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We missed our chance to see Van Halen

October 24, 2007 by Tricia

My husband and I are trying to get out more. You know, trying to do things we both enjoy. We share a love of music so we thought that over the next few months we’d make an effort to get out and see some of our favorite bands in concert.

One of the bands that we both would have liked to see was Van Halen. Unfortunately they already played here in Toronto! There’s two upcoming concerts that we could get Van Halen tickets for, but the show in Boston is on a Tuesday and well that’s maybe too far to go, and the other is in Montreal – also not that close.

The Montreal concert is on Saturday November 10th. If only it was a few days later! We’ll be in Las Vegas at that time.

So I guess we won’t be seeing Van Halen. I think I’ll have to get my act together and do a little research as to what future concerts we might want to see and try to get tickets in advance.

At least living in a big city like Toronto we have lots of opportunities to see bands when they come to town on tour since almost every big band comes through here.





Filed Under: Entertainment, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Life with Chris, Music, Recreation, Toronto Tagged With: big city, Boston, concert, Favorite bands, husband, Las Vegas, Love, Montreal, Music, November, Saturday, show, ticket, tickets, Toronto, Van Halen, Van Halen concert

Cars and their Boom, Boom, BOOM

October 21, 2007 by Tricia

I’m always up late at night and lately, maybe the last three months, I’ve noticed that a car goes by blaring it’s music almost every night at about 2 a.m. and then at 4 a.m..

I can hear for at least 6 minutes! Can you imagine how loud the music must be inside the car for me to hear it from blocks away? The drivers either already half deaf or soon will be. Now don’t I sound old! LOL

I got a glimpse of the car the other day. It’s one of those suped up models. Big tires, billet grilles, and it looks like it’s had a few types of car kits added to it – you know the ones that make the back bumper look really huge?

One of my brothers used to be really into cars and music. I guess he was just like this guy who’s traveling around my neighborhood late at night.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Great Sites, Hobbies, Music, Recreation, Toronto Tagged With: blocks, booming, brother, car, custom, late, late at night, look, loud, loud music, Music, neighbor, Neighborhood, sound, travel, traveling, up late

SourceTix.com has tickets for events throughout North America

October 18, 2007 by Tricia

I think it’s always a great idea to know of a few online sites where you can find tickets to major events. SourceTix.com is definitely a site to check out.

SourceTix.com offers a comprehensive inventory of Theatre Tickets, concert tickets, and sports tickets.

The site has recently been redesigned. I’m not familiar with it’s former layout, but I found SourceTix.com’s current layout to be quite easy to use. There are menu buttons under the page header that will take site visitors directly to the sites home page, sports, concert or theater ticket listing sections. There’s also a menu on the left side of the page with expanded listings for each of the main ticket categories and a search box.

I actually like the fact that visitors can easily search for event tickets by city. It appears that visitors can search for tickets pretty much anywhere in North America.

As someone who’s going to be traveling to another city in the near future I appreciate the ability to search for tickets throughout North America. Who knows, perhaps I’ll spend some time on the site and see if I can find tickets for some events in Las Vegas in November. I’d love to see one of the shows in Vegas while I’m there.

You’ll be able to find tickets for upcoming future events and even to sold out or hard to get events. For example, I live in Toronto and even thought the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team isn’t doing so hot games are almost always sold out. They have a strong fan base and it’s always hard to get tickets. I checked the listings for the leafs and SourceTix.com has tickets for Saturday and other future games! Unbelievable.

I just told my husband and he had me check for tickets for a game which should be popular with the fans – the Toronto Maple Leafs Vs. Montreal Canadiens November 13th and yes, there are tickets. That impressed my husband to no end.

When searching for concert or theater tickets you can search by top sellers, top venues, by specific locations such as Broadway, off Broadway and in other ways.

No matter what your entertainment interests are SourceTix.com is a site to bookmark and keep in mind the next time you want to go to an event.

Oh and at this time SourceTix.com is offering a 2007 promotion for 5% off tickets. Just use the following code “source07” when you order tickets.

Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment, Movies, Music, Nightlife, Recreation, Socializing, Sports Tagged With: 5 percent off, Broadway, cities, city, concert tickets, concerts, events, football, hockey games, Music, North America, off Broadway, offer, online, promotion code, show, shows, sold out events, sourcetix.com, Sports, sports tickets, theater tickets, ticket, Toronto, travel, visit, visitors

Thumbplay your site for online mobile entertainment and great contests

September 25, 2007 by Tricia

I think just about everyone has a cellphone these days. Even if you’re like my husband and I and don’t use it all that much they’re handy to have on hand.

