andmar wrote: ↑<span title="Mon Sep 04, 2017 1:03 pm">6 years ago</span>
Your idea about getting one better and one worse seat assumes, that everybody buys own tickets only. I can easily imagine strategies like: "I buy tickets for both of us for the first concert and you buy them for the second one".
Well done, the strategy is in the world now.
I confess that I didn't think about that, innocent newbie that I am.
andmar wrote: ↑<span title="Mon Sep 04, 2017 1:03 pm">6 years ago</span>
Yes, me too (this was my very first concert and I got seats in the third row). But the Ely cathedral is much bigger (I think) and the overall attendance was not so big probably due to a remote location.
Yes, but it is not impossible to get a good seat,
only because you are a newbie. I understood that way, what Stefan said. (In fact, Ely ticket selling went extremely slow, but the front row seats were quickly gone nevertheless.)
I would not be happy about solving the problem with one bigger venue instead of two smaller ones. I still feel Libera's music to be intimate or at least associated to a church and, for their mystic sound, preferably in an "old" church. I find a mere concert hall too cold. And big modern churches ... well, the atmosphere is simply not the same. I consider this aspect as very important for the overall experience of a Libera concert. For me, it definitely is.
To not disturb the Saturday services, maybe they could have two concerts on Thursday and Friday. And as for the cost: The earn money for the 2nd concert, too, so that would ease it?
I certainly don't know enough about their logistics nor about the local circumstances. Maybe St. George's would even say: no way.
But how can you improve something if you never even start to discuss ways? If I were Libera, I would at least think about such a possibility, given the fact that the number of their fans rises
and a Christmas concert is exactly something for a smaller or, to close the circle, more "intimate" venue.