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Chiefs' club-level ticket holders face huge ticket increase

Chiefs' club-level ticket holders face huge ticket increase
By ADAM TEICHER
The Kansas City Star
Jim DeMoss’ ticket ordeal began innocently last month when he received a phone call from the Chiefs.

Beginning in 2009, he was informed, the price would rise dramatically on the six club-level season tickets he said he’s held since 1994.

DeMoss soon received a contract that not only outlined the steep increases — by 2013, he would pay more than double for those six seats what he will in 2008 — but also contained other terms he considered onerous.

The Chiefs were demanding a five-year commitment and gave him 10 days from receipt of the contract to decide. They also have the right to move the location of his seats, which are near midfield.

DeMoss considered the offer and the Chiefs’ nine-game losing streak ending last season, and threw up his hands in surrender.

“As far as these seats are concerned, I’m not going to do it,” he said. “Enough is enough. Prices have gradually crept up over the years on those tickets, but this is more than a creep.

“It’s hard to believe they just threw this out in front of people and told them they had 10 days to make up their minds. That’s not the way I would handle it.”

All club-level ticket holders will eventually have to decide that for themselves. The Chiefs began contacting that fan base in January, though senior vice president for administration Bill Newman said they won’t get to the last of them until the fall.

Like DeMoss, they were told of the changes coming to the club level, including upgraded amenities that will be in place in time for the 2010 season. And they will be asked to pay for those amenities, despite $375 million in renovations that are largely taxpayer-financed.

The price changes have been startling to many of the ticket holders, including some who have been buying from the Chiefs for many years. Kent Baker, who said he first bought Chiefs season tickets in the early ’80s, had a case of sticker shock when he received his contract Friday.

By 2013, he would be paying $11,040 for his four club-level tickets, also near midfield. Those same four season tickets will cost him $4,400 this year.

Newman said the three- and five-year commitments and the pricing structure are similar to what’s being done in other NFL stadiums with comparable club-level amenities.

“The club level beginning in 2009 will have an enclosed, air-conditioned space,” Newman said. “It’s going to have a high-end, hotel-lobby type of finish. It’s going to have huge glass windows to the outside. It’s going to have an upscale, festive atmosphere. It will have fireplaces. There will be flat-screen TVs throughout. The food will range from gourmet to standard fare. Fans can stay after the game. It’s a club.”

Newman said the Chiefs have contacted about 15 percent of their club-level ticket holders. The club level has about 10,200 seats.

He said about 95 percent have agreed to sign a long-term contract.

“We researched the pricing in the marketplace carefully,” Newman said. “This was not done without extensive research.

“The response has been what we thought it would be based on our research. Obviously, there are some people that this is more than their budgets would allow. But there are a lot of people who desire these kinds of amenities.

“We understand that the pricing may be such that not everybody will be able to deal with it. But maybe they still want to go to the games. We’ve been able to secure enough seating available in other levels of the stadium, and we’re giving them those options. If this pricing doesn’t work for some of our club-level ticket holders, there are a variety of options all throughout the stadium for them to select from that may be less than they are currently paying or comparable.”

AC/DC Rumoured For Australian Stadium Show

AC/DC Rumoured For Australian Stadium Show
posted Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 11:14:20 AM by Diamond Oz. (thanks BW&BK)

According to News.com.au, speculation is mounting over who is next to take the Suncorp Stadium stage in Brisbane, Australia.

AC/DC fans, prepare to rejoice. An Acca Dacca tour has been rumoured for years, but industry insiders reckon the kings of hard rock will hit the road this year, including a Suncorp blitzkreig.

And local promoters salivating over LED ZEPPELIN are on the phones to Canada. Following the band's London reunion gig, Toronto-based promoter Michael Cohl is reportedly stitching up a Led Zep tour. The cost? $200 million for North America alone.

But with Zep singer ROBERT PLANT touring with recent collaborator ALISON KRAUSS in April and May, a Led Zep jaunt to Oz could take place next year.



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Billy Joel concert Shea stadium tickets call 1-800-688-4000

Billy Joel will be the last artist to play at New York's Shea Stadium with a July 16 concert billed as "The Last Play at Shea, From the Beatles to Billy." The show comes in the midst of the New York Mets' final season at Shea; the team moves into its new home at Citi Field in 2009.

