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Major changes at The Lamex
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https://www.thecomet.net/news/25183305.stevenage-lamex-stadium-transformed-ahead-smr-25/
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Re: Major changes at The Lamex
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Fantastic evening. Great to see another personal hero at the Lamex, with plenty of singing to boot. Ashcroft's the real deal; what a catalogue to choose from. Just strange not to be on the terrace LOL.
Well done SMR.
Edited by Clogger at 13:43:54 on 26th May 2025
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Re: Major changes at The Lamex
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Realise pics can be deceptive but seemed reasonable crowd.
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Looked like Sunday was probably the busiest, from the little I've seen of it.
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Good feedback on FaceBook apparently. Especially for Ashcroft's performance.
And some moans about the lack of advertising.
As I'm not on FB, Insta or Twitter I haven't seen a single advert.
(Plenty of club emails about it but that only hits a % of the target audience)
I assume the event was pushed hard on social media channels?
Edited by BALDOCKBORO at 16:15:40 on 26th May 2025
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Re: Major changes at The Lamex
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My timeline has been relentlessly pushing the event.
Ashcroft was always going to be the only one that’ll be busy.
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There's been advert boards for it all over the town centre, railway station, Hatfield, Finsbury park etc for months
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Drove past a banner on a roundabout earlier.
I think some people expect them to knock on their door and let them know everything that’s going on. 🤣
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SMR 25 - discounted
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Tickets have dropped to £30 today and £35 tomorrow if anyone wants a cheaper ticket
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They were letting anyone in for free last night in the end. I know two separate families who went along to listen outside and were let in
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are they still available?
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Yeah I can let you have ticks for all 3 day for say £100 a shot .A bargain
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Thank you.
I was struggling to come up with an outing for the weekend.
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Straight from SMR on eventbrite. Choose the F&F option.
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Perfect, that's my evening sorted thanks!
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Probably legal ? but I would be well pissed off if I had paid out the original price.
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I wondered why they were hammering it so hard on social media.
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Not seen anything from yesterday, but the couple of photos and videos I saw from Friday, it looked like there were only a couple/few hundred there.
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Tickets on sale for today from £53 , not sure if that is discounted plus weather today might put off walk ins.. First yr so hope continues .Perhaps next year would be better to have a 2 dayer but with stronger line up, say a pop day for youngsters and rock,indie, goth day for old codgers like me, might sell better.
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Pop day needs to be acts kids would know though. My daughter had no idea who Ella Henderson was.
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A great female singer is Beth Ditto but probably better for next yrs old codger day😊
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Pfft, what do you know about organising music events.
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Me and a few mates managed to pick up tickets for OCS at the Hitchin Priory on a 2 for 1 deal due to low sales.
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Best band ever. (Apart from the Beatles)
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Re: SMR 25 - discounted
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I never saw it at the start.
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I never saw it as the start
Heathen
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That doesn’t work as my joke though.
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Was it more a change of heart?
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It's more a change of heart
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I laid my plans in solid rock.
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Don't you want days like these?
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Re: Major changes at The Lamex
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Somebody better not stand in my East Terrace spot.
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That Friday lineup is definitely not alt rock!
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Skindred we're excellent last couple of times I saw them, a really fun show, albeit probably 15-20 years ago I think.
Ashcroft is I think the support act for all the UK Oasis gigs so he can't be too bad as a live act.
I've never heard of Ella.
Hope it makes the club lots of money and it becomes an annual thing that puts Stevenage on the music scene map again, (is Bowes Lyon House still a gig venue?)
Edited by BALDOCKBORO at 11:27:30 on 23rd May 2025
Edited by BALDOCKBORO at 11:32:02 on 23rd May 2025
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Re: Major changes at The Lamex
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I approached Bowes Lyon about hiring for gigs about three/four years ago and they weren’t interested in doing shows in there. Maybe they’d be interested now but I’m not 🤣
Skindred are great for about ten minutes then just gets a bit boring.
