That Manchester recording is mine - thank you for offering to spread it to those who can't get on Dimeadozen. I've also uploaded it to my blog: http://manchestertaper.blogspot.com/ If there are any other recordings doing the rounds, I'd be very keen to hear them. Especially any older stuff - I reall...

This is an absolute joke. I queued for three hours on the day tickets went on sale, was the first person through the door at the box office and the best they could offer me was row U. When the Thursday night went on sale, I phoned through, got connected immediately, and again could only get row U. A...

Thanks for the suggestion - I'll give it a try...

Does anyone know of anyone who is still looking for Manchester tickets? I've got four stalls seats for the Wednesday night that I no longer need - face value + costs = £82 each. Let me know if you're interested via a personal message here or by email: yousefsheikh at hotmail.com It's weird - after q...

Having seen that the setlist doesn't seem to be changing much each night, my party of four have decided only to go to one of the Manchester dates. This means we have four stalls tickets (row U) for the Wednesday night (18th) that we'd like to get rid of for face value (plus our booking fees). We'd r...

I would just like to thank the Guardian for giving the touts a pay day, that was an absolute farce. I suspect that by effectively holding back a quarter of the total tickets for these Manchester dates for a couple of weeks, the Guardian offer will have actually reduced demand for touts' tickets som...

Do we know that the Guardian actually 'bought' all the tickets for this event for sure? I was presuming that it was an extra night that the paper had sponsered or somehow funded rather than one that they had been allowed to entirely block-book. Then again, with all the strangeness that seems to surr...

yes, that was me! I just sent you a message cos I worked out who you are too. I wanted to shake your hand when you emerged with your ticket - but you had descended into a bit of a daze - and I was still frantic to get my hands on my own tickets. Anyway - CONGRATULATIONS! Same to you! Sorry for not ...

Hey Fafner - were you the chap who kept running up to the windows to peer through the security grills?

Thrilled to say that I got Wednesday stalls tickets, and all it took was a three-hour wait in the bitter Manchester cold... Plus a 5:30am drive-by, just to make sure the queue wasn't already forming. Congratulations to all who got tickets and best of luck for the Guardian promotion to any who were d...

Many thanks for all this information, ptn - I wonder how bemused your staff are at all this interest... The guy I spoke to at the Opera House earlier this week said that they'd already had 800 calls to the venue about these shows. I've always said that LC is the one person I'd break the bank for (an...

ptn - I've been trying to find out from your colleagues about the availability of the Manchester tickets from Ticketmaster Ticket Centres but can't seem to get a definitive response... The best I've got so far is that they'll be available from "selected Ticket Centres". I live within walki...

According to the latest Manchester International Festival email newsletter, tickets will be going on sale Friday 10am...