The Joel show, promoted by Live Nation in association with Mitch Slater, goes on sale Feb. 16. Joel joins a long list of Rock & Roll Hall of Famers will have played the Queens, N.Y. baseball stadium, beginning with the Beatles in August 1965 and including including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Police, Eric Clapton, Elton John, and Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band.

"The Last Play at Shea," which comes the day after the Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium, makes Joel the only artist to ever have played both Yankee Stadium (two nights in 1991) and Shea Stadium. It is also the first in-season concert at Shea since Clapton and John played there during the 1992 baseball season.

On of the world's top concert draws, Joel took in $40 million in 2007 from only 29 shows according to Billboard Boxscore. This year, Joel is "not touring, just working," his longtime agent Dennis Arfa tells Billboard.com. "We put weeks together instead of months."

Joel is out for a brief run beginning Feb. 23 at the Honda Center in Anaheim and including stops in Sacramento (26), Denver (28), Milwaukee (March 2). He then plays Des Moines on April 15 and Pittsburgh April 18, prior to headlining the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival April 26.

Billy Elliot comes to Broadway

Broadway's Billy Elliot Searching for Its Star
By Andrew Gans
06 Nov 2006


The Broadway production of Billy Elliot the Musical — scheduled to arrive in New York in fall 2008 — is searching for young actors to play the roles of Billy and Michael.

Auditions for these roles will be held in New York City and in Boston on Nov. 11 and 18, respectively. The Manhattan auditions will take place at the Hilton Theatre Studios, 214 West 43rd Street; sign up begins at 10 AM. Boston auditions will be held at the Boston Ballet Studios, 19 Clarendon Street; sign up begins at 11:30 AM.

Those auditioning must be able to dance, sing and act and should be no taller than five feet. For more information visit www.bebilly.com.

Elton John (score) and Lee Hall's (book) Billy Elliot, which is based on the film of the same name, is set in England's North East against the background of the miners' strike. The musical concerns a working-class boy's dream of becoming a ballet dancer. Stephen Daldry directs.

Billy Elliot features choreography by Peter Darling, scenic design by Ian MacNeil, costume design by Nicky Gillibrand, lighting design by Rick Fisher and sound design by Paul Arditti. Producers are Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Jon Finn and Sally Greene. Angela Morrison and David Furnish are executive producers.

The London production won Best New Musical at the 2006 Olivier Awards. Peter Darling picked up the Best Theatre Choreographer Award, while the Best Actor in a Musical Award was shared by James Lomas, George Maguire and Liam Mower, who rotated in the title role.


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Stone Temple Pilots Reunite For Ohio Festival

Stone Temple Pilots Reunite For Ohio Festival
Stone Temple Pilots

February 12, 2008, 10:05 AM ET

Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
The Stone Temple Pilots reunion first reported here last month will touch down for the first time at the Rock on the Range festival, to be held May 17-18 at Columbus, Ohio's Columbus Crew Stadium.

Other acts confirmed for the AEG Live-steered event, which is expanding this year to two days, include Kid Rock, Disturbed, 3 Doors Down, Staind, Papa Roach, Seether, Flyleaf, Shinedown, Serj Tankian, the reunited Filter, Killswitch Engage and Finger Eleven.

The bill will be rounded out by Alter Bridge, Theory Of A Deadman, Sevendust, Default, 10 Years, Bobaflex, Red, Airbourne and Black Tide.

Rock on the Range will be Stone Temple Pilots' first show in more than seven years. Frontman Scott Weiland recently entered rehab but is expected to be ready to return to the road in time for Rock on the Range. Other STP shows have yet to be announced.


Tickets go on sale Feb. 23. VIP packages are available that include hotel, merchandise and other perks.

Legalized pro sports betting in Jersey a long shot, but it does make sense

Legalized pro sports betting in Jersey a long shot, but it does make sense



February 10, 2008, 12:05 AM

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The Super Bowl champion New York Giants had barely finished brushing the confetti from their coats when word of another long-shot proposition began to surface in the world of professional sports.

