Buggles – The Lost Gig – Details announced

So, here are the details of the one off Buggles gig I mentioned here….

Buggles – The Lost Gig – 28.09.10

At last, ticket details for the technopop gig of the year. Trevor Horn and Zang Tuum Tumb present The Buggles – The Lost Gig. As previously announced, Trevor has regrouped The Buggles and gathered some very special guests to perform their ground-breaking début album, The Age of Plastic in full for the first (and quite possibly only) time ever.

Date: 28th September 2010
Venue: supperclub London (12 Acklam Road, London W10 5QZ)
Time: 7.30pm (VIP), 9.30pm (gig only)
Tickets: £300 (VIP), £100 (gig only) from www.seetickets.com

A special venue for a special event: The Lost Gig will take place at supperclub london. Following renown venues in Amsterdam, LA and Istanbul, supperclub is an “experimental creative platform,” which owner Bert van der Leden describes as “a mix of food, music, performance, art… an evening at supperclub has been successful when all your five senses have been tickled.”
A special cause: This event is being staged exclusively to raise funds for the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability. All proceeds both from The Lost Gig and accompanying online auction will be donated to the hospital. Active since 1854, the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability has a simple but very important mission: to add years to life and life to years.

Tickets: Two ticket options are available. VIP tickets (£300 + booking fee) include entry at 7.30pm for a three-course dinner, a bed from which to watch the show and the full supperclub experience of entertainers in advance of The Lost Gig. General admission tickets (£100 + booking fee) covers entry at 9.30pm for The Lost Gig only.

Strictly limited: with only 100 VIP tickets (many of which are already allocated) and 200 general admission tickets, please book early to avoid disappointment. Tickets go on sale from 9am on Saturday 28th August, exclusively through Seetickets.

Trevor Horn: “The Buggles are finally going out to play our first live gig, only 30 years since we first got together… As part of The Lost Gig, we’ll play The Age of Plastic in full for the first time, and I’ll be joined by some special guests to help make this night a truly special evening… The Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability is a very special cause, one that’s close to my heart, and I hope we can use this unique event to raise a great deal of money and to increase awareness for their great work.”

Now, I don’t begrudge the exclusivity and the very worthy cause that these ticket prices will contribute to, but I’m terribly disappointed. Being on the dark side of minted, this is well out of my reach and justification, no matter how big a Trevor Horn/Buggles fan I might be.

If the gig were to be held at Islington’s Union Chapel, as Thomas Dolby did back in February (and where TH performed) you could sell 800 tickets for £50 a pop and still make £40,000, only £10k short of the current venue. You could then sell a bunch of aftershow tickets with VIP access to the band after the gig and make up the shortfall, or just sell the tickets for £65 and make £52,000. I have no doubt whatsoever that you could sell 800 tickets to a one off Buggles reunion gig.

Ah well, unless there’s such a thing as a fairy godmother or I find £100-£300 lying in the street, this is one gig I will have to miss 🙁 I guess the gig is just not for fans, which is a shame. However, I’m sure it will be a fab night, with a shed load of cash raised for a very worthy cause. If you go, please feel free to furnish me with reports, pics and videos :o)