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Super Bowl XLII Ticket prices have been slashed by Ticketsnow. Ticketsnow have dropped the price of all their tickets for this sundays showdown between New England Patriots vs. New York Giants at University of Phoenix Stadium on Sunday, February 3 @ 4:00 PM.
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The New England Patriots stand 60 minutes from the first 19-0 season in NFL history, with the New York Giants, their Super Bowl XLII counterpart, seeking to ruin that run at perfection with a monumental upset on Sunday.
University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, AZ will be the site of the conflict, which takes place roughly five weeks after the Patriots and Giants engaged in a memorable affair at the Meadowlands in Week 17 of the regular season.

Liverpool Superclub Cream have announced their first event of the year. They will be celebrate Easter with a big bash in their home town of Liverpool, which is the coolest city in Europe this year what with it Europe’s capital of culture city, Liverpool.
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The Cream Bank Holiday event looks to be a great night with lots of superstar djs already signed up. The headliner is Dutch trance master Ferry Corsten who was voted the 8th best dj in the world by the respected DJ Mag poll. Joining Ferry in the world famous cream courtyard will be Eddie Halliwell who is now a radio 1 star, but also a regular spinner at cream.
More act have been added to The Rock am Ring line up. Acts added to the line up include.
Incubus, The Prodigy, HIM, Fettes Brot, Disturbed, Simple Plan, Kate Nash, The Cavalera Conspiracy, Justice, Bad Religion, and Roisin Murphy are now added to the line-up. They will all play over the weekend of 6th – 8th June 2008 at the Nuerburgring in Germany.
These acts will join headliners Metallica, Rage Against The Machine and den Toten Hosen on the line up.
There will be over 85 acts performing over the weekend other acts confirmed include Sportfreunde Stiller, Nightwish, Motörhead, Babyshambles, Bullet For My Valentine, In Flames, Dimmu Borgir and The Hellacopters.
Ticketmaster are to buy Get Me In Ltd, this follows the news last week that Ticketmaster US were to buy Ticketsnow Inc.
GetMeIn like Ticketsnow operate in the secondary ticket market which involves the resale of tickets at a premium.
Ticketmaster said the acquisition of GET ME IN! follows the recent All Party Select Committee’s recommendation for a “middle way” in which the live entertainment industry works with the resale sector to provide added consumer protection.

The COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL is back bigger and better for 2008. More commonly known as the Coachella Festival.
Coachella 2008 takes place on Friday, April 25, Saturday, April 26 and Sunday, April 27 at Empire Polo Field in Indio, California..
The line up was announced last week and the highlights include Roger Waters who will do the full dark side of the moon album. Bristol band Portishead who are one of the pioneers of down-tempo electronic music with distinct hip-hop, jazz and dub influences that came to be known as Trip Hop. The Verve, Kraftwerk and super star DJ Fatboy Slim will all play in the dessert. The Streets and even 80s ska faves Madness will be performing. Check out full coachella festival line up

The Hyde Park Calling Festival has been announced, and it has a new name “Hard Rock Calling” the festival takes place on the weekend of Saturday 28th June 2008 to Sunday 29th June 2008 at London’s Hard Park.
The headliners are Eric Clapton on Saturday 28th June and The Police on Sunday 29th June
Tickets go on sale on Friday 1st February 2008 with day tickets £50 on Saturday and £65 for Sunday and a weekend ticket £110.
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Amy Winehouse has official gone into rehab, a press statement from her record company has confirmed today. This follows a the sun newspaper who showed a video of her which looked like she was taking drugs. We want to hear your views comment below
She agreed to go into rehab after talks with her managment family and doctors. She has canncelled all further appearances and inteviews.
Her decision followed the leak earlier this week of a home video that showed her smoking something in a glass pipe minutes after she is heard saying she had just taken six tablets of the anti-anxiety drug Valium.
Scotland Yard confirmed they would investigate the video. Winehouse is famous for the battles with addiction and had a hit with a song “rehab”

The world famous 2008 COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL was launched last night. The Coachella Festival 2008 takes place on Friday, April 25, Saturday, April 26 and Sunday, April 27 at Empire Polo Field in Indio, California.
The full Coachella line up has been announced which we detail below. Big European acts include Roger Waters who will do the full Dark Side of the Moon Set, Bristol act Portishead, Richard Ashcroft’s The Verve, Raconteurs, Kraftwerk, Fatboy Slim, Madness, Jack Johnson, Cold War Kids, The Streets , and Enter Shikari to name but a few.
Last year the Artic Monkeys played a great set in scorching tempatures, check out clips on youtube.
Coachella Tickets go on sale on Friday 25th January at 10am PST (6pm in the UK).
Ticket prices are as follows: 3-day general admission: $269.00 + applicable service fees. Single day general admission: $90.00 + applicable service fees. Camping events: General admission camping: $55.00 per person + applicable service fees.
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The rumoured festival in New York has been confirmed, the All Points West Music & Arts Festival as it will be known will be a 3 day festival from Friday 8th August until Sunday 10th August at Liberty State Park in New Jersey. This event will be at the same time as the Vineland Festival, which is being run by Festival Republic.
Superclub Gatecrasher have announced the first acts for their Gatecrasher Weekend Summer Sound System 2008, and old skool techno superstars The Prodigy are to headline.
The gatecrasher festival will be taking place in Northampton, after last years event took place in Leeds. The event will be extended to a two day event. The dates for your diary are Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th May 2008.
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The Prodigy who are still huge music festival favourites will be appearing at Gatecrasher in what will one of only 4 appearance for the Essex Boys. The Prodigy who have a huge back catalogue of hits including Charley, and Firestarter. They will also air new material for the up for it Gatecrasher crowd. The Prodigy will play on the Saturday 24th May 2008.
The Reading Festival and Leeds Festival will be headlined by three American acts they organisers of the festivals has confirmed.
Melvin Benn has confirmed he has booked the acts but was unwilling to announce who they are at this stage. If you think you know who they are please comment below.
Last year US act Smashing Pumpkins were one of the headliners, they is a reading festival rumour that rage against the machine will be one of those US headliners.