I came across an interesting graphical analysis published in Rolling Stone about ticket service fees from Ticketmaster and where the fees go. The optics of these ticket fees are way out of whack – when you start calling something a “ticket fee” and it approaches 50-80% of the ticket...
We at Eventric like to think of what we do as helping to “fuel” the live entertainment and touring industry. Our software and community of users are the folks that drive the production of these memorable (and hopefully profitable) shows.
So what drives Eventric? Today (and many days) it is the Wicker Park location of Chicago’s famous Harold’s Chicken Shack. When taking a break from working hard to deliver great software, there is nothing like a bucket of wings to keep you going.
The very best part about Harold’s is the logo. There is something so charming about eating a bucket of wings with a logo of a guy dressed in full King robes chasing a crying chicken with an axe.
Go to Eventric’s Facebook page to see EXCLUSIVE tour pictures from on the road with Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer, and Panic at the Disco from Eventric’s Katie Friesema (all rights reserved). Here’s a peek:
We’ve launched a new Blip.TV channel for Eventric today. We plan to have lots of informative and hopefully entertaining videos produced by our team and our friends.
Our first video is an overview of the new Master Tour. I think you will see the all of the effort and passion put into this product from our development team and our user community.
(By the way the background tune is “Bionic Jam” from the Baldwin Brothers – our VP Dev Jason Hinkle’s former band. Go buy it on iTunes to help Jason buy some new film gear.)
The members of U2 have graciously signed a guitar for Rock For Kids – a Chicago charity that provides free year-round music lessons to underprivileged children. The Squier Strat guitar was signed on March 10, 2009 at Metro Chicago when the venue hosted rock legends U2 for night two of a radio event called “U2 Three Nights.” For one special night, U2 turned Metro into a radio studio with a live audience of fans to promote their album “No Line On The Horizon”. During the event, all four members of U2 generously agreed to sign a Fender Squire guitar to be auctioned with the proceeds benefiting Rock For Kids, a Chicago based non-profit that provides free professional music classes for children who would otherwise not be able to afford them.
Collectors of U2 signed memorabilia know how rare a signed U2 guitar is – the band rarely signs guitars, and when they do, they often raise a large amount of money for great causes – including a signed guitar that recently raised $240,000!
