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| Author | Comment | Mimi
Mar-28-2011, 16:29 GMT
Austria
 | http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2011/03/paul
_simon_adds.html#more
I wonder how one can get tickets for the club dates. Would be a dream to see him in a really small venue.
| | | | linclink
Mar-28-2011, 16:54 GMT
USA - United Staates America
 | Legendary songwriter Paul Simon has added club dates in select cities to his recently announced, sold-out spring theater tour. The added shows offer fans a chance to see the iconic artist and his stellar band in an especially intimate, personal setting. The sold-out theater tour, in support of his first new record in 5 years, So Beautiful or So What, begins April 15th at Seattle`s WAMU Center. On April 17th, Simon plays the first of the tour`s club shows at Seattle`s Showbox at the Market, then continues with performances set for Los Angeles` Music Box on April 19th, The Fillmore in San Francisco on April 27th, The Sound Academy in Toronto May 7th, The Vic Theatre in Chicago on May 16th, Washington D.C.`s 9:30 Club on May 27th and the House of Blues in Boston on June 2nd.
"I´m going to play 3,000 seat theaters and also clubs," he tells Rolling Stone. "I want to play several songs from the new album and music from my repertoire that I either haven´t played in concert or have played very seldom. I want to let the band be freer. I´m actually really looking forward to this tour. I´ll play a few songs by other people, maybe a couple of Simon and Garfunkel songs. And then Late In The Evening, who knows, I might pick up my acoustic guitar and sing whatever comes into my mind. That´s the fun of clubs, it´s looser. I can come at it all from a place that´s fresh."
Hear Music/Concord Music Group will release Paul Simon`s new record So Beautiful or So What, one of the year`s most highly anticipated albums, on April 12th, 2011.
To hear two new tracks from So Beautiful or So What please visit http://www.paulsimon.com/
Paul Simon`s complete U.S. Spring Tour (Added Clubs in BOLD):
Date - City - Venue - On-Sale Date - On-Sale Time - To Buy Tickets
4/15/11 Seattle, WA WAMU Theater On Sale Now Ticketmaster
4/17/11 Seattle, WA Showbox at The Market April 1 10:00am Ticketmaster
4/19/11 Los Angeles, CA Music Box April 2 10:00am Ticketmaster
4/20/11 Los Angeles, CA Pantages Theatre-SOLD OUT Ticketmaster
4/21/11 Los Angeles, CA Pantages Theatre-SOLD OUT Ticketmaster
4/23/11 Temecula, CA Pechanga Resort & Casino Theatre On Sale Now Pechanga.com
4/25/11 San Francisco, CA Davies Symphony Hall- SOLD OUT Ticketmaster
4/26/11 Oakland, CA Fox Theatre - SOLD OUT Ticketmaster
4/27/11 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore April 2 10:00am Livenation.com
5/2/11 Minneapolis, MN Minneapolis Convention Center Auditorium On Sale Now Ticketmaster
5/6/11 Toronto, ON Massey Hall - SOLD OUT Livenation.com
5/7/11 Toronto, ON Sound Academy TBA Ticketmaster
5/10/11 New York, NY The Beacon Theatre- SOLD OUT Ticketmaster
5/11/11 New York, NY The Beacon Theatre- SOLD OUT Ticketmaster
5/16/11 Chicago, IL The Vic Theatre April 2 10:00am Etix.com
5/17/11 Chicago, IL Chicago Theatre -SOLD OUT Ticketmaster
5/19/11 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium- SOLD OUT Ticketmaster
5/22/11 Gulf Shores, AL Hangout Festival On Sale Now HangoutMusicFest.com
5/25/11 Washington DC DAR Constitution Hall- SOLD OUT Ticketmaster
5/27/11 Washington DC 9:30 Club April 1 10:00am Ticketfly.com
5/28/11 Atlantic City, NJ The Borgata On Sale Now TheBorgata.com
5/29/11 Mashantucket, CT MGM Grand Theatre @ Foxwoods On Sale Now Foxwoods.com
6/1/11 Boston, MA Wang Theatre-SOLD OUT Citicenter.org
6/2/11 Boston, MA House of Blues April 2 10:00am Ticketmaster | | | | Jay
Mar-28-2011, 17:02 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| What are the two "new" tracks? Are they just GRFCD and The Afterlife or are they ones we haven´t heard? | | | | linclink
Mar-29-2011, 00:43 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| I´m sure they are referring to those two, Old to us, tracks. Though...there´s less than 900 people needed to bring Paul´s FB page up to 110,000 and have him release another song...since I just scored a promo copy of a radio interview CD that features 7, or 8, of the songs on the album I´m now rooting for "Love & Blessings" to be the next song released.
