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Guitar Nation Live 2010 is the UK’s biggest Guitar show and has everything any guitarist or musician could wish for. Top Heavy Metal stars, a fantastic exhibition of the best guitar gear from all the leading Brands and names. Plus exclusive concerts, master-classes for all things music and seminars. The event will boast to be a dedicated guitar exhibition of over 120 stands with the biggest names in the business showing the very latest and coolest gear. There’s a range of activities and events including live bands, free guitar lessons and select places will have competitions and groovy prizes. And doors open at 10 in the morning each day.
Saturday 13th November 2010 10.00am to 6.00pm
Sunday 14th November 2010 10.00am to 5.00pm
Discounted tickets are available to purchase in advance (click here) and are on sale now from www.guitarnationlive.co.uk or the Guitar Nation Live team on 0844 3380338. Please note all tickets are subject to a £2.00 booking fee. With extra ticketing options which include:
Guitar Institute presents Steve Vai (Both Days) £55.00
Live & Learn (Both Days) £20.00
Steve Vai Masterclass (Sunday Only) £155.00
Olympia Conference Centre, Hammersmith Road, London
+44 (0)20 7385 1200
U2 appear to have hinted that they may be set to appear at next year’s Glastonbury festival in Somerset.
On Friday (October 1), the Irish band took the unusual step of informing fans on their website that tickets were set to go on sale for the event. The band added “Looking at the tour dates – there is a gap in the band’s schedule ahead of the East Lansing show on June 26th which would make the Friday night a possibility.”
This could be a possible upset again, with a too premature announcement for Glasto potentially upsetting fans again after U2 were due to headline this year’s festival but were forced to pull out when singer Bono injured his back during rehearsals. This is the Official reason that was released, quashing any rumours that the band had a hand in helping ticket sales increase by pulling out after pressure from the organiser’s because they were “struggling” to sell tickets in the volume they’re used to.
The band’s manager Paul McGuiness said: “We’re certainly excited about our plans for next year. Watch this space.”
Tickets for next year’s Glastonbury festival sold out in less than five hours on Sunday (October 3). The festival will take place from June 24-26. Without revealing the other potential head-liners event organiser Michael Eavis has confirmed that all have in fact been booked.
Gorillaz will be touring England in September but only playing five arena dates.
The dates they’ll play are:
September:
10 – Birmingham, N.I.A
11 – Newcastle, Metro Arena
12 – Manchester, MEN Arena
14 – London, O2 Arena
15 – London, O2 Arena
Tickets cost what they did for their last couple of dates, £45. That’s quite a lot but probably represents at least half-decent value for money, given that it’s Gorillaz – who are deserving of this status. These very tickets will go on sale at 9AM on Friday May 21, by which time we’ll hopefully have a government. Get them from here or here.
Morning Music Fans (it was morning when i wrote this OK). For what looks like becoming the best Download so far, an a tough one to beat in the future. RouteNote have decided to throw out a few reasons why this one is much better than the rest as well as help you learn the juicy line-up!
- With a so far unconfirmed or really too reliable number of tickets sold for the festival so far, which i’m betting means they don’t know yet because of the sheer volume. Download, regardless of the acts on, will have the biggest number of legitimate music lovers in the campsite they’ve ever had. This is backed up by the fact that they released another 10,000 ticket around only a month after original release.
- AC/DC will be performing on the 30th anniversary of thee biggest selling Rock ‘N’ Roll album ever “Back In Black”. On the 30th anniversary of the UK’s biggest Rock’N'Roll festival. ON TOP OF it being the biggest year for Download tickets sale. That makes it a Rock’N'Roll biggest to the power of three, which is huge!
- Rage Against the Machine are continuing something of a comeback off the back one of the closest Christmas No.1 races the country has seen in 10 years and the successful free London shows. Apart from the obvious brilliance of the band’s live performances which have no doubt done there part in bolstering the ticket sales. And Bigger crowds + Warm Beer ÷ Weekend = more fun! Good work everyone…….
- The knock-on affect of the extra ticket sales have pushed the organizers to open the campsite much earlier this year. The argument is that this will in fact decrease congestion, making it easier for the necessary authorities to monitor things like ticket touts and skint music lovers sneaking in. As well as, theft within the grounds and exhausted moshers needed much needed attention. On top of the obvious benefits of the stepped up security and larger police presence.
- The other festival line-ups this year have largely be seen to be controversial by some and just plain out of date by others. It’s not our words, it seems to be public opinion, with distressed regular tickets buyer’s explaining they’re anger in forum after forum. With acts like the Libertine’s being payed extortionate amounts of money for one-off dates that in their opinions (the general public) add to a loss of integrity to the said events. Making Download this years festival of choice for regulars and music fans in general, not just metallers.
The main act for each stage are:
Main stage Friday: AC/DC. Them Crooked Vultures. Wolfmother.
Saturday: Rage Against The Machine. Deaftones. Megadeath.
Sunday: Aerosmith. Stone Temple Pilots. Motorhead.
Second Stage Friday: Bullet For My Valentine. Coheed And Cambria. A Day To Remember.
Saturday: 30 Seconds To Mars. HIM. The Blackout.
Sunday: StoneSour. Airbourne. Steel Panther.
Pepsi-Max Stage Friday: Job For A Cowboy. As I Lay Dying. Tyketto.
Saturday: Micheal Munroe. Skin. Y&T.
Sunday: Suicidal Tendencies. Zebrahead. Young Guns
Redbull Bedroom Jam Stage Friday: Funeral Party. IMICUS. The Humour.
