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Being in the audience for X-Factor - How early to be there

Hey,

I got tickets for me and some friends to be in the audience on Sunday 5th in Manchester for X-Factor can't wait !! :biggrin:

I've heard that even though you've got tickets it doesn't mean u can have a seat. How early do you have to be there roughly to guarantee a seat?

Also, anybody whos done this or BGT in the past got anything to say about it?

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Reply 1

Media student

you have to be there around 5am in the morning to guarantee a seat

Reply 2

mike2niner4

Are you being serious? :-O

Reply 3

TheLouisVuittonDon

make it 4AM though just to be certain.

Reply 4

mike2niner4

Are you all being sarcastic? :-P Considering doors dont open til 1:15 :P Im getting worried incase your not :P

Reply 5

katierattray

be there for 9 or ten lol,

Reply 6

Champagne Supernova

If you want to be in for a great show and get the best seats, don't turn up at all. :awesome:

Reply 7

RachelOranges

mike2niner4

Hey,

I got tickets for me and some friends to be in the audience on Sunday 5th in Manchester for X-Factor can't wait !! :biggrin:

Hi! it depends on the type of tickets you have. If they are priority then get there for about 12pm ( you are guaranteed a seat) . If it is just a general ticket I'm not too sure as I had priority. When I got there at 12pm there was a massive queue and about 200 or so people were turned away. I suggest getting there as early as possible, maybe 8am?

Reply 8

mike2niner4

RachelOranges

I have "Ticket Type: Normal".

Train arrives at 11 and we might be able to get there at 10:45 depending how quickly we get from the station to there (thats earliest train). Do you reckon we will be ok?

Reply 9

RachelOranges

mike2niner4

I'm not really sure how early people got there with normal tickets. 10:45am shouldn't be too bad fingers crossed that you get in, there is nothing more frustrating then making the effort to get there just to be turned away, I guess it depends though, just aim to get there as early as possible ( ignore those people saying 4am thats just ridiculous).

Good Luck

Reply 10

mike2niner4

RachelOranges

Thanks

We're all amazingly excited would be an amazing experience :biggrin:

Reply 11

Nick_000

Early enough to egg Piers Morgan.

Wrong show :P

My friend was meant to see them last monday, they over booked by like a 1000 and after 5 hours waiting they were told to go home...
How annoying would that be?

Reply 14

Creepy

mike2niner4

Thanks

We're all amazingly excited would be an amazing experience :biggrin:

I hate to burst your bubble, but I highly doubt you will get in if you aren't turning up before 10am. With 200 people being turned away at the previous poster's show I'd recommend getting there for 8-9am.

Good luck anyway.

Reply 15

mike2niner4

Well we can't get there earlier really so i'll just have to hope. If not we can just walk around Manchester for a bit :P

Reply 16

Ascient

How does being in the audience for X-Factor work anyway?

I could be going mad, but I thought all the auditions were done privately, in front of the judges only?

Reply 17

noodles!

Well for BGT people got there around 2 hours early, but that was for the tiny theatre in cardiff.

Arena-wise, I'd give it a lot longer. Can you turn up mega-early and then if it's deserted go get some coffee or something and come back a bit later?

Reply 18

m:)ckel

Ascient

How does being in the audience for X-Factor work anyway?

I could be going mad, but I thought all the auditions were done privately, in front of the judges only?

That's what confused me too, but it seems they are changing the format this year to introduce a live audience: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/xfactor/a160112/x-factor-auditions-to-have-live-audience.html

I'm looking forward to seeing it.