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#1881 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 27 February 2020 - 03:43 PM

wait until the melania trump tour comes to town in 2026.  $5k per ticket.

 

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Posted 12 March 2020 - 09:41 AM

Bucking the cancellation trend these days, The Killers have announced a North American tour this summer. They'll play Rogers Arena in Vancouver on August 21, and The Gorge Amphitheater in Washington on August 22.



#1883 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 12 March 2020 - 09:42 AM

is that the band the killers?  or is it that the coronavirus?

 

somebody told me.


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#1884 AllseeingEye

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Posted 12 March 2020 - 06:14 PM

Great band, and well worth making the trek over to YVR and spending to the $ to see....



#1885 Matt R.

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Posted 12 March 2020 - 06:39 PM

Live Nation is suspending all arena shows until the end of the month, at least.

Hope it’s short lived, I’ve got some great shows coming up in April and May!

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#1886 Rob Randall

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Posted 02 April 2020 - 11:35 AM

Victoria's Artist in Residence Kathryn Calder will be live streaming a concert from home on Friday, April 3 at 7:30 p.m. PST.

 

Tune in to Kathryn’s YouTube channel here:

https://youtu.be/D57NnlUVNXg

 

The Victoria-based musician, songwriter/recording artist and recording studio owner was selected as the City’s Artist in Residence last year. For the past 15 years, Kathryn has been recording and touring as a vocalist/ keyboardist with indie rock group The New **rnographers. She has also released three solo records, five albums with Immaculate Machine, and one album with her latest project, Frontperson.

 

For more information, visit: http://ow.ly/oJEO50z2IKe



#1887 spanky123

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Posted 02 April 2020 - 12:25 PM

It must be tough for musicians. These days touring is the only way to make money.



#1888 Nparker

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Posted 02 April 2020 - 12:40 PM

....These days touring is the only way to make money.

Unless you are paid to be a municipal "artist in residence" of course.


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#1889 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 03 April 2020 - 03:54 PM

if anyone wants a change of pace tonight’s e-talk special is a repeat of last summers David Foster special.

https://www.theloop....nd-giving-back/

Check your local listings.

#1890 Matt R.

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Posted 03 April 2020 - 06:19 PM

I am really enjoying the Facebook live concerts Tom Hooper (Grapes of Wrath) is doing from his house on Salt Spring the last week or so! 7 pm most nights.

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Posted 17 April 2020 - 05:17 AM

Fans around the world — and now two members of the U.S. Congress — are demanding the world's largest entertainment company, Live Nation, refund tickets for all events cancelled or postponed by the COVID-19 crisis.

Live Nation, which owns Ticketmaster and took in $11 billion US in concert and ticket revenue last year, is under pressure from customers to return their money immediately, as many are struggling to pay their bills during the pandemic and there's no telling when people will be going to concerts again.

 

The company announced this week that while it honours refunds for shows that have been officially cancelled, 90 per cent of its shows are simply being postponed for dates in the future that have yet to be set.

 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...id-19-1.5535213



#1892 Rob Randall

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Posted 17 April 2020 - 05:40 AM

The John Prine Canadian tour is listed on Ticketmaster's site as officially cancelled, a decision made easier due to the fact of his unfortunate death. 

 

I don't see any major concerts happening for several months so in my book that sounds a lot like a cancellation scenario.



#1893 Matt R.

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Posted 17 April 2020 - 12:06 PM

I’ve got a few grand in outstanding concert tickets. Would much rather keep them to be used at a later date, but I think for many the cancellations are coming as there is just no end in sight. Postponing to September or October is probably not in the cards for some of the bigger venues. Sad!

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Posted 17 April 2020 - 12:13 PM

The first few tour dates for Rammstein's show are being delayed/rescheduled due to COVID. I have waited 20 years to see them, so if my September dates get canned I'm going to be a little upset. That said, I was willing to fly to LA for a 20 hour period and stay in a shitty little roadside motel just to see them, so if it's rescheduled at all I am going to be there. Hopefully it's not Eurocentric when it's rescheduled... though I do miss Berlin.


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#1895 Matt R.

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Posted 17 April 2020 - 12:34 PM

Did you see that YouTube video of them setting up for a show?

https://youtu.be/JgGuRKgvWQ4

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Posted 17 April 2020 - 12:50 PM

Oh yeah, they are INSANE in concert. Currently getting my hype on watching the Live at Madison Square Gardens + Paris tours (on Prime). My TV lacks the bass to do it justice.


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#1897 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 23 April 2020 - 01:35 PM

The latest cancellation sure to disappoint eager fans comes from the Steve Miller Band. The band, along with special guest Gary Mule Deer, was scheduled to appear at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria on Sept. 1, but has been cancelled due to the pandemic, out of an abundance of caution, according to a press release.

 

https://www.vicnews....id-19-pandemic/



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Posted 24 April 2020 - 05:04 PM

Two huge summer musical festivals near Lake Cowichan have been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic — Sunfest and the Laketown Shakedown.

 

In an announcement on their website, Sunfest organizers vowed to return July 29-Aug. 1, 2021, saying they will announce the 2021 lineup this fall.

 

https://www.timescol...lled-1.24124188



#1899 Spy Black

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Posted 25 April 2020 - 09:03 AM

Mike alluded to it in another thread, but I question the need to announce every entertainment cancellation as it occurs?

 

Here's the painful reality IMO, live entertainment in all of its forms won't be returning in Victoria (or anywhere else for that matter) for the duration of 2020, and very likely much longer than that.

 

Most people already realize that live entertainment won't be returning until such time as a vaccine has been developed, which is between 12 to 18 months.

Add another three or four (or more) months to allow for everybody in the world to get vaccinated (likely as the vaccine keeps running out due to worldwide demand), and you'll see live entertainment slowly return ... but it will be into the last month or two of 2021 before that happens.

 

Unfortunately, there won't be much to see when it does return, as most arts orginzations and concert promoters will have gone completely broke long before.

 

Local and regional arts organizations will likely begin to struggle financially towards the end of summer and into the Fall of 2020.

Complete failure and closing down are all going to be just a matter of each organizations available cash reserves combined with as yet unannounced massive government grants given without terms and conditions, and with the express purpose of keeping arts organizations functional and alive until COVID passes in a year or two.

 

Then there's the reality that even if things open back up in a year and a half or two years, residents who traditionally were patrons of the arts will likely be financially strapped to the point where buying a ticket to a show is the last thing they would commit their available funds to.

Rather that money that would have in good times bought tickets to a rock show, or a dance or symphony performance - will instead be spent on food, or clothing for the kids.

In short, everybody will be broke, many will be out of work, and local businesses will have been devastated. The arts organizations that do manage to survive COVID will perform to empty houses simply because nobody has any money with which to purchase tickets to see a show.

 

I think people need to accept that they'll be living in a world without any live entertainment of any type, for at least a year, and likely longer than that. 

Your computer and big screen TV is the only place you'll be seeing any artistic presentations at all for the next couple of years.

 

So maybe we just say that everything "live" is canceled for at least the next 6-10 months (although more likely 15-20 months), and leave it at that.

And I do get that all of the above is depressing beyond words, but it's the reality of live entertainment and COVID - as opposed to some sort of pointless pipe dream where live entertainment starts up again in a few months with theatrical "social distancing" and face-masks for all.

 

 



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Posted 26 April 2020 - 02:00 PM

6:30pm tonight:

 

Join iconic Canadian artists, activists, actors, and athletes as they share their stories of hope and inspiration in this national salute to our frontline workers and in support of Food Banks Canada’s COVID-19 relief efforts.

 

https://strongertogethercanada.ca/

 

 



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