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9/2/2008 9:43:01 PM

Walls1441 to not attend.

I'm walls1441 and i approved this message.

9/2/2008 9:43:43 PM

OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG

9/2/2008 9:50:54 PM

HOLY FUCK

I will have so many computers ready it is not even funny

9/2/2008 9:54:52 PM

one of the best shows i've seen was ben folds five and jude at the ryman auditorium in nashville

9/2/2008 10:13:28 PM

^ I've always wanted to go to a show there

9/2/2008 10:22:08 PM

SLEDGE!

9/2/2008 10:23:10 PM

SHIT FUCK GODDAMN IT

I'm out of town until until the 19th.

GODDAMN COCKSUCKER MOTHERFUCKER

9/2/2008 10:30:04 PM

holy shit.

9/2/2008 10:47:01 PM

don't tell everyone!

9/2/2008 10:57:25 PM

I hope the late 90's sees this thread, they'll be stoked.

[Edited on September 2, 2008 at 11:06 PM. Reason : ]

9/2/2008 11:05:27 PM

we're ready to buy as well, StillFuchsia

9/2/2008 11:05:58 PM

super

9/2/2008 11:15:24 PM

OMF OMF OMF OMF

MOTHERFUCKING SLEDGE

AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

AWESOMESAUCE

9/3/2008 12:08:14 AM

holy jesus motherfucking shit ass

wow

looks like i'm going to have to make that weekend a long one

9/3/2008 12:12:39 AM

I think I'll be working away from a computer when those go on sale.

time to find someone I trust with my cc

9/3/2008 12:19:00 AM

omf

9/3/2008 9:22:36 AM

Any idea on ticket prices?

not like it matters

9/3/2008 10:52:47 AM

probably like $kansas

which is okay by me

9/3/2008 12:24:09 PM

man this would be amazing. i may see if i could round up second to go to this if possible

9/3/2008 2:02:03 PM

^^^According to http://tinyurl.com/58p897 ...

"Tickets for the general public are $40 and will go on sale Monday, Sept. 8 at 10 a.m. via etix. The show will be presented by MySpace Music. UNC student tickets will go on sale at the same time for $22 at the Memorial Hall box office. Tickets will have a policy of one ticket per One Card, two One Cards per student."

And Hotel Lights will apparently open the show. I would have liked to have seen Chuck Folds Five open but oh well.

9/3/2008 2:06:30 PM

For once I wish I was affiliated with UNC

9/3/2008 2:08:47 PM

My dixie wrecked

9/3/2008 2:24:51 PM

Quote :

"And Hotel Lights apparently will open the show."

!!!!!

9/3/2008 3:13:43 PM

maybe I can get my sister to get two tickets on campus that morning instead of paying $40

[Edited on September 3, 2008 at 3:22 PM. Reason : or I'll just suck it up anyhow]

9/3/2008 3:20:24 PM

dammit

why did the 5 people i know who went to carolina have to graduate?

9/3/2008 3:26:33 PM

if anyone finds out any way to preorder these, let us know. i dont care if i have to pay the full $40, im going to this.

9/3/2008 6:01:18 PM

omg i'm so going to be at my computer @ 10am on monday.

9/3/2008 11:20:56 PM

hmm either i rely on my flaky UNC friends to get me cheaper tickets or pay more and control my own fate (hopefully). decision made. though if i don't get a ticket somehow and my bandwagon friends do, i'm going to be so pissed.

9/3/2008 11:36:17 PM

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"though if i don't get a ticket somehow and my bandwagon friends do, i'm going to be so pissed."

i'm with you.

9/3/2008 11:52:05 PM

nothing makes me more anxious than the period before ben folds tickets go on sale. i remember like 4 years ago when he came to duke, the tickets went soooo fast.

9/4/2008 12:05:13 AM

Quote :

