Hi all, this is a story that popped up a couple of weeks ago but only now, when nothing else at all at all is happening in the world, we’ve decided to give it a mention. One of Tickets There’s favorite acts, Jape is apparently working on (or finishing off) some new material. According to a blog post on the bands site, new material will be uploaded soon.
As all Jape fans are fully aware, the singer never seems to stop recording and Tickets There expects that as soon as the new Redneck’s album is done and dusted, we’re going to start hearing g a lot more about Japes latest projects.
As soon as their some meet on the story, Tickets There will be sure to let ye know….three weeks after ye hear it somewhere else. Going to buy some Lego now.
Sorry for reusing last year’s image, but ever since the big crash of 09, all my images and art work for the lads has been deleted. Will work to get it all back next year but for now, the message is what counts.
This year has seen an enormous rise in people visiting Tickets There and it’s really been great to see bands and fans alike starting to actually like the site (and hate it in some cases…ok, many cases) but the mails and comments we’ve received, positive or negative have all been greatly appreciated. All of us here Tickets There HQ are really excited about pushing things into overdrive in 2010.
We’ll start the year with an exclusive interview with Mr. Tim Vital, the man behind Neosupervital and go from there with interviews, live reviews, albums / ep and single reviews and of course, tons of Def Leppard, Guns N Roses and KISS information. We may even have the ticketsthere.com site up and running in the first half of 2010 so keep eyes…sort of peeled for more about that.
Anyways, enough endorsement and shameless self promotion. Have a great Christmas, a happy new year and a brilliant holiday from all at TT-HQ.
Congratulations to Tracy and Jon Morter for helping music fans across the UK actually accomplish something. Last night, Rage Against The Machine soared to the top of the charts, beating their X-factor rival, Joe … something (McElderry – Ed) to take the Number One Spot for Christmas with their 1992 anthem, Killing In The Name. This was a direct result from Jon and his wife Tracy setting up a Facebook campaign to bring the politically charged noise makers to number 1 and X-Factors four year strangle hold of the coveted spot to an end. Not only is this a sign that people are starting to really hate (or, strongly dislike for those of you with harsh feelings towards the ‘H’ word) the X-Factor (despite the fact that 2009 saw it’s highest TV rating ever), but it’s a testament that people are still prepared to pay for their music…if the cause is right.
We all know that the last ten years of illegal downloading and file sharing have decimated record sales to the point that major, major bands, who are generally guaranteed a pretty good return on any full length player they dish out, have turned their backs on the traditional release in favor of exploring new avenues of releasing music. As for the giant pop churning monster, they’ve hijacked almost every form of major entertainment television, radio and website to deliver packaged deals of the same looking / sounding guys and gals for your viewing, gossip and finally, Listening (cringe) pleasure. Now Tickets There isn’t about to get into attack mode against X-factor styled artists and their fans because that wasn’t the spirit of this campaign, but we are delighted to see X-Factors hold over one of these institutions broken and it was the people, not some massive multi-million pound machine that did it.
To some, this victory will look small and as far as Simon Cowell was concerned, ‘very scrooge like’. Well, Tickets There would like to say sorry to all the naysayers but this is a brilliant achievement and one of the major, major musical highlights of this first millennium decade. It’s rare these days that fans of ‘real’ music come out and show the world they’re still around and in the UK last week, they came out in spades.
Before we finish, Tickets There feels we should remind Mr. Cowell that Scrooge was a character who was rich and powerful and kept it all from himself while many less fortunate, but much more deserving people around him starved. After being visited by three ghosts, Scrooge changed his ways, shared his money with all and everyone lived happily ever after.
