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Post by Leanne on Feb 25, 2016 16:01:01 GMT -8
Here's a video of the Iron Maiden plane after it landed here in Tulsa. I've never been a huge fan of them but a couple friends of mine from back home are driving over for the concert tomorrow night. I kinda regret not getting a ticket but I will definitely go next time! Video won't post so here's the link www.facebook.com/rockthebok/videos/10153758222455020/ |
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Post by edwardcreighton on Feb 25, 2016 17:54:44 GMT -8
Edwardcreighton saw the setlist just after Christmas! Maiden had to send to Chinese government, someone kindly posted the setlist online. They aren't doing Powerslave, but are doing Brave New World or Wickerman instead.
Yesterday Periscoped for first time for first gig of their tour, Bruce was in good form thankfully. Setlist works well, though playing Hallowed and Fear back to back seems bit weird.
Maiden are an exceptional live band, recommended to non or causal metal fans. I saw Megadeth in November and they aren't a good live experience.
Maiden's ticket sales are bit slow in Shanghai only 4,400 out of 10,000 sold so far.
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Post by andylgr on Feb 25, 2016 23:57:41 GMT -8
Edwardcreighton saw the setlist just after Christmas! Maiden had to send to Chinese government, someone kindly posted the setlist online. They aren't doing Powerslave, but are doing Brave New World or Wickerman instead. Yesterday Periscoped for first time for first gig of their tour, Bruce was in good form thankfully. Setlist works well, though playing Hallowed and Fear back to back seems bit weird. Maiden are an exceptional live band, recommended to non or causal metal fans. I saw Megadeth in November and they aren't a good live experience. Maiden's ticket sales are bit slow in Shanghai only 4,400 out of 10,000 sold so far. Interesting that China want to vet what they play first. I wonder what the issue with Powerslave is? I think the set isn't too bad to be honest. The addition of Children of the Damned and Powerslave are big positives. The 6 songs they've picked from the new record are probably the ones I like the most. Bruce sounded good on the clips I've seen, I hope he can keep that up. The only downside is that the set if only 15 songs long, but having said that its easily a 90min long set there. I now need to decide if this set is worth going to the Download Festival for, or if I wait for further UK dates to be announced at some point. |
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Post by Leanne on Feb 26, 2016 7:45:05 GMT -8
Guess who's going to see Maiden tonight? That would be ME! My friend wound up with an extra ticket and it's free! I might try and periscope
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Post by edwardcreighton on Feb 26, 2016 16:39:57 GMT -8
Lucky Leanne, post review please. Hope Paperless tickets works, was mess in Ft Lauderdale. Merch was also mess, has very few Large t-shirts on sale according to the IM Forum!
15 songs, but 2 are over 10 minutes, and a number of 7-8 minutes long, so probably 105 minutes all told.
Up The Irons!
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Post by Leanne on Feb 26, 2016 22:30:24 GMT -8
Lucky Leanne, post review please. Hope Paperless tickets works, was mess in Ft Lauderdale. Merch was also mess, has very few Large t-shirts on sale according to the IM Forum! 15 songs, but 2 are over 10 minutes, and a number of 7-8 minutes long, so probably 105 minutes all told. Up The Irons! It was amazing! I'm so glad I went. I did a couple periscopes and I had some alcohol (yikes!). The guitar players are fantastic. I didn't know all the songs, however, here is the setlist from setlist.fm. Bruce sounded great! If you have the chance to see them, I highly recommend it! www.setlist.fm/setlist/iron-maiden/2016/bok-center-tulsa-ok-3bf0bcf0.html |
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Post by Praet on Feb 26, 2016 23:31:26 GMT -8
We have tickets for June 8....
"Scream for me Arnhem"
:-)
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Post by quarky on Feb 27, 2016 14:48:24 GMT -8
I love BSC. Had amazingly high hopes after the first album, was a bit disappointed with the second, but have liked their stuff sinc then. Really looking forward to the new album: KentuckyDisc: 1 1. The Way Of The Future 2. In Our Dreams 3. Shakin' My Cage 4. Soul Machine 5. Long Ride 6. War 7. Hangman 8. Rescue Me 9. Feelin' Fuzzy 10. Darkest Secret 11. Born To Die 12. The Rambler |
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Post by PyroGirl83 on Mar 7, 2016 19:25:13 GMT -8
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Post by edwardcreighton on Mar 7, 2016 21:03:39 GMT -8
new singer for ac/dc!!!!!
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Post by andylgr on Mar 7, 2016 23:45:11 GMT -8
It would be unprecedented if they fulfil those shows with another singer in place of Brian. I fear this could be the end of A/DC.
