Have you got your cards at the ready, Migros are bringing in the Rolling Stones to celebrate 10 years of the "Cumulus card". There's 30,000 tickets to be had for free. The concert is on the 11th of August in Lausanne. Cant find any info in English but theres loads in German.

What do you think?

Got a link for this ? How do you get in the ballot for the tickets ?

Hi,
there was something in the Vaudois press about this that you had to buy so many CHF worth of stuff to get points. Then you could enter the lottery for the tickets? Is this still the case?
Jo

This mornings news brings us sensational headlines about Keith Richards snorting his deceased fathers ashes. Maybe down town the local druggie bus can do us a cheap deal if we can produce grannies urn!

Hi,
heres link to English article about this today
http://www.24heures.ch/pages/home/24...contenu)/48076
jo

You need a Cumulus card, you need to spend 10X10:- on selected Migros items, then you stand a chance of being offered a ticket.

OMG, how sick! But you've got to give the tough old b-----d credit for doing things his way. I loved this quote: "Some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070404/.../richards_dc_4

http://www.genevalunch.com/node/3441 in English

As requested by Old Hand ....

"Migros will be able to carry out its plan to give away 30,000 tickets to a Rolling Stone concert in Lausanne in August, the Swiss Intercantonal Lottery Commission has decided, but it is not entirely happy with the Migros system. To win two tickets to the 11 August concert at the Pontaise stadium, you must have a free Cumulus loyalty card from the supermarket and collect 10 Rolling Stones stickers between 10 and 22 April. A sticker is given for each SFR10 purchase. Alternatively - because in Switzerland lotteries have to be free and open to everyone - you can write to Migros in Zurich and request the stickets."

Methinks those letters will be filed under A for Abfall .......

I dont want to go and see someone who snorted their own dad

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6524661.stm

I know Keith Richards is a bit of a nutter, but what ever possessed him to do that?

He fell out of a coconut tree, mate. Could happen to anyone!!

Apparently damage-control is out in force.

As many of you know, Jagger & Co. are touring Europe again and, of course, making a stop in good ol' Switzerland. This is perfect! yet another chance to see the Stones without having to travel, just a quick trip to Ticketcorner, get a ticket and ready to go, I naively thought. Nope, no such luck for me.... i had to go to f---ing Migros to get stamps to fill a card (in my case cardS) for the chance to win a ticket in a Lottery, to realize (months later) that i did not get a ticket!.

I thought of getting a ticket in Ricardo or E-bay, but those money-thirsty punks who are hustling tickets want CHF 200 or more a piece, these guys got them almost for free!. Don't get me wrong, I'm willing to pay the normal price for Stones tickets (around CHF 160), but I'm not sure if this particular Stones concert is worth the trouble because of the people attending it. The audience would be mainly composed of people who probably know one or two Stones songs and don't give two s**ts about the band, so the vibe won't be that good. Swiss are not know for displaying emotions in public and I realized that in the Stones concert in Dübendorf, this swiss barely clapped or responded to the band (and these were suppose to be fans!, imagine a concert with people who got the tickets for free).

Anyway, if ya got an extra ticket and wanna sell it, please let me know .

I damn Migros and its Marketing team for their "brilliant" free-concert idea and for spoiling a pretty good concert .

"I can't get no / san-at-o-gen..."

I found a big pile of toys outside a pram, anyone knows who chucked them out...?

You mean like Woodstock ?

Sorry to hear you didn’t get a ticket. The place will probably be filled with old pensioners like me if we can find somewhere to park our Zimmer frames ! Of course, as a follower of the Stones from their early days on Eel Pie Island, before they were famous, it does make our average age a bit like, er……, stone age ? But didn’t young Jagger do well ! Only one year at the London School of Economics and now a fortune of more than 675 million dollars.

Woodstock was not a free concert until the hippies who didn't pay for tickets jumped over the fence and the organizers just could not stop all of them.

age and/or occupation (or lack of) ain't the issue here, but how bad you wanna see the stones live. Let's imagine that one gets free VIP tickets for the world championship of curling. One might not know what curling is or don't even like the sport, but since these VIP tickets were for free, one goes anyway. and if you put most people attending the stones concert in this particular case.... the show could suck. Do I make any sense ?

Tickets going to VIP/Sponsors who go there to enjoy the atmosphere whilst not contributing one bit(thus ensuring said atmosphere is nowhere as good as it should) and depriving proper fans of a place...where did I heard that one before...?

I didn't win one

Yes, I do know about Woodstock. Just trying to wind you up because when you make a post if you can only express yourself by using terms like “..I had to go to f---ing Migros…” and “….don’t give two s**ts….”, you give a certain impression of yourself and are likely to be treated accordingly.

I heard that the audience at Dübendorf was not too enthusiastic and perhaps it was the venue (too big) weather etc that contributed to this but, having been attending concerts here for the last 18 years, I would not say that Swiss audiences were less responsive than anywhere else. Here, in Swiss Romande we have the Montreux Jazz festival at the moment followed by the Paleo festival next week and and the audiences, which have a high proportion of Swiss Germans, are noted for their warm and enthusiastic response.

As for free concerts, there have been quite a lot in London and Ive never noticed that the audiences were any less enthusiastic because they didn’t pay. VIP/Sponsors are a necessary part of staging these big shows and without them you would either have to pay more or, perhaps, have no concert at all.

Had you have got your free ticket from Migros would you still be complaining because it was free ?

Finally, a small dose of reality: