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Promoters to make concerts ‘more affordable’
2010 was apparently a disasterous year for the concert industry, with many popular acts having to cancel and/or postpone tours due to poor sales. The poor sales have been attributed to the high cost of many concerts in what has been a difficult year for the economy. According to the report I’m stealing this news from, A Perfect Circle were selling tickets for as much as $200, which let’s face it, is down right ridiculous. If I wanted to have a good sleep, I could pick up some sleeping pills from the pharmacy for $10.
Because of the poor sales, promoters are claiming that they will be making concerts more affordable in 2011. So good news for all you fellow concert go-ers. That is unless you’re Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber fans, as those “artists” will still have their concerts sold at the same prices, because their fans are gullible enough to pay the extortionate costs.
Read more on the story here.
This day in Metal… The UK Rage Against the X-Factor
One year ago, this Sunday, the UK silent majority did something phenomenal, something that had never been achieved ever before. Just two people, a couple living in the UK that had become sick of Simon Cowell’s and the X-Factor’s monopoly on the charts, deciding that enough was enough, created the first successful grass-roots campaign to stop the X-Factor from gaining their “inevitable” number one spot. No one thought it was possible and even the arrogant presenters of X Factor laughed it off as a “pathetic little campaign,” but they were wrong…
Read on after the jump to see my full article on these events and why the UK has failed to Rage against the X-Factor this year.
Blast from the Past: Roadrunner United The Concert (2008)
“On December 15th, 2005, in New York City, Roadrunner Records celebrated its 25th Anniversary with the Metal concert to end all Metal concerts. 39 musicians, representing 25 different Roadrunner bands, performed 25 songs from 19 different bands’ repertoire. This unique and unprecedented aggregation of musicians was no jam session. Each song was studiously rehearsed and arranged, coming together with exuberant perfection, to produce a concert that can only be called legend.”
These are the emotive words branded upon the back of the DVD. In celebration of Roadrunner’s 30th anniversary, I have chosen to review this ambitious DVD. Read on after the jump to see what I make of it.
30 years of Roadrunner Records
As we mentioned the other week, Roadrunner Records has now been fully acquired by Warner Music Group. Whether this is a bad thing or not remains to be seen, but I’m fairly sceptical. With this in mind, and with the label being 30 years old, now seems like a better time than any to have a look back at the company, its formation and how it grew into one of, if not, the biggest Metal label today. It also happens to be one of the most controversial Metal labels, depending on who you talk to…
Read on after the jump.
"Religious" groups at it again…
Honestly, I’m as tolerant as the next man, but what I do not like is these holier-than-thou, hypocritical religious groups that feel the need to push their beliefs onto everyone else. These groups are anything but tolerant, understanding or accepting, and the only thing they breed, is hatred and ridiculous out-dated idologies. And then they give the tolerant and liberal religous people a bad name.
What have they been up to this time? Well, according to Metal Obsession, an Australian-based religious group on Facebook has successfully protested against the running of a Black Metal mini-festival, dubbed “Black Mass” on the grounds that it promotes “Satanism.”
This is fascism and a disgrace. Now please excuse me while I go and pray to my Lord Satan to smite these parasites \m/
