Singapore Fans break record: Queuing 7 days in advance for SMTown

[thewarpedmelody.livejournal.com]

K-pop fans are already queuing up at Marina Bay on Nov 17, 2012 for the SMTown concert due to be held on the floating platform on Nov 23, 2012.

SMTown Live World Tour III will be a four-hour long mega concert featuring S.M.Entertainment artistes Super Junior, Girls' Generation, BoA, f(x), EXO, Kangta, SHINee and TVXQ.

It is common for fans to queue overnight to get a good spot in the mosh pits, this was the case when K-pop group Big Bang were in town for their Alive Galaxy Tour earlier this year in September. Queuing seven days in advance however, has to be a new record.

"Overnight queuing not allowed"

RITS' "Guide To SM Town Live Tour III" has two terms and conditions which clearly state that fans who queue overnight may be required by security to leave the concert premises.

Official opening times for the concert's Mosh Pit are 9 am on Friday, and staff will start distributing wrist tags at 11 am.

"We are not sure if we will wait until Friday, see how I guess," said a 15-year-old male fan who was there with two other friends.

"If they ask us to leave, it's like queuing for nothing, it's not fair," said the fan, who is a student currently having his holidays.

He and his two other friends are keeping a spot for their group of 11 Girls' Generation fans, and they will take turns to keep "queue duty" until Friday.

Then, they will fight for a chance to be a few of the first in the mosh pit and closest to their female K-pop idols on stage.

"Queue-ers for Hire"

In the meantime, other enterprising young Singaporeans are looking to make some extra pocket money from queuing - on behalf of die hard fans who can't do it themselves.

Advertisements on online classifieds like Gumtree have appeared, offering queuing services at an average rate of between $4.50 and $5 an hour.

Y! Singapore spoke to one of the queue-ers for hire, 16-year-old student Dawn Ong.

"I will start queuing on Wednesday night - I've been paid $4.50 an hour to queue from 12 midnight on Wednesday to Friday morning, 9 am when the official opening starts," said Ong.

That works out to $148.50 for about thirty three hours of "work" for Ong, who will be spending her time reading or watching dramas on her laptop. She will be splitting the money in half with her best friend, who will relieve her of her duty occasionally so she can use the toilet or get a meal.

"It's easy money," said the Secondary Four student, who was "hired" by a group of 10 female fans in their early twenties who are working in the Central Business District nearby.

"They said they will come and check in on me to make sure I'm queuing," said Ong with a laugh.

This year's hotly anticipated SM Town Live Tour III concert has been about queues, queues, and more queues.

Source: StraitsTimes, Yahoo!Singapore, Picture 2, Picture 3
Well, pictures 2 and 3 were taken personally by my friend, he claimed the people camping there were crazy. If there is ever a "Craziest fan award", these Kpop fans will definitely clinch it. 

Comments

[anconeous.livejournal.com]

Whut?! Why?!

[in-noctem.livejournal.com]

"has two terms and conditions which clearly state that fans who queue overnight may be required by security to leave the concert premises"

"If they ask us to leave, it's like queuing for nothing, it's not fair,"

No that would make you dumb for not following the T&Cs

LMAO have fun queueing in the rain

[mad-nux.livejournal.com]

ain't nobody got time for that

[boncoup.livejournal.com]

I lol'd

[kokkikokki.livejournal.com]

lol. when i was at uni i used to hear this word being used a lot to describe students from singapore :p

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

Why on earth would anyone do that?
They're basically losing 1 week on their time

[illustratedd.livejournal.com]

don't they have assigned seats?

[thewarpedmelody.livejournal.com]

well not for mosh pit

[xiiaokpyw.livejournal.com]

My goodness thats seven day's worth of queueing in the rain since it rains daily here... just, wow.
By the way I wonder whats their wet weather plan since the floating platform is an open area... lol.

[thewarpedmelody.livejournal.com]

Probably poncho for everyone?

[pseudo-shigure.livejournal.com]

easy money indeed. now if only i have a tent and a friend to relief me...

[asnindie.livejournal.com]

What about personal hygiene?

To be fair people que for crap like Star Wars and IPad etc and this makes more sense. But they're gonna get thrown off premises for loitering and it'll all be pointless.

[uledy.livejournal.com]

don't these people have jobs or school or...lives?

[in-noctem.livejournal.com]

Most of them seem to be <16 and it's the school holidays here. What I'm curious to know is don't their parents wonder where they've gone off to?

[steelsigns.livejournal.com]

Not sure how to react to this tbh, all I can think about is how I only have a week left to cram for exams and people are spending an entire week like this? Don't know if I think they're plain foolish or if I'm envious lol.

That said, is it acceptable for 1 person to queue for A WHOLE ENTIRE GROUP OF >1? I'd be so pissed off if a person in front of me in the line were to be replaced by a group of 10+ people.

[exo-cath.livejournal.com]

'I'd be so pissed off if a person in front of me in the line were to be replaced by a group of 10+ people.'

I was thinking the same thing

[frantastic.livejournal.com]

Lol, Peruvian VIPs did the same for the Alive tour last week.

[crystalheng.livejournal.com]

For a week?

[bunica1990.livejournal.com]

Well....

[xxhna.livejournal.com]

Craziest fans award for sure.

[staaan.livejournal.com]

Then, they will fight for a chance to be a few of the first in the mosh pit

are the losers gonna die

[supplanter.livejournal.com]

It's a mosh pit, I think the winners die?

[dbskthskjyj.livejournal.com]

It'd drive me insane not having a proper shower for a week... and I've been a Scout lol I suppose you can always carry wet towels with you and some soap and take turns to go into a shop's toilet and clean yourself, but damn...

[fallingstarryuu.livejournal.com]

they're gonna die at the 4 hour long concert like man you r just gonna collapse.

[https://users.livejournal.com/-union180/]

idg camping out for black friday this early but i understand this. it's sm town after all.

[goshipgurl.livejournal.com]

would be hilarious if they all end up in the last row

[goldynchickie.livejournal.com]

Just image the smell. I hope they brought perform or febreeze with them.

[sandra-hall.livejournal.com]

ew, I hadn't even thought of that

[hitsujiga.livejournal.com]

lol u r not the 1st ones to do that shit xDDD oh the heydays of jrock, lmfao.
camping to get a good seat and then complaining if someone enters the line before you, when you JUST went to the toilet. LMFAO yeah it sounds familiar ngl.

never dit that shit tho, bc it's stupid and i hope they kick them out, so they don't be 1st row. excluding them from the concert is a bit much imo, but well maybe they learn? XD

queue-ers for hire tho? W-T-F!!! xD i mean it's smart but srsly..how much money do they spend on this one concert alone? will never understand~

[sandra-hall.livejournal.com]

to fair, I think if they want it that bad, they should be allowed to be in the first row.

[muhnaplusmuhna.livejournal.com]

I shouldn't laugh but it's impossible not to

[demonology81.livejournal.com]

it's embarassing and stupid.

glad i got seat tickets so i don't have to deal with the queue.

[allthe-love.livejournal.com]

Hi 5!

& there's gonna be queues everywhere on the day itself - the merch, smtown passport, fan support goods etc oh gosh

[heehyukhaeteuk.livejournal.com]

omg! goodluck for me and my friends. we're from philippines and our flight is tomorrow evening T.T

[kokkikokki.livejournal.com]

wow. talk about dedication.
good luck to these people. i don't think i have someone i idolise so much that i would willingly queue for a whole week just to see them up-close.