Brian playing RFH in London, September 2011

[Andrew G. Doe]

Tickets go on sale to members today, 10.00am tomorrow for general sales. Shows are on Friday 9/16/11 to Sunday 9/18/11.

[The Heartical Don]

Great! But: a year in advance? And what are 'members'?

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Fan club members, perhaps?

[The Heartical Don]

Fan club members, perhaps?

Or: members of SS.net???

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Hell, that'd rule, but only if someone pays for my airfare.


Andrew, up for a game of blackjack?

[Andrew G. Doe]

Fan club members, perhaps?

RFH members, unfortunately.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Great! But: a year in advance? And what are 'members'?

A year in advance is becoming common over here - Cliff Richard's been doing it for years. Good business practise: you put the dosh into a high-interest account and even if it all goes brown and smelly and you have to refund the tickets, you still make a little.

Now... a year's lead time should give Brian's 'people' plenty of time to arrange some decent merchandising (I'm guessing the Disney songs album will be out by then) and maybe something for the fans beyond a meet-n-greet with Brian every night.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Now... a year's lead time should give Brian's 'people' plenty of time to arrange some decent merchandising (I'm guessing the Disney songs album will be out by then) and maybe something for the fans beyond a meet-n-greet with Brian every night.

Let's hope, as it's been a Mickey Mouse operation most of the time.


Sorry, couldn't resist. ^_^

[The Heartical Don]

Great! But: a year in advance? And what are 'members'?

A year in advance is becoming common over here - Cliff Richard's been doing it for years. Good business practise: you put the dosh into a high-interest account and even if it all goes brown and smelly and you have to refund the tickets, you still make a little.

Now... a year's lead time should give Brian's 'people' plenty of time to arrange some decent merchandising (I'm guessing the Disney songs album will be out by then) and maybe something for the fans beyond a meet-n-greet with Brian every night.

Well... I have good hopes to be there then. Andrew - what does your instinct say to you about (a) possible show(s) in Holland? Previous occasions sold very well if I am correct.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Great! But: a year in advance? And what are 'members'?

A year in advance is becoming common over here - Cliff Richard's been doing it for years. Good business practise: you put the dosh into a high-interest account and even if it all goes brown and smelly and you have to refund the tickets, you still make a little.

Now... a year's lead time should give Brian's 'people' plenty of time to arrange some decent merchandising (I'm guessing the Disney songs album will be out by then) and maybe something for the fans beyond a meet-n-greet with Brian every night.

Well... I have good hopes to be there then. Andrew - what does your instinct say to you about (a) possible show(s) in Holland? Previous occasions sold very well if I am correct.

On recent form, yes, Brian sells well in Holland. I'd be surprised if there weren't Dutch shows... but then, I'm not scheduling this tour.

BTW, for those who divine a significance in these things, the first night in London 2011 is 50 years and one day after The Pendletones played "Surfin'" for Hite Morgan for the first time. Be cool if he started with it. 

[The Heartical Don]

Great! But: a year in advance? And what are 'members'?

A year in advance is becoming common over here - Cliff Richard's been doing it for years. Good business practise: you put the dosh into a high-interest account and even if it all goes brown and smelly and you have to refund the tickets, you still make a little.

Now... a year's lead time should give Brian's 'people' plenty of time to arrange some decent merchandising (I'm guessing the Disney songs album will be out by then) and maybe something for the fans beyond a meet-n-greet with Brian every night.

Well... I have good hopes to be there then. Andrew - what does your instinct say to you about (a) possible show(s) in Holland? Previous occasions sold very well if I am correct.

On recent form, yes, Brian sells well in Holland. I'd be surprised if there weren't Dutch shows... but then, I'm not scheduling this tour.

Cheers, keeping fingers crossed then. Holland is easy in terms of logistics, and all kinds of venues in the west are readily available. The Paradiso would be nice. We'll see. It'd be great if he would do a set with Gershwin and Disney stuff, apart from his own material.

[GoogaMooga]

I hope to catch at least one show at RFH, preferably all three! 

[bsten]

Ummm, the BWRG album is out now - and he's doing the tour NEXT year???

And what about that other Disney album?

http://www.vintagevinylnews.com/2009/10/brian-wilson-signs-with-disney-records.html

"Brian Wilson has signed a contract to release new material through Walt Disney Records with two albums coming out in the coming year."

/b

[hypehat]

Arse to you, Brian. I haven't got the bloody money now to buy the no doubt ridiculously expensive tickets to these shows, but if you made them available in, i don't know, january or feburary I would. By that time, of course, the whole thing will have sold out. ARSE.

[The Shift]

Already committed work-wise those dates.  Brian, if you're reading this, could you not re-arrange?

[The Heartical Don]

Arse to you, Brian. I haven't got the bloody money now to buy the no doubt ridiculously expensive tickets to these shows, but if you made them available in, i don't know, january or feburary I would. By that time, of course, the whole thing will have sold out. ARSE.