"BEN FOLDS FIVE TO REUNITE FOR A ONE TIME ONLY CONCERT! TO PLAY REINHOLD IN ITS ENTIRETY! Tickets on sale Sept 8th 10AM EST via www. etix. com Proceeds to go to Operation Smile. BEN FOLDS new album Way To Normal - in stores Sept. 30th! First single "You Don't Know Me" (featuring Regina Spektor) now available on iTunes. MySpace, the world’s premier social network, today announced the exciting launch of its newest music program, Front to Back, celebrating iconic albums that have helped shape the MySpace Generation. MySpace kicks off this program by reuniting beloved alt-pop band Ben Folds Five with an exclusive one-time live performance of their final studio album together, The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner, in its entirety. The concert will be the band's first performance together in nearly ten years and will take place in the band’s former hometown of Chapel Hill, North Carolina on September 18, 2008 at the UNC Memorial Hall. The show will be rebroadcast on the Front to Back official MySpace profile in October http://www.myspace.com/fronttoback “We are honored and excited that Ben Folds Five is helping launch this new music program,” said Josh Brooks, VP of Music Marketing for MySpace. “Front to Back is about connecting and re-connecting the MySpace community, fans and bands alike with some of the most acclaimed and inspirational albums ever produced. ” Front to Back asks leading artists to perform one of their own seminal albums, from front to back, in a live concert that is then later aired on the site. The airing of the event includes interviews with the band as well as artists who were influenced by the album. Presented by www. nowwhat. com, tickets to the Ben Folds Five Front to Back taping will go on sale to the public through www. etix. com on September 8th at 10 AM EST. Additional Front to Back performances will be announced by MySpace in the coming months. Piano-based rock trio Ben Folds Five formed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1993. Comprised of Ben Folds on vocals and piano, Robert Sledge on bass and backing vocals and Darren Jessee on drums and backing vocals, the group quickly became heroes in the world of indie alternative-pop. The band, well-known for their hit single "Brick" from their platinum-selling 1997 album Whatever and Ever Amen, was together seven years before disbanding amicably in 2000, at which time Ben Folds began his esteemed solo career while Darren Jessee went on to form the band Hotel Lights and Robert Sledge went on to play in the now defunct International Orange. Folds' third solo studio album, Way to Normal, releases on September 30, 2008. The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner was released in April 1999 and was the fourth and final album from Ben Folds Five. It cracked the Top 40 of Billboard's Album chart and reached No. 3 on Billboard's Top Internet Albums chart. “When MySpace approached me about doing this gig,” Ben Folds said, “I misunderstood and thought they wanted us to play Purple Rainfront to back, so of course I said yes. But we're happy to do "The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner" instead. Of our three albums, this one brings back the most vivid memories. It was actually written to be one song of many movements, which is why there are motifs that appear throughout the album. That should make 'Reinhold' a natural to be played front to back. " Proceeds from concert will benefit Operation Smile: Changing Lives One Smile at a Time. For more information, please go to www. operationsmile. org."

pretty cool tidbit about the album being written to be one song there. didn't know that.

9/4/2008 7:35:11 AM

Aside from "Army," the songs don't really make sense individually from a musical standpoint.

Also,

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"nothing makes me more anxious than the period before ben folds tickets go on sale. i remember like 4 years ago when he came to duke, the tickets went soooo fast."

We're not talking about some shitty Ben Folds gig. This is motherfuckign BF5. I will fucking fight you for these.

9/4/2008 9:37:10 PM

and I'll help

9/4/2008 9:47:17 PM

yeah this thing will sell out in minutes, and i'm predicting technical difficulties from the website. i'd like to find an alternate way of getting them other than waiting in line at memorial hall. i'm not even sure if they'll sell to non-students there.

9/4/2008 9:49:39 PM

non-students can only get tickets through e-tix.

9/4/2008 9:52:50 PM

don't tell everyone!

9/4/2008 10:10:22 PM

Quote :

"We're not talking about some shitty Ben Folds gig. This is motherfuckign BF5. I will fucking fight you for these."

likewise.

9/4/2008 10:11:27 PM

i am so there.

9/5/2008 8:38:22 AM

what time are these shows normally?

my ass has to find a way to get from charlotte to ch. hill

9/5/2008 10:04:53 AM

TICKETS OR BUST

9/8/2008 12:53:50 AM

OH FUCK FUCK FUCK SONOFABITCH


if this wasn't on a weeknight, i'd so be there...there's just no way i can come up from Morehead City, see the show, then make it back down that night and be at work by 7:15 the next morning. \

9/8/2008 1:31:33 AM

Is there a link to the event on etix yet or will it just show up at 10?

9/8/2008 7:44:05 AM

i was wondering the same thing. i anticipate etix server troubles, ha.

9/8/2008 8:24:46 AM

yeah same, this is gonna be ridiculous. i don't even know the best page to be on at 10am to try to purchase right away

9/8/2008 8:57:19 AM

I'm a little worried here, both about the ticket page and the fact that my work computer is so god damn unstable that it's sure to freeze right in the middle of buying.

9/8/2008 9:07:56 AM

haha, I have 2 work computers i'm gonna dedicate to this at 10am

I wish I had more cash in my bank account so I could get more tickets

9/8/2008 9:10:27 AM

^^ First thing I did at work this morning was ditch my wireless connection. Always drops at the most inopportune times.

[Edited on September 8, 2008 at 9:11 AM. Reason : ^]

9/8/2008 9:11:12 AM

I'm starting to think the challenge will be finding the link to the tickets rather than being able to request tickets...

[Edited on September 8, 2008 at 9:15 AM. Reason : /]

9/8/2008 9:15:28 AM

3 work computers

9/8/2008 9:19:09 AM