They could of sold those "thousands" of empty seats for lower money and still make money.

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Even w/ Wyman, Taylor and others too, but still not a sell-out crowd.

Will they lower the prices next time? Or in the USA you think?



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hard to believe? ticket prices are obviously too high.

btw. My guess is that these five shows somehow serve as a price test for upcoming shows - how far you can go without playing more or less empty venues.
Well, time will tell what the Stones/promotors learned from the London experience.

Empty seats were very rare....

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Looking at my pictures of the crowd I can't see any empty seats, there can't have been "thousands" !

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Looking at my pictures of the crowd I can't see any empty seats, there can't have been "thousands" !

Haven't the London Suns paper been known to tell lies or stretch the truth, yes.

I should of known.

Not thousands but alot maybe.

No surprise all seats were not filled. The ticket prices were over the top expensive, even by Stones standards. If the scalpers ate those extras screw them. The tickets could have been half the price and the band still would have walked with some serious coin. The pricing for these concerts is wrong for so many reasons. If they tour in earnest next year, one can only hope the tickets are more reasonable priced to allow people other than the wealthy the opportunity to see this band. Meanwhile, I am happy they are doing some gigs again.

Anyone know the stats for actual attendance v potential capacity?

The place looked packed to me.

There didn't look to be that many unoccupied seats to me and, given the amount of people who wander in and out to the bar/toilet during the gig (unbelievable to me - guys, we waited years for this, let's drink after the show - but several on my row went in and out!) I don't think many were unoccupied throughout.

There were no empty seats, but if there were it was for the simple reason of price gouging. In fact they deserve to play to empty seats considering how unfair they are being to their fans.

I was there and there were no empty seats. A few of the papers were running stories like that before but most of them corrected later.

When the lights were up during the show, I took a look around the venue each time. I had a good view or pretty much everywhere from where we were (block 421, row C) and I saw no empty seats.

Don't believe anything the Sun posts. The seats were all sold, at least one time. Did some resellers get left holding more than a few tickets? Hell yeah, that's their loss.

Arena pix here. Looks like it was filling up pretty well.

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Anyone know the stats for actual attendance v potential capacity?

It has a capacity of 20,000 and that's apparently how many were at the show according to every story I've read.

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Looking at my pictures of the crowd I can't see any empty seats, there can't have been "thousands" !

Me either. Bloody hell it was sold out.

Can people please stop quoting/linking to The Sun? For those of you in the UK, you should know it is sensationalism and blatant lying at its worst - and for those of you not familiar with it, you have now been told!

the sun newpaper do like the stones,they will put down the stones to SELL SUN PAPER.
SUN NEWS PAPER IS RUBBISH as the writers who work for them,they get paid to write
rubbish news which are not true,long live ROLLING STONES

They were the seat's the GREEDY TOUTS and the PEOPLE who put PROFIT before genuine STONES FANS got STUCK WITH, because of the GREEDY prices they were asking was just to much.... I'm delighted they could'nt sell the tickets, might teach them a lesson.

With the more and more complexed ways of selling tickets it's probably impossible to have a full capacity audience.

The place looked fully packed to the rafters to me - it was GREAT!!!

Look full to me

I know tickets are still plentiful here in the USA for the Brooklyn show....not sure about the 2 in New Jersey but I'm guessing there are still a lot left..why would anyone wonder WHY these are not sell-outs?

Another paper ran a story saying scores of stones fans were left outside the concert disappointed because they couldn't get tickets.

It was sold out. Sure there might have theoretically been some tickets which were sold to scalpers who then couldn't get rid of them at 10 times face value, but I bet even they cut their losses and sold them at or less than face at the last minute.

From where I was, I couldn't see a single empty seat in the whole venue, and I had a pretty good birds eye view, if you know what I mean.

So no, sorry The Sun, you are lying - IT WAS SOLD OUT!

Well, they should play All Sold Out next time then...

Stones.

Very few empties - although I think some weren't filled until the very last minute. Certainly not "thousands". Never believe anything printed in the Sun.

Barclays and the Pru Center are smaller than the o2. There won't be an empty seat.

wait til they start playing stadiums you will see more tarps than people just like the bang stadium shows, btw barclays in brookyn is no where near sold out and thats just 20k

I could see only a small handful of empty seats. I asked at the information desk in the hope of upgrading my nosebleed seat and was told that it was a sell out. I think there may have been a few tickets that touts had left on their hands, and a few people who couldn't attend on the day, but overall the place was packed, and more full than I've seen it at some other gigs I have attended at the O2 including The Stones in 2007, Streisand and the Zep gig.

Peter

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