Like your good self, Krands85, I am travelling down from Scotland (not far from Glasgow, so not quite the distance that you've got!!) DT done this before, where they missed Scotland out on the first leg, but came up for the second. However, I'm not sure if it would be an evening with, so, like you, I've decided to travel from Glasgow.
Slightly annoyed about the allocation of tickets. General sale was today at 10.00. I was logged on bang on 10 and used the link on the apollo site which took me to ticketmaster. Best available seat, stalls, row N seat 45. This is on Myungs side and is 2 seats from the very end. My question is, where have the tickets for the 1st 13 rows gone? I don't believe they would've sold as many as that in the space of 1 minute, especially at £55 per ticket. I checked seetickets as well, best they had was row M, centre, which would've been slightly better but I've never used this ticket company before.
The last time I was in Manchester was to see Transatlantic at the academy. Think I got lucky with hotel though. Booked the Travelodge Upper Brook Street and it only cost £20. Family room all to myself!! I believe (correct me if I'm wrong), that it's only approx 15 minute walk from there to the venue?
Just need to decide if i'm driving down or taking the train.