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Festival Diary – 2013
Cheltenham Jazz Festival – Cheltenham 1st-6th May, Madeleine Peyroux, Lianne La Havas, Dionne Warwick. Liverpool Sound City – Liverpool 2nd-4th May, Noah And The Whale, Bastille, Reverend & The Makers, Dexys, Enter Shikari. Live at Leeds – Leeds 3rd-6th May, … Continue reading
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Biffy Clyro, The Prodigy And The Darkness Announce New Studio Albums
The new Biffy Clyro album is a double LP and will consist of two records, one titled ‘The Land At The End Of Our Toes’ and another titled ‘The Sand At The Core Of Our Bones’. It is due for … Continue reading
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Festival News 2012
I’ll Be Your Mirror, London, 25-27 May : Slayer, Mogwai, The Afghan Whigs. http://www.atpfestival.com Evolution Music Festival, Gateshead, 3-4 June : Dizzee Rascal, Deadmau5, Maximo Park, Noah and the Whale, Rizzle Kicks, Miles Kane. www.evolutionfestival.co.uk Download, Donington, 8-10 June : … Continue reading
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Dispatches – Channel 4
If you watched Channel 4′s Dispatches (‘The Great Ticket Scandal’) on 23 Feb 2012, you will have seen how one of our competitors in the secondary ticketing market is misleading it’s customers by conspiring with concert promoters to artificially inflate … Continue reading
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Madonna’s leaked demo of ‘Give Me All Your Love’…
A demo of Madonna’s upcoming single ‘Give Me All Your Love’ has leaked across the internet months before its release date. It’s pretty addictive…check it out!…(the finished track is expected to feature rappers MIA and Nicki Minaj….) Madonna: Give Me … Continue reading
Is Guitar Music Dying In The UK?
Until comparatively recently, boys (or girls!) with guitars – rock music, indie, grunge, brit pop or whatever label you want to stick on it, used to dominate both the album charts and also the main stages on the festival circuit. … Continue reading
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When Is A Concert Ticket Not A Concert Ticket?
I can still remember the first ten or so concerts that I ever went to at the Newcastle City Hall in the early 70′s; Ten Years After, Focus, The Strawbs, Sparks and a whole host of others. In fact, more … Continue reading
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Defending Secondary Ticketing
With the onset of the festival season and the release of the 2012 Olympic tickets we’ve seen a rise in media coverage surrounding the secondary ticketing market. However, the majority of the coverage has been somewhat doom-mongering with a focus … Continue reading
Ticket Exchange…Explained!
The ticket exchange concept has only really lodged in the public consciousness in the last two or three years. Whilst the notion of buying tickets via the internet is as old as the web itself, the notion that consumers can … Continue reading
Concert and Festival Tickets Have Bucked The Financial Trend
Sales of concert and festival tickets have, without doubt, boomed over the last four or five years. Surprisingly, this has coincided with a global recession that has seemingly decimated consumers’ spending power across virtually every other market sector. But is … Continue reading