It's not the biggest story of the week, but perhaps it ought to be. The New Jersey Legislature is once again entertaining the possibility of legalizing betting on professional sports. What only a few years ago was thought to be an outrageous suggestion now seems merely highly improbable.

The bill, introduced Jan. 24, has passed out of the tourism and gaming committee, and is scheduled for a vote of the full Assembly on Thursday. Although even its backers call it a prohibitive underdog - it's been tried unsuccessfully two other times in the past four years - each time it comes before the public the specter of legalized bookmaking gets less controversial.

If passed into law, the bill would permit the public to vote on whether to permit legal betting at Atlantic City casinos on professional sporting events. I'm guessing the public would rush to the polls and approve it in a landslide like a bunch of inveterate sports junkies.

The betting would be regulated by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission instead of the current system of oversight and enforcement, which I believe is supervised by the Soprano family.

Federal law would have to be changed to accommodate the betting desires of New Jersey residents, but the bill's prohibition on gambling on college sports would likely make even Sen. John McCain shrug with indifference. (You may recall McCain made hay out of attempting to ban legalized betting on college sports, a move that essentially and nonsensically singled out Nevada's legal sports books.) With so much legalized gambling going on in so many states, logical reasons for maintaining a ban on sports betting outside Nevada become harder to justify and seem almost corny. Not that members of Congress aren't capable of justifying just about anything in the name of protecting adults from themselves: It's what many legislators do best.

But, let's be honest, on a busy weekend there's more betting going on in sports bars across America - almost all of it illegal - than takes place in a month at Las Vegas books. The Internet is jammed with so many sports betting sites I'm surprised the University of Phoenix doesn't offer a master's degree in bookmaking.

The odds of the bill passing through the New Jersey Legislature during its current session seem remote. Some politicians would adjust their political eyeshades and take the bet off the board.

"I think Appalachian State would have to beat the Giants before the federal government would allow us to change the law to permit sports betting in casinos," New Jersey Senate President Richard J. Codey told Tom Hester of the Newark Star Ledger. "That's about where our odds stand right now."

He's probably right.

But in a country brimming with gamblers and sports fans, in a state that is second only to Nevada in its celebration of its legalized casino culture, battling sports betting in Atlantic City makes zero sense. And it might even be good for Las Vegas. At the very least it would compel the anti-bookmaking hypocrites to pick on someone else once in a while.

The long-shot professional betting bill isn't the only news on the sports gambling front.

Last November, investigators busted a mobbed-up sports betting ring that worked out of the poker room of the Borgata resort. And just this week, New Jersey authorities closed the deal on an investigation of what was considered to be one of that state's largest sports betting rings when 37 people were indicted on charges ranging from racketeering and money laundering to promoting gambling and forgery.

Other than that, New Jersey's sports betting prohibition is looking like it makes a lot of sense.

And there's one final story breaking in the world of sports gambling. This one from Nevada, where the state's sports books handled $92 million in Super Bowl bets, just shy of a record. In tough economic times, with states sniffing for additional revenues, legalizing sports betting in New Jersey makes a lot of sense.

Sure, it's a long, long shot.

But isn't that what most sports pundits were saying just a few days ago about the Giants?

John L. Smith's column, reprinted from the Las Vegas Review-Journal, appears on Sundays in the LVN. E-mail him at smith@reviewjournal.com or call 702-383-0295.

Billy Joel tour dates New York City 2008 Shea stadium

Billy Joel To Be Shea's 'Last Play'
Billy Joel

February 07, 2008, 12:00 AM ET

Ray Waddell, Nashville
Billy Joel will be the last artist to play at New York's Shea Stadium with a July 16 concert billed as "The Last Play at Shea, From the Beatles to Billy." The show comes in the midst of the New York Mets' final season at Shea; the team moves into its new home at Citi Field in 2009.

The Joel show, promoted by Live Nation in association with Mitch Slater, goes on sale Feb. 16. Joel joins a long list of Rock & Roll Hall of Famers will have played the Queens, N.Y. baseball stadium, beginning with the Beatles in August 1965 and including including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Police, Eric Clapton, Elton John, and Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band.