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Post by edwardcreighton on Mar 7, 2016 23:55:25 GMT -8
Now that Fo Fighters aren't breaking up would Dave Grohl jump at the chance to sing for ACDC for say 20 shows? Foo's do a blistering Let There Be Rock.
Of course i do think ACDC should do the decent thing and quit but if they do persist in having a singer Grohl ... maybe ...
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Post by jasonninelives on Mar 7, 2016 23:55:54 GMT -8
I think AC/DC are buying some time with the quest singer bit to see how bad Brian is.I have tickets for the Manchester show i hope he gets better to be honest i would not go if Brian was not singing i hope this is not the end of AC/DC
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Post by andylgr on Mar 8, 2016 0:45:20 GMT -8
Hopefully the problem is something that is only temporary and the postponement of these shows sorts it out, but it doesn't sound great.
Dave Grohl is a great shout for guest singer.
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Post by Dan on Mar 9, 2016 7:20:50 GMT -8
I couldn't find an AC DC thread but if there is one please merge this post I'm suprised I'm not seeing nything here about Brian Johnson's hearing trouble. What a blow for the band. AC/DC TO RESCHEDULE UPCOMING U.S. TOUR DATES |
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Post by andylgr on Mar 9, 2016 7:42:56 GMT -8
thread merge  |
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Post by PyroGirl83 on Mar 11, 2016 18:53:41 GMT -8
The show in Columbus has been cancelled. I've already been credited.
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Post by edwardcreighton on Mar 25, 2016 23:07:10 GMT -8
Metallica do 63,000 tickets in Minneapolis in 10 minutes. In 2016 the Black album has sold over 70,000 in the US. In the past 12 months And Justice 166K and Puppets 224K in the US, 'tallica surely primed to sell big when their new album comes out. They rarely play North America, as most summers hey do Europe so North Americans must be stoked!
Not sure about these GnR stadium dates coming up. If I lived in Toronto sure i would go, but mixed feelings.
Disturbed's album continues to climb the US charts, total sales about 310K, their rather haunting version of Sound of Silence tops Rock Charts. Hopefully go gold.
Can't wait until new Dan Reed Network album, soon, been 25 years! And you think waiting on Leppard was bad!
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Post by DesertSun81 on Mar 26, 2016 7:30:54 GMT -8
Metallica do 63,000 tickets in Minneapolis in 10 minutes. I unsuccessfully tried to get tickets to this (more than once). Some of the demand has to do with it being part of the unveiling of a brand new stadium. This show is yet another example however of the high level extortion that the ticket buying process is in states where ticket scalping is not outlawed. I don't even know where the 10 minutes came from as there was nothing available 10 SECONDS after the general sale began as they were all already on StubHub (which I was not aware until yesterday is OWNED by TicketMaster!) and other scalping sites. Real fans not being able to even get the opportunity to get tickets to shows due to scalping is pure BS and TicketMaster feeds right into it so they can make their own $ off this despicable practice. There are way more important things to worry about in this country than the ticket buying process but holy hell does something need to be done about it. Rant over. |
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Post by edwardcreighton on Mar 26, 2016 15:41:19 GMT -8
2 years ago i did some research and found out that TM, Ticketnow (in competition with Stubhub which is owned by ebay), Fanfire and LN are owned by the same company. LN owns 100 of the biggest music venues in North America including lots of sheds which Leppard plays every summer, House of Blues etc. So Live Nation promotes the concerts, sells and scalps the tickets and sells the merchandise. If that isn't a monopoly I'm not sure what is! Not sure how LN works in the fans favour. Live Nation apparently makes little profit, a joke; $15 beer and $10 nacho's. Tickets mysteriously sold out immediately (bands scalp their own tickets, remember Van Halen were caught doing this). Yesterday I checked Vividseats and they only had Metallica Minneapolis tickets on sale for $250+ fees which would make them $300. By the time you include all of the scalping sites would 20% of tickets be bought entirely for re-sale? Not sure how you stop it though, the free market (paradoxically I am very free market) and all that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Nation_Entertainment |
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Post by peaceofmind on Mar 27, 2016 6:44:54 GMT -8
