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Have you used websites like Seatwave or Viagogo?

So, this is the 1000th post of the Musical Chairs. I’ve been writing on this thing for just over two years about anything that takes my interest and have enjoyed it immensely. I appreciate all the hits I get and all the good comments I get from visitors. But now, after providing you with 999 [...]

Who will join Muse and U2 at Glastonbury?

This year is the 40th anniversary of the world’s most well-known music festival, Glastonbury. Organisers are hoping to make this festival the best in its illustrious (and, on occasion, not so illustrious) history by putting a together a bill that would make jaws drop. Anything less than big names for the headlining slots won’t do [...]

Another Version Of The Truth

Back in 2008, Nine Inch Nails embarked on a US tour that would last almost half a year. It was dubbed the Lights In The Sky tour and was quite possibly the most technologically ambitious concert experience of recent times, with several screens, lights, effects, and trickery. It was a two-and-a-half hour concert experience that [...]

Placebo at the O2 Arena

At one point during Placebo’s show at the O2 Arena – their biggest headlining show in the UK to date – Brian Molko simply said ‘less bullshit, more music’. It seemed to be the theme of the evening he and his band stormed their way through a solid ninety-minute set. Many question whether or not [...]

65daysofstatic to tour UK in 2010

The post-rock kings of Sheffield, 65daysofstatic, are set to return next year with their fourth album, which has just recently been finished and looks set to be with us in the first few months of 2010. The good news for us is that this means another batch of live dates as the songs they’ve road-tested [...]