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In many of Dan’s Cambridge m&g’ I’ve seen, Phil’s always been mentioned

Someone gave him flowers, Dan says Phil might kill it when he brings it home

Someone mentioned the memes video, Dan says Phil was “cry laughing at the memes”

Someone mentioned editing (shoutout danrifics), Dan mentioned editing tips and Phil’s master’s degree

Man’s obssessed

oh, he is going HOME before flying to Warsaw? these logistics are blowing my mind, but for fuck's sake he is so LOUD

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Wait what’s the situation with Oxford and Cambridge? I know the dates had to be moved because they were outside of term time for the unis there so no point doing it when there were no students but… isn’t that Dan’s teams fault?? Not the promoters?? Im not sure how it works so please explain to me because surely there’s a bit of collective responsibility there. Like multiple, interconnecting failures have occurred over the course of the tour

considering how small Dan's team was (3 managers that actually could make decisions, but also had other clients as well (correct me if i'm wrong though!)) i'm almost sure booking was on promoters. also because they were the ones who suggested moving the shows to February and "they've decided to do this" in the beginning of September. even if Dan's managers were involved in making calls (reaching out to the venues) and signing papers, etc., etc, it's kinda promoter's job to look at the list of dates and think about how you as a promoter are gonna handle each show for them to sell out. and if you see that something isn't adding up (September and uni terms) you have to stop this at the stage of development and NOT after everything is already approved, printed, and went to sales, and after people started complaining. it's not Dan's job to look at the calendar and think what months are better for what shows. he is paying others to do that. anyways.

my main problem was the time it was told and how it was told. Dan told us about it on Sept 4th, in a liveshow. the Oxford show was initially booked for Sept 13th, Cambridge for Sept 22th. so 8-9 days to change your plans, basically. it got worse though. people had to wait for official emails for another 2 days, and those emails didn't even have the text written correctly ("the show has been rescheduled to Saturday 11th 2023" Saturday 11th of what, bro?). and i'm 99% sure it's not AXS providing texts for the emails they send. so it's either the promoter (AEG) or Dan's managers were taking so long and still fucked up. and i'd bet on promoters, otherwise why are they even getting paid? there's a chain of people these things should go through to be approved and posted/sent. and promoters are 100% involved in these approvals. but for some reason there's always something done wrong in communication and in marketing. the promoter communicates with people (us) and makes decisions related to the shows, we saw that clearly during the Auckland show. so they are very much responsible for rescheduled and therefore booked shows. and for cancelled shows. i'm not saying Dan's managers were innocent during the tour, far from it. but why would Dan need promoters if his managers could do the job? bruh.

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sashalivesinspain: Today I met @danielhowell 😎 He is very tall🙈😄 Thank you @jamesboyduk for this🥹❤️

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via luke's instastories, 11/02/2023

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via sarah's instastories, 11/02/2023

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The reason is that those two places are mostly populated with students studying at the universities there, and the september dates would have been before the start of the semester when everybody hasn't moved into their accommodation yet, so the towns would have been practically void of people (in Dan's target audience), he explained in his Instagram live that that's why there would try to move it. Super short notice though, idk why they didn't think of that sooner

i know that Dan explained it. i repeated what he said answering another ask. i want the fucking promoter (AEG) to have the balls to say that because they can't fill out the venues the dates are being postponed. that money is the reason and no one cares that some of those who already paid for plane/train/bus tickets and accommodations won't be able to get a refund and will have to pay for it again in February if they will be able to go to Oxford/Cambridge in 2023 at all.

Dan telling the reason on instagram live doesn't make it official in the way businesses work. hell, people waited for the official emails for 2 days.

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the show being moved to different dates without an official confirmation and no one knowing what the hell is going on is exactly what i expected after 2018.

i hope y'all can get refunds for the tickets and accommodations you booked.