The high ticket prices didn’t stop music fans from watching British pop stars Elton John and Sting in their respective concerts last Saturday and Sunday night, both at Smart Araneta Coliseum.
A few hundred meters from New York Street in Cubao, an Englishman made thousands of Filipinos happy for one night.
A high school buddy kept pestering us for tickets to Sting’s Dec. 9 concert at Smart Araneta Coliseum. When we told him via SMS that even the media might have a hard time getting in because the show was practically sold out, he replied in mock frustration: “I hope Sting plays only three songs and spends the rest of the night lecturing about climate change!”
A long line greeted even early birds among those who trooped to the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Cubao Saturday to have their Sting concert tickets replaced following a recent venue change.
Tickets to British singer-songwriter Sting’s concert on Dec. 9 were “almost sold out” when the pop star changed the venue from the Mall of Asia Arena (MOAA) to Smart Araneta Coliseum, according to an officer of MOA Arena.
The Manila leg of British singer-songwriter Sting’s “Back to Bass Tour” concert on Dec. 9 will be moved from the SM Mall of Asia (MOA) Arena in Pasay City to Smart Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City amid a spat over pine trees, it was announced Friday.
Rock superstar Sting has forced organisers to move his planned one-night show in the Philippines to another Manila venue amid a spat over pine trees involving the original hosts, it was announced Friday.
The country’s largest mall developer SM Prime Holdings said on Saturday it was regretful that “a lot of disinformation” surrounding its Baguio mall redevelopment plan had reached Sting, who demanded that his one -night show in the Philippines be moved from SM’s Mall of Asia to another venue.
Rock superstar Sting has called off a one-night show in the Philippines in protest at the removal of pine trees outside a shopping mall undergoing redevelopment, the concert venue’s owners said Friday.
The foreign music influx has continued. And it seems as the months get closer to the holidays, the bigger and better artists are coming to the Philippines.
Three big concerts headlining Jennifer Lopez, Elton John and Sting will be held one after the other in Manila in the next two months, but the prohibitive ticket prices may prevent many fans from seeing the major foreign music acts perform.
The leak about Sting performing on Dec. 9 at the SM Mall of Asia (MOA) Arena—posted last week on Twitter—has been confirmed by promoter Renen de Guia of Ovation Productions.
