Halifax Concert Thread
I figured we could do with a concert thread for HRM. In the paper this morning:
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I wondering if I should try my luck waiting outside the metro centre, or if I should just go to the website and continuously hit refresh until 9am
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Don't bother going to the metro center. If it sells out in 5-6 minutes as predicted, the first 10 people in line MAY get tickets. Very frustrating if you ask me, watching the minutes tick by while the people at the window in front of you hum and haw over seat choices and try and decide whether to put it on the Visa or, wait no, the Mastercard for the airmiles.. Grrr!
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My plan was to be the first person in line, but I really don't know if I can stand waiting there for 12+ hours if there are other crazy people like me planning on doing the same thing.
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ooooHHH! so YOU plan on being the one in front of me holding up the line!! Lol
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That'll be meeeeeeeeee.
Unless there are already a bunch of people in line when I get there. In that case, I'm going to turn around,go home and try my luck on the website. |
Kiss to 'Rock and Roll All Nite'... in Halifax?
JENNIFER TAPLIN, METRO HALIFAX January 13, 2009 02:29 Rumours about glam rockers KISS coming to Halifax are solidifying. An ad running this week in Metro says “Get ready,” with a picture of the iconic KISS makeup on a mask. A very new website, Halifax Rocks, promises an official announcement “very, very soon.” Reports of a KISS concert first came from the lips of bassist Gene Simmons last fall. He told news outlets they’re planning to do about 10 stops in the summer of ’09 with some Canadian shows. “I know Halifax is one, but before you get out there and start the baseball season, they hold exhibition games, that’s what we’re doing. ’Cause once we go out, it’s going to be for a year and a half,” Simmons said. |
Gene Simmons is coming to town...quick everyone hide you girlfriends and wives!
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KISS is apparently confirmed and the official announcement will be made soon. They could have a high-profile opening act join them, i.e. Rolling Stones with Kanye West.
Other acts in the rumor mill are: U2 and AC/DC - AC/DC's new album is already out and they are supposed to go on another North American swing on their current world tour in late summer/fall. U2 has a new album coming out and will be touring for it. However, rumor is that either of these two acts would be more likely to play Moncton than Halifax. Bruce Springsteen was also rumored to be coming as he will have a new album out shortly. Although the date I heard was March 23rd...which seems less and less likely as time goes on without an announcement. And perhaps the most promising rumor is an Elton John and Billy Joel concert. Both are going on a two year world tour together, and supposed Elton really liked Halifax... |
If U2 came, I might just wet myself with excitement.
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AC/DC puts on an awesome live show. I'd love to see one...
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from kissonline.com:
KISS TO ROCK HALIFAX KISS will headline 'Halifax Rocks 2009' on July 18! The concert will take place at Halifax Commons Park in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Tickets go on sale to the general public on February 6th. A KISS ARMY Members-only ticket presale will run from Feb. 3 @ 11AM-EST to Feb. 5 @ 6PM-EST on KOL. Both general admission and VIP tickets will be available. The VIP ticket area is special bleacher seating with a fantastic view, private VIP washrooms, catering and bar service. Stay tuned to KOL for additional presale details. |
VIP washrooms and bar service? Dude. Sign me up.
