Lady Gaga has spoken about her next tour and what fans can expect. “So, I put together a show that is so perfectly an avant-garde-performance-art-fashion installation, put in a blender and vomited on as a pop show,” she told MTV. “It’s kind of this amazing theme of evolution, but it’s in a garage, and me and all my (Read more…)

Viagogo has today released its 2009 live music statistics with some surprising results. Tickets to see Michael Bublé have been the most traded in 2009 proving that this year has been the Canadian crooner’s most successful in Europe. Bublé may have been helped by making 2 appearances on this year’s X-Factor including a duet with Stacy Solomon on the final weekend which was seen by more than 17 million people. Tickets to U2’s tour (Read more…)

Ticketmaster and Live Nation merger approved.The UK competition regulator has cleared the way for Ticketmaster and Live Nation to merge, making it the most powerful music company of the planet. The UK ruling means the merger can now fast-track and the new company is expected the change the way the music business does business. For starters, it now puts management, recording, ticket sales, concert venues and merchandise into one package. The term ‘360 degree’ model now has a juggernaut. Ticketmaster earlier merger with Irving Azoff’s Front (Read more…)

To Blue: The Songs of Nick Drake tour in January 2010. Krystle Warren will be appearing alongside Green Gartside, Lisa Hannigan, Teddy Thompson, Robyn Hitchcock, Scott Matthews and Vashti Bunyan in Way To Blue: The Songs of Nick Drake tour in January 2010. Nick Drake’s obscurity during his lifetime now seems in inverse proportion to his influence and fame today. Only after his death, (Read more…)

Following on from his first UK arena tour, James Morrison has announced he will be performing a couple of 2010 concerts as part of Forestry Commission Live Music where artists perform in spectacular woodland locations around the country. James Morrison’s debut album ‘Undiscovered’ established him as an undeniably talented singer-songwriter. It has sold over two million copies yielding no fewer than five singles – ‘You Give Me (Read more…)

The Maccabees have collaborated with rapper Roots Manuva on a heady re-working of Wall of Arms album track and live favourite No Kind Words. The track, newly titled Empty Vessels, features brilliant new lyrics and vocals from fellow south Londoner Roots. Maccabees’ guitarist Felix White had Roots in mind for No (Read more…)

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