Matching this campaign to scrooge is hard to do, but it is alot easier to compare you and your X-Factor Money machine to the Scrooge character. The only difference is, you still haven’t realized you’re business practices, shows and acts are not helping the creative side of music. Not only that, but you defend it and you’ll keep doing it and rather than admitting it’s all about money, you pass it off as ‘making the contestant’s dreams come true’. At least Scrooge didn’t lie about his tactics and meanness. He was famous for being very upfront about his lack of compassion for humanity. Tell me Simon, didn’t you make a name for yourself by using cruel, hurtful remarks about people and their abilities in front of millions and millions of viewers? In fact, isn’t that the main appeal of those shows? (*deleted – witty remark about X-factor rejects being orderd into the poor houses, surplus population..etc)
Why don’t you share that industry money, that power and that influence with bands who work their asses off seven days a week to scrape enough money together just so they can record another track rather than piss it all away on these fleeting acts that server nothing more than to make you, your company and Song BMG a quick buck. That kind of mentality is destroying the music industry and finally the people have said Enough!
Oh, and Simon Cowell – SCrooge (just pointing that out).
Tickets There is troubled. I read about this earlier today and I thought, why bother?. Why bother writing an article about an establishment that flies in the face of everything its origins are based on? Today, The Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame (in Cleveland, Ohio) voted in favor of accepting Genesis (Fair enough), The Stooges (Fair Enough although they were technically punk if you go by definition), Jimmy Cliff (Ska / Reggae singer…..someone want to explain his presence in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame to me?) and the Dancin’ Queens themselves, ABBA into the hall in 2010. These acts (and a couple more, not keeping this long) were voted in ahead of LL Cool J (Fair Enough), Donna Summer (Damn right fair enough), The Red Hot Chilli Peppers (Hmm…little rocky but technically a funk rock band but if the Stooges can swing it, so can the Chilli’s) and finally, the greatest rock n roll phenomenon America has ever and will ever manage to produce, the mighty KISS.
Now, take one stroll down the main page of Tickets There and you’ll see we’re clearly biased. Obviously there is a great love for KISS on this site (and if you couldn’t tell before, then the constant capitalization of their name should spell it out), but TT would hope that people out there, with little or no love for the band can agree that KISS deserves to be included in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame before ABBA. I would hope that every single band in the world that ever used a distortion pedal would be included in the rock n roll hall of fame before ABBA. What’s next? Are they going to start reserving an annual inductee space for the winner of X-Factor?
The Rock N Roll Hall of Fame has made many, many decision mistakes in the past such as Run DMC and Madonna to name just two, but this is an original one. It’s like passing up Aerosmith in favor of Westlife. ABBA may have some of the catchiest wee pop numbers under the sun and no-ones trying to call them a terrible band or anything but they’re not rock n roll. KISS are and they’re good at it.
We’ll stop this rant before it get’s silly (many, many paragraphs and bracket comments deleted since I started) but I’ll say this, KISS are better off. The Rock N Roll Hall of Fame is out of touch and the last thing KISS needs is to be associated with that un-creditable institution and we urge them to reject their invite to join, when the offer is eventually made. Follow the Sex Pistols and let them know you don’t care.
Tickets There wanted to avoid reporting this story for personal reasons (we wanted to be first to get em – Ed) but we have to put our outstanding professional reputation ahead of our own bitter resentments and bring you folks…some of the news.
KISS have announced a four new shows for their May 2010 UK/Ireland tour. In addition to the existing dates, the band will now play a second show at Wembley Arena as well as new dates in Sheffield, Newcastle and Liverpool. Birmingham fans are advised that the previously schedule show on the 11th has now been moved to the 5th.
The full dates for the bands UK / Ireland Tour can be seen below (Don’t touch London, we missed them the first time – Ed)
SATURDAY 1 SHEFFIELD ARENA
SUNDAY 2 NEWCASTLE ARENA
TUESDAY 4 LIVERPOOL ARENA WEDNESDAY 5 BIRMINGHAM LG ARENA (MOVED FROM TUE MAY 11)
FRIDAY 7 DUBLIN O2 ARENA
SUNDAY 9 GLASGOW SECC (SOLD OUT)
MONDAY 10 MANCHESTER ARENA WEDNESDAY 12 WEMBLEY ARENA
THURSDAY 13 WEMBLEY ARENA (SOLD OUT)
Yes, it’s true, the big four are playing together….twice!
