More Free Concerts
Genesis will be premiering concerts for free on their official youtube channel, at 3 PM eastern on five consecutive Saturdays starting today with Three Sides Live, a concert filmed on 28 and 29 November 1981 at the Savoy Thater and Nassau Coliseum in New York.
The “Film Festival 2020” will continue on April 25th with Genesis Live: A Mama Tour, which features live footage from several February 1984 concerts at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre. And starting on May 2nd, three additional live concert recordings will make their way to the channel, namely Genesis Live At Wembley Stadium, which was filmed from July 1st to July 4th, 1987, The Way We Walk – Live in Concert, which was filmed at Earls Court in November 1992, and When In Rome 2007, which was filmed at the Circus Maximus in Rome on July 14, 2007.
The last two aforementioned films will be added on May 9th and May 16th.
Neil Finn of Split Enz and Crowded House has also been performing live from isolation on Mixrl at 7 PM Eastern, daily from Late March. Details on his live broadcasts and archived recordings are available by clicking here. And The Killers are scheduled to perform today on Instagram Live at 3 PM Eastern (12 PM Pacific Time).
North Americans who prefer English theatre also have the opportunity to view a full stage version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera until 2 pm Eastern on Sunday on the Show Must Go On! Youtube channel.
This performance features Ramin Karimloo, Sierra Boggess and Hadley Fraser and will be replaced by other stage performances penned by Andrew Lloyd Webber shortly after 2 pm Eastern on Sunday.
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More Free Online Content
Apple TV is streaming several of its original television programs and film for free via its app, namely Servant, For All Mankind, Little America, Dickinson, The Elephant Queen, Helpsters, Snoopy in Space and Ghostwriter.
Styx (featuring Gowan) will also be streaming a concert recorded in Las Vegas tonight at 8 PM Eastern. You can view it by clicking here.
Guitarist David Barrett will be previewing The Elegant Universe on Facebook Live on Sunday, April 11th, at Noon Eastern.
Multiple live performances are also available via the National Arts Centre.
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Live Magic – August 9th, 1986
Freddie Mercury’s last live performance with Queen was recorded on this day in 1986 in Knebworth, England. And this album, my first and one of my very favourite live albums, features some of this performance.
The other tracks featured on this compact disc, which is now only available as a Japanese import, were recorded a few days prior during The Magic Tour, at Wembley Stadium in London, England on July 12th, 1986 and the Népstadion in Budapest, Hungary on July 27th, 1986. And more complete recordings for those performances were released on DVD and Blu-ray.
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Ticketmaster Settles
Ticketmaster L.L.C., TNow Entertainment Group, Inc. and Ticketmaster Canada LP has agreed to pay $4.5 million dollars to settle the Competition Bureau’s case against them for misleading prices, according to a news release that was issued today by the bureau:
“As part of a consent agreement registered with the Competition Tribunal, the companies will also establish a compliance program to ensure their advertising complies with the law and will implement new procedures to prevent advertising issues in the future.”
The Bureau had concluded that Canadian consumers were paying 20% to 60% more than the advertised price due to fees, which were mandatory. And had decided to sue Ticketmaster and several other associated companies on January 25th, 2018 (PDF).
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