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It's official: Kiss to play Halifax Commons in July
By STEPHEN COOKE Entertainment Reporter Tue. Feb 3 - 4:28 PM The Cat is finally out of the bag, along with the Demon, the Starchild and the Spaceman: Kiss is coming back to Halifax. Concert promoter Harold MacKay announced at a media conference on Tuesday morning that the veteran makeup-and-leather clad classic rock act will headline Halifax Rocks 2009 on the Halifax Commons on Saturday, July 18, with a limit of 40,000 tickets going on sale this Friday. “There’s a lot that’s been written and said about the types of music that Halifax wants to see, and what we keep hearing is it wants good ol’ rock ‘n’ roll,” said MacKay, who has been trying for two years to persuade Kiss to return to the Maritimes for the first time since the mid-’70s. MacKay’s company, Power Promotional Events, produced last year’s Country Rocks 2008 show with Keith Urban, which drew about 25,000 and a series of all-star country concerts on Moncton’s Magnetic Hill. Members of the Kiss Army have been crossing their fingers since November, when the band’s fire-breathing bassist Gene Simmons leaked the news that they’d be playing a series of Canadian dates this summer, specifically naming Halifax as one of the stops. Over the past few weeks, newspaper ads featuring the distinctive Kiss kabuki-style makeup designs have been directing the curious to a Halifax Rocks 2009 website. On Monday, the website kissonline.com revealed the event was a go as well as the Friday sale date. The show will feature the current KISS lineup of band founders Simmons and Paul Stanley, with drummer Eric Singer and guitarist Tommy Thayer, plus four other major rock acts whose names will be released in the coming weeks. “Obviously these will be rock and roll bands, there won’t be any rap acts on the bill,” said MacKay. “Actually, Gene Simmons has made it very clear in the contract that they must approve all of the bands that play for us. “One of the things we hope to do is have a battle of the bands contest with the help of our media partners, which will allow us to have a local act open the show. We did that in Moncton and it worked very well.” Power Promotional Events is working with Events Halifax to produce the day-long event, while Halifax Regional Municipality will provide services — including transit, policing and off-site cleanup — up to a cost of $150,000. Grant MacDonald of Events Halifax predicted the concert would “provide economic spinoffs in themillions of dollars,” while the combination of Kiss and the Tall Ships Nova Scotia Festival 2009 that same weekend would keep downtown hotels, restaurants and shops busy. As with previous Commons concerts like the Rolling Stones in 2006 and Country Rocks 2008, there are concerns over damage to the turf on the downtown green space; however District 12 councillor Dawn Sloane said after the conference that the municipality is learning from previous experience how to reduce their impact on the area. “We’ll be striving to make sure the effect on the Commons is minimal, and maintain good communication with the residents around the Commons,” explained Sloane. “There’s always room for improvement, but I’m pretty comfortable that this will be a success for the downtown core.” Tickets on Friday will be at an “early bird” price of $89 (including taxes) for general admission and $279 (including taxes) for a limited number of VIP area tickets. They will be available via the Ticket Atlantic box office (451-1221 or www.ticketatlantic.com) and select Atlantic Superstore outlets. ============================================================================================================================== So the one question remains is who are the other four bands that are playing? One thing's for sure between the Tall Ships and this on the same weekend Halifax will be the "place to be". |
Paul McCartney July 11
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/9011867.html
Heard the rumor about this one a month ago and to be honest I didn't expect it to materialize. It's a busy summer for big shows in the Maritimes. I hope they don't all lose money. |
Man Moncton has got us beat again!!! sure sir Paul is wicked and I'm gonna love seeing him, but our other big show is Kiss....who suck A**.....moncton have AC/DC and Bon Jovi....and while neither of them by there self would be more appealing that Sir Paul....the combination of the two is a victory for moncton...IMO.....also moncton Trumped us last year by getting the Eagles....while we where left with Keith Urban...:rolleyes: ....even when the had the stone concert in 05 the back up acts where The Tragically Hip, Our Lady Peace, and Maroon5...In the Halifax show it was Kanya West:koko: and Alice Cooper
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I dunno. Monton has something with AC/DC, sure, but frankly they can keep Bon Jovi after he plays "Dead or Alive". If I have to hear "Always" again I'll throw my radio across the room.
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ya, you made a good point about Bon Jovi...AC/DC, puts on a killer show though...at SARS stock, they put the headliners.......The Rolling Stones no less..to shame.......Sir Paul is gonna be wicked though...can't Wait......
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Personal musical tastes aside, McCartney is undeniably by far the biggest of the major acts to hit the Maritimes this summer (arguably ever)...so bravo Halifax.
AC/DC will be wicked and are still a huge band but Sir Paul is a level above them. Bon Jovi and KISS? They both have their merits and they are both still very big acts (Bon Jovi especially), but they've both been here at some point before so I didn't have the "Holy shit I can't believe they're playing here!" kind of reaction. I'm interested to see how these bigger shows effect the concerts on the hill (Virgin Fest and the Canadian forces one). Virgin will still probably be fine but I don't know about the Chickenfoot/Second rate Canadian bands show. |
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