For months, rumors have been flooding the internet that the original icons of thrash metal would unite together for a tour and last night, Metallica confirmed those rumors.
“You’ve been posting and chatting about it for months and we’re here now to confirm it . . . METALLICA,SLAYER, MEGADETH, and ANTHRAX will all share the same stage for the first time EVER! Look for the four of us at the Sonisphere shows in Warsaw, Poland and Prague, Czech Republic on June 16 and 19, 2010, with a few more of the festival dates still in the works. You can be sure these shows won’t be the only ones.”
These shows could be the first step in bringing the four together for a major worldwide tour later in 2010. Currently there are no further details but as always, Tickets There will let you know when we do.
Also, more guests still be announced for both Sonisphere shows….but could you care less? Very few bands they could add to make that bill any better. Lucky bastards over there 😦
First of all, No, we won’t be doing this every time Guns N’ Roses play a show this year. There are other bands we’d like to give attention to. But, Tickets There has a deep rooted love for the most dangerous band in the world and the fact that they’re touring makes us feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside.
Anyways, Guns preformed the second show of their Chinese Democracy World Tour in Seoul, South Korea yesterday, Below is the bands set list from the gig.
By all accounts, the bands next show in Osaka, Japan on the 16th is going to much a much bigger and better affair than the already massively impressive shows played in Taipei and Seoul. Axl (Rose, singer,) has promised a bigger custom built stage and more than twice the pyrotechnics.
Seoul Set-List:
Chinese Democracy
Welcome to the Jungle
It’s So Easy
Mr. Brownstone
Shackler’s Revenge
There Was a Time Richard Fortus solo (James Bond Theme) Live and Let Die Frank Ferrer solo Sorry (First Live Pref. of Sorry) Rocket Queen DJ Ashba solo Sweet Child O’ Mine Dizzy Reed solo (Ziggy Stardust) Street of Dreams
You Could Be Mine Band Jam (Black Betty) My Generation (Tommy Stinson on lead vocals) Band Jam November Rain
Take a Walk on the Wild Side
Better
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door Ron Thal solo (Pink Panther Theme) Paradise City
It’s official, Guns N’ Roses are on stage and they’re rocking the hell out of Taipei. Follow the bands twitter page.
GNRDaily.com are updating their twitter page with the set list as it’s coming in so be sure to hop over there and check them out. Tickets There will have more news when the show’s over. (Setlist Below Video).
Tomorrow night, Guns N’ Roses kick of their highly anticipated Chinese Democracy tour. Finally fans will get to see Axl Roses thirteen year opus live with the musicians who helped create it.
For fans of the band dying to see what they have in store it seems you don’t have to wait as a possible set list and a picture of the stage set up have been leaked. Check out GNRDaily.com to read more (and see more pics of the stage). Video below is the GNR Sound check. Setlist is beneath it.
Possible setlist for tomorrow’s show (Taipei, Taiwan 11.12.2009)
1. Chinese Democracy 2. Scraped
3. Welcome To The Jungle
4. It’s So Easy
5. Mr. Brownstone
6. There Was A Time
Richard Fotus solo
7. Live And Let Die
8. Sorry
9. If The World/Prostitute
10. Rocket Queen/My Michelle
Dizzy Fuckin’ Reed solo
11. Street Of Dreams
12. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
13. You Could Be Mine
14. I.R.S.
DJ Ashba solo
15. Sweet Child O’Mine
16. This I Love
17. November Rain
Bumblefoot solo
18. Shackeler’s Revenge
19. Outta Get Me
20. Nightrain
So, it’s decade ending time. All the music publications, webzines, blogs, fans everyone with a computer and the ability to type has a list of their top 5, 10, 20, 50, 1,000, 1,000,000 albums of the last ten years and the great, thoughtful, original minds that drive, create, nurture and bring you Tickets There have finally decided we’ll do one to. Sher if everyone else is, why wouldn’t we? Tickets There never claimed (in the last 30 minutes) to be original or independent so we’ll follow the herd with the list thing. Not really sure what’s the point since we probably only bought 20 albums in the last ten years that were actually released in that time.
