"Before the Dawn" live shows 2014

Renaud a écrit:Ah Emma tu m'as grillé !   

benjicoq a écrit:et elle le fait gentiment, c'est plus personnel qu'un texte avant le debut du concert :P

Emma a écrit:Bon, c'est la consigne à l'entrée qui va faire des affaires.
Je me vois mal aller à Londres sans mon appareil photo...

Perso, je n'avais vraiment pas l'intention de prendre des photos donc m'en fiche un peu.

Emma a écrit:
Bon, c'est la consigne à l'entrée qui va faire des affaires.
Je me vois mal aller à Londres sans mon appareil photo...

benjicoq a écrit:Bah elle a raison
et elle le fait gentiment, c'est plus personnel qu'un texte avant le debut du concert :P

Jérôme a écrit:c'est Bjork ?

Renaud a écrit:en mode vibreur si affinité !   

Renaud a écrit:et lui enfonce bien profond là où vous savez, en mode vibreur si affinité !   

Ludovic a écrit:

Hahaha, excellente celle-là ! Comment tu le traduirais en anglais ?  

\"Emma" a écrit:I have a request for all of you who are coming to the shows :
             We have purposefully chosen an intimate theatre setting rather than a large venue or stadium. It would mean a great deal to me if you would please refrain from taking photos or filming during the shows. I very much want to have contact with you as an audience, not with iphones, ipads or cameras. I know it's a lot to ask but it would allow us to all share in the experience together.

Well I was walking from chiswick to shepherds bush and decided to go via the Apollo.

I got there and there was nothing, no signs no anything. Quite a bleak building.

But by the side of the building a door opened and a lady with a headset walked out with some people behind her and I thought maybe it was some people finished rehearsing and that I would see kate herself!!

No such luck of course, but about 30-40 people gathered holding Eventime code of conduct sheets. I guessed they were all there for jobs. They all crossed the road and headed into the church, and since that is where the Spatchcock Event is happening I thought I would follow them in to see what they were up to.........it is a public place after all!

So I go in behind them and they all sit down in rows in the actual church after queuing up to sign something and collect some paper, don't know what it was, I was sitting rows back trying not to be conspicuous, but by now there were around 60 people there.

Anyway this lady starts addressing us all saying how the next few months were going to be busy and very important.

She started by talking about Kate Bush the artist!! Saying how unique she was and just how massive it is that she is performing live. She spoke about the previous link to hammersmith Kate has. It was wired and nice to be in a room (church!) full of such a different selection of young people being told how great Kate is!

Basically the whole speech was about how to work the bar and deal with customers etc.

There was a round of applause when she brought out a lemon and lime from a box.....apparently they have never been used in their bar before. She said .... Get this!........ That the type of fans coming to the kate concerts were a cut above the average music fan and we would be more discerning and demanding!! Who knew!!

She said how people were coming from all over the world and that they would be ultra ultra ultra hyped and ready to complain about anything (weird comment) so the staff would have to be prepared!
The people I was among seemed to be a mix of those who had worked there before and a lot of those who were applying for a job today.

She went on to teach us how to correctly cut a lemon and lime, how to open champagne etc. she actually said that for the Kate concerts because it so highbrow (!) they would be selling premium wines at the bar and glasses of champagne, not just bottles.

She spoke a lot about cameras iPads etc, and mentioned Kate's message today and newspaper reports, and what she herself has been ordered to say by her superiors. She told us if we saw anyone filming or snapping to warn the person once. Then if they do it again, warn again and say the third time they will e thrown out. And if they do do it a third time, call security. It didnt sound like it would be aworkable solution, but then what is?

We are not worthy!!

She spoke of the importance of holding the tour programmes correctly when selling them!! She said merchandise would be on sale every day for outside the venue at 14:00 until after the end of the concert and also.......during the interval......meaning it won't be a short concert thank god!

She said the reason the we were having this meeting in the church was beach use normally they do this in e auditorium but details of the set are embargoed or something. All she said was that is was a highly intricate set.

She explained how to get rid of boxes of used glass. They have to exit the front of the building and walk round the back. Normally, so as not to upset neighbours with rattling noise of glass, what they do is bring it out the back of the Apollo by walking by through the very back of the stalls, but this time they can't do that because there are very very quiet parts during this particular concert! Lets hope there are lots of rocking noisy ones too!

Latecomers will only be admitted 5 minutes into each act, after that there will be strictly no admission. Some people questioned that decision but that was the bottom line!

After a long while she started giving everyone numbers and told us to get io groups with everyone of the same number as you.....I was horrified and as soon as people stood up I headed for the exit...the church door, which was bloody locked! I was pushing and pushing till I found the latch they had put on , opened the door and hurried away like a criminal!

No real spoilers then but it was a fun little espionage mission, totally unexpected!!

And nice to know we Kate fans are held in such high regard!!

alfontaine a écrit:

Jérôme a écrit:c'est Bjork ?

Oui, si je puis me permettre de répondre pour Benji,  il y a les instruments de Biophilia. Et c'et vrai qu'il y avait ce message écrit en gros. Mais ça n'a pas été très efficace. Même si les téléphones et tablettes n'étaient pas légion...enfin de ce que je me souviens.

Jérôme a écrit:de plus les réactions hystériques sur les reseaux sociaux du genre on va virer manu militari les gens avec des mobiles ou les gens qui revendent des billets n'arrangent rien à l'affaire.

Jérôme a écrit:pour le coup je me trouve aucunes affinités avec cette communauté de fans digne de l'univers de 1984. je ne risque pas d'aller trainer dans le pub THE SWAN....

Jérôme a écrit:oui c'est dit avec élégance mais j'avoue que le côté ultra-policé de la chose commence sérieusement à me refroidir. personnellement j'ai fait un gros effort financié pour aller la voir et cette forme d'exigence me gâche l'ambiance.déjà que le coup des tickets avec un lead booker est déjà très anxiogène d'autant plus que je suis lead booker. on a vu les résultats ça n'a pas empêché les abus et le trafique.de plus les réactions hystériques sur les reseaux sociaux du genre on va virer manu militari les gens avec des mobiles ou les gens qui revendent des billets n'arrangent rien à l'affaire. je trouve qu'il y a un manque de confiance de toutes parts en l'intelligence de l'audience.pour le coup je me trouve aucunes affinités avec cette communauté de fans digne de l'univers de 1984. je ne risque pas d'aller trainer dans le pub THE SWAN....enfin bref je trouve tout ça très lourd et j'espérais me sentir plus léger en allant la voir.