

If At First You Don't Succeed ...

Try again! It certainly paid off for me today! Back in June, on the way home from the Bon Jovi concert at Milton Keynes, Clare and I were talking about how great it would be to see Robbie Williams on his tour, and I tried to get tickets when I got paid. Sadly they sold out just 6 hours before the money appeared in my bank account!

Torturing myself, I've been checking See Tickets and Ticketmaster for a week or so, to see if any new tickets had been released for sale, and lo and behold, there have been more available. I hopedn and prayed that they would still be available by this morning, when I got paid, and got up at 6:30am to get online and check. Yep, tickets were still on sale for the date I wanted - Monday September 18th, at the Milton Keynes Bowl.

Frantic texts between me and Clare ensued, the conversation going something like this.

Me: I can get Robbie Williams tickets for Milton Keynes on September 18th. I'll buy, you drive and pay petrol costs. Interested?
Clare: Great, but I've used all my holiday and can't get the day off.
Me: Never mind, next time he tours .... have a good day.
Clare: What time would it start?
Me: Gates 2pm, first supporting act 4pm
Clare: I'll have to work until 2pm, I can only get 2 hours off.
Me: Fine, we'll be there just after 4. Shall I book?
Clare: Yeah, go for it
Me (10 hours later!!!) BOOKED THEM!!!!!

I'm not even a massive Robbie fan like Clare, but I saw my musical heroes, Bon Jovi, and it will be great to be able to contribute to Clare having the same experience. I do like Robbie a lot, so it will be fantastic ... 25 days to go!

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