Friday, 13 September 2013

And The Lyndahere Show Rolls On…More fandom reflection.

@lyndahere to @alanthomasdoyle Not quite sold out yet. Still some BBQ + concert tickets left. 31August 2013

@lyndahere to @alanthomasdoyle I want to see a full house for your AD Band. Each and every time out. Only 3 of those still available. 31 August 2013

@lyndahere to @alanthomasdoyle Just 1 lonely little Jackson-Trigg AD Band BBQ/Concert ticket left!... You could call “Sold Out” now. 1 September 2013

@lyndahere to @alanthomasdoyle Yay Alan! AD Band Jackson Triggs gig now officially sold out by any and all standards 4 September 2013

It has been hard to continue to ignore @lyndahere or Lynda Elstad and her recent activities which seem to have intensified around Alan Doyle and Great Big Sea. As talented Great Big Sea fans create wonderful photographs and share them via Twitter and other social media Lyndahere seems to have been left behind. Photographs from concerts long ago no matter how brilliant do not seem relevant well after the event. Her blog has not been attended to for nearly a month. So how does a fan stay relevant and ‘needed’ with so much competition and of course seek the attention she so desperately wants? She has reinvented herself as the unofficial ‘promotions manager’ and using her computer skills to extend her stalking more now than ever.   

With the unofficial title of ‘promotions manager’ officially assigned to her by herself Lyndahere  is now checking up on the sale of tickets and advertising events, any available seats, packages and options that remain unsold. These events include Alan Doyle’s last concert, charity work on Fogo Island in Newfoundland and the sale of new concert dates to Great Big Sea before the dates and links were made available on their official home page and they made the announcement on Twitter. Lyndahere has continued to bootleg any new music Alan Doyle may perform and to load it up onto You Tube.

@lyndahere Just one room left – one more chance to Go Wild with @alanthomasdoyle this weekend...

@lyndahere to @alanthomasdoyle Next time I’m sitting in front of a computer waiting for a big batch of show to go on sale let them be AD Band tickets. @alanthomasdoyle 11 September 2013

@lyndahere to @alanthomasodoyle Powerful performance of a beautiful new song at your sold-out @Jackson-Triggs Alan Doyle Band gig (on You Tube) 7 September 2013

@lyndahere Alan Doyle Band does great w. new gong debut @Jackson_Triggs (guessing title, unsure if co-write) (on You tube ) 7 September 2013

@lyndahere to @alanthomasdoyle I have missed hearing your songs live. Hearing your deadly band perform those songs. And you were so sweet tonight, Alan 6 September 2013

@lyndahere to @alanthomasdoyleI am so looking forward to your #BoyOnBridge songs @Jackson_Triggs tonight, Alan. Any of them, all of them (& Dance, Dance) 6 September 2013

@lyndahere to @alanthomasdoyle Yay Alan! AD Band Jackson Triggs gig now officially sold out by any and all standards 4 September 2013

@lyndahere Great Big Sea @ the Seneca Niagara Bear's Den Nov. 26th & 27th, tickets on sale at TM right now: 4 September 2013

@lyndahere A Wild Time. RT @alanthomasdoyle Very excited to be supporting the efforts on Fogo Island. Should be a Time...  September 2013

 @lyndahere to @alanthomasdoyle Just 1 lonely little Jackson-Trigg AD Band BBQ/Concert ticket left!...You could call “Sold Out” now. 1 September 2013

@lyndahere to @justmehurst According to the Jackson-Triggs site, all tickets except the BBQ/Concert combos are sold  31 August 2013

@lyndahere to @alanthomasdoyle I want to see a full house for your AD Band. Each and every time out. Only 3 of those still available. 31 August 2013

@lyndahere to @alanthomasdoyle Not quite sold out yet. Still some BBQ + concert tickets left....31 August 2013

Recently on Twitter Lyndahere challenged Alan Doyle as to whether his concerts were sold out. I do not know the specifics of how the tickets were sold but she tweeted him and said they were not all sold out. To find this information out Lyndahere would have been checking out the site selling the tickets and packages. So not only is she following him and Great Big Sea to concerts and other events, photographing and bootlegging their concerts but she is now stalking the Internet sites of events selling tickets to concerts and events. People fall into a false sense of security of getting information by following people on Twitter such as Lyndahere . She has proven to be unreliable and one who does not share a lot of the information she obtains with fans. It can leave fans feeling angry and resentful when they read her endless bragging and they have missed out something they may have liked to attend.

@lyndahere to @alanthomasdoyle I want to see a full house for your AD Band. Each and every time.out. Only 3 of those still available. 31 August 2013

A full house or sold out show in the way she imagines is not always in everyone’s best interests. And it is definitely not her call. Let me put it in an analogy she may understand, a full plane. It takes longer for the plane to load, longer for the plane and passengers and luggage to unload and places stress on the resources for example washrooms. As passengers take on increasing amounts of hand luggage it often gets put somewhere not close to the passenger or they experience delays as it is put in the hull with all the other luggage.

People who organise events and sell tickets need to manage their own events. There are always undesirable seats at any concert venue. It would have been totally frustrating for people being informed there were still tickets available and find out there were none they wanted in good seats. Often seats in an undesirable position cost the same as those in the desirable seats. The concert venue may have to employ extra staff and have different licensing requirements for the number of people the venue holds. The more people there the longer it takes to get served at intermission and people often choose to go without rather than miss out on some of the concert. There is extra pressure put on facilities such as washrooms. Unhappy event organisers and customers in undesirable seats or with packages they do not really want may not come back.

Just for the record Lyndahere and in case it hasn't occurred to her most people work hard for their money, don’t go to concerts every week and nor do they spend their life totally self-indulging themselves as she does.


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