Whitney Houston is to play UK shows next year, her first in more than a decade.
UPDATE : Show added for Trent FM Nottingham Arena on Wednesday, 14th April 2010 onsale, onsale from 9am from Seetickets, Gigantic, Ticketline, Ticketmaster
There was a 3rd date added yesterday for her show at The O2, Dublin for Tue 20th Apr 2010, onsale from Ticketmaster
Platinum Seats released for her The O2 Dublin shows, onsale from Ticketmaster
UPDATE : 2 shows announced for Ireland,
The O2, Dublin on 17th April 2010
The O2, Dublin on 18th April 2010
Tickets onsale from Ticketmaster
MEN Arena Manchester Thurs April 8th
MEN Arena Manchester Fri April 9th 2010
SECC, Glasgow, Sunday April 11th
LG Arena Birmingham, Tues April 13th
Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle, Thurs April 22nd
The O2, London Sunday April 25th
The O2, London Sunday April 26th
The O2, London Tuesday April 28th
Onsale from Ticketmaster, Seetickets, Ticketline, Gigantic
Also try the following links for SECC, Glasgow from Ticketsoup, and for LG Arena Birmingham from Ticketfactory
Check back for additional shows and links
Additonal Date confirmed for The O2 in Dublin for Sat 17th April, tickets onsale from next Thursday, check back for PRESALES
Says buy tickets then none so guessing that...
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Blimey, I’ve only just seen the price of these!
£100 a seat??!!
I don’t doubt she’ll sell out each venue but I doubt she’ll get more than a couple of dates at each one at that price, especially in Brum, we’ve got enormous unemployment up here y’know?!
Posted on October 14th, 2009 at 23:22
Not cheap huh!. I’m amazed how some people can afford this outside London. Within London perhaps.
Posted on October 15th, 2009 at 09:19
i’ve just bought 8 tickets with my mobility allowance. bostin’
Posted on October 15th, 2009 at 09:22
Mobility Allowance?!?!?
Posted on October 15th, 2009 at 11:44
The types going to see Whitney Houston are the same types who went to Celine Dion and Tina Turner. I don’t think national unemployment figures will matter, these gigs are for the 35+ middle classes. I’m sure they’ll spend lots of money in those reasonable priced o2 restaurants, and buy a programme, and pay £20 to park too.
I think in the less popular areas she might struggle a bit but they’ll do fine. It’s only a few that are £100, the rest are £75 and a few at £50. £75 is pretty much standard these days.
SB, you’ve got to be a Londoner with that comment. The north isn’t full of unemployed peasents you know!!
Posted on October 15th, 2009 at 16:54
IMO, Manchester is the only place outside of London that can consistently get people’s hands in their pockets for gigs, especially at this price, everywhere else north of Watford is tumbleweeds, especially the Midlands/Brum …
Oh and Tina & Celine are a whole lot more “up market” and “clean” than Whitney whose “brand” is shot-to-f*ck and will never recover … I seriously don’t think a lot of middle class types are going to be as keen to see her as they would have been 20 years ago before she, er, “cracked” …
Posted on October 15th, 2009 at 19:04
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£75 is “standard”???!!!
Not even for a pair!
Posted on October 15th, 2009 at 19:05
£75 is standard for an artist of her calibre who has sold that many albums. Infact the good seats are already going for over £200 a pop on Seatwave and the likes. By the time she is on X Factor at the weekend and charts next week she’ll have cleared out most of these venues.
If you can’t put her in with Celine and Tina then I don’t know who else you can compare her to that has toured recently ticket wise. She won’t do as many dates as Tina but the pricing is exactly the same and so is the way the ticket sales are being handled.
Even Lionel Richie who tours every few years was charging £75 for some of the tickets last time round!
For the older artists, £50-£75 is absolutely standard price these days, just a sign of the times. Even the Spice Girls were charging that!
Posted on October 15th, 2009 at 20:14
Yes but none of the people you’ve mentioned have fallen in the way that she fell.
I honestly can’t think of anyone who fell so badly. She had a squeaky clean image (in public at least, in private she was always deemed to be a c*nt IIRC) but my god, did she ever blow that with Bobby’s help!
I imagine that most AAA stars would think twice about wanting to be billed with her, she’s THAT tainted …
Still, it’ll be fun to see her on X Factor (hardly the nation’s moral compass!) and I hope everything turns out OK for her. I’ve never had much Whitney love but I have to admit that to make any kind of comeback after the SERIOUS level of addiction that she suffered is kinda admirable …
I’ve no doubt she’ll sell out the all the named dates but looking at those dates, they look like they hope to put a couple of dozen+ dates together eventually and I’m not sure she has that sort of ‘pull’ anymore but we’ll see!
Posted on October 16th, 2009 at 00:03
Well, the advert in the Metro this morning blabbed that the dates on sale for the O2 were “Sunday 25 and Monday 26 April”. I’ve not looked to see if the Saturday before is free, but it’s the usual procedure to sell the weaker days first before going for what would be the most popular.
So in my opinion, we’ll see at least THREE dates for the O2.
The sales on Seatwave, albeit fairly strong to begin with, seem to have slowed a bit now, and it’s generally only the £50FV seats that are going (for just under £100).
Posted on October 16th, 2009 at 08:02
You guys sure like running your “sucks”! Its either your going or not. Hope she comes home soon. I’ll be in the front row! You better believe it!!!!
Posted on October 16th, 2009 at 14:31
“suck”??? Why can’t anyone speak English on here sometimes
Posted on October 16th, 2009 at 14:40
Well it’s all very subjective but I’ve just had a quick sniff of the primaries and it looks to be the £50 seats that are selling out.
Clearly people *are* interested but £100 for an artist that isn’t MJ/Elvis/Sinatra/Elton is asking too much (even in The Smoke from what I can see) …
It’s completely understandable - if it was me, I’d pay £100 a seat if I was in the first 5 rows but other than that, with the size of the bloody arenas these days, not a chance …
Manchester 2nd date is in, as expected, and is a Friday too which is good for them. I reckon Brum is probably done though, amazing/shameful really when you think of the catchment area of the NEC!
It’s a pity cos I reckon there’s a lorra people who would like to go see her but £55+ to barely be in the same postcode as her is just too much, it really is …
Posted on October 16th, 2009 at 18:21
Well, it was painful to watch Whitney on the X Factor tonight …
She’s clearly overweight and looks to have “smoked” both her brains and her lungs away.
It’s still very, very sad to see, despite me never having much love for her to begin with …
Remember kids, drugs ARE bad, m’kay?
Posted on October 19th, 2009 at 00:09
I was going to say the same thing as John - you could barely call it a performance and I was feeling real pity for the woman, despite it being self-inflicted.
She could barely walk in the dress that she was wearing to hide her weight, and at the end could barely string two words together. To add farce to the tragedy, her dress straps broke about half-way through, but she carried on.
As for the ‘power house’ voice - the back vocals were so completely over-powering she could just stop singing (and did) and let them take over.
All cowell could say was it was good to see her back on this stage (had she played X-Factor before?), but I think the sooner she gets past these gigs and retires the better.
Best to think of them as benefit shows.
Posted on October 19th, 2009 at 09:46
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