It was an ebay sale where all the profits went to an animal shelter called HALO- which helped me justify my obsession). There are either 7, or 8 songs on it...the ones I know that are missing are "Amulet" & "Love & Blessings", and maybe "So Beautiful Or So What" (but I already have an MP3 of that thanks to this Forum), and there is an existing video of "Amulet" as a guitar vocal piece with Paul & Luciana Souza doing it live, which I again first encountered here- thanks Forum yet again!!
FYI: I got the radio interview CD for $15 & I´d most likely be glad to sell it & re-donate the money to the HALO fund, if any folks here might be interested. My home email is "[email protected]". If I do sell it, and that´s probably but not 100% certain, it won´t be until after the album is released. | | | | mog
Mar-29-2011, 01:46 GMT
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 | Ok...so how is the album man ?! | | | | linclink
Mar-29-2011, 02:16 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| I don´t know yet. The guy is mailing it out to me tomorrow. I should have it by Thursday. I´ll know alot by then, but it still won´t be the full album in the exact order, so while I´ll be able to tell a lot, and enjoy the heck out of what I have...I won´t truly be listening to "So Beautiful Or So What" until I have the full album...not that I´m complaining mind you. It´s interesting to me that the version of "Rhythm Of The Saints" that I listened to for years was chosen by the record company, and that they got Paul to drop the running order that he originally wanted. I really do appreciate what he said in the documentary about the making of the album where he mentioned viewing the album as an art form, and I really look forward to fully experiencing it in the manner he intended...but also look forward to hearing as much of it as possible on Thursday.
Originally I´d found a promo copy on half.com, already listed for $6.99. Because it´s before release date that website will only list anything as a pre-order, and you can´t order it until the release date. I emailed the seller to no avail, and then did what I´d suggested in the emails- which was to buy another of his CDs at the same price & ask him to just mail me the Paul Simon.
He freaked out about it & issued me a refund. I told him folks sold promos all the time on ebay (owned by the same folks as half.com) & well before release dates. I offered to buy it there, at above his asking price, but haven´t heard back, so I took the shot at the more expensive interview disc. I´m not that big on the rarity factor (be glad to have someone else who is have it instead), but was so glad about the charity that was getting all the profits, that I felt that helped me to take the leap & get most of the album early. | | | | linclink
Mar-29-2011, 03:20 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| This just in from the official website of the Toronto Sun: http://www.torontosun.com/entertainment/2011/03/28
/17783121.html
"Singer-songwriter Paul Simon had added a second Toronto date to his tour. Simon will play Sound Academy on May ...7 after a sold-out Massey Hall show the previous night. Tickets for the new date, $55, go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster, Livenation or by phone at 1-855-985-5000. The show is general admission."
BTW I currently still have two extra 10th row seats for the Massey Hall show in anyone is interested.
| | | | linclink
Mar-29-2011, 05:44 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| For the record, some of the "clubs" seem to be roughly the same sizes as the "small halls"...at least in Toronto & Boston where I have any chance of going. The small hall in Toronto, Massey Hall is about 2,800 seats- the show is reserved seating & tickets ranged from lows maybe in the $70 area to high of $150 (ticket charges included). The "club" show is general admission, tickets look to be about $70 with charges included and it´s a capacity of 2,600 at the Sound Academy.
In Boston the Wang Theater tickets topped out at $115 or so, I got $75 ones (front of the balcony), and it´s reserved seating in about a 4,000 seat hall. The House Of Blues in Boston has a capacity of about 2500, and I don´t know the ticket prices or if it´s general admission or reserved seating.
