Queueing. A very Swedish way of getting tickets to events.

Well, let me try and explain what you can expect when you want to go out to some of the legendary parties organized by the university sections. In one of my previous blogs, I wrote about the student section and what they do. Each section will organize a series of parties and events that can stretch over multiple days throughout the year. Usually, they will have a Facebook event with all the information on the event and its ticket release. Mostly tickets are physically sold on Campus in the morning. On Campus Valla it mostly is either the C-building or Kårallen. The organizers never encourage queueing, but it still happens. Here are a set of common rules for queueing:

  1. The queue should not disturb the daily workings at university (no blocking streets, entries and so on).
  2. No cutting the line! For most events one person can buy multiple tickets e.g., 4. If you want to get 12 tickets in total for your friend group, you will have to be 3 people in the queue at all times. Students usually come up with a schedule with shifts, so they don’t have to queue the entire night (my group once did 30 hours).
  3. You can bring chairs and blankets to be comfortable while waiting. Of course, you can also bring food and drinks (no alcohol though). Some even bring mats and sleeping bags to sleep tough the night.
  4. Clean up after yourself, simply meaning, take your trash with you and dispose of it properly.

Sometimes there is security around and they will remove you from the queue if you behave out of place. Also, (sadly) queueing does not guaranty you get tickets (happened to me twice already). Once it’s sold out you can only try and buy a ticket from someone else.

Now, you might think: Why would I even want to queue at all for these events?

Because of all of this:

               

You get to see a lot of Swedish artists and you always get to meet new people! Overall, it’s just always great fun! Also, this is how you collect more patches for your overalls, which are usually the dress code at these events.

So, I guess I’ll see you in the queue when you are here!

All the best,

Emily

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