"The Last Play at Shea," which comes the day after the Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium, makes Joel the only artist to ever have played both Yankee Stadium (two nights in 1991) and Shea Stadium. It is also the first in-season concert at Shea since Clapton and John played there during the 1992 baseball season.

On of the world's top concert draws, Joel took in $40 million in 2007 from only 29 shows according to Billboard Boxscore. This year, Joel is "not touring, just working," his longtime agent Dennis Arfa tells Billboard.com. "We put weeks together instead of months."

Joel is out for a brief run beginning Feb. 23 at the Honda Center in Anaheim and including stops in Sacramento (26), Denver (28), Milwaukee (March 2). He then plays Des Moines on April 15 and Pittsburgh April 18, prior to headlining the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival April 26.

Nevada casinos lost $2.6 million on Super Bowl wagers

Nevada casinos lost $2.6 million on Super Bowl wagers
Nevada casinos lost $2.6 million on Super Bowl wagers
Tue Feb 5, 2008 9:28pm EST
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The New York Giants' upset of the New England Patriots in this year's Super Bowl surprised Las Vegas, too.

Nevada casinos lost nearly $2.6 million to Super Bowl gamblers this year, the state's Gaming Control Board said on Tuesday.

The only other time the casinos lost money on the National Football League's championship game since record-keeping began in 1992 was in 1995, when they paid out a net of around $400,000, control board senior research analyst Frank Streshley said.

The Super Bowl started in 1967.

The 174 sports books at Nevada's casinos took in $92.1 million in wagers on this year's February 3 contest, in which the Giants beat the Patriots 17-14.

Streshley said many bettors took a "moneyline" bet this year -- opting to put money on a simple wager that the underdog Giants would prevail, rather than more complicated point-spread bets.

"The books took a pretty big hit on that," he said.

The Patriots, unbeaten this season until Sunday, were favored to win the Super Bowl by 12 points by most oddsmakers in Las Vegas.

Last year, the casinos posted $12.9 million in winnings from bets totaling $93.1 million.

Major Las Vegas casino operators include Harrah's Entertainment Inc., MGM Mirage, Las Vegas Sands and Station Casinos Inc.

Bonnaroo 2008

Led Zeppelin rumors fizzle with lineup announcement.

By James Montgomery

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Attention Internet rumormongers: The folks behind Bonnaroo are listening. And they're totally thumbing their noses at you.

For months, message boards have been buzzing that none other than Led Zeppelin — who reunited in December to play a memorial concert for the late Ahmet Ertegun in London — would top the bill at this year's edition of the 'Roo. And now, all that chatter has proven to be true. Well, not really.

While the mighty Led Zep won't be appearing at Bonnaroo 2008, the equally mighty Lez Zeppelin — an all-girl Zep cover band from New York City — will be there, along with headliners Pearl Jam, Metallica and Jack Johnson. That's according to Superfly Productions and AC Entertainment, the co-founders of the festival, who gave MTV News a peak at the lineup late Tuesday night (February 5) night.

Joining Lez on the bill is a veritable who's who of indie, hip-hop and, well, jam, a list of more than 80 acts that includes Kanye West, Death Cab for Cutie, M.I.A., Bonnaroo mainstays My Morning Jacket, the Raconteurs, Rilo Kiley, Sigur Rós and Lupe Fiasco. There are also healthy doses of metal (in addition to Metallica, Mastodon and the Sword are scheduled to appear), punk (Against Me!, Gogol Bordello) and, of course, blog (Vampire Weekend, Black Kids, MGMT, Battles).

And longtime 'Roo-goers need not fret: Phil Lesh, the Allman Brothers Band, Bela Fleck and Umphrey's McGee will be there too. Also of note, Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant is scheduled to appear — albeit performing a set with Alison Krauss — so start those "Plant is gonna sing with Lez Zeppelin during SuperJam!" rumors now.

(Check out our coverage of the 2007 Bonnaroo Festival.)

More performers are expected to be announced over the coming weeks, and when all is said and done, this year's festival will feature more than 100 bands and 20 comedians performing on 13 stages. The action will go down June 12-15 in (where else?) Manchester, Tennessee.