Saturday, 14 December 2013

Lyndahere And The Australian Indoor Garden Party...A reflection.

Firstly before I write this I would like to wish all the people who got tickets to the Australian Indoor Garden Party in 2014 a great show and I hope they enjoy it tremendously. For me however, it concludes participation in this part of a fandom as I am not particularly fond off what has happened over the years. Russell Crowe has specific rules of operating within this fandom that I don't like including access to tickets to concerts and interacting with fans. So I have moved on.

@lyndahere wrote to @russellcrowe @alanthomasdoyle ½ the OZIGP tix for locals by your request? Way to go Russell! Class act, dude. Coffscoastadvocate.com.au/news/Russell-Crowe Feb 13 2013.

While this may seem like a regular @lyndahere or Lynda Elstad retweet of a an article informing people about the Indoor Garden Party and the sale of the tickets in early January 2014 in Australia there is a bit extra added. One of her bootlegged videos from the Indoor Garden Party in New York with Hugh Jackman. This is not the first newspaper article I have seen that used one her bootlegged illegal videos to support their stories. I am wondering why this is necessary and why did the journalist not attach one of the legal videos from Russell Crowe’s South Sydney Media site. 

For someone like Lyndahere who is allegedly concerned about locals getting tickets, and her friend @liltexasgal8 (a fellow American and regular Indoor Garden Party concert goer) engaged in a Twitter conversation, including tweeting Russell Crowe to tell him they both had extra tickets for sale. I am wondering why do these women purchase more tickets than they need and at the expense of others? It is not the first time Lyndahere has more tickets that she needed usually bought during pre ticket sales. Surely these women know who they are travelling with by now as travelling to Australia is expensive at this time of year. They also need a visa.

While these women state they are allegedly not selling for profit they can decide who has their ticket either an Australian or an American undermining Russell Crowe’s wishes that locals attend. Reselling tickets regardless of whether or not they are for profit is usually against a venue's ticket holder’s policy and perhaps local entertainment laws. It is difficult to say what the people of Coffs Harbour want as they may prefer tourists spending money in their local businesses than concert tickets.

@liltexasgal8 to @lyndahere @russellcrowe I ended up so many helpers, that I have an extra Fri 10th & Mon 13th ticket @lyndahere has Mon 13th extra tkt. Anyone need? Dec 10 2013

@lyndahere to @jaruskaS @liltexasgal8 No worries. I have friends who do re-sell for a profit. Not morally opposed to it – it’s just not my cup of tea. Dec 10 2013

@lyndahere to @jaruskaS @liltexasgal8 No offence intended to those who do re-sell tickets for extra $$$. Just not my own choice. Dec 10 2013

@lyndahere to @jaruskaS @liltexasgal Not a scalper. I’d give the extra ticket away to a needy Coffs Harbourite before I sold for profit. Dec 10 2013

This is not the first time this kind of behaviour by wealthy mature aged American women who are Russell Crowe fans has happened. These women have such a great sense of entitlement when it comes to accessing tickets to concerts not only in their own country but in other countries like Canada and Australia. Of course Russell Crowe has to include locals in Coffs Harbour unless he wants to be public enemy number one, and irrelevant of the fact that unless it is a private event, excluding people based on their nationality would be against the Racial Discrimination Act and basically illegal as well as immoral. It would be interesting to see who got the tickets but my bet is an American. I do not agree that this fandom is inclusive of all as stated by these long term fans.

@lyndhere to @CGeee And now he’s doing it with a locals IGP. Generous and Smart Dec 9 2013

@GGeee to @lyndahere He was always inclusive to all, be it his long term fans, Alan Doyle fans and anyone came out to see TOFOG on that tour Dec 9 2013.


Crowds buy tickets to the Russell Crowe's Indoor Garden Party.

Fans wait to buy tickets to the Indoor Garden Party in Coffs Harbour. From The Coffs Coast Advocate. 13 December 2013 by Frank Redward (no copyright infringement intended)

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