Last Friday, the organizers finally officially announced the list of performers for the 12-hour long festival. NERD will be coming (and I don't give a care in the world for them), and so will Russian Winters (whoever they are). A whole bunch of local groups and a few from Singapore and Indonesia are also on the list.
Then...
...drumrolls please...
...they announced that Coldplay are yet to be confirmed.
POO.
WTH?
How can they announce something officially when the lineup isn't even confirmed? Probably some dirty business ploy to get people rushing for the RM200+ tickets. The selling of early bird tickets that cost RM130 (or some amount similar to that) ended yesterday, so I'm guessing the organizers are going to announce that Coldplay will be coming (assuming that they ARE) any time soon, now that tickets are sold at full price.
And if they don't come to KL, do not despair, dear disappointed fans.
Yesterday night, Coldplay announced that on the 23rd of March, they'll be coming over to Singapore to delight us with a night of magical music.
So forget the Sunburst drama.
Go get yourself a passport, save some money, and join me on my trip to see Coldplay!
WOOHOO!
Lots of love,
from Me.
ps: WARNING: I'm in, like, ecstatic mode right now. In case I don't snap out of this mode until about a month after I see Coldplay in concert, please just bear with me.
:)
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Update: 16/2/09
I bought the tickets. I'm happy, but I'm sad because:1. I was only allowed to buy 4 tickets. I had to buy the tickets one by one, because there were limited seats available. After I had bought the 4th, there were none left, so none for a friend I had really wanted to be there with me.
2. Because of the crappy Sistic ticketing system, there was no way we could've got seats next to each other. I actually have a lot to say about the crappy system. First of all, like any other normal ticketing systems, they should've reserved the seats we picked for at least 10 minutes after we pick them. After the 1o minutes are up, then they should release the seats again. But NO, Sistic didn't do that. Seats were randomly given to other people when I had already picked mine. When I arrived at their office, there were at least 30 places left. It was actually a risk for me to pick seats one by one (and I had to do that because they wouldn't pick random seats at the same time) because at any moment, seats could've been sold out.
3. You'd think authorised agents would have more priority over those who make telephone bookings or online ones... Nope. Going to sistic's authorised agents only means you get them to fill in all the forms you could've done yourself online. The only difference is you pay through cash when you're with the agent. I know part of the reason why loads of seats got sold right under my very eyes was because the agent took ages filling forms with my details (talk about SLOW TYPING!). AND the agent in charge of the sistic desk wasn't in. So other less experienced employees had to fill in his spot.
GAH.
I may come back with a happier update later.