Saturday: Breed 77. Glamour Of The Kill. The Dead Lay Waiting.
Sunday: Panic Cell. T-34. Esoterica.
Turn2Live is a new concert search engine that aims to help you find concerts based on your mood. Turn2Live is still in beta testing which means they are only offering listings from Austin, USA. The concept itself is very interesting, but it is so difficult to properly categorise artists and specific tracks to an exact mood, as certain songs will mean different moods to different people.
A tour supporting their new album ‘Plastic Beach’ means that the Camden Roundhouse will play host to Damon & Co.’s 2D extravaganza on the 29th and 30th of April, in a show featuring Damon Albarn, The Clash’s Mick Jones and Paul Simonon, Mos Def, Gruff Rhys, Shaun Ryder, Bobby Womack, The National Orchestra For Arabic Music, Bashy, De La Soul, Kano and Little Dragon, along with new animation and artwork by Jamie Hewlett. The gigs will be the band’s first full UK performance since Demon Days Live at the Manchester Opera House in 2005.
Tickets are £45, but don’t grab your credit card just yet, they’re not on sale to the public until 9am on Friday 26th March, although you can sign up to be a Roundhouse member and get hold of some early bird tix. They will also be available at this time from www.livenation.co.uk and www.roundhouse.org.uk (all tickets subject to a booking fee). Subscribers to the Gorillaz fan club will have access to an exclusive limited ticket pre sale from 7.30am on Tuesday [ www.gorillaz.com/g-club - membership from £24.99].
You can also play a strange little point-and-click adventure game on the band’s website by clicking here. It’s clunky, but who knows, you might win something?
Digital Music News are carrying this story about online ticket scalping – a case in which an LA based company calling themselves ‘Wiseguy Tickets’ employed a ring of Bulgarian computer programmers to buy up all the best tickets to high profile, high demand concerts and resell them online for a huge mark-up. Perhaps parting with more than six times the face value of the ticket is painful for whoever buys the ticket second hand, but presumably no-one is twisting their arm as they click ‘confirm bid’, and as far as eBay is concerned it’s perfectly legitimate (at least in the UK – some US states have laws against it).
So who is at fault here? Blocking the public from buying tickets wholesale with highly organised, bulk buying and reselling operations seems pretty underhand and unsporting, but the scalpers are taking the risk that people will purchase the inflated tickets, so isn’t it just the normal exercise of a free market? Are the promoters missing a trick in the first place? A staggered ebay auction style release of tickets by the promoter, with say 25% of total tickets released 12, 8, 4 and 2 weeks before the gig, with prices starting at a reasonable face value would surely have the same free-market effect. There’s the strong argument that this competetive model would be a disservice to the less affluent fans, but promoters would have the same chance of selling out a venue at the starting price, and could only benefit from any uplift if the tickets ended up being worth more to a punter than the original price – if they were bid up by competing punters, and this would make it harder for scalpers to get hold of tickets in the first place, as to get them they’d have to compete with Joe Public in the first place, paying the elevated prices themselves. It would also go some way to eliminating their profits – why buy from an unofficial auction when there’s an official one happening, and could potentially make more money for the promoter, venue and artist if the ticket revenue is split out between them.
What do you think, internet people? Is sclaping fair practice, or callous parasitism? Would selling online like this just be a way for promoters to benefit at fans’ expense, or would it be a neat way of cutting scalpers out of the loop and rationalising ticket prices for the rest of us?
This year’s Global Gathering in Stratford-on-Avon will feature brash young rapper Dizzee, and dance stalwarts Faithless at the 50,000 capacity festival between the 30th and 31st of July this year. Dizzee is currently touring with his Tongue n’ Cheek album, and Faithless have a new release scheduled for later in the year. Tickets for the festival are on sale through the Ticketmaster website, and you can pay for your tickets using Global Gathering’s deposit scheme which allows for tickets to be paid for in two installments. The first payment can now be made up until 5pm on the 31st March, whilst the second payment deadline is 5pm on the 14th May.
It been thirty years since the original members of Band Company performed together in the UK.
Plans to play eight dates in the UK during April next year have just been set in stone, and with all the original band members no less. Singer Paul Rodgers, drummer Simon Kirke, guitarist Mick Ralph and new bassist Lynn Sorensen. The last time the founding members reunited on stage was back in August of 2008 when they performed at the Seminole Hard Rock & Casino in Hollywood, Florida.
Original and current singer Paul Rodgers, in his stint away from Bad Company, enjoyed some success with the remaining members of Queen. A tour that managed some success and eventually climaxed in an album together, The Cosmos Rocks.
Although there is no news of any further plans for Bad Company yet beyond their short tour next year, the band are releasing a DVD/CD box set in February. Ticket are on sale from 20th November (tomorrow). Tour dates are as follows:
April 1 – Birmingham LG Arena.
April 2 – Manchester Arena.
April 4 – Sheffield City Hall.
April 5 – Cardiff CIA.
April 7 – Newcastle Arena.
April 8 – Glasgow Clyde.
April 10 – Brighton Center.
April 11 – Wembley Arena.
American South rock legends Lynyrd Skynyrd have announced plans for their UK 2010 tour.
Be it a limited amount of dates, it will the first time the band have played in the UK since the release of their album ”Gold and Guns” earlier this year.
Tickets go on sale at the end of this week on, Friday the 13th, and are available from Ticketwise.com. Dates for the tour, all of which are in March, are below.
- Birmingham, LG Arena – 4th
- Cardiff, International Arena – 5th
- London, HMV Hammersmith Apollo – 6th
- Glasgow, Clyde Auditorium – 9th
