Clever idea Emma to get rid of those last few tickets. She could give them away like Taylor Swift was doing her last tour or play tiny venues like Mel C where her bf and PA going mean its 50 percent sold out already.

 

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She is selling so well, must be about 4.5k tickets sold now amazing.

What do we think she will open with ?

 

I’m going to say Baby Please Dont Stop !

She will open with Crickets Sing for Almeria.

Well done Emma the Albert Hall isn't far off an arena in terms of amount of seats.

Lol which arenas are you referring to? :P Most of the main UK arenas would seat triple the amount that the Albert Hall does.

Sammy strikes again :P

 

I think the show will be packed tomorrow and that is all credit to her though, even if it doesnt sell out completely. She has done well so far, for an artist who has never toured and hasnt done a full gig for over 20 years on her own and is not known for it either.

 

She really should have toured with Free Me. It would have cemented her as a credible pop artist like she was then on the verge of achieving. Still remember her saying she wanted to tour with full orchestra at the time - that would have been epic! She could have easily sell out a theatre tour at the time.

She really should have toured with Free Me. It would have cemented her as a credible pop artist like she was then on the verge of achieving. Still remember her saying she wanted to tour with full orchestra at the time - that would have been epic! She could have easily sell out a theatre tour at the time.

 

Sadly, I think the whole US release actually derailed that. It seems like when she should've probably exclusively focused on the UK market with some odd European dates she decided to suddenly attempt to crack the US, which just was unnecessary as it was never going to go anywhere except for the bargain bins (if stores had even put Free Me in stock to be bargain binned).

That was definitely the time she should have attempted a tour, and it honestly seems weird that she didn't. Suppose it shows the label/management didn't have enough faith in her, which is a shame. Summer or autumn of 2004 would have been a great time to tour (and released a Double A side of Breathing and No Sign of Life at the same time :w00t: )

 

I don't even remember what she got up to during the second half of 2004 (was it European promo? Or did she just take time off lol). I don't think the US push came until 2005 did it?

 

 

 

At a glance, I would estimate she's about 85% sold out at the Royal Albert Hall, which I guess would give the impression of feeling like a full crowd, even though as things stand there's probably approaching 1,000 tickets that remain unsold.

 

By the way, that £15 tickets deal was for the £51 seat area, which is for the top tiers towards the back and the sides. There's still a few left at this price bracket. The only people who could buy these cheap tickets will have already needed to have been signed up to that seat fillers site though, it's not accepting new registrations!

Yes she did her play her cards very wrong in that period. She released Crickets, which was helping the album grow and then stopped for a while before attempting the US. A bad move, but I think that was probably Simon's plan and she went with it.

 

She could have totally done a No Sign Of Life/Breathing double A-side at the end of the Summer (would be perfect timing for those songs!), do some summer festivals, which at the time still had a lot of pop presence, radio shows, etc and then do a small concert hall/theatre tour. Probably wouldn't made much of a profit, but would certainly capitalise on the good will she had at the time. A shame it got lost, because then she dissapeared for a couple of years and launched her new album off the back of Strictly, which was another bad move.

 

For once, I am glad she is putting herself out there as a live act. Let's hope this brings her confidence to do more. Selling 85% of tickets at the Albert Hall is no bad feat!

 

Yeah the Albert Hall cheaper tickets launched yesterday were only for the top tier, but it did help as it sold quite a lot. Nonetheless, a lot of the remaining stalls tickets (which were more expensive, at like £75 each) sold yesterday which is a surprise. Maybe the tourists/last min boost of off-west end ticket seller stalls across London worked, who knows! Also the Choir seats sold impressively over the last 24 hours! They had barely sold any of those a couple of days ago so maybe people have been leaving it to the last min (which is normal in London ah!).

 

It will look busy, which is nice! The main worry is the Second and Third tier boxes, which continue to look a bit empty (so expensive though ah!).

 

I think her main issue is how expensive the tickets are overall, and her lack of profile as a live act. So she has done well!!

I don't even remember what she got up to during the second half of 2004 (was it European promo? Or did she just take time off lol). I don't think the US push came until 2005 did it?

 

The album was released January 25th, 2005 in the US, but I'm pretty sure she spent the last part of 2004 promoting Free Me and Maybe there. Glancing at the Wikipedia page, yeah, she probably did spend some time in other markets, but honestly that wouldn't have stopped her from doing a mini tour and the festival circuit. But it's the same way that I feel about Dannii and Neon Nights - when she finally managed to build up a respectable profile in the UK she also went off instead and promoted elsewhere (though I suppose she had the failed Girl tour behind her).

 

Lol which arenas are you referring to? :P Most of the main UK arenas would seat triple the amount that the Albert Hall does.

 

Cardiff Arena, a regular stop on tours by Little Mix etc is 5k capacity which is actually LESS than the Royal Albert Hall.

Over 800 people are queueing up to buy tickets all of the sudden.

Over 800 people are queueing up to buy tickets all of the sudden.

 

I think that is for the overall booking system, not just Baby Bunton ;) Just today loads of tickets for other shows, including one with David Attenborough, were released.

Cardiff Arena, a regular stop on tours by Little Mix etc is 5k capacity which is actually LESS than the Royal Albert Hall.

Cardiff Arena is one of the smallest arenas in the country (and of the major arenas big artists tend to visit, it’s probably the smallest one). It’s not exactly atypical of what selling out an arena date usually entails!

 

Emma has come somewhat close to selling out one date at a concert hall (a very prestigious one, of course, but still... it’s a concert hall venue). It’s an achievement in Emma’s solo career, in terms of the fact that she’s never done a solo show before, but drawing comparisons to it being like almost selling out a small arena makes it seem more lame than you probably intended the comparison to come across like, lol.

 

(Little Mix didn’t visit Cardiff Arena on their most recent tour, although they did perform 32 arena dates at venues mostly ranging from 10k to 20k!)

Cardiff Arena is one of the smallest arenas in the country (and of the major arenas big artists tend to visit, it’s probably the smallest one). It’s not exactly atypical of what selling out an arena date usually entails!

 

Emma has come somewhat close to selling out one date at a concert hall (a very prestigious one, of course, but still... it’s a concert hall venue). It’s an achievement in Emma’s solo career, in terms of the fact that she’s never done a solo show before, but drawing comparisons to it being like almost selling out a small arena makes it seem more lame than you probably intended the comparison to come across like, lol.

 

(Little Mix didn’t visit Cardiff Arena on their most recent tour, although they did perform 32 arena dates at venues mostly ranging from 10k to 20k!)

 

B-)

I think that is for the overall booking system, not just Baby Bunton ;) Just today loads of tickets for other shows, including one with David Attenborough, were released.

 

Right, that's why. She's still selling okay though considering barely active as a solo artist and suddenly showing up in a very short period of time. You can't only rely on spice buzz and a cover album to sell out 5,500 capacity hall after long years break, you need to work more for it, so selling like 70-80% is still a success I think.

Absolutely!

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It was absolutely packed for Emma's show, what an absolute triumph. She even sold a limited amount of CD singles of Coming home for Christmas.

 

Solo success spice.

It was absolutely packed for Emma's show, what an absolute triumph. She even sold a limited amount of CD singles of Coming home for Christmas.

 

Solo success spice.

 

:lol: it absolutely was not packed at all! It was fairly well sold but there were quite a few empty seats...

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