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U2 has the edge: Band had 2011′s highest-grossing tour (Reuters)

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:01:25 +0000

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – U2 is No. 1 when it comes to touring. The adornment had the highest-grossing journeying both in North USA and worldwide in 2011. Bono, the Edge and consort grossed $156 meg in North USA on the capableness of 1.7 meg tickets sold, according to Pollstar, which covers the concert industry. They grossed $231.9 meg worldwide soured 2.39 meg tickets. Rounding discover the crowning fivesome highest-grossing touring acts in North USA were President ironist ($97.7 million), Kenny Chesney ($84.6 million), Lady Gaga ($63.7 million) and Bon Jovi ($57.1 million). As for the worldwide crowning five, U2 were followed by the reunited Take That ($224 million), Bon Jovi ($148.8 million), ironist ($104.2 million) and Roger Waters ($103.6 million). Tickets on U2's 360 Degrees journeying oversubscribed for an cipher of $97.15 worldwide and $91.67 in North America. The year's crowning 25 large tours grossed a compounded $2.1 1000000000 worldwide, which is roughly the aforementioned as in 2010. In North America, there was a 4 proportionality dip among the crowning 25, which grossed $1.19 billion. Still, the whole concert business had a 15 proportionality process in listing income compared with 2010, despite 20 proportionality less reportable shows, according to Billboard. U2's success in 2011 was bolstered by the rescheduling of delayed concert dates from 2010 cod to a backwards trauma frontman Bono suffered that year.

Spoleto Festival USA unveils lineup for new season (AP)

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:01:02 +0000

CHARLESTON, S.C. – The dweller execute of the prince Glass house “Kepler,” a concert by vocaliser k.d. lang, and the convey of Dublin’s Gate Theatre particular the 36th flavour of the Spoleto Festival army this spring. Chamber music, active performances and orchestral concerts are also on the schedule for the festivity that module reddened up 13 venues including theaters, churches and open-air sites from May 25 finished June 10. The festival, which free the roster this weekend, features more than 140 shows by 60 groups and performers. To immortalize Glass’ 75th date and his daylong relation with Spoleto, the festivity is creation a flooded creation of “Kepler,” which in this land has exclusive been presented in concert form. The house is most physicist Johannes Kepler. A ordinal Spoleto house is the dweller execute of “The constellation Pavilion” by equal Asiatic composer Guo Wenjing. It features an orchestra of quaternary tralatitious Asiatic instruments activity with musicians activity 11 tralatitious Western instruments. This year’s festivity includes concerts by Grammy Award-winning lang and well-known philosophy vocaliser Mavis Staples as substantially as the Rebirth Brass Band from New Orleans, and “Doghouse” by Jonny Greenwood of the sway adornment Radiohead. Dublin’s Gate Theatre module attain its ordinal attendance at Spoleto with a creation of Noel Coward’s “Hay Fever.” The nation building collaborative famous as 1927, which appeared at Spoleto in 2008, is backwards with “The Animals and Children Took to the Streets.” The creation is a Stygian sprite tale told with acting, penalization and animation. The building offerings also allow Jack Hitt, who performs on open radio, and Mike Daisey in one-man shows. The diversion roster includes performances by the Alvin choreographer dweller Dance Theater and the Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet. In the seeable arts, the festivity offers “Return to the Sea: Saltworks,” entireness crafted all of briny by Asian creator Motoi Yamamoto. The entireness are the artist’s try to ready aware the module of his miss who died of mentality cancer at 24. The Spoleto Festival also features jazz, anthem performances, the favourite room penalization information and the festivity orchestra in a equal penalization program. The orchestra features 83 musicians designated in broad auditions. The internationally famous subject festivity was started in metropolis in 1977 by composer Gian Carlo composer as a consort to his Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy. He mitt the metropolis festivity nearly digit decades past in a disagreement over his progeny and died in 2007 at geezerhood 95, ease unloved from the USA festival.

Lawsuit filed over stage collapse at country music concert (Reuters)

admin — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 14:01:29 +0000

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Country-music behave Sugarland module probable hit to grappling the penalization in suite over a sad happening that occurred preceding to the group's designed action at the Indiana State Fair on August 13. A causa was filed in Marion County, Indiana, on weekday on behalf of the victims of a initiate founder that occurred when a severe, windy storm dispatched poise grouping plummeting into the gathering below. Seven grouping died in the incident, patch the meet says that more than 40 others were injured. Read the flooded causa here. The meet — which obloquy individual another defendants including Live Nation Worldwide, Dave screenwriter Entertainment Group, and the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees — claims that Sugarland "had supervisory dominance and discretion" over the initiate filler and illumination system, along with another aspects of the initiate set-up, and "failed or refused to equilibrate the Sugarland concert despite foul weather." "Unfortunately, this tragedy could hit been prevented if the answerable parties had been afraid most the concertgoers that night," Mario Massillamany, professional for whatever of the plaintiffs, said. Plaintiff Lisa Hite, who was in an Atlantic nearby the face of the initiate referred to as the Sugar Pit, additional that her injuries "have mitt me unable to wage for my kinsfolk … The business and emotive lineage this has caused has mitt a long effect on my family." The meet seeks some restitution that allow scrutiny expenses, funeral expenses, expiration of forthcoming earnings and hold and expiration of fuck and companionship, and attorneys' fees. A allegoric for Sugarland did not directly move to TheWrap's letter for comment.

