Katowice, Poland, October 4, 2010

[IrishMar]

KATOWICE seats on sale NOW

It is now possible to purchase tickets on the site http://www.ticketpro.pl. Before ordering any tickets it is necessary to register, if you click on the seating plan, then on the coloured sector where you would like to sit, it will offer an individual seating plan which allows you to reserve your seats.

Interestingly the first three rows on sector A, B and C are blocked out, let's hope this is for us e-mailers!

Marie

[ladydi]

Hi Marie,

No word from Poland on our requests. I am actually rethinking Katowice. For me it is a very difficult city to get to...and a 615am departure time to make a connection to the US is very very early. Since nothing else in Poland seems to be in the offing, I may perhaps hold back and wait for a venue that may be farther away (South Africa..Hong Kong), but easier for me to access with my flights. Of course, eastern Canada is a no-brainer! However, if front row centre materializes, I may have to rethink things...

[jarkko]

Direct link to the Katowice tickets: http://www.ticketpro.pl/jnp/muzyka/3389 ... cohen.html

[kamil]

Hi.
I've got a reply from the seller about the H-J sectors, they say:

The price structure depends on the view and sound quality in a particular sector. Sectors H-J are the ones that have best view and best sound.

I personally will go for B sector anyway, we'll see if it's a good choice

[sandraa]

Has anyone been offered tickets through the pre sale. I've been offered 2 front row tickets in section a for 600pln. Just checking to see if anyone else has been offered tickets.I've never made payments in this way before - can anyone offer guidance

[majmunka]

@Marie: I asked them about it. The guy told me that those rows are reserved for the presale indeed. I hope it's true
@sandraa: I've been offered a ticket in section B (for 300 PLN) but I don't know the row. They wrote "best available seat".
I keep crossing my fingers for first row. I wasn't happy with international bank transfer but payed, nevertheless. Alas, it's far from guarrantee, just means I'm more trusting (or more a fool )
Now I'm waiting for confirmation from their bank and hope I didn't messed things up.

[jarkko]

Seller's identity has been confirmed by AEG LIve in London, and this Polish company is the local promoter/organizer of the concert.

[sandraa]

I keep crossing my fingers for first row. I wasn't happy with international bank transfer but payed, nevertheless. Alas, it's far from guarrantee, just means I'm more trusting (or more a fool )
Now I'm waiting for confirmation from their bank and hope I didn't messed things up.[/quote]

I can't transfer the money as the e banking site tells me - A valid IBAN is required for the country and currency mentioned- I'm entering the account number in this section but it won't accept it. Anyone else have problems?

[kamil]

I can't transfer the money as the e banking site tells me - A valid IBAN is required for the country and currency mentioned- I'm entering the account number in this section but it won't accept it. Anyone else have problems?

Try prefixing the number they sent you with "PL", if it's not already in the number. so if the number is 12345... then the whole IBAN should be PL12345...

As for me, I didn't even get the account number yet for some reason.

[sandraa]

Unfortunately it still won't work for me. I've emailed the seller but he says its worked for others. Meanwhile I've been shocked at how flights from Ireland are disappearing fast and the expenses are mounting.
If anyone else has difficulties with the number let me know how they resolve it

[Mabeanie1]

Has anyone been offered tickets through the pre sale. I've been offered 2 front row tickets in section a for 600pln. Just checking to see if anyone else has been offered tickets.I've never made payments in this way before - can anyone offer guidance

Well, that's odd. They told me that they could not allocate a specific row or seat to me until they had the money - it depended "on what money was received". I can't say I'm happy with the idea of sending money off until I know what seat I'm going to get.

Wendy

[sandraa]

it's tempting to just purchase tickets off the main site- there seems to be a lot of availability and lifes too short to keep going through a transaction always ending in error.
Transferring money does feel very strange- i bought from presales before but it never seemed so complex

[Mollydog]

Sandraa,

http://www.ecbs.org/iban/ireland-bank-a ... umber.html

Check out this site. PL is the IBAN prefix for Poland, Ireland is IE.

Mary

[liverpoolken]

Something nice to say about Katowice…..

For Christmas someone bought me Dawn Upshaw’s (Dolly Parton is not the only wonderful female singer born in Tennessee) collection of Debussy songs.

I finally got around to playing the Debussy over the weekend and afterwards I realised that I hadn’t played her cd of Gorecki’s 3rd Symphony (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) for a very long time. So I took it off the shelf this evening and put it into the cd player. I don’t very often read the sleeve notes on classical cds but for some reason tonight I did.

I don’t know why I should have been but I was quite taken aback to read that Gorecki wrote this symphony in the very city I had slagged off earlier in this thread.... Katowice his home town. The first movement is a beautiful 15th. century Polish lament, the second movement is based around a message written on the wall of a Gestapo prison cell in Zakopane during World War 2 and the third movement is based on a Silesian folk song that tells of a mother searching for her son who was killed during the Silesian uprising….the dual themes throughout the whole work are motherhood and separation through war.

So there…never judge a whatsit by it’s thingy…good things can happen anywhere….even in Katowice

ta ken

[martali]

Ken, here you are Henryk Gorecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs sung by the great Polish singer Stefania Woytowicz with Katowice Symphonic Orchestra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brotY-aMCBE

Enjoy
Marta

and here few words from Henryk Gorecki himself about this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyALmgCD ... re=related