Instead of doing the 1 – 50 order, we’re putting them in chronologically. This is a basic, hastily put together history of what shaped the amazing, the incredible, the mind-bendingly stunning tastes held by all at Tickets There HQ.
(Please don’t give me hell for Testament, but that album deserves to be on this list, even though it wasn’t released in the time frame. Damn calendar counter counters!!)
What makes Tickets There happy? The Aftermath makes T.T. happy. If you haven’t heard them yet, The Aftermath are one of Irelands leading pop rock groups with enough hook filled, catchy as hell material to keep you entertained for many a cold month this Christmas. Their debut album, Friendlier Up here, was release in 2008 and it managed to spawn three top 20 singles including the scrumptious Are You Not Wanting me Yet.
If you like well written, tightly preformed, instantly lovable pop rock (without the overzealous cheese indulgence many of the genres bands…ehm, indulge in), then buy their album (reviewed here), love their songs and go check them out when they play The Academy 2, Feb 12th 2010.
Tickets are on sale now priced €12.00 from Ticketmaster outlets nationwide and www.ticketmaster.ie
It’s Whelan’s birthday today and Tickets There, one of Irelands leading semi-part time, underground, can’t be bothered half the time champions of the Irish Independent Music Scene decided we couldn’t let the event pass without saying anything. Accustomed as we are to public blogging, we still aren’t any good at it, but we do our best….sometimes.
Love it or hate it, Whelan’s is one of the corner stone’s of Irish music. It’s as important to us as CBGB’s is to New York, as the Cavern to Liverpool and The Astoria to London (FYI, all three of those venues have been demolished / moved in the past three years). Like the Roisin Dubh in Galway, Whelan’s has always been a Mecca for new Irish talent and practically from the moment it opened its doors, it’s been at the forefront of the Dublin music scene. The dream of headlining or even gracing it’s stage is one shared by many and local bands such as The Frames, Paddy Casey, Mic Christopher, Josh Ritter, Mark Geary and Damien Rice cut their teeth on Whelan’s stage over the years with many of them becoming regular punters in the pub on their days off.
All ranges of Dublin music fans drink and rock out in Whelan’s on any given night. On any occasion you’ll see indie nerds, punk rock fans, emo kids, dance fanatics, traditional Irish heads and singer songwriter souls floating about the place, soaking up its boisterous atmosphere, its reliable pints, the heat from the various fire places and the music, always the music.
Tickets There has fond memories of Whelan’s from the six years we’ve been drinking there. While we wouldn’t be regulars by any standards, we’ve gotten the chance to see acts like Kevin Burke, Christy Moore, Concerto for Constantine, Humanzi, Oliver Cole, Jape, Dave Geraghty, The Future Kings of Spain, Cathy Davey, Paddy Casey, TKO, Leopold, Ham Sandwich and many, many more rocking the place to its foundations in that time. There’s lots of memorable stories like New Years Eve a couple of years ago when Jape missed the countdown because everyone on stage had forgotten to wear a watch, or when Humanzi played the upstairs venue last year and nearly made the floor collapse from the crowd going absolutely mental. The place was like a bouncing castle and I still can’t believe the wood held firm.
My fondest memory of Whelan’s was a show by an American folk singer called Jim Page, who of course shares a name with a certain Led Zeppelin member. About ten minutes into a conversation with his wife, the ball dropped. Wasn’t long after asking her if ‘Jimmy and Robert (Plant)still toured together’ that the look was given and Tickets There suddenly realized the feckin’ ejjet who convinced us to go had gotten the billing wrong…ever so slightly. Ah well, turned out to be one of the best shows I’ve ever seen in there. There’s lots more but that’s enough for now. Everyone has their own fond memories of Whelan’s and Tickets There would like to think in another twenty years, we’ll all have alot more.
Make sure you Check out their Website for a chance to win tickets to tonight’s show which features the following acts,
Luka Bloom
Maria Doyle Kennedy
Juliet Turner
Gemma Hayes
The Flaws
Paddy Casey
David Kitt
Ham Sandwich.