Hey brother, cool down. RFH tickets never were ridiculously expensive. And if the shows sell out as quick as you predict, there will be certainly 2 to 3 extra dates.

[Andrew G. Doe]

Arse to you, Brian. I haven't got the bloody money now to buy the no doubt ridiculously expensive tickets to these shows, but if you made them available in, i don't know, january or feburary I would. By that time, of course, the whole thing will have sold out. ARSE.

If it's any consolation, I've very likely got less £££ than you... no chance to buy tix tomorrow, but I doubt the place will have sold out by 9/11 - the only 100% sull RFH gigs I've ever been to were the first nights of Pet Sounds and Smile.

[hypehat]

eesh, hope you are right. I've just had to miss out on so much cool stuff lately because of lack of money.... Michael Rother, Jonathan Richman (in my local pub, no less!)and VDP all sailing past

[Steve Mayo]

may have to finally renew my passport and plan a little vacation. 

have not been to england/scotland since 1988.

[The Shift]

I'll make an exception, cry off work and go if this tour's to promote something shiny and new -  a kind of H&V meets Rio Grande meets Ol' Man River concept album - not an album of Disney retreads.

[The Shift]

Hmmmm... just been to the RFH site where it says:

"BRIAN WILSON REIMAGINES GERSHWIN
"Friday 16 September 2011 - Sunday 18 September 2011
"Legendary songwriter, producer, arranger and co-founder of the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson returns to Royal Festival Hall following hugely celebrated concerts here in 2007 to perform tracks from his latest critically-acclaimed Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin as well as classics from the Beach Boys back-catalogue."

So they're BWRG gigs.

As bsten says, he's touring a year after the fact... no Disney covers in the interim?

Mind you, it took him 34 years to tour Pet Sounds, 37 years to tour SMiLE ... I guess this is swift promotional activity by comparison!

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/music/gigs-contemporary/tickets/brian-wilson-reimagines-gershwin-55331

[The Heartical Don]

Hmmmm... just been to the RFH site where it says:

"BRIAN WILSON REIMAGINES GERSHWIN
"Friday 16 September 2011 - Sunday 18 September 2011
"Legendary songwriter, producer, arranger and co-founder of the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson returns to Royal Festival Hall following hugely celebrated concerts here in 2007 to perform tracks from his latest critically-acclaimed Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin as well as classics from the Beach Boys back-catalogue."

So they're BWRG gigs.

As bsten says, he's touring a year after the fact... no Disney covers in the interim?

Mind you, it took him 34 years to tour Pet Sounds, 37 years to tour SMiLE ... I guess this is swift promotional activity by comparison!

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/music/gigs-contemporary/tickets/brian-wilson-reimagines-gershwin-55331

Will there be a real orchestra this time?

[shelter]

Well... I have good hopes to be there then. Andrew - what does your instinct say to you about (a) possible show(s) in Holland? Previous occasions sold very well if I am correct.

I went to three of his Dutch shows in the last three years. Carre, Amsterdam & Oosterpoort, Groningen in 2007 and Paradiso, Amsterdam in 2009. Only the Paradiso show sold out.

[bgas]

Hmmmm... just been to the RFH site where it says:

"BRIAN WILSON REIMAGINES GERSHWIN
"Friday 16 September 2011 - Sunday 18 September 2011
"Legendary songwriter, producer, arranger and co-founder of the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson returns to Royal Festival Hall following hugely celebrated concerts here in 2007 to perform tracks from his latest critically-acclaimed Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin as well as classics from the Beach Boys back-catalogue."

So they're BWRG gigs.

As bsten says, he's touring a year after the fact... no Disney covers in the interim?

Mind you, it took him 34 years to tour Pet Sounds, 37 years to tour SMiLE ... I guess this is swift promotional activity by comparison!

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/music/gigs-contemporary/tickets/brian-wilson-reimagines-gershwin-55331

 But does anyone think that's really what he'll be playing a year from now?
And will there be a hue and cry from the ones buying tickets now, if by that time he's playing a newer Disney album with only a few Gershwin pieces, and of course, opening the show with "Surfin" ?

[Andrew G. Doe]

Hmmmm... just been to the RFH site where it says:

"BRIAN WILSON REIMAGINES GERSHWIN
"Friday 16 September 2011 - Sunday 18 September 2011
"Legendary songwriter, producer, arranger and co-founder of the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson returns to Royal Festival Hall following hugely celebrated concerts here in 2007 to perform tracks from his latest critically-acclaimed Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin as well as classics from the Beach Boys back-catalogue."

So they're BWRG gigs.

As bsten says, he's touring a year after the fact... no Disney covers in the interim?

Mind you, it took him 34 years to tour Pet Sounds, 37 years to tour SMiLE ... I guess this is swift promotional activity by comparison!

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/music/gigs-contemporary/tickets/brian-wilson-reimagines-gershwin-55331

Will there be a real orchestra this time?

I'll ask my mate Melinda.