thatsnotmypuppy Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 Little birdy sent me some news - Bon Jovi Kelly Clarkson Avril BNL Shania Nickelback Incubus And possibly Celine. No idea on who is playing what night but VANOC has some h-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-ge names confirmed apparently for the Vancouver VCs... An intresting line up - Kelly and BNL have performed at the Torino and SLC victory ceremonies respectively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stir.ts Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 Why don't I know what BNL is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.x Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 ^ Barenaked Ladies. Seating arrangement for the Victory Ceremonies: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 So do they give a whole night's concert...or maybe like 6 numbers or so?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatsnotmypuppy Posted November 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 In Torino each act played for 45-50 minutes or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lehari Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 Here are some of the artists at the Torino Medals Plaza (Piazza Castello): Andrea Bocelli Kelly Clarkson Duran Duran Jamiroquai Anastacia Whitney Houston Avril Lavigne Ricky Martin Lou Reed plus numerous Italian artists. The tickets to the VCs and concerts were free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatsnotmypuppy Posted November 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 I wouldn't be surprised if Whitney turns up again - she is hardcore promoting her new album. Seems a good fit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lehari Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 I wouldn't be surprised if Whitney turns up again - she is hardcore promoting her new album. Seems a good fit. Unfortunately she wasn't that good fit in Torino ...anyway she is/was a great artist and a singer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.x Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 The tickets to the VCs and concerts were free. The Vancouver Victory Ceremonies will be the first Winter Games to ever have two Victory Ceremonies venues: BC Place Stadium - scaled down to 35,000 seats (60,000 seat stadium) - 8,000 of these tickets every night of the Victory Ceremonies will be free, mainly to the under priviledged and school children Whistler Village Medals Plaza - 8,000 seats They are ticketed because it's quite costly to put both ceremonies on and on the scale/quality of what they plan to have. Both Salt Lake and Torino had medals plazas venues with a capacity of 8,000 and were indeed free...Vancouver will be on par with this 8,000 free figure, as mentioned above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 Little birdy sent me some news - Bon Jovi Kelly Clarkson Avril BNL Shania Nickelback Incubus And possibly Celine. No idea on who is playing what night but VANOC has some h-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-ge names confirmed apparently for the Vancouver VCs... An intresting line up - Kelly and BNL have performed at the Torino and SLC victory ceremonies respectively. Hopefully none of those are on the days I have VC tickets, cause I would cry. But then again a Bon Jovi ticket would go for a pretty penny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jawnbc Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 So I compared the VC schedule in Vancouver against events likely to have Canadian medallists. Those are the dates sold out, of course. The Saturday concert only is intriguing though.... And I still think Nelly Furtado is a given. Ditto Sarah McLachlan. Both BC girls. And Bublé? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 Seeing Nelly Furtado would be sweetness. I love her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted November 16, 2009 Report Share Posted November 16, 2009 I have a feeling that the 20th is going to be a major concert, given that there is no medal ceremonies. So the entire time can be donated to one act that would prefer a 2 or 3 hour performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
go time baby Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 What about the free outdoor concerts at David Lam park, etc? Right now they have: Sam Roberts Band Wilco, Alexisonfire Jully Black Blue Rodeo Malajube I hope that they can get some bigger names than this; perhaps they are saving the best for last so that these smaller bands won't be overshadowed. I'm sure these bands are great and I'd have no problem checking them out, but come on VANOC...I'm as Canaddian as you get but I will always resign to the U.S. for knowing how to put on a show. Their entertainment value was top-notch at the Salt Lake games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 I don't think there is much bigger names in Canadian music right now then Sam Roberts and Alexisonfire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jawnbc Posted November 19, 2009 Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 Nelly Furtado? Michael Bublé? Nickelback? Céline Dion? I don't think there is much bigger names in Canadian music right now then Sam Roberts and Alexisonfire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted November 19, 2009 Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 Fine - quality Canadian music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chateau Petrus Posted November 19, 2009 Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 Other ideas : Bryan Adams ? Alanis Morissette ? The Tragicelly Hip ? Rush ? Tom Cochrane ? Loverboy ? The Guess Who ? Leonard Cohen ? Gordon Lightfoot ? Joni Mitchell ? Neil Young ? Nickelback ? Simple Plan ? Shania Twain ? Sarah MacLachlan ? Diana Krall ? Holly Cole ? Our Lady Piece ? Cowboys Junkies ? Men Whithout Hats ? Corey Hart ? Glass Tiger ? Allanah Myles ? Honeymoon Suite ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted November 19, 2009 Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 Other ideas :Bryan Adams ? Alanis Morissette ? The Tragicelly Hip ? Rush ? Tom Cochrane ? Loverboy ? The Guess Who ? Leonard Cohen ? Gordon Lightfoot ? Joni Mitchell ? Neil Young ? Nickelback ? Simple Plan ? Shania Twain ? Sarah MacLachlan ? Diana Krall ? Holly Cole ? Our Lady Piece ? Cowboys Junkies ? Men Whithout Hats ? Corey Hart ? Glass Tiger ? Allanah Myles ? Honeymoon Suite ? Did you just put simple plan in the same list as Tom Cochrane and the Guess Who? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBModerator Posted November 19, 2009 Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 Did you just put simple plan in the same list as Tom Cochrane and the Guess Who? Men Without Hats?!!! I think they found their hats and moved on a long time ago... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
go time baby Posted November 19, 2009 Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 who's to say that they can't add NON-canadians to the line-up as well. at the end of the day, the olympics will be looked at as a business. companies and networks will want to squeeze as much money out of these events as possible, so i don't think Sam Roberts Band, Wilco, Alexisonfire will be bringing in the ratings/sponsorship $. can you imagine a promo on NBC for a concert even featuring Alexisonfire? that would be a ratings nightmare. We can debate quality talents and music all day, but a crappy band like Simple Plan will outsell any of the aforementioned (sadly). They need ratings and Nelly Furtado, Beyonce, etc will give them a better chance at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenadian Posted November 19, 2009 Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 Except that these events almost certainly won't be televised and the tickets are sold before the acts have been named. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chateau Petrus Posted November 19, 2009 Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 Did you just put simple plan in the same list as Tom Cochrane and the Guess Who? I just put some names of canadians artists. Some names are bigger than others, some are smaller. No ranking of who should be there or who should not be. Shania Twain is maybe the one on that list who sold the most albums world wide. (but I'm not necesseraly a fan) Rush and Brian Adams probabbly second and third. They were in their respective era very huge. But I agree, not popular now as they was before Me personnally, I'm a huge fan of Emerson Lake and Palmer, Kraftwerk and King Crimson. But I'm in the generation who's now around 50. Lots of you maybe never heard thoses names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted November 19, 2009 Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 I guess I should say of current, promoting, Canadian artistic with unique, high quality musical contributions. Popularity does not equal quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
go time baby Posted November 19, 2009 Report Share Posted November 19, 2009 yes, not all will be televised, but even the ones that are not televised will be most likely have a major corporate sponsorship...for example "The Visa Concert Series". There's little chance that Visa would be forking over money for a small time band and small crowds. VANOC and other promoters came to Visa with a plan and a pitch...which would have to include big names. Except that these events almost certainly won't be televised and the tickets are sold before the acts have been named. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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