After selling out their first Odyssey Arena show in just under two hours, Metallica have announced they’ll be playing a second night in Belfast on May 12th. Tickets on sale now.
This second Belfast’s show more than likely dashes any hopes of Metal’s most enduring monsters announcing a Dublin show this year. Ah well, so long O2.
Well, Tickets There wasn’t going to bother but since all the other sites have reported this story, we didn’t want to be left out.
Metallica are returning to the Irish shores on May 11th for their first headlining show in Belfast in twenty years apparently. Tickets on sale Thursday, December 3rd for £49.50 each. (Odyssey Arena in case you’re wondering).
No official word has been released about a Dublin show but if they do play the Republic, Tickets There has our money on the O2 being named as the venue.
Ronnie James Dio, one of Heavy Metal’s most iconic legends made a sad statement recently. Tickets There is redirecting you to Classic Rock Magazines official website for more info.
Tickets There would like to wish Dio all the best for his recovery and we hope those infamous Devil Horns fly high over stages soon. Get Well Ronnie, our thoughts are with you.
I’m speechless. Yesterday I found out that Tickets There’s all time favorite live band are playing their very first (I think) show in Dublin’s O2 Arena. KISS are undeniably the greatest live phenomenon touring under the good time rock n roll banner these days and despite hard efforts from AC/DC, Def Leppard, Whitesnake and Journey last year, TT feels that KISS are going to send all those bands packing as a distant memory.
Now, normally I would have been blogging something like this before I’d finished reading the story but I’ve lost all interest in Tickets There. Won’t go into the reasons why because this is KISS’s time so here’s the details.
KISS, the world’s greatest live band are coming to Europe next year as part of their tour for their latest album, Sonic Boom. They’re currently in the middle of the US leg and the band have promised that the European shows will have a new stage, new costumes, new set list and new everything…except the classics. The tour kicks off in Dublin on the 7th of May and the group will spend over two months playing some of Europe’s biggest arenas and festivals. More dates are expected to be added soon. Please find the current list below.
Tickets for Dublin, O2 Arena are priced 49.50 and they’re on sale this Friday (Nov. 27th)
That’s right heads, three of thrash metals most iconic acts are definitely touring together. The tour has been dubbed American Carnage and it’s easily the most exciting news in heavy metal since…..since Metalica released Kill Em All.
Megadeth, Slayer, Testament and some other band (can’t remember the name) have announced they will be touring together early next year. Fans of the bands will remember a rumor that Metallica were also meant to be on that bill. Unfortunately they aint but does anyone really care? Megadeth and Slayer together is one serious motherfucker of show but Testament aswell!!!
Megadeth and Slayer have played several shows together recently in Australia and Canada. Despite their topsy turvy past, they seem to be working out their differences and the entire heavy metal world (out side of the states) is hoping this tour makes it’s way to all of us. Both bands have new albums out and neither has lined u many European solo shows so fingers crossed.
Anyway, it’s early, I’m very, very tired and in need of sleep so we’ll leave it there. Please visit Blabbermouth and see how a respectable site reports this kind of LIFE CHANGING MEGA-NEWS J
I know you all hate it, I hate it to but it seems these things have to be done. Cant wait to see what ‘up to the minute’ yoke they come up with next but never mind all that, Tickets There is now officially on Twitter
Not sure if anyone really cares but sher, we might say something funny every now and again and it costs nothing (except your soul) to add us as a friend.
Hope to see the numbers go up soon because it recession folks and it costs me nothing
Seems to be a proper X-Turn day today. First we had the news about Concerto for Constantine’s new E.P. and now Oliver Cole has announced he’ll be playing a show at Dublin’s Crawdaddy on the 18th of December.
Currently Tickets There doesn’t have any information about ticket prices (because they haven’t been announced), but we’ll update ye all as soon as we have them.
Read our reviews of Ollie’s latest single, What Will You Do?….by clicking that bright orange link ;).
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