Comments on: Two on Techradar: let’s have a tech firm fight, and: should we bury online touts with Michael Jackson?

By: Squander Two

Squander Two — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:40:58 +0000

AEG have a solution to their financial difficulties:

Michael Jackson's tour promoter AEG has angered fans by inviting them to keep their unusable concert tickets as a "memento" of the star rather than claim a refund.

In other news, AEG announced that someone had broken into their lock-up and done a runner with some gear, but some guy down the bookies had tipped them the wink on who done the job and they were going to have some of the lads have a quiet word with him, know what I mean?

By: Squander Two

Squander Two — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:08:02 +0000

Heh heh heh.

Did you see their description of Facebook the other day? “It’s kind of like if the pictures in your high school yearbook came alive and went bald and said sorry.”

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:04:05 +0000

Achewood, posted before you post it :)

http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=06282009

By: Squander Two

Squander Two — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:03:15 +0000

Well, it wasn’t that AEG made the decision not to insure; it was that every insurance company in the world made the decision to turn down the business. People who assess risk for a living reckoned this was a certainty.

AEG decided to go ahead anyway (or “self-insure”, as they brilliantly put it). I don’t think they discovered the gigs were uninsurable till after they’d sold the tickets, though, so they didn’t have a lot of choice. Oops.

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:58:14 +0000

Bloody hell. That wasn’t very clever – especially given Jackson’s record of cancelling gigs. Not the smartest business decision of all time.

By: Squander Two

Squander Two — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:10:18 +0000

Have you seen that only the first 10 to 15 nights at the O2 were insured? AEG stand to lose a fortune.

By: Heather

Heather — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:18:11 +0000

::pictures the IE-FF fight on Harry Hill::