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Government Tries To Cap Ticket Resale Prices

Posted by newsanim on Friday, 25 March, 2011

:: And the Ticket Industry does NOT agreee with them! ::

Online Ticket FraudIt’s hardly surprising to think that when the government decides to enforce something, 9/10 times the industry that they are trying to help start to sit up on their hind legs like Meerkat’s, looking like nothing is wrong and they didn’t need any government intervention.

So when government officials decided to release the possible cap on ticket re-sellers, why did the industry start getting so upset over something they don’t have anything to do with? Or do they?

This is going to have to be slightly tongue in cheek – but here is the reason:

  • Ticket companies see the reseller situation and suddenly get the urge to do something “in house.”
  • Some of the big companies spend thousands having websites built to sell “unused” tickets.
  • One of these companies then begins to syphon tickets from big events before they go on sale.
  • Now the rest of the industry want a bigger piece of the pie – so are doing the same.
  • Why don’t they want a cap on resellers of tickets?

Do I need to spell it out any clearer than that?

In all honesty, the ticket industry are not concerned about the fraudsters who are selling the tickets for the big events, and scamming people out of hundreds, even thousands of pounds – they don’t care about the scam websites that pop up and sell tickets that don’t exist – they really don’t care about anyone else or anything else apart from their profit margin increase by using different methods to make more money from those who are TRUE fans.

So to wrap this in a nut shell, they have the tickets and you want to buy them – so even if you get scammed online by someone else, they know they would have sold all their tickets 3 times over – so why should they get concerned over scams?

And here is the real scary bit…

The government have put an anti-ticket scam website up too – so you can see what a scamming site looks like!!!

I’m not kidding here – the UK Government have decided to tackle this whole episode of ticket scamming, online ticket fraud and ticket resale by launching a website which is an “idiots guide” to spotting the type of website which may decide to take your money and not supply you the tickets you paid for.

It’s not the websites that are a scam – it’s the ticket industry that needs the kick up the backside – along with the credit card payment gateway’s for allowing these companies to even take online payments and run before the ink has even dried on the tickets!

Come on David, give the fans a break and do something construcive with the time you spend around the table – instead of tossing a coin and taking “best out of three” approach on what to do next!

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Will Stacey Solomon Sing on National Television Awards 2011

Posted by newsanim on Monday, 24 January, 2011

One of the UK’s Queen’s of the stage and TV is coming back again, thanks to the National Television Awards 2011.

Stacey, who rose to fame on the hit TV show “Xfactor” on ITV – was always dressed to impress when she burst her enormous vocal attributes on the xfactor programme. When she got up on stage to sing the Freddie Murcury hit “live forever” she looked magnificent, dressed in a bespoke evening dress which was designed and created by Suzanne Neville.

Following the unique story of this Dagenham girl on TV was accelerated even more only a few months ago, following an appearance on “I’m a celebrity, get me out of here!” where she was crowned ‘Queen of The Jungle” by the british public. With the highest recorded votes ever received for one person on the hit TV show, i’m not surprised just how much the british public took this beautiful Essex Girl to their hearts.

So, with nearly 13,000 people who will pack the 02 Arena, and potentially between 7 and 10 million viewers on TV, it looks very much like Stacey will be delighting us with her unique voice and without a doubt, a stunning gown to promote her slender yet tall figure – but who will be the designer for this prestigeous event?

Only time will tell, but you can bet we will find out first – because we are like that!!

Bookmark this page to find out more information as and when it is made available to us.

Dress by Suzanne Neville – Designer Evening Wear

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Take That Tickets NOT Available

Posted by Simon Grant on Friday, 29 October, 2010
Ticket Sites Crash 5 Minutes Before Launch

Ticketmaster Melts Down at 08:55am

- Friday 29th October – and thousands if not millions of ‘Take That’ fans have been pounding the websites and telephone exchanges of ticket websites in an attempt to be one of a small percentage to see the revival of Take That on tour in 2011.

What many people forgot to take into account was the fact that the dates in the UK were the only ones that have been released, which means that fans as far away as Asia, America, the southern hemisphere and Easter Europe were all in the queue as well.

The choice of ticket agency was going to provide the key to the speed of sale and availability – which meant that the promotors of the event selected 6 of the worlds best known agencies to host the sale of the tour tickets.

Now, with only so many lines available into the agency call centres, and the much anticipated rush to get the tickets the moment they went on sale, Ticketmaster – the worlds largest reseller of event tickets went into melt down 5 minutes before the doors were opened, or so they say!

But what about the auction sites and secondary seller sites of tickets, how come they were being advertised before the tickets went on sale?

Well, the answer is simple – most of the big ticket “touts” will begin these sales way before the launch of the tickets and will cancel the auction or sale should they not get them.

