As a Brit, I am obviously a very happy man after reading the Rumour Pit.

I am just wondering if they'll do Fan Club Tickets for the Euro shows?

I hope so. I travelled all the way to NYC last year to see the MSG shows. My membership number is quite high, and I was way, way at the back. Even though the shows were great, because I was so far back it was quite hard to hear the show really well, and obviously Ed and the boys looked like dots in the distance.

I am hoping I can get close for this tour but would be gutted if they just made it general admission. I plan to take in the British shows, and maybe a couple in Spain / Italy

What does everyone think?

They should and I will be dissapointed if they do the same system as last year. It should be two shows with seniority seating for each person. I want to go to 3 or 4 shows and I would like to be closer than the 23rd row. I know this system might upset some old fans but it's only fair to the people who are younger and didn't join the fan club in '93 when they were 8.

If the shows are general admission (which is common in Europe but now uncommon for Pearl Jam) there won´t be Fan Club Tix. Remember the Euro leg of the 2000 Tour.....No seats=No Fanclub. I wouldn´t mind general admission in 2005.

MSG last year supposedly had 10,000 or so fan club members in attendance. I'm sure you weren't the only one with just "ok" seats. that number could be bloated, not sure.

the old ticket debate

i joined when i was 12. so no excuses.

you pay your dues, it pays off. THATS FAIR.

the only thing 10c should change is to put the seats that would normally go in the back of the floor..up the sides. thats the only thing that would change, and noone should bitch after that. sucks that some wont ever be front row. but int he end..who gives a shit...?!

im willing to bet..pj wont do any GA shows ...

For the 2000 euro tour fanclub tickets were offered. The following was posted on synergy on June 18th 2000:

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I'm not quite sure how that ticket distribution worked since most (all?) of the 2000 euro shows were general admission. Are we assuming that the euro 2005 shows will be exclusively at all seater venues? If so it would certainly seem likely that ten club tickets will be offered. What I would like to know is if Ten Club members in the country of the show will be given priority? For example will UK ten club members be offered the best seats for the UK shows? Or will every show be a free-for-all between european (and even US) ten club members?

How is buying it when your 12 paying dues? But anyways the senority thing is cool but i agree only one or two shows because it really isnt fair to everyone else. There is no fun in the same 20,000 people traveling the country hogging all the jam. I had good seats in my VFC shows, without using the 10c and if the 10c seats are suppossedly better, Ill be quite content.

I joined around 95, my number is like 147xxx. I have gone to shows with 10c tix since 98 and have always been within the first 20 rows, closest has been the 8th but on the side of a half circle so pretty close to the stage. I'll probably never get front row either, but I can't complain because I'm always guarenteed to see my favorite band without waiting in ticket lines, playing the whole stupid lottery for place in line game, etc.



As for those "hogging the jam", if someone wanted to pay that kind of money, travel that kind of distance and take that much time following them around to see them perform night after night, they should be taken care of. If the band didn't have dedicated fans, they wouldn't be making new records and touring. I would be flattered if someone liked my music enough to do that.

I'm just saying, the more people that can enjoy pearl jam live the better. I took my girlfriend to toledo an dgrand rapids and now she loves them after seeing them live. It's just going to like 15 shows is your right if youd like to but to have 10c tickets to all is not cool because it may be difficult to get ticks from the master. Some may NEED a single show from 10c ,so seniority should have nothing to do with amount of shows but everything to do with seating at a show selected.

that really makes no sense. if people want to travel around and see pj, they arent taking tickets away from you. and you say you dont care where you sit. well you are gauranteed to get tickets than through 10c. why wouldnt the band want its 10c members going to thes hows/ better than having joe blow who scored front row from ticketmaster because he wanted to go to concert that night. seriously. 10c members should be able to go to as many as shows as they like. just because you cant afford/ dont want to..doesnt mean they should limit it to 2 shows. its more fun having fans travel around with the band, in my opinion thats why the 2003 tour was so much fun. becaue it was always packed with fan club members up front and on the floor. thats the way it SHOULD be.

