glasschicken

There is going to be an announcement from Pearl Jam at 5:00 PM pacific time on The End radio station in Seatlle. Anyone have a clue what it could be about? I'm guessing a summer tour next year or the official statement about the DVD and rarities album.

Josh H

Hopefully they'll release the track list of the Rarities album.

I'd be surprised if they toured next summer. They usually only tour after a new album, and almost all the band members have side projects they work on in between albums.

glasschicken

They mentioned something about a small summer tour in 2004 at a few of the shows on their last tour. I think they mentioned it in Toronto and Boston at least. I'd love to see a track listing for the rarities though.

Oh, there are rumored to be some acoustic shows around Seatlle coming up too.

Hollowgen

i'd really like the announcement to be about playing another/more shows in the area. i missed the last ones before the us tour.

mtucker

They're announcing their own record label.*

*<small>OK, I have no idea either.</small>

glasschicken

I went to the station's website. The announcement is listed under "new concert info."

Dubya

I would assume it is about a show or shows in that area. I don't think they would be making any announcements about the 2004 "mini-tour" until well...2004.

Chopper

I'm not sure if this is the same thing, but on www.theskyiscrape.com , they say....

Josh H

That's actually a very good guess. That or, they're annoucing a new contract with some label, as Riot Act (I believe) was their last album on their contract with Epic.

Groucho

To be followed by an almost identical announcement from Creed at 6:00.

Meatpants

I'm pretty sure it's going to be a benefit concert in the Seattle area.

Michael Corvin

auto

So what happened?

j123vt_99

still have 2 hours

Misaalme

All accoustic concert October 22 at Beneroya Hall in Seattle.

briank

Should be a good one.

I was at Boston #3 in the fifth row dead center and the Acoustic preset was AMAZING.

Misaalme

From Pearljam.com:

September 29, 2003 - Special Concert Announcement

Pearl Jam will perform at YouthCare's First Annual Benefit Concert at Benaroya Hall on October 22 at 8pm to Raise Funds for the Orion Center
Tickets go on sale Friday, October 3 at 11am

SEATTLE - Pearl Jam will perform a special acoustic concert on Wednesday, October 22 at 8pm at Benaroya Hall. The show will be a benefit to raise money for Seattle-based YouthCare's Orion Center. No opening act is scheduled.

Pearl Jam's performance will be their first since wrapping up their 2003 Riot Act world tour in Mexico City mid-July. The band is also scheduled to perform at Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit Concert in San Francisco on October 25-26. Pearl Jam last performed in their hometown in December of 2002, with two shows at the Showbox and two benefit concerts at Key Arena.

Tickets for the show go on sale Friday, October 3 at 11am for $40 plus Ticketmaster service charges. They will be available at all Ticketmaster outlets, by phone at (206) 628-0888 or online at www.ticketmaster.com.

Tickets will also be sold at the Benaroya box office, in person only (200 University Street), Monday-Friday 10am-6pm and Saturday 1pm-6pm for $40, with no additional service charges.

Hollowgen

anyone else curious why ticketmaster still doesn't have this event listed? it's now 1 day before they go on sale...

Meatpants

Someone on the PJ message board said they called TM and was told it won't show up on the website til tickets go on sale.

TM =

Hollowgen

it's actually listed now, found it when running a search for pearl jam.

Chopper

If you live in Washington State & are a current member of the Ten Club, check out http://www.tenclub.net/intronews-lofi.html for information on a ticket raffle they're having...

Hollowgen

i'm a little confused by that ticket raffle... the news bit would seem to lead you that tickets aren't going to be available to the public... and if you were to win the drawing, there doesn't seem to be any advantage. you'd also have to wait about a week until after the tickets go on sale via ticketmaster, to pay for the same price and get tickets that may or may not be better? strange...

Misaalme

I was online the second the tickets went on sale. I requested two tickets and it came back that there were no tickets available. Has anyone else had this happen with Ticketmaster? The same thing happened when Dave Matthews did a similar accoustic show at Beneroya. The show is basicly sold out before the tickets even go on sale.

Hollowgen

yeah, i had the same thing happen. i think ticketmaster may have had problems. there were/are numerous errors on the event page. suck as it listing a strict 10 ticket limit, yet you could only request 4 in the drop down box. and now the event page says tickets aren't even on sale.

this is totally frustrating. how is it possible to sell out before tickets even go on sale? pearl jam should have stuck to boycotting ticketmaster.

pantala

The event pages are always about 10-15 seconds late in switching over from pre-sale to on-sale. Considering Benaroya only holds 2,500 people and show sold out in seconds, it isn't surprising that few people got tickets online.

I was using three separate computers, all on T3 connections, and only one of them got tickets--a pair in the second tier balcony.

I was also there during the Dave Matthews solo fiasco that Misaalme mentioned. Luckily, I was able to get tickets through the fan club lotto and didn't have to deal with ticketmaster.