After realising that there was no chance of logging into Ticketmaster.com, I headed down to the local AFL club to join the queue. I think I would have been about number 50 in the queue at 9.30 am. It was a hot morning and some were more prepared than others. Fortunately I had an umbrella to keep the sun off, a chair, a water bottle, and a Sharon Daloz Parks book on faith development to read through.
We heard that Sydney had sold out in an hour and that scalpers were already getting high prices for tickets on eBay. Melbourne sold out shortly after. It turned out that the Ticketmaster.com website was down due to the high online demand. The phone lines were likely to be overloaded as well. Staying in the queue was our best chance.
I only had to wait 40 minutes after sales opened at 12 noon. It seemed like each person was taking 5 minutes. I managed to get five reasonably close seats for the family.
The New Zealand concert was booked out within 15 minutes if all reports are to be believed. I understand that a second concert is being organised with tickets going on sale next Monday. And maybe there’ll be extra concerts in Sydney and Melbourne.
I’ve just posted my first story at Duncan’s Music Videos, a blog dedicated to music videos with something to say. With the arrival of the video iPod there must be more interest in where to view and download quicktime music videos. I should probably think of something imaginative to call it but “music videos” helps in the search engines. I should also work on a domain name and independent host, like I should with the rest of the blogs, but that takes time and money. This summer perhaps.
The first post is all about the Bono/Alicia Keys/Kristen Ashburn 4.5 minute video collaboration: “Don’t Give Up Africa” sung as a duet with photographs from Southern Africa highlighting the impact of HIV/AIDS. We’ve just had World AIDS day. But the life-destroying plague continues all year round.
Rob Hanks at Pumphouse, has given us the low down on the up and coming U2 Australian Vertigo tour .
“Eight years after they last played Australia, U2 are taking the Vertigo Tour to Auckland, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney in March. The shows are the first to be announced for ‘Vertigo ‘06′ which will kick off in February and also stop in Mexico, South America, New Zealand, Australia and Japan.
U2.Com can exclusively confirm the Australian dates - tickets will go on general sale on Monday December 5th.
Friday March 17 Auckland Ericsson Stadium
Tuesday March 21 Brisbane Queensland Sports & Athletics Centre
Friday March 24 Melbourne Telstra Dome
Tuesday March 28 Adelaide AAMI Stadium
Friday March 31 Sydney Telstra Stadium
Tickets are priced at $99 for General Admission to the stadium field area, with Reserved Seat tickets to be priced between $99 and $199. Ticket sales outlet information will be released one week prior to the on-sale date of December 5.”
In honour of the impending news, I’ve put two posts on U2’s iPod videos at Duncan’s TV Adland.
The first video clip, Vertigo, was released as a 30 second ad on Apple’s site, promoting the U2 Special Edition iPod and the Photo iPod. The Vertigo ad is also available as a 2-minute clip.
It’s all written up on Sunday November 20.
The most recent video clip, “An Original of the Species”, was featured in the promotion of the Video iPod. I wrote up the promotion on Saturday October 15.
Hopefully I’ll get to see both songs live next year. In the meantime, I’ll have to make do with the DVD of U2 Vertigo 2005: Live from Chicago.
With the arrival of the video iPod there must be more interest in where to view and download quicktime music videos. I should probably think of something imaginative to call it but “music videos” helps in the search engines. I should also work on a domain name and independent host, like I should with the rest of the blogs, but that takes time and money. This summer perhaps.
