What Happens When You Don’t Read @U2 Regularly
U2 was supposed to play last night in Edmonton, a city that hasn’t seen a U2 concert since the PopMart tour and one that was sure to bring in Canadian fans from all over the provinces. Even though the show was postponed, a local radio station cleverly did a live broadcast from outside the empty stadium, played some live U2 songs, did a DVD giveaway, etc. And about 5-10 fans actually showed up to hang out together.
All of that was captured on the video below, but pay close attention to the couple that begins talking at about the 1:00 mark. You’ll hear them say that they traveled from Saskatoon to Edmonton (about 330 miles by car) and didn’t know that the concert had been postponed!
Isn’t that the saddest thing!!?? How do you not know the tour was postponed?? Poor folks.
Well, we don’t know who they are, and they apparently don’t know what @U2 is. But if anyone knows them, tell the guy and girl to come check out @U2 and get in touch with us and we’ll send them out a little something from our @U2 prize box.
(thx to Heather on Twitter for the link)
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Wow, wish I could get a prize for being stupid and uninformed too.
It’s more pathetic than anything those so-called “fans” didn’t realize the show was cancelled. Have they been living in a hole the past month? I know not everyone is as connected to the Internet, but if I was traveling that far to see a show, I’d check to make sure it was actually going to happen before I set out on the road!
It’s weird that they weren’t notified by the company they purchased the tickets from.
Me and my nontrusting attitude can’t believe the story or video: it’s probably a joke…
I can believe it. Last September when U2 had to move the date one of it’s shows at Giants stadium in NJ to a few days later there were a few fans that showed up a day after the concert because they had not heard of the date change. There was even this one couple from Venezuela that had bought expensive tickets through an agency and had not heard the news. As you would imagine, they were very upset!!
Yeah, this isn’t that odd, a lot of people just buy their tickets, mark their calendar and that’s the last they’ll think of it until the event.
I hate to join in on the negative side, but I agree that these people really don’t deserve any special attention for NOT paying attention. — I’m wondering what seats they had? (They definitely weren’t GA or else they must have thought they were the luckiest ever! First in line and it’s 5:00pm?!)
—We might be biased because a lot of us are much more obsessed than any casual fan/concert goer…I could see how they could possibly miss Bono’s back surgery because strangely enough it was hardly in the mainstream news, but you’d think they would have been interested enough in the tour to see how it’s going before it got to their show…then they would have figured out it was postponed!
I would feel more sympathy from the poor people who flew in from Venezuela! That change was a bit last minute if I remember right.(Maybe I’m not..)