I saw Ian Hunter in Milton Keynes a year or so ago and he turned in a cracking evening but most if not all of it seated. The voice was holding up well though such as it ever was.

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Just hope genuine fans get tickets and it doesn't end up like that Led Zep 02 fiasco where "celebs" like Ian Wright and WAGS somehow got tickets and became genuine lifelong Zep fans overnight .

Hunter's been knocking out great albums for years and his regular UK tours over the last 16 years have been superb . He's in great shape - hope the rest are !

Honaloochie Boogie yeah !

I'll follow them most anywhere

So I wasn't tripped up by a premature Uncut newsflash. hate the thought that I got people's hopes up

Just bought tickets to see Mott in October - two nights. Taking a week off work to get there and see them - from Australia. According to the unwritten criteria does that make me a true fan? All I know is that, early finish for a steaming mug of cocoa or not - it will be great. I mean their live albums have all shown they were at their greatest when they played loose and ragged, it made the mooments of sublime brilliance stand out all the more! Mott never made it down to Australia in their earlier incarnations, and Ian Hunter has never graced our shores either, so the only option was to sell the house, pawn the kids and get on the first available flight...

the worst promoter in the world. I can't believe they've sold out all those shows. I'd have bet on one, max.

that someone who knows the lie of the land suggests a suitable watering hole to refresh our traveller's thirst. I will also be staying in a suitable hotel for 1 or 2 nights, fit for an old fogey who likes his comfort and hot chocolate.

Perhaps we will recognise each other by sporting a rolled up copy of The Word under our arms or wearing lapel badges that state "Mark Ellen Is Ace".

and 12 page retrospective. Some nice pictures in there that are new to me

"Did you see the suits and the platform boots?"

It will be strange but I can't wait.

I saw them 36 years ago and although I love Mott and have followed Hunter through thick and thin, I've got this nagging feeling that it'll be a big let down. I'm not 11 any more.

My fave MTH track is The Journey.

For all my love of Mott, the best gig I saw was the Hunter Ronson Manc gig touring YUI Orta.

During that tour, I fully appreciated what a guitar player Ronson was and he died within a couple of years of it. His palying was incredible.

As has been mentioned before, Hunter's always been good value. Voice a little shaky now but he always makes you feel you matter.

Fanboy stuff over now!

is apparently 70 this year.

My pal and I had a roller coaster ride trying to get tickets:

First we both found we couldn't get any.
Then we both found them on Ticketweb, too late at night to phone each other, and ended ordering twice as many as we needed
Then we received confirmation of the orders but still no tickets

All my attempts to get a human to answer my queries to Ticketweb have failed. I get nothing but automated replies and suggestions that I look up the answer in the FAQs.

Now I know that for some gigs they don't send out tickets until a few days before - and this is among the many bits of FAQ answers that Ticketweb throws at you - BUT, nowhere does it tell me whether this is one of those gigs or not.

So you see my concern: I may or may not have tickets, and unless Ticketweb reply, I may have to wait until a few days before the gig to find out, by which time it'll be too late to do anything if I haven't. I will also have to have booked flights from Glasgow and accomodation by then.

What annoys me most about this is that they are sitting with over £100 of my money, yet seem to feel no responsibility to answer my question about where the goods are.

I've never ordered from Ticketweb before, so...
Has anyone else had this experience?
Any suggestions?

Or is this God punishing me for selling my tickets for their 1974 Edinburgh gig at a profit after I heard that it had been cancelled?

were like those bought from the Southbank for the Royal Festival Hall. You often get em the day after you order. I assume this is just like when you buy tickets in person from the box office they just prints em off.

I similarly had a wobble when my order for the second night of Spiritualized at the RFH went through but i got no email confirmation. So about 4 hours later I phoned to check if the order has gone through ok and was told 'yes sir, they're already in the post' Maybe cops they are the venue and ticket office they have some sense of what their customers expect

FWIW i've ordered from Ticketweb countless times with no worries but their customer service is piss poor. A simple way to track orders via order numbers can't be that hard to set up.

the tickets arrived a day and a half before the show. Like I said - the *last* concert. Am sticking to spotify and illegal downloads from here on in.

Nothing new to add- just wanted to say excitement and expectation building exponentially. And thought this thread deserved to be back on the recently updated list...

After total silence then only vague reassurances from Ticketweb, my tickets for the 3rd October show have arrived.

The tickets include a phone number, which they're pretty careful not to divulge elsewhere, so if anyone else is having a problem with Ticketweb, let me know and I'll be glad to oblige.

Due to a panic, both my friend and I got three tickets each when we only needed three. We've off-loaded all but one.

I'd prefer not to get into eBay, accusations of touting, hanging around waving it about etc, and I would like the seat to be filled by a deserving fan.

Does anybody want to buy it (at the original price)?