So, for every single person who didn’t get hold of a ticket – sorry but you are one of thousands who are bitterly sitting there head in hands thinking what price these touts will put on the sale of the tickets on aution sites over the next 24hours.

But be careful, due to the demand and the rutheless counterfit scams out there right now, you could get your fingers burnt if you are not carefull.

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Monumentus Birthday For John Lennon

Posted by newsanim on Sunday, 10 October, 2010

Give Peace A Chance | John LennonIt was 70 years ago today when John Lennon was born, and in December it will have been 30 years since he was killed. But, to mark the event of his birthday and place a shrine for many fans to visit – the fine structure took it’s place close to where was originally born for many thousands to see well into the future.

The blobal shaped ball with birds flying over it was installed over the last few days, and unveiled by Julian Lennon and his ex-wife, Cynthia.

But, whilst all this happened in the UK – Yoko Ono was in Reykjavik, Iceland – where she and her son Sean Ono Lennon, performed on stage with Lennon’s former bandmate Ringo Starr – as the ‘Plastic Ono Band.’

And this wasn’t the only global celebrations going on to mark this event, because Central Park in New York also hosted a live outdoor event as a mark of respect, The Quarrymen who were Lennon’s first band, played a tribute to a long lost friend and fellow band member.

The statue was create by a 19 year old female artist called Lauren Voiers, who was commissioned by the Californian based agency ‘Global Peace Initialtive.’

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X Factor Judge Cheryl Cole Up For A Hat Trick

Posted by Simon Grant on Monday, 27 September, 2010

X Factor 2010 Judges HousesLast night saw the way the series was going to pan out, with the split in the divide looking like it would sway in the direction of Cheryl Cole, according to Simon Cowell.

Something which changed last night was the way they prepared the amount of finalists for the judges houses, taking it from the traditional 6 up to 8, then suddenly adding two more just before the close of the programme.

And when Simon was asked about the quality of this years contestants, he said; “In terms of what I’ve seen so far, particularly in that girls category, it should be a stronger year.”

This didn’t come as a shock to most people when Cowell was filmed in the back of his car, claiming the whole thing to be a fix.

Whilst the 2010 series begins to warm the screens of the UK viewers, questions have been banded around to the expectation of 2011, and if it would be happening in the UK?

Cheryl has supposed to have said that if they don’t make another series in the UK next year, there is a strong chance it will put pressure on her career. Why?

Because Cowell is still in negotiations with the American TV people over who will, and will not be judging on the US version for 2011. And with Cole not being one of the popular people in the US, it questions whether this who 2010 ‘potential’ fixing could have been done, just so Cole gets a third in a row, and a nice slide into place on the judges panel.

If the Pakistan cricketers can get away with fixing no balls and extra runs, I’m damned sure that Simon Cowell could manage something of this nature, don’t you?

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Phil Collins Tops UK Albums Chart Beating Manic Street Preachers

Posted by Simon Grant on Sunday, 26 September, 2010

Phil Collins – Phill Collins Storms UK Album Charts Yet Again

The UK music favourite has beaten the ‘Manic Street Preachers’ to the peak of the album charts today.

Only a matter of weeks after seeing Phil on TV playing what could only be described as ‘classic soul’ tracks, he has managed to storm in to No4 last week, with the big leap to the coverted No1 spot this Sunday.

The album is a classic compilation of cover’s which were Collin’s favourite tracks and hits from years gone by, strangely enough named ‘Going Back.’ But, what many music critics started to publish last week was a host of negative feelings saying that ‘it wouldn’t work’ as well as the singer had seen his better day’s and should bow out with grace.

Just on it’s own merits and beating the Manic Street Preachers album ‘Postcards From A Young Man’, does this not answer critics by dropping that one lone punch just below the belt, with a close of ‘I told you so’ for good measure?

At the end of the day, Phil Collins is a music industry hero and has still got exactly what he started with over 4 decades ago. Even though there are many new groups, people and voices which are supposedly better, but can you tie a real ‘great’ down?

I don’t think so!

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Lady GaGa Breaks Guinness World Record to Become Queen of Internet Pop

Posted by Simon Grant on Friday, 17 September, 2010

Lady GaGa
Lady Gaga has now become the most searched female artists on the inernet, following information released today by top search engines Google and Yahoo! – which means that she is now in the the same league as the late great Michael Jackson, who has jumped to number one for the most searched male artist.

And if that is not enough to get excited about, try gaining a Guinness World Record in the same week!

The Pantless Singer this week stole the rightful place in music history for having her album sit in the top 75 albums for over 154 consecutive weeks, which was previously held by Oasis.

