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The Woodies have a blog. It’s a kind of collective. Not sure we’re about to start a revolution baby, but we might kindle a small debate or two and perhaps raise a smile. Anyway, rather than just blogging corporate Woodreed by fielding our top Woodie (as so many other companies seem to do in a thinly veiled attempt at impressing with their profundity), we wanted all our individual voices to be heard. An agency’s most valuable assets are its people after all. Everyone’s got something to say here and with us everyone’s ideas and opinions matter.

Each week someone different will be blogging. It's mostly about stuff that rocks our world as well as the flipside – the things that just don't cut it with us. We'll blog about inside and outside – inside this glorious industry where we work and outside in the real world.
It's a bit of an experiment, so go with us on this one.

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Tuesday 9 November 2010

Just have a little Patience..

Being a Take That fan has many plus points – catchy tunes to listen to, entertaining videos to watch and of course handsome men to look at. However trying to buy tour tickets is not one of them. Nevertheless it must be endured, with a strong will and grim determination.

4 of my friends and I set ourselves up, internet at the ready and mobiles on hand to text each other when we got our hands on some tickets, surely it would be relatively straightforward. However, things didn’t quite pan out the way we had hoped. By 8.45am (tickets went on sale at 9pm) all of the major ticket sites had crashed, unable to cope with the ‘unprecedented’ amount of demand. Unfortunately this remained the case for the next 5 hours. By this time we had all lost the will to live, at which point I saw via Facebook that another friend of mine had managed to get hold of some. After a quick little message to said friend he told me to get to Ticketmaster Ireland. Within 2 mins I had secured 4 tickets and the battle had been won. Hoorah.

This got me thinking about how new technology, specifically the internet can within the space of one morning make you want to bash your head against the wall and then within an instant can provide the solution to your problem – it really is a remarkable beast which many of us now just take for granted. So next time my emails stop working or I can’t connect to an FTP sever to upload some artwork I shall take a second and remember to be thankful for the fact that at least it eventually got me into Wembley to see TT. Yeah right.
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  1. Dave Wilson9 November 2010 at 04:09

    Have you made sure that the venues not in Dublin? Ha ha

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