me personally i am very sad as i took 3 days vacancy from work, booked a hotel and bought 2 two ticket (130 euro each) for this one-off. of couse leipzig is a fabulous city to visit...but this is utter sh...

well, i do not know the real reasons of all the story behind this event- it would have been so great! - but at the same time i am just looking forward to see our master in hannover this november.

cheers everyone

Sorry to hear that, Steve, must be a major disappointment for you.


Just in case some people read this thread who hadn't looked into the booking system: last time I looked the first of the two Leipzig concerts has been almost sold out, and the second concert was about 60% booked. So we're not talking about a complete disaster here, nor can we accuse the people of Leipzig of being disinterested. Apparently the organiser has overestimated the demand and/or spending capacity of the target group. If they had planned only one show the event would have been a huge success sold out months in advance - and probably lots of people complaining why he did only one show.

me personally i am very sad as i took 3 days vacancy from work, booked a hotel and bought 2 two ticket (130 euro each) for this one-off.

Really sorry for you, Steve; I could easily have been in the same boat. I certainly wouldn't have received airline compensation, but hopefully you'll get refunds on your gig tickets & hotel reservation.

Doesn't sound like it was BF's fault, but it would be nice if his team looked in here; maybe they might wonder if they could make your visit to the Hannover show a bit special as compensation for your disappointment...

Good Evening to Everyone Here Who are steadfastly loyal Roxy Music Fans and Bryan Ferry Solo Fans. This is Lori to bring Up A very Good idea for Bryan Ferry's Organisation's way to salvage the Leipzig Event. If as Lonely dreamer has been so kind to report that the First Concert was A almost complete Sell-Out, then Why not Go ahead and perform This One? Yes by all means cancel the Second One as that was still 40 Percent away from being a Sell-Out.
Then this way at least half of the Event CAN and SHOULD be saved/salvaged. As I very highly doubt that the remaining 40 Percent of the Second Concert would be sold in 10-11 Days from now.
Yes Bryan Ferry is a Premiere League/Elite/Upper Echelon Musician and Performer, however We are now living in a 1 Percentile Versus a 99 Percentile World now. Where The Multi-Millionaires and The Multi-Billionaires occupy a very small Percentiles of any Countries Populations. The 99 Percentiles being The Working Class Out Number and Out Populate them I.E. that is where the masses are and always will be.
So Artists Who do Occupy the Class and Integrity level of which is where Bryan Ferry is are a very rare Once-in-A-Life-Time if at all occurance.
The Music Division of The Performing Art's Profession so sadly has so few of Bryan Ferry's caliber.
However He is for the most part very much In-Accsessable to The Middle Middle Class on down to the Poorest of His Fan-Base.
Not knocking His Wealth any. He sure as S EARNED it. However to make Him-Self much more acsessable to A larger Majority of Fans, He should consider dropping His Concert Ticket Prices A bit.
Or do some more special event Concerts which are FREE like the one in Dubrovnick, Croatia as part of a Hotel's Special Mile-Stone Birth-Day or something like that.
Bryan Ferry certainly does deserve to occupy the Class Of Musicianship that He does. He's One-Of-Kind. The likelihood of ever SEEING or HEARING His kind in the Future is very slim to none.
His AGE is now starting to work against Him now too.
The opportunities and the priveleges that Fans the World over have to SEE/HEAR Him in Concert are now going to diminish.
Time is now not on His side.
There will come a Time in the not so distant Future Where He will not be able to perform Concerts anymore.
So He now has to start thinking of creative ways to make sure as many Fans as possible get to SEE/HEAR Him in Concert.
Even if it means He and His Team have to pay for His own Concerts on occasion as Piano Man asked about.
There is always room for Out-Of-The-Box thinking for Events.
Sincerely Yours, Lori.
P.S. I mean No dis respect to This hallowed and sacred Cyber-Hall for both Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry Here.

Sorry, Lori, it was not me who proposed that Bryan Ferry should pay for his own concerts ...

Monsieur Steve,
Not a good story - I bet you were looking forward to Geordie's favourite son with strings!
One things for sure, with our hero's touring schedule, casualties seem a little inevitable and predicting sales is clearly becoming a precarious business.
That said, I'm scheduled to be in NYC this autumn and despite some reservations about the current band, I thought I might slip an extra one in — without the knowledge of Mrs.Windswept - but, it looks like the fandango at The Beacon is sold out. There are private sales at silly prices. I'll try through contacts and if that doesn't work I'll have to give it a body swerve.
Doubtless ticket pricing has got something to do with the Leipzig story and, although the haunters of this hallowed cyber hall would probably be there every night if we could, we probably aren't the average punter!
Enjoy Hannover when it comes around.
Regards,
Windswept

It seems from the statement on BF's site that the cancellation is down to the promoter "due to unavoidable contractual and financial failures on behalf of the promoter".

This unfortunately happens to many artists at some point, the promoter agrees terms and then can't fulfil them.

At the end of the day an artist expects a guarantee to be honoured and rightly so.

To suggest that BF play this show for free or in some way finance it is completely unrealistic and unreasonable.

Commiserations to those fans who've lost out here.

me personally i am very sad as i took 3 days vacancy from work, booked a hotel and bought 2 two ticket (130 euro each) for this one-off. of couse leipzig is a fabulous city to visit...but this is utter sh...

well, i do not know the real reasons of all the story behind this event- it would have been so great! - but at the same time i am just looking forward to see our master in hannover this november.

cheers everyone

I have also booked 4 tickets (first row) two hotel rooms and train tickets. I wanted my entire family look at that concert on Sunday, 08:06:14. Took me a total of € 1,500.00 everything tasted - and now this hotel room can not be canceled, train tickets can not be returned. I'm pissed off!
Consider me whether the existing maps for Bielefeld (02:12:14) on Ebay to auction before I experience the next bust ...
It has ever been times when I've been looking forward more to the new and soon to be released Byan Ferry album.

Dear Ferryistas,

I couldn't find any articles or even explanations for the cancelled events in the East German internet press today. But the awarding of "A Life In Voice" was scheduled to be a big event with guests such as director Wim Wenders, jazz musician Till Broenner, rock legends The Scorpions and Udo Lindenberg, German TV entertainers Thomas Gottschalk and Guenter Jauch and many more local VIPs.

What a pity it is that this could be cancelled now, too. I always do hope that a lifetime award is not dependent on one or two string concerts but I expect the worst

A rock meets classical music concert with Bryan Ferry is somehow a small niche within the circus of events. The orchestra and the location has to be paid - on the other hand Bryan is only a big number for lifelong die-hard fans like me and so many other contributors here.

I hope Dublin will work and result in a wonderful dvd/bluray set.

By the way: Where is the promised concert disc from the Roxy concerts between 2010 and 2012?

I saw Peter Gabriel in Munich (April 2014), the dvd/bluray will be out in June ...

Pheeeww, that was close. Glad that Bryan had such a narrow escape.