Although these are probably the highest of highest awards, last year saw Gaga become the first artist in 17 years score more than 4 number one positions with tracks from one album alone. And if that’s not enough, try being the first digital era artist to earn in excess of $5 million from your first two hits!

Many people are saying that whilst she is making the most of her vocal talents, and winning awards left, right and centre, that she may spend a little time on getting the fashion side of things in order. Personally, when you have a voice and figure like ‘Lady Gaga’ has, why start worrying about what you are, or are not wearing?

Never made any difference for Kylie, did it now!

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George Michael Band From Driving And Jailed For 8 Weeks

Posted by Simon Grant on Tuesday, 14 September, 2010

George MichaelToday, George Michael appeared in court in London on charges of driving a motor vehicle whilst under the influence of drink or drugs.

He arrived today knowing that there was a chance of being jailed for this offence, as he was warned the last time he was prosecuted that he needed to get his drug habit resolved or suffer a jail sentence should anything happen again.

One of the music industries biggest was always guaranteed to draw a crowd, and this was the case with avid fans and the worlds media struggling to find space to get prime viewing as he walked into court.

The 47 year old ex-Wham star pleaded guilty last month after crashing his car into a North London corner shop, and was subsequently arrested for possesion of canabis.

Along with the 8 week sentence imposed by Highbury Corner Magistrates, Michael was find £1250 and baned from driving for 5 years.

The 8 week sentence will be divided into 4 weeks physical prison term, plus another 4 weeks out under licence with a supervision order from the probation service.

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Help for Heros Concert Review, Twickenham Stadium

Posted by Natalia Bratzlova on Monday, 13 September, 2010

Help for Heros Concert | Twickenham Stadium
As much as it pains me to say this, it was one of those events where people were being divided into two groups – one who were just there to support the cause and have a good day, and the others waiting to see one very special pairing who were at the top of the bill.

And being frank and honest for those who have witnessed this before, I could only compare it to the Robbie concert a few years ago at Knebworth when they started the day early and put on a few “second level” acts to help bring people in and spend a day out, instead of just a couple of hours to see one band or artist.

At the end of the day, if you were going to watch one band or act, then you would already be prepared for the small delays between acts, the warm up groups and comedy – but hey, it is all worth it because it’s for a great cause, and every single penny helps!

So, the time came and the boys arrived on stage, went nose to nose and told each other (and 60,000 witnesses) how much loyalty they would give each other, whilst punching out the new single, Shame.

The crowd were just so excited to see them together again, that most of them probably didn’t even hear the song. The noise level pretty much outed the sound from the stage, but then it was Twickenham, not the O2 Arena.

Whilst I think most of you had a better seat at home watching it on TV, spare a moment for those who gave money and time to support our boys and probably didn’t get to see, let alone hear most of the entertainment at all. (Lets hope they recorded it, like I did!)

As for the rest of the day, and the people who performed: Pixie Lott, Alesha Dixon, The Saturdays, Tom Jones, Katherine Jenkins, Enrique Iglesias, James Blunt to name but a few – each gave a great contibution to the event.

So, one of the only things that I couldn’t understand was why they held this style of event in a place which is clearly not built, nor designed for this style of entertainment. OK, I know it’s for a good cause and all that, but people at the back of the stadium must have been bitterly upset due to the quality of sound.

Every single one of these guys put on a first class day under a second class situation – so lets hope that if Help for Hero’s decides to do something like this again, they manage to find somewhere that is positively more in tune with the event, and not a game of Rugby.

A great day out, which could have been far better should the event have been in a different place.

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Apple Takes on Facebook with Music Social Networking Site

Posted by Lynn Proctor on Friday, 3 September, 2010

Apple's Ping | Social Media For Music Lovers
Just as you thought it was safe to leave the world of Twitter, Bebo and LinkdIn, Apple breaks out with a full scale assult on Facebook for the space in the Social Media Music world.

Much like how Facebook works, the Apple Ping site will let people buid networks of friends and musicians, whilst building playlists based on what their mates are listening to. During the launch of the APP at an event in San Francisco, Steve Jobs concluded: “It’s a social network all about music. We think this will be really popular very fast because 160 million people can switch it on today.”

It’s not as if we haven’t got enough to do with our spare time than visit the many thousands of social network sites around the globe. Yet CSS Insight said last night, that the move was ambitious and would present a challenge to “ailing MySpace and other social networks”.

It wouldn’t be Apple if it couldn’t accessed through iTunes software on Macs and PCs, as well as through the iTunes app on iPhones and the iPod Touch. Steve Jobs also announced an updated version of Apple TV, which will play films and telly shows. A new line of iPods, including a touch-screen Nano model, was unveiled too.

Jobs also showed off a new iPod Shuffle, bringing back the old-style square shape and buttons. It will cost about £30, which is a marked improvement on previous models.

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