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Jean Michel Jarre Live
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An iconic shot of Jean Michel Jarre, taken at his recent Helsinki concert.
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Tonight I saw the musical hero of my teenage years live on stage for the first time. Jean Michel Jarre threw a visually & aurally thrilling show as part of his “In>Doors” arena tour. The concert was at the same time both very timeless and a nostalgic retrospective trip to 80s.
I haven’t actually listened to Jarre for many years, so it was interesting so hear the classics again in another time – before this concert I hadn’t realized how much in dept bands like Röyksopp are to Jarre.
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Surviving members of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop are scheduled to perform at London’s Camden Roundhouse this coming Sunday (May 17).
The event will feature Radiophonic alumni Peter Howell, Paddy Kingsland, Roger Limb, Dick Mills and Mark Ayres, and offer a Q&A and concert.
“The programme is still evolving,” says Ayers, “but we will be playing a selection of pieces from the entire BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s output. Many tracks will be familiar from the recent CD reissues of BBC Radiophonic Music, The Radiophonic Workshop and Retrospective. These include Doctor Who, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, The Astronauts, Children’s TV tracks, music by Delia Derbyshire and John Baker, Seatrek and The Body In Question.”
Tickets are £20.00 each.
If any UK Synthtopia readers can make it to the event, come back and leave a comment!
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Concert promoters Paxahau have announced dates for Movement 2009, the Detroit Electronic Music Festival – May 23rd-25th 2009, at Hart Plaza in Detroit, MI.
Last year’s attendance nearly reached 80,000 over three days on Detroit’s Hart Plaza during Memorial Day Weekend, with fans enjoying 36 hours of their favorite electronic music artists and DJs performing on five stages and was named “Festival of the Year” by the readers of URB Magazine.
The Prodigy Invades Movement 2009
The Prodigy will play the official opening party for Movement 2009 at The Fillmore in Detroit on Friday, May 22. Chuck Flask, Paxahau Resident DJ and Evan Evolution will be performing in the State Bar. The doors open at 7 p.m. Early bird tickets for this all ages show are available starting at $20 by visiting www.livenation.com. VIP tickets are available.
“Every year our goal is to build upon the success of the previous year by bringing the best available local, national and international talent to Detroit in order to create a weekend experience unlike any other in the World,” said Jason Huvaere, president of Paxahau. “Our team spends a lot of time selecting artist and DJs that will appeal to electronic music enthusiasts. This year there will be a major Detroit presence at the festival as well as some performers that rarely set foot on stage in the United States.” Read more…
Jean Michel Jarre has announced dates for his 2009-2010 world tour.
Here’s the official tour info:
With his forthcoming “IN-DOORS” World Arena Tour, Jean Michel Jarre invites the audience to journey into his singular universe; to immerse themselves totally in his world of timeless music and vision, in place and time. He promises with this unique and brand new super production to share the energy of his macro concerts with the emotions of an arena experience.
With the fusion of analogue synthesisers, cutting-edge digital technology, oversize HD video projections, spectacular lasers design and lighting choreography, Jarre has conceived a show that encapsulates his signature expression and talent for creating milestone events.
Jean Michel Jarre is an innovative artist who has entertained and thrilled millions of people live and has broken several world records with attendance figures. His electronic music and singular performances have travelled the globe and left their imprint on major landmarks from Houston’s Skyline, to China, to London’s Docklands to the Pyramids of Egypt, to Moscow and…
He has just concluded a sell-out tour of Europe celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the release of his break-through multi-million selling album, Oxygene.
For his upcoming “IN-DOORS”, World Arena Tour, he has conceived a spectacular high-tech production especially tailor made for arenas where he will perform music from all of his best selling albums.
Jarre revolutionised the out-door concert format with his city-scale events. For this “IN-DOORS”, World Arena Tour he aims to break new ground and deliver yet again a unique concert experience.
Jean Michel Jarre tour dates below. Read more…
Nine Inch Nail’s Trent Reznor has posted his thoughts on the role of scalpers in concert ticket sales, and the complicity of Ticketmaster:
TicketMaster has essentially been a monopoly for many years – certainly up until Live Nation’s exclusive deal ran out. They could have (and can right now) stop the secondary market dead in its tracks by doing the following: limit the amount of sales per customer, print names on the tickets and require ID / ticket matches at the venue.
We know this works because we do it for our pre-sales.
Why don’t THEY do it? It’s obvious – they make a lot of money fueling the secondary market. TicketMaster even bought a re-seller site and often bounces you over to that site to buy tickets (TicketsNow.com)!
Nothing’s going to change until the ticketing entity gets serious about stopping the problem – which of course they don’t see as a problem. The ultimate way to hurt scalpers is to not support them. Leave them holding the merchandise.
Don’t buy from scalpers, and be suspect of artists singing the praises of the Live Nation / TicketMaster merger. What’s in it for them?
Not even Reznor can escape the TicketMaster monopoly – but at least he’s working to keep them honest.
I’d like to see premium ticket sales move to an open auction. That would at least be fair and transparent.
What do you think of Reznor’s comments and the state of concert tickets in the US?