Some are quite a bit smaller, lucky them, like The Music Box in L.A. which seats about 1300 (small hall in L.A. is 2700). The Fillmore in San Francisco seats 1200 (small hall in S.F. is 2750). The Vic Theatre in Chicago seats 1400 (small hall Chicago is 3600). Washington D.C.`s 9:30 Club seats 1200 (small Hall in D.C. is 4000), and finally Seattle, WA Showbox at The Market seats 1150 (small hall venue Seattle is 3,300 to 7,000 variable with my bets on the low end).
I´m quite likely to be able to do the second show in Toronto. These tickets are being sold at my friendly local ticketmaster, where I got the killer Massey Hall tickets (4 in the 7th row & 4 in the 10th row).
A friend from Portland is coming into town, and is one of at least a half dozen folks going to the show on May 6th. He´s never been to Toronto, so he booked a hotel there for Fir & Sat. night & planned on staying & taking a bus back to Rochester. Happily for me, he really wants to see the second show, so I´ll probably just stay in Toronto until Sunday morning.
I have a vague outside chance of being able to do the second night in Boston, but I doubt it. I´m planning on probably going to a Red Sox game in the afternoon on June 1st as of right now, but...if things change, I might trade the Red Sox for a second Paul Simon gig, but it´d mean an overnight in Boston & that´s extra $ beyond the extra $ of the show, and then there´s being able to get tickets at all. Ticketmaster is handling the tickets, but not through my local little indie record store Ticketmaster. And they go on sale the same time as the Toronto show. If I wanted to try & do it, I´d have to have someone online for Boston tickets as I´m in line for Toronto tickets. We´ll see. I just feel Blessed to be able to see two right now, and probably three shows so far this tour. If I can make the fourth in Boston great, but if not then I´ll hope for a return North American jaunt/second leg in the Autumn...with at least another stop in NYC (and maybe an afternoon, preferably Mets, or even Yankees game)
| | | | Mike
Mar-29-2011, 18:55 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Thanks for the club info linclink. I was pondering getting tickets to the Sound Academy in Toronto, but despite the draw of general admission, I´ll skip out on the concert since it´s the weekend before final exams here.
A really small club venue would be great especially if I had the chance to get real close to the stage. | | | | linclink
Mar-30-2011, 05:56 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| There´s Ticketmaster website info only so far for Boston ($84.60 for reserved which are Balcony only & $58.95 for floor general admission tickets), L.A ($69.45 per ticket), & S.F ($67 per ticket), but they are all exactly the same pre-sale & public sale info, which is listed below(Some Toronto info below here, but as of yet there are no details about Seattle, Chicago or Washington D.C.):
Ticket prices are insanely reasonable for these extra "club dates", but considering the size of his band, and how small the halls are, the whole tour is very reasonably priced!!
For L.A., S.F. & Boston-
"Onsale to General Public
Start: Sat, 04/02/11 10:00 AM PDT
AMERICAN EXPRESS Pre-Sale
Start: Wed, 03/30/11 10:00 AM PDT
End: Fri, 04/01/11 10:00 PM PDT
No word on pre-sale for Toronto, but...
This just in from the official website of the Toronto Sun: http://www.torontosun.com/entertainment/2011/03/28
/17783121.html
"Singer-songwriter Paul Simon had added a second Toronto date to his tour. Simon will play Sound Academy on May 7 after a sold-out Massey Hall show the previous night. Tickets for the new date, $55, go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster, Livenation or by phone at 1-855-985-5000. The show is general admission."
And...@Mike- Sheesh! Take the show as a study break!! It´s Paul Simon, for like $50, in a place about 2,500 capacity...go for it!! | | | | Forum guest
Mar-30-2011, 16:41 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| chicago pre sale info -> http://www.etix.com/ticket/online/campaignSearch.j
sp?campaign_id=20AEC4145E6A5F2EDCFA9B0F293B219A&am
p;cobrand=jamusa | | | | Mike
Mar-30-2011, 17:11 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Haha I could use the study break for sure, but since I´m already going to one concert, I know I´ll be happy enough with a 3000-4000 seat theatre. Just seeing Paul Simon live is a dream come true. Plus we´ve got the eventual S&G tour to look forward to after this. | | | | linclink
Mar-30-2011, 17:14 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| @ Mike: Which other one are you going to? | | | | |
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