The tickets are too expensive for the lineups I think.
Pretty much anyone who would go to see Richard Ashcroft would have shelled out hundreds for the Oasis shows anyway. Are they going to pay another £60+ this year to see him 🤷🏻♂️
But yeah, hopefully it does well enough to get better lineups next year. These aren’t lineups that’ll shift 9500 tickets.
Edited by Paulio at 11:44:45 on 23rd May 2025
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I did both, but then again I’m 90’s junkie
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Doesn't look busy from what I've seen online, which is a shame.
It's also the night before Slam Dunk festival in Hatfield, which would have same crossover with Skindred / BobVylan. I guess you could make a weekend of it, but if you're travelling from London it's a bit of a faff going up to Stevenage the night before.
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I bought an Oasis ticket for £100 yesterday and get to see Richard Ashcroft and Cast for that, which seems better value than £60+ for this, but each to their own!
As per other posts, all the adverts all over Hertfordshire and online promo seems like they are pushing ticket sales hard still
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That's a bargain ,not sure how you did it given the original prices and the dynamic pricing thing.
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Got an email from them saying they had just released production tickets and giving me a code to access.
£100 is the face value of upper tier (well, £90 + all the ticketmaster add ons). There were £74 ones with a side on view of the stage.
None of this dynamic pricing bollocks
Edited by AndyC at 17:36:59 on 23rd May 2025
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So assume you tried to originally book and got nowhere or Ticketmaster are sending out random invites Whatever seems ticks now available at much lesser price , which will.go down well.. Are you going to leak it to the press .
EDIT I gabe up on day one of being in a queue for 4 hrs then getting time out.
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Yeah, was logged on in the original queue hence being contacted.
My bro got contacted the same way when the September dates first went on sale, they were all sold invite only, he paid the same as me back in February or whenever it was they were sold
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Yep good luck to you but does not seem right event was so called sold out with people playing much more than you.
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Details were all here for the September dates:
(£73 - £205 for seats, £150 standing)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg1ljn80geo
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Re: Major changes at The Lamex
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Fair enough did not realise it was for the extra dates.
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I guess that's Alright then. You have a Finetime. Just Walkaway from this gig.
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Break even is usually 50% no?
So if they average 4500 and have sold a few VIP packages they should be OK.
I did some Safety Advisory Group planning for Ministry of Sound at Knebworth way back, pretty sure they lost a fucking packet on that weekend, less than 25% sold IIRC because MoS tried to do it all in house rather than hire a proper festival planner/promoter.
I also did a few bits for the Oasis and Robbie Williams shows, professionally planned by big names in the festival industry. Much tougher negotiators but they knew way better than us on the SAG how to put on a big profitable safe event.
There are plenty of people who think they know how to put on such events and find out the hard way...
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Re: Major changes at The Lamex
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Depends on payment deals with artists.
Id be surprised if they didn’t make a profit if they hit 3000 sales each show.
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Today and Sun decent line ups.Wonder how much of an annual money spinner this could be .Seems it is possibly a partnership between us and the promoters as sure we are at least running the bars.
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Going by the number of adverts and sponsored posts I’ve seen it’s either not sold that well(seating certainly hasn’t), or they’re pushing to sell them all out.
Not sure the lineups are strong enough to sell 9500 tickets anyways but good luck to them. At least it seems a bit more organised than the previous shambles.
Edited by Paulio at 09:47:03 on 23rd May 2025
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The previous shambles was all tribute acts but like that Todd in The Hole thing, each to their own but would not pay out for that sort of thing.
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This season's unsold kits + t-shirt cannon = a load of new Boro fans.
Marketing genius.
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TBF think we have e sponsored this event recently too and if it gets a few kids interested good idea.
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They also had that DJ thing that got shut down during Covid. 🤣
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Looks impressive down there. The Lamex scrubbed up well haha. Looking forward to RA on Sunday ;-)
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