When Australian artist Vance Joy performed at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Wednesday, there wasn’t a smartphone in sight.
It wasn’t quite physically possible for audience members using Facebook’s Oculus Venues, a live VR concert ex…
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Lea’s live event assistant for Messenger makes buying tickets easier
Buying event tickets online isn’t a great experience. Sites like Ticketmaster are the default, but are difficult to use and expensive. A startup called Lea wants to offer a more modern experience by combining event search, discovery, seat selection and payment all in a single application that works right in Facebook Messenger. Yes, that’s right – Lea is a chatbot. And while… Read More
Lea’s live event assistant for Messenger makes buying tickets easier
Buying event tickets online isn’t a great experience. Sites like Ticketmaster are the default, but are difficult to use and expensive. A startup called Lea wants to offer a more modern experience by combining event search, discovery, seat selection and payment all in a single application that works right in Facebook Messenger. Yes, that’s right – Lea is a chatbot. And while… Read More
Like to dance in the aisles at concerts? Don’t do it in this city.
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Heading to a concert, the last thing you’d expect to be kicked out for is dancing.
But that’s reportedly what happened to a fan at a Stevie Nicks concert in Melbourne — she was thrown out by security for “dancing,” according to The Sydney Morning Herald.
Nicks concertgoer Jo-Ann George told the newspaper that she was removed from her $204 floor seat in Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena on Nov. 16, after she was asked by security to stop dancing mid-show.
If you’ve ever tried to listen to “Edge of Seventeen” sitting in your designated seat, it’s a goddamn fool’s errand. Read more…
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YouTube today announced a partnership with Ticketmaster that will see the Google-owned video network connecting fans with concert tickets and tour information directly on artists’ YouTube video pages. Starting today, YouTube will begin featuring hundreds of artists’ upcoming U.S. tour dates on their YouTube videos beneath the video’s description. This added integration… Read More
MyMusicTaste, which allows fans to request live events, gets $11M Series C
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