Free tickets through Twitter
A very silly video (and some great content) all from our weekly newsletter. To receive a copy every Friday, register on site.
We’re pleased to announce that our Twitter offer for tickets will be starting very shortly. Keep an eye for the phrase for the phrase Free tickets available @owngig. The first person to Retweet the phrase will win the tickets.
As announced a few weeks ago we’re off late July to the New Music Seminar in New York. If you’re interesting in attending, there’s a flyer for the event you can view online here. We’ll have our badges on so if you do end up attending say hi.
Finally, the bids are rattling in for acts. This week we’ve seen Tokio Hotel go above 800, Rick Astley go up to just under 170 and in the last few days we’ve seen a stampede of bids from fans of Aussie Pop Idol sensation Shannon Noll. Add yours here …
This week on the web we’ve been loving…
Given what we do, unsurprisingly we’re very much for the fans. Therefore we were impressed this week when we heard that a fan of US progtastic band Phish streamed the whole of the band’s live concert from the venue via his iPhone . It’s like the Beastie Boys fan shot video Awesome: I… Shot That! from a few years ago. Mind you, bet his arm is tired…
Another thing that impressed us this week was the Wiiolin – one clever geek has repurposed our favourite game console’s controller as a violin. Watching the video it seems so natural. Anyway he joins an increasing list of geek instruments that include the iPhone Ocarina , the USB roll up piano and the Arduino trumpet .
Finally we’d like to end of something sillier. The 1984 video for Bonnie Tyler’s power ballad, Total Eclipse of the Heart is one of the most insane music videos of all time so any lampooning of it already has comedy gold to work with. Well this literal version where the lyrics respond to what’s on screen couldn’t really fail… and it doesn’t. Enjoy! A million YouTube users can’t be wrong.