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British Bands Grounded By Volcanic Dust

Gary Numan, Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr are among the British musicians stranded in the UK following the vo... Read more...

Buraka Som Sistema Headline Ibiza’s IMS Finale

Taking place at UNESCO World Heritage Site, Dalt Vila, billed as “possibly the finest open-air live music ve... Read more...

Festival Scammers Target Facebook

Free festival ticket giveaways and fake festival websites are just some of the ways scammers are using to infi... Read more...

Color Line Arena becomes O2 World Hamburg

It’s official: The Color Line Arena in Hamburg will now become an O2 World property. Rumors have been circul... Read more...

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Saturday, 17 April 2010 06:10

Apple To Take on Ticketing?

Mashable - the Internet's most popular social media news website - is reporting that Patently Apple has uncovered some new patents filed by Steve Jobs and company... showing that he's applied for an “iTunes for Concert Tickets” system — or iTickets. The patents displays a complete e-ticket system whereby a user purchases a ticket via iTunes and then redeems the ticket using his or her iPhone at venues ranging from large rock concerts to sporting events.

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Monday, 19 April 2010 06:46

World Cup Tickets nearly sold out - Over 130,000 World Cup tickets sold over the weekend

Over 140000 World Cup tickets were sold since the start of over-the-counter sales on Thursday, but sales remain slow for games outside major South African urban centres. "Some 75,000 of those were sold at FNB branches, some 25,000 at the ticketing centres and 30,000 via FIFA.com and Call Centres," FIFA said this week.

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Friday, 16 April 2010 06:21

Festival Scammers Target Facebook

Free festival ticket giveaways and fake festival websites are just some of the ways scammers are using to infiltrate social networking and popular ticketing site, Facebook, according to vigilante website,Safeconcerts.They say that with thousands of disappointed fans unable to get tickets to Reading and Leeds, more and more Facebook groups are appearing, offering free tickets.

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Thursday, 15 April 2010 06:56

Ticket and Event Organization Platform Introduced by Myspace

MySpace has announced the launch of a global events and calendar platform, MySpace Events, which will provide new tools to create, discover, share, and manage events across MySpace and multiple social networks. The move expands the social media site from a music publishing tool for artists to a platform which also allows them to sell more concert tickets and help organize and schedule events. Eventful meets Eventbrite perhaps?

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Sunday, 18 April 2010 10:51

Ultimate Fighting Championships UFC in Vancouver sells out in 30 minutes

Ultimate Fighting Championship President Dana White announced via Twitter that pre-sale tickets for UFC 115 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada sold out in a mere 30 minutes. Premium members, the UFC Fight Club, got first go at tickets Tuesday morning and gobbled them up quickly, followed by regular fans trying to get access to the event scheduled for June 12th.

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Wednesday, 14 April 2010 08:04

Soccer World Cup Hospitality Vendor Match Dumps 300,000 Bed Nights

Match Services AG, part-owned by the nephew of FIFA President Sepp Blatter, which was awarded the primary World Cup hospitality contract worth up to €400 million euro, has now had to dump 300,000 bed nights because of poor demand, Beeld reported today, citing an industry group.

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Saturday, 17 April 2010 07:28

British Bands Grounded By Volcanic Dust

Gary Numan, Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr are among the British musicians stranded in the UK following the volcanic erruption in Iceland, making it unlikely they’ll perform at California’s Coachella music festival. Britain’s National Air Transport Service have extended flying restrictions until at least 0100BST on Sunday, saying weather forecasts showed the ash situation would be worsening throughout Saturday.

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Monday, 19 April 2010 07:23

Nadal Wins in Monte Carlo, Ready to take back French Open Title from Federer

Spanish clay-court sensation, Rafael Nadal took just one hour and 26 minutes to nail his 32nd straight victory and sixth consecutive Monte Carlo Masters titleat the Monte Carlo Country Club - his first tournament win since Rome last May.

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Friday, 16 April 2010 07:41

South Africans go Crazy for World Cup Tickets on First Day of Over the Counter Sales

Thousands of fans who queued overnight in South Africa finally got their hands on World Cup tickets, but scuffles broke out as computers crashed, the BBC's Johannesburg bureau reports.

Some 500,000 tickets were sold at various venues on Thursday.

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Friday, 16 April 2010 07:03

Buraka Som Sistema Headline Ibiza’s IMS Finale

Taking place at UNESCO World Heritage Site, Dalt Vila, billed as “possibly the finest open-air live music venue in the world”, this year’s International Music Summit (IMS) Grand Finale Festival features Spanish chartbusters Buraka Som Sistema. With Pete Tong and Mark Ronson spinning the decks, it promises to attract not only the industry's great and good but discerning punters too.

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Thursday, 15 April 2010 08:21

Ozzy Osbourne Tour Rumours for Europe and USA

Buried under yesterday's news on Ozzy Osbourne's latest album, was a tip that he will also be embarking on an 18-month world tour (dates TBA) in support of Scream, and other news on Ozzfest is set to emerge next week.

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