The Yeah Yeah Yeah's performed two shows at Glasslands in Brooklyn. While the venue holds around 250 folks, the show announcement said they'd be giving out 100 wristbands to the 7pm and 10pm girls-only show. It appears that the guestlist way exceeded 150 and those 100+ fans waiting online got screwed over.
Here's the angry first report from the Yeah Yeah Yeah's message board:
Living in Williamsburg, I was psyched as hell to go to this show. I got in line around 4. There were about 40-50 people in line in front of me, so I thought "Alright! I'm getting in for sure!". Guess what? I didn't get in. Hardly anybody did. The line barely moved. I will be extremely generous and estimate that the first 20 people in line got wristbands to the 7pm show. Honestly, I think it was closer to 10. I am male, so the 10pm show was not an option.So: first it's "250 capacity", then it's "100 wristbands to the first in line", then the reality is 10-20 wristbands. I mean, WTF? I expect this kind of crap from a corporate rock band, not YYY. What should I conclude?
I guess the guest list just kept growing and growing. If you want to do a video shoot in a tiny venue with an audience of friends, family, and Interscope employees, fine. But don't post an announcement on your website that says "100 wristbands!" unless you are actually going to give out 100 wristbands. What a total crock.
If a band wants their most loyal fans--i.e those 100 people in the front of the line, all dressed according to the dress code, all excited as hell to see their fave band--to actually STAY LOYAL, that band should keep their damn word. YYY let me down tonight. So I went to the city and bought a ticket to see deerhoof next week.
Any one actually get in? Any reports what the show was taped for? Any news about this upcoming EP? Any other angry fans?
Comments (5)
YYYs are a corporate rock band. I ain't saying Karen O 's a gold digger but I ain't seen her with no......
Posted on May 8, 2007 10:09 AM
I wasn't able to make it in time. but i'm going to assume it wasnt the bands fault and continue loving them forever.
Posted on May 8, 2007 11:26 AM
Hey this Brooke from the GlassLands. I am very sorry people were disappointed. I want everyone to know that we gave out 80 wristbands for each show instead of the promised 100 that was purely a choice I made not the band or management. With crew, guest list for friends and family and a new huge stage built out in the middle of the room I thought that was all we could fit in the small space. I didn't want anyone to get hurt. It was not a malicious choice just one made out of concern for safety. Looking back we could of fit maybe 15 more people, I made a mistake and I’m sorry. The yeah yeah yeahs played 2 free shows for fans and that is a really cool thing to do. We try to do our best but we are not some mean venue owners just people trying run an art space. I’m really sorry for those of you who did not get in but I assure you of the number of bands we gave out it was not 40 per show. I hope you don’t hold this against us and come back in the future to paint or listen to music. All the best
Brooke Baxter
Posted on May 9, 2007 9:22 AM
No freaking way. I
Posted on April 6, 2008 1:12 PM
No freaking way. I’m absolutely disagreeing. Next time when you post something think about reaction of readers.
Posted on April 9, 2008 5:10 AM