Zagreb, Croatia, Arena (July 25, 2010)

[tomsakic]

The media response to Leonard Cohen's show in Zagreb was even bigger than Leonard's collapse in Valencia...

Mostly it was copy/pasted PR from the agency.

http://www.net.hr/infocentar/zagreb/pag ... 94006.html (Net.hr portal)
http://www.muzika.hr/clanak/23540/najav ... agreb.aspx (Muzika.hr, national music portal, "Leonard Cohen finally arrives to Croatia")
http://mtv.com.hr/koncerti/najave/leona ... -u-zagrebu (MTV Adria)
http://www.radiodalmacija.hr/Vijesti/ta ... grebu.aspx (Radio Dalmatia)
http://www.novilist.hr/2009/11/08/leona ... ozujk.aspx (Novi list, daily newspaper: "The King of Sorrow in Arena")
http://www.tportal.hr/showtime/glazba/4 ... agreb.html (T-Portal, "The Great Leonard Cohen comes to Zagreb", with YouTube clip for Belgrade performance of The Partisan)
http://dnevnik.hr/showbizz/glazba/leona ... arenu.html (daily news by Nova TV)
etc. etc.

Good choice of pictures, many new ones (so, not the 70s pictures:)

[tomsakic]

Good article in weekly national newsmagazin Nacional: http://www.nacional.hr/clanak/70694/leg ... acku-arenu

[tomsakic]

Few days ago ARENA ZAGREB has been awarded for "Structural Design of the Year" at Word Architecture Festival in Barcelona.

http://www.worldarchitecturefestival.com/winners.cfm

Arena Zagreb presentation: http://www.worldbuildingsdirectory.com/ ... fm?id=1494

[Zrinka]

Hi everyone!
Does anyone know is it possible that these VIP parterre tickets will be available again? I couldn't believe yesterday when I logged on around 10am and they were all sold out... similar thing happened with U2 concert - tickets were unavailable and then after some time some of the tickets were available again, so now I am actually faced with the decision what to do - wait or buy some tribunes tickets on eventim.si (which seems like a nonsense to me because the concert is in Zagreb and so am I, but similar thing happened with U2 - people buying tickets from Slovakian site because Croatian was useless)?
Does anyone have any inside info? I would really appreciate it!

[tomsakic]

Inside info (over the phone) is that Lupa doesn't know why Eventim.si has the tickets as Ticketpro.hr has them sold yesterday (for Vip-parterre).

I'll ask tomorrow is there a chance that some tickets will be on sale again.

It seems that Ticketpro system has to confirm you the seats through the email, and only then it's sold when you pay for it with credit card. That's very stupid as in the validation time between mails etc. somebody else can buy the same ticket. Or I am wrong?

Paul wrote this:

It seems that ticketpro just cannot cope with the transactions whereas eventim works much better ... I needed two extra tickets for Berlin friends and having tried with ticketpro only to see all credit cards rejected, it was very easy yesterday to get 8th row in vip parter through eventim. I wrote to ticketpro about my transactions and they said one was still active if I wanted it (which I didn't) so I guess that is why their system is showing no spaces available ... It is a real pity as I know other friends here who bought tickets from shops who also use the same ticketpro site in any case, so that they are far away when actually through eventim you can still get good tickets

Paul

Will ask tomorrow; we have the meeting about reserved fan tickets and the payment.

[Zrinka]

Tom,
thank you very much! I'll wait eagerly
I think the system works something like that because I know that when they were selling U2 tickets you would "buy" them online and then you would have to pay the money to their account ('opca uplatnica') in three days and just then the tickets would be yours. In case you didn't pay the tickets would return to be sold again. So actualy you had a three day reservation when "buying" tickets online.
Also, eventim.si has some much better tribune seats than does ticketpro?

[tomsakic]

I think the system works something like that because I know that when they were selling U2 tickets you would "buy" them online and then you would have to pay the money to their account ('opca uplatnica') in three days and just then the tickets would be yours. In case you didn't pay the tickets would return to be sold again. So actualy you had a three day reservation when "buying" tickets online.

Well, that's completely ridiculous system, I can't believe!!! Jeez...

Well, that means that everybody who bought the ticket yesterday didn't pay for it and that deadline for complete VIP-parterre finished tomorrow. That means we can watch those seats all the time... Thanks for that info, tomorrow and the days after I'll be refreshing the site all the time.


I only wonder what will be if some seats are back on sale, and the people wanting them bough another seats because the seats shown as sold weren't actually sold (but reserved for 3 days, in a way), etc. Complete system is completely idiotic.

[tomsakic]

But hey, why money transfer from your bank account ("opca uplatnica" = "postal money order/transfer") when Ticketpro site says you can buy with credit cards?

[Zrinka]

Hey
I have no idea, I didn't buy anything for LC concert - waiting for your inside info
This is how I heard people were buying tickets for U2... I don't know if this is their policy or was U2 just an exception due to problems with their servers

[MajaMaja]

I just bought tickets for Zagreb - Vip-parterre.
Eventim.si still has a few of them - but places are filling up really fast.

[tomsakic]

According to the local fan who missed the fan presale/reservations, all Ticketpro selling points in downtown Zagreb have *only* lower and upper tier (tribunes), while the parterre has been sold out.

[Paul Zagreb]

According to the local fan who missed the fan presale/reservations, all Ticketpro selling points in downtown Zagreb have *only* lower and upper tier (tribunes), while the parterre has been sold out.

whereas eventim.si still has lots of vip parterre tickets from rows 10-18 (though only on the right hand side strangely enough) .. Either there is a complete mess or they basically divided the arena between the two agencies .... or perhaps Tom you can enlighten us after you meeting today?

[tomsakic]

No meeting, they have chaos, I have chaos, Jura's family has some sudden health issues, and we realised it's much easier to solve this stage over phones and emails. I will probably meet somebody to get the ticket package when we all pay. Whoever gave cash already, Jura will pay it from his bank account in his name.

[rickmond]

hi tom, thanks for the update. acc to your list, it looks like i'm the only party coming from outside europe, so please let me know (via email) how to proceed.

[lemonche]

whereas eventim.si still has lots of vip parterre tickets from rows 10-18 (though only on the right hand side strangely enough) .. Either there is a complete mess or they basically divided the arena between the two agencies .... or perhaps Tom you can enlighten us after you meeting today?

I'm confused about this situation too... I bought tickets for vip parter from eventim.si at monday afternoon and now I'm thinking 'what if these tickets are not real, what if they won't let me in with these tickets, what if, what if...'