The latest cellphones on the market have all kinds of fun features such as the ability to view and record video, play music, upload ringtones, play games and many other functions.

If you’d like to individualize your cellphone by adding wallpapers, games, or uploading new ringtones you might be interested in visiting Thumbplay.com.

Thumbplay isn’t just a ringtone site. It’s a community. Site members can exchange photos, videos, leave comments for one another, sign up for cool text based services and even compete in cool thumbplay competitions such as their current “Funniest Video”, “Show us your Tattoo” and “Friends” contests.

There are some great prizes for the contests I’ve mentioned above such as 42″ Plasma TV, a Sony Cyber-shot Digital Camera, and a brand new Sony Handycam Camcorder.

Why don’t you visit Thumbplay.com and see what they have to offer. Enter some of those contests while you’re there too. The contests not only sound fun, but they offer some fantastic prizes!

Filed Under: Contest, Cool stuff, Entertainment, Games, Music, Recreation, Video, Web and Technology Tagged With: camera, cellphone, comments, community, Contest, cool, digital camera, friends, fun, Games, members, mobile community, Music, photos, ringtone, ringtones, service, share, text services, Thumbplay, upload ringtones, upload videos, Video, video download, video upload, visit

Did you hear about Led Zeppelin’s comeback concert?

September 25, 2007 by Tricia

If you can’t tell from my last post I’ll just spit it out – I love music. Music of all kinds, but my favorite is Rock n’ Roll. Especially classic rock.

I’m sure that everyone has a band or two – from any kind of music genre – that is not only an all time favorite, but who’s music can bring back memories of earlier times. There are some songs that make me feel like a teenager again when I hear them playing.

Led Zeppelin is one of those bands. I just love their music. I think I’ve got every record they ever produced. Chris is a huge Zeppelin fan too.

So you can imagine how stoked we were when we heard that Led Zeppelin is getting back together for a concert at the 02 in London on November 26th. To the best of my knowledge that’s their only planned concert. If Zeppelin fans are lucky perhaps they’ll plan a tour for 2008. Now wouldn’t that be fantastic!

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The concert is a tribute to Ahmet Ertegun – the founder of Atlantic records who died last year. Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham’s son Jason will get together at the O2 Dome to play at this tribute concert. Apparently other rock legends such as Pete Townshend, Bill Wyman, the Rhythm Kings, Foreigner and Paolo Nutini will also perform. All of these artists were associated with Ertegun at one time or another over the years.

Unfortunately there’s absolutely no way that we could travel to London to see the concert. It’s just not possible for us. My only hope of seeing their comeback concert is if it’s either shown live on TV or if it’s at least filmed.

I know that many of my readers live in Europe. Perhaps some of you are planning on getting Concert Tickets and attending the show? If you do, I hope you take photos and make some posts about the concert because I’ll want to hear all about it.

If you live in the the EU and really want to attend the concert you might want to visit Viagogo and sign up to be notified if and when Tickets for this concert become available.

Actually Viagogo seems like a very interesting website. It’s supposedly the leading ticket hub in Europe.

It’s basically an online ticket exchange where people can buy and sell tickets to live events such as the Led Zeppelin comeback concert, Arts and Theatre tickets, and even Sports Tickets for football, rugby, horse racing and other sporting events.

I don’t even know if we have a site such as this in North America, but I’d love it if we did. I mean, say you really have your heart set on attending a concert. You could visit the site and see if anyone has listed extra tickets for the event. Of course it works well for ticket holders that bought tickets for an event, but then find that they can’t attend for some reason and need to sell their tickets quickly.

That certainly sounds a lot better than standing outside of an event location hoping to either buy or sell your tickets to those passing by doesn’t it? Much more secure. In fact here’s Viagogo’s guarantee:

At viagogo, every transaction is guaranteed. To support this, we offer full ticket tracking, managed logistics and live customer service support.

* Buyers: Once you purchase a ticket or win an auction and receive a confirmation email from us, viagogo makes sure that you receive your ticket on time for the event. If a problem arises and you do not receive your ticket, viagogo will provide similar or better tickets at the same cost.

* Sellers: We collect the money once the purchase occurs so we can make sure that you get paid.

I don’t know about you, but with that guarantee I’d be happy to buy or sell tickets through Viagogo.

Keep Viagogo in mind the next time you hear of a concert, theatre or sporting event that you’d like to attend.

Oh and if anyone attends the Led Zeppelin comeback concert I’d really love to hear all about it. Remember me!

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