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Subject: NEWSFLASH: 60% Off Bon Jovi’s Vancouver Show, Tickets Now $6.75 From the Travelzoo Newsdesk: VANCOUVER–MARCH 17, 2011– A limited number of tickets to see Bon Jovi’s "Live 2011" tour are now 60% off exclusively for Travelzoo subscribers. Prices have been reduced to as low as $6.75 to this month’s Vancouver show, which is the […]

Rebecca Black

And who said the Internet never broke a star? This is what the Black Eyed Peas have wrought.  After songs with inane lyrics like "My Humps" and "Boom Boom Pow" is it any wonder that Rebecca Black’s trifle is a YouTube sensation? Oh, don’t focus on the barely literate lyrics.  We’ve been pandering this crap […]

Bruce Allen On Concert Promotion

Re: Concert Promotion I’ve been saying the same thing for years. In the US, without Don Fox’s committment and belief I would not have broken BTO, Bryan Adams, Loverboy or Michael Buble. The same can be said for promoters around the world. The problem is there seems to be an agency vs promoter battle. It […]

Concert Promotion

So I’m out to dinner with a concert promoter.  He can’t understand the adversarial relationship between promoters and acts.  According to him, the promoter is the band’s BEST FRIEND! Think about it.  Who else is going to invest so much money in the band’s career? That’s what we’ve come to.  The labels are bankrupt, if […]