New York is trying to do something about... Announcing he "regularly receives complaints from New Yorkers frustrated by their inability to purchase tickets to concerts," Eric Schneiderman, the state's attorney general, launched a scathing report Thursday, ripping the ticket-resale business as a "fixed game." One broker, the report says, bought 1,012 tickets on December 14th, 2014, to a U2 performance at Madison Square Garden, even though the vendor had posted a four-ticket limit; within a day, that broker and a colleague had racked up more than 15,000 tickets to the band's shows. Sidebar Songkick; Live NationLive Nation Sued Over Fan Club Ticket Sales » The 43-page report pinpoints several shady practices in the ticketing business: Brokers' high-tech "bots" buy tens of thousands of tickets per year illegally, then mark up prices by an average of 49 percent, and as much as 7,000 percent, for resale on websites such as StubHub and eBay; artists, promoters and venues hold thousands of tickets, or an average of 46 percent per show, for "industry insiders" before they go on sale; and "convenience fees," like those levied by Ticketmaster and other ticket-selling outlets, average 21 percent of the tickets' face value, sometimes reaching "outlandish levels." "The revelation that the concert and sport ticket industry is unfair is nothing new, however, discovering how deep it goes is certainly unsettling," Jeffrey Dinowitz, a New York assemblyman, said in a statement released by Schneiderman's office. "This unscrupulous system is detrimental to the thousands of fans out there who are just trying to see their favorite show or sports team." The report doesn't so much reveal surprising new information as legitimize rants that fans, and even touring stars, have made for decades. "The greatest evil that theatergoers in this city have to contend with is the ticket speculator," a New York magistrate wrote in 1901, according to the report. "They are practically highwaymen and hold up everybody that goes to a place of amusement." In the StubHub era, Adele's team recently battled scalpers by going through lists of ticket sales and refunding purchases that appeared to be from resellers; AC/DC, Tom Waits and Metallica are among the artists who've switched to a "paperless" system requiring buyers to show credit cards and ID to get into shows. But, according to the report, many artists and their reps are part of the problem. "Insiders" received 28 percent of the tickets for two separate 2012 Justin Bieber shows at Madison Square Garden and 29 percent for a 2013 Kanye West show at Barclays Center. Also, 38 percent of available tickets were held for "pre-sales," usually through credit-card-company promotions by American Express, Citibank and others; Fleetwood Mac held back 61 percent of tickets for a 2013 MSG show this way, as did Jay Z and Justin Timberlake with 71 percent of tickets for a 2013 concert at Yankee Stadium. "Holds and pre-sales can leave few tickets for the public," the report concludes. The report's most shocking revelations deal with bots, or software used to overcome the typed "captcha" words on ticketmaster.com and other sales sites, allowing brokers to illegally buy multiple tickets to the same shows. A "young software developer," working with a broker that made $42 million in 2013 selling $31 million in tickets on StubHub, used an optical-character-recognition program to purchase hundreds of thousands of tickets. This developer then bought a $4 million home and a "Bentley luxury vehicle." Scalpers use lower-tech means to purchase numerous tickets as well; one used 149 different American Express cards to buy 38,000 tickets at a cost of $13 million from 2013 to 2015. Schneiderman recommended companies such as StubHub and Ticketmaster-owned TicketsNow police their sales to prevent these kinds of illegal purchases, but also recommended restrictive new state laws. "In many cases, industry players do not have an incentive to reform," the report concludes. "To ensure that the steps described above are implemented in a meaningful and lasting way, the legislature should mandate them." Read more: www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ticket-resale-business-is-fixed-game-says-ny-attorney-general-20160129#ixzz4477R1qhY Follow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook There's a book called TICKET MASTERS - The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public got Scalped by Dean Budnick and Josh Baron. It's a complete history of the industry... |
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Post by Praet on Mar 27, 2016 7:10:14 GMT -8
For Radiohead you can only buy two tickets per person and you have to identify yourself at the doors. Maybe that's a solution??
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Post by stagefright83 on Apr 3, 2016 2:32:25 GMT -8
I saw them at the end of February and this news floored me Brian sounded fine when I saw them.
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Post by quarky on Apr 3, 2016 12:26:27 GMT -8
Early days, but quite impressed. I think BSC are a bit like AC/DC is that you always tend to know what you are going to get!
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Post by stagefright83 on Apr 3, 2016 19:33:28 GMT -8
I listened to it too and I like it a lot. I really like the cover of War and Cheaper to Drink Alone is a good tune as well.
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Post by Praet on Apr 8, 2016 23:15:26 GMT -8
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Post by edwardcreighton on Apr 9, 2016 0:12:05 GMT -8
GnR sales not as big i thought initially, mind you would you insure them to play? Think some people may take that into consideration, Axl and Slash loverboys or love'n'hate?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2016 8:55:40 GMT -8
G n R periscope from E. Trunk Didn't know Axl broke is leg? I believe it was his foot. |
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Post by andylgr on Apr 10, 2016 23:49:09 GMT -8
I thought in our dreams was a good first single with a really catchy riff.
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Post by andylgr on Apr 10, 2016 23:53:23 GMT -8
Still no word on what's happening with their upcoming uk shows in particular. I've got friends who are considering selling their tickets due to the lack of information. They think it will be axl performing with them.
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