i joined in 1995. member number 128xxx. ive been 6th row, 5th row, and first row twice. ive waiting in line all day long (which is half the fun, drinking and tossin the frisbee around). paying your dues...IS PAYING SINCE WAS 12 TO BE IN THE FAN CLUB. thats what "paying your dues" is..putting in the time.im not greedy at all. im glad i get tickets. but it hink i shoudl be rewarded, ust like all fan club members. and we do, by getting tickets. some people always get front row. oh well. i think they deserve it.

how sweet is it you are gauranteed tickets to go see pearl jam. and for me to treavel around the midwest to see them. take a week off of work and go on vacation, drinking and rockin out with my buds. sweet.

Me too Can't wait

There are approx 900 10c UK members, so if they do do seating shows then chances are even with a high number you're gonna get a pretty decent seat.

I'd actually prefer a GA show just so you can rock out a bit more, not a fan of sitting down for rock concerts, for some bands it's the best way but not PJ (unless it's something like Benaroya). I saw PJ at the Showbox two years ago which was GA and I doubt I'll ever go to a show to top that one! Not cause of the setlist or anything, (although they did finish the first part with the first playing of Blood for about 6 years and it to say it went off would be puting it mildly) just for the atmosphere of a small club show that was GA.

Definitely gonna try and catch all the shows in the UK and then hopefully get some cheap Easyjet type flights to mainland Europe to try and catch a few there, can't fricking wait!!!

I just hope to god they don't play Wembley arena, worst acoustics ever, praying for Brixton Academy

I totally see your point, I just think that if you join the 10c, you should get to go to as many shows as you want. If you are adament about seeing the band live its all the more reason to join. 1) you will have better seats than if you went to TM and 2) you are pretty much guarenteed to get in, the 10c go on sale before TM so there is pretty much no chance of it selling out. If you are a big enough fan to join a fan club, you are probably going to be the type of person who is willing to travel to see them, thus go to more shows. I'd be willing to bet that there aren't too many 10c members that go to more than 5 shows per tour anyways, by percentage.

In the past when they only offered 2 tix to one show, me and a buddy of mine split them so we went to 2 shows with 10c tix together. we also went to another and barely got tix through TM, sat in the lawn (not that im ungrateful), but there were probably a bunch of bastards that had better seats than us who got them off Ebay for like $500, or got seats because they know somebody and probably went just to go. That pisses me off more than knowing that some dedicated fans want to hit the road for 2 months and support them.

If youve gotten this far, you have wasted as much time as I have... back to work...

Hmm, I wonder if they'll be playing arena's or smaller venue's. Judging by their dwindling album sales over here in the UK, I'm guessing smaller. Although saying that, I imagine there's thousands of fans still interested purely on the basis of Ten and Vs. I'm not bothered either way, just excited to see them again...

I think the fans that just joined should get front row and the fans that have been in since they were 12 should only get to hear soundcheck then Eddie Vedder comes around and beats the shit out of them and tosses them out of the venue.

I think that's fair.

I argee, that would mean that even though I would get the shit beat out of me, I would get to meet Eddie!

Ask him to sign the bruises.

Well they managed to sell out five arena shows in the UK for the Binaural tour, so I dont see why they wouldn't be able to do it five years on, especially since putting seats into the venues this time will seriously reduce the capaticy. I think all the UK venues that were played in 2000 can accomodate all seated shows. I know the SECC can for sure anyway.

Well, five years is quite a long time in music terms.

I think after you have been in the ten club for a certain amount of time (maybe 5 years or so) they should put you in the top tier for tickets and have those tickets done first come first serve at the ticket line . I think its sucks that I will never have seats in the first 10 rows just because I didnt have money when I was 12. I guarantee I was just as big a fan as you were back then.