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keefriffhards
My heart goes out to all you Swiss fans with tickets, devastating news for you guys.
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bv
If there is no way Bern may give an optional date at the end of the tour, I will assume they "sit on" the rescheduling issue until they see if there are more cancellations. If more shows get canceled, they may do like they did in 2003, adding more shows to the end of the tour. Back then, they had 3 shows to reschedule (Benidorm, Amsterdam, Twickenham), and they added three more shows (Coimbra, Zaragoza, Zurich). See the IORR News 2003 for the rescheduling timing back then.
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keefriffhards
My heart goes out to all you Swiss fans with tickets, devastating news for you guys.
Switzerland isn't exactly a remote country in the middle of nowhere. There's always Milan and Geneva for relative proximity, and all the other cities a quick flight away. With the Bern pit costing about $500 and prices elsewhere as low as $300-odd, savvy fans may even end up saving money.
Ps Lyon not Geneva.
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bv
Sorry but if you live in Switzerland then you should be able to take the train or drive to other shows nearby. It's not far. There is still France 2x shows, Germany and so on.
I live in Norway and The Stones have played just one - 1 - show in Norway after 2007, i.e. one show in 15 years, back in 2014. I have to fly all day to get to any show, travel 8-14 hours, the closest one is in Stockholm, still a long travel.
It is just bad luck they can't reschedule, and Amsterdam got lucky, they had one day open, one day only.
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resotele
the disapointment is still there, partly because the Stones wouldn't agree on a end of june date, partly because those suckers at Young Boys Bern really should have acomodated the August date. Very lame effort.
Young Boys Bern is not just a small football club. They were, from 2018 on, four times in a row swiss champion, the played the UEFA Champions League, they play in a stadium with a capacity of + 30'000, they sold more than 18'500 season tickets for the season 2022/23, which will start mid july.
I am a long time fan of both the Rolling Stones (saw them the first time 1973 in Bern) and of the BSC Young Boys (first match at age ten in 1964). So I'm very disapointed that the gig is now cancelled, but I know that for the football club it was absolutely impossible to give the stadium in august; they are playing the swiss championship and UEFA qualifiers then. As for the reason of the Rolling Stones for denying the date of 29th of june, I don't know ...
It is a big disapointment, but blaming the football club BSC Young Boys for the situation is just wrong.
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bv
Sorry but if you live in Switzerland then you should be able to take the train or drive to other shows nearby. It's not far. There is still France 2x shows, Germany and so on.
I live in Norway and The Stones have played just one - 1 - show in Norway after 2007, i.e. one show in 15 years, back in 2014. I have to fly all day to get to any show, travel 8-14 hours, the closest one is in Stockholm, still a long travel.
It is just bad luck they can't reschedule, and Amsterdam got lucky, they had one day open, one day only.
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bv
Sorry but if you live in Switzerland then you should be able to take the train or drive to other shows nearby. It's not far. There is still France 2x shows, Germany and so on.
I live in Norway and The Stones have played just one - 1 - show in Norway after 2007, i.e. one show in 15 years, back in 2014. I have to fly all day to get to any show, travel 8-14 hours, the closest one is in Stockholm, still a long travel.
It is just bad luck they can't reschedule, and Amsterdam got lucky, they had one day open, one day only.
Not everybody is that lucky to get another holiday to spend in traveling to any Stones show in Europe.
As a teacher for example you are fixed in school holidays.
And some of us need to plan a longer time to get free days, to handle with familiy and so on. It´s not that easy for everybody.
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Stoneswolf
From the mail:
"Für den ausserordentlichen Aufwand im Zusammenhang mit der Rückabwicklung, werden pro Ticket CHF 5.- abgezogen"
This is insane, they charge five franks per Ticket as refund fee.
I mean, how can they charge us a cancellation fee!
(We already paid overpriced postage for Lucky dip tickets)
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Stoneswolf
From the mail:
"Für den ausserordentlichen Aufwand im Zusammenhang mit der Rückabwicklung, werden pro Ticket CHF 5.- abgezogen"
This is insane, they charge five franks per Ticket as refund fee.
I mean, how can they charge us a cancellation fee!
(We already paid overpriced postage for Lucky dip tickets)