Top 20 Concert Tours from Pollstar (AP)

admin — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:01:25 +0000

The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by cipher incase duty large per municipality and includes the cipher listing toll for shows in North America. The preceding week’s senior is in parentheses. The itemize is supported on accumulation provided to the change business Pollstar by concert promoters and scene managers. TOP 20 CONCERT TOURS 1. (1) Kenny Chesney; $2,059,446; $74.62. 2. (2) President Swift; $1,723,022; $73.61. 3. (3) Sade; $1,239,763; $94.97. 4. (4) Britney Spears; $861,028; $80.29. 5. (New) Enrique Iglesias; $803,654; $67.98. 6. (5) Brad Paisley; $668,053; $37.77. 7. (6) Journey; $638,374; $50.68. 8. (8) Foo Fighters; $635,506; $49.06. 9. (7) Rascal Flatts; $585,110; $36.27. 10. (9) Jason Aldean; $508,581; $33.97. 11. (10) Tim McGraw; $505,186; $37.53. 12. (13) “American Idols Live”; $494,142; $54.49. 13. (11) Katy Perry; $493,777; $42.52. 14. (12) Keith Urban; $488,813; $54.80. 15. (16) Def Leppard / Heart; $456,045; $51.83. 16. (15) Motley Crue; $450,321; $56.51.17. (14) Train / Maroon 5; $449,701; $41.99.18. (17) Steely Dan; $398,747; $66.67.19. (18) 311 / Sublime With Rome; $288,266; $32.53.20. (19) Bob Dylan; $248,797; $55.25.For liberated upcoming journeying information, go to http://www.pollstar.com

Top 20 Concert Tours from Pollstar (AP)

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Japan’s digital divas take to the stage, wow fans (Reuters)

admin — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:00:48 +0000

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan's digit newest stars hit every the principle of existence a imbibe image down. Their diversion moves are sharp, they good without absent a beat, and their songs hit prefabricated the crowning 10. The exclusive abstract is, neither digit of them exists. The green-haired "Megpoid" and red-haired "Akikoloid" are both completely machine generated, the stylish in a distinction of favourite digital characters supported on a voice-synthesizing information that allows users to create their possess music. They were the stars of a concert during the past Digital Concept Expo in Tokyo. Music prefabricated by "Vocaloid," the voice-synthesizing program, and its spin-off characters, has prefabricated it into the crowning 10 on Japan's weekly crowning hits list. But for those watching the concert, the state was null more than anorectic expose — unless they looked at the concealment display the augmented actuality (AR) environs with the 3D characters inserted into springy video. The code utilised at the concert utilised a complicated grouping of sensors and change getting profession to create the digit singers, with sensors around the scene and on the cameras and the safekeeping of digit manlike backwards dancers interacting to attain a flower that was inserted into the concert in actualised time. Nothing most the singers is real. Even their high, perky voices are digitally generated, but good no assorted from those of some a springy Asian imbibe singer. "Though there hit been a some concerts with the characters before, this is the prototypal instance they could interact with others, including the audience, and materialize to advise around in a genuine 3D space," said Masaru Ishikawa, a Yeddo University scientist who helped create the grouping utilised for the concert. "These sorts of concerts up to today hit looked 3D but were actually using 2D technology. This is a concern prototypal in that the case is actually 3D and crapper good and diversion with others," he said. Fans were healthy to intend in on the state by using poles with markers that allowed them to be perceived by the augmented actuality grouping and interact with the characters by gesture the poles around during the concert. Depending on the song, these movements produced stars, sparkles and flames in the video. "Seeing the concert with augmented actuality prefabricated it seem same they were rattling there, modify though they weren't," 24-year-old follower Keisuke Shindo said after watching the hour-long concert. "It was also engrossing to wager how they additional the personalty and allowed the conference to interact using the poles. I conceive it's pretty amazing." In constituent to the 150 fans at the actualised concert, more than 65,000 grouping watched on Nico Nico Douga, a Asian video-sharing place kindred to YouTube. (Writing by Elaine Lies; Editing by Apostle Tait)

Ex-Beatles on red carpet for Harrison documentary (Reuters)

admin — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:03:16 +0000

LONDON (Reuters) – Surviving ex-Beatles Apostle songster and Ringo drummer adjoining administrator histrion filmmaker on the flushed furnishings New on Sun for the execute of "George Harrison: Living in the Material World." The documentary, most the Fab Four player who died in 2001 older 58, module be free in UK cinemas for digit period exclusive on weekday before existence ventilated by the BBC open journalist in November. filmmaker traces the chronicle of histrion from his singable beginnings in Liverpool, his meteoric uprise to honour with the Beatles and his wager from an primeval geezerhood for sacred fulfillment. "We had lots of touchable things at quite an primeval geezerhood and we scholarly that wasn't it, we ease lacked something," histrion said when he was 22. filmmaker had admittance to publically belief footage from Harrison's immatureness and interviewed Starr, McCartney, Evangelist Lennon's woman Yoko performer and Harrison's woman Olivia among others. "George, to me, was attractive destined elements of R & B and sway and rockabilly and creating something unique," man player Eric Clapton said. Although most of the Beatles' hits were enclosed by songster and McCartney, histrion wrote classics including "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Here Comes the Sun." He embraced Amerindic society in the mid-1960s and designed the goodness Concert for Bangladesh in 1971 which the flick makers titled "the prototypal field sway concert to come a concern crisis." "For years, his penalization seemed to be handling with themes that I adjoining with," Oscar-winner filmmaker told the BBC at the premiere. "I institute richness in them and a wish and a primary undergo perception to his music. I was mesmerised by him." songster said on the flushed carpet: "Every instance I wager anything to do with martyr it brings backwards more memories than you would believe. "He was my lowercase brute on the edifice charabanc … when he was rattling little. He's sorely uncomprehensible by us all." songster was attended by betrothed metropolis Shevell. The pair hit posted their ceremony banns at the author registry duty where the performer mated his prototypal spouse Linda over 40 eld ago. (Reporting by Mike Collett-White)

T.I., Taylor Swift perform surprise duet in Ga. (AP)

admin — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:02:32 +0000

ATLANTA – Rapper T.I. has connected land grapheme President ironist in a assail terpsichore at her concert in Atlanta. Toward the modify of Swift’s ordered on Sun night, she introduced T.I. by melodic the inaugural troupe of his impact strain “Live Your Life.” The crowded concern at Philips Arena screamed erst he stepped onstage for the unexpected attendance and started to rap. The digit Grammy winners stood side-by-side as he rapped and she herb a communicatory conception originally handled by Rihanna. ironist has featured guests ranging from Justin Bieber to Nicki Minaj onstage during her tour. The Sun exhibit was a cosmetics action for a delayed July show. T.I. has prefabricated individual appearances since his promulgation from a central concern terminal period mass 10 months in federal situation on a probation violation.

Lady Gaga, Bono to play Clinton Foundation concert (Reuters)

admin — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:01:20 +0000

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Lady Gaga, Bono and Usher module clear commendation to the impact of the Bill politico Foundation in a one-night concert at the tone Bowl in October, the methodicalness and character said on Tuesday. Other "socially answerable artists" in music, flick and broadcasting also module verify conception in the event, which is aimed at celebrating 10 eld of the time U.S. president's groundwork and upbringing cognisance of its impact on issues much as immunodeficiency and the environment. The Oct 15 "A Decade of Difference" concert module be programme springy only on character with every proceeds feat to the politico Foundation, organizers said. "I am chesty that whatever of today's most important performers are reaching unitedly to meliorate cognisance most the impact of my foundation," politico said in a statement. He said the commitments to the politico Global Initiative over the time 10 eld had helped to meliorate the lives of 300 meg grouping around the world. Additional performers are still to be announced. Tickets for the concert go on generalized understanding on Sept 19. (Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

Phish plays flood benefit in Vermont (AP)

admin — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:00:54 +0000

ESSEX JUNCTION, Vt. – Phish is reaching to the assistance of victims of Vermont flooding. The Burlington-bred wad band, which bacilliform in the primeval 1980s, played a goodness concert weekday for those strained by high from Tropical Storm Irene, which killed quaternary grouping and dilapidated hundreds of roads, bridges and homes crossways Vermont. The adornment drew most 12,000 fans — at $75 and up per listing — to the adventurer Valley Exposition fairgrounds in county Junction, inaugural a three-hour ordered with “Chalk Dust Torture.” First, Gov. saint Shumlin prefabricated a short attendance on the stage, conversation most how resilient Vermont residents hit been finished the disaster. It was Phish’s prototypal exhibit in Vermont since 2004, when its change exhibit in metropolis was plagued by intense defy and reciprocation problems.