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I saw the Citi Private Pass thing after I posted about the Live Nation e-mail. It's curious that it says nothing about it being Citicard holders only in the LN email.

Had to dig through my emails and it's down the list, but it's true about 5PM - it was in yesterday's LN NY/NJ email. On sale is April 30th at 10AM.

It did that for me initially, but then after a few mins. pulled a ticket.

I got one from the standard pool at about 10:20. This was after I lost a ticket from the Citicard pool because my Citicard expiration date wouldn't update in the mobile app. That ticket was in the same area as the one I ultimately got from the standard pool, in the back of the Orchestra. Both tix were pulled via the mobile app, I had no luck on the website.

Oops, not sure how that video came out sideways! ^ EDIT: Just rotated it in YouTube, should be right side up shortly... EDIT 2: Great night! :D

I have video of Jay Z joining in on Lost on my YouTube channel- Popartist. Shorter set tonight, DJ on now getting the party on.

The way stuff has been worded about tonight I wonder if they will actually be going back and forth between CP and Jay-Z - I mean Coldplay does a bunch, then Jay-Z does a few, and then they join together, etc. I haven't seen anything about Jay-Z's set time, and if CP goes on at 9:45. your standard set would end bet. 11:30-45, an awkward time if they are going to ring in the New Year onstage. Anyway, am excited for tonight, eating a nice birthday dinner now, and will leave my place for the show around 8.

Why are people getting there so early, there's no GA so I'm not sure what the point of that is? :)

Kanye has shows nearby in Atlantic City the 29th and 30th so I would bet he will make an appearance at the show on the 31st - whether he'll join up with Coldplay in addition to Jay-Z, I don't know though.

The subway runs all night! As far as other rail, check schedules...should be fine for the 30th, but the 31st ends much later, so that may be iffy.

Don't know if it includes taxes (probably not), but that was the rate for the whole event, not hourly, at a couple of the garages/lots listed on the parking website. But like I said, the 30th/31st is not currently listed.

Street parking is free (except when parking meters are involved, but chances are you wouldn't be able to do a meter anyway since you can't run out to put quarters in). If you look on that parking site you can park for around $14 if you don't mind walking 10 mins or so (those with shuttles are also quite walkable from the venue - it's not that far). The only problem I see is that none of them have the 30th or 31st listed right now, not sure if that's because the show was only recently on sale and they haven't put the parking up yet, or if the parking deals aren't available b/c of New Year's...

Whichever one of the 2, 3, 4, D, N, Q (or R if it's running to Brooklyn, which it likely won't be) is closest to where you are and arrives first, is the best way to go. ;)

Same here - I am also in Brooklyn so just a 15 minute or so subway ride for me, and it will be my first show at Barclays Center as well. Have been wanting to go to something there and this is the first show they've had that I've wanted to go to. Was hoping maybe The Killers or Muse would play there but they ended up at MSG, but then Coldplay sprung this surprise on us. :)

Hehe. I didn't get that, but then I will probably either go out to a nice early birthday dinner in my neighborhood with a friend (I am used to having birthday dinner early as the restaurants hike prices and get fancy later in the evening) or just make myself a nice dinner before heading up to the show. I usually don't do Ticketfast unless I have to as I like to keep my tickets as souvenirs, and a piece of paper printed from my ink jet just isn't the same to me. :)

This was in yesterday's mail :D

They'd get off cheaper springing for parking in the city with the cost of two or more Metro-North tix from Beacon. Lower Manhattan could be a viable option as far as street parking on a Sunday night, then just take short ride on the 2/3 or the 4.

Where are you driving in from? May actually be more cheaper parking options on the far west side and then take the 2/3 from Penn Station (or 14th or Chambers). This advice is for the 30th - for the 31st I would advise staying far away from the west side above 34th St because it will be nuts with the ball drop. 4 from Grand Central is perfectly fine though and runs frequently. I can almost guarantee that there will be no subway construction that weekend due to the holiday crowds.

Right now I see F3, 23 and seats in the 100s, only the Sec 23 seem to be at (slightly below) par, the others have a markup from face (I think considerably in the case of the 100s which looked to me to be in the $175-$275 range during general sale).

Man, this seemed like the strangest ticket sale - for a big arena like this you can usually pull a single fairly easily early on, at least after the initial rush - speaking of which, if there is a rush you usually have that Waiting circle for a few minutes. Also $550/floor tix usually appear...not even seeing those in the Platinum tab. Also find it weird there's no VIP package for NYE, but there are for the 30th, unless everyone on the 31st is VIP. :cool: Edit: Got an e-mail a half hour ago...my ticket has been printed! :D

Ah, OK, thanks - don't think that list is complete though, it looks like that is just some of them, so I would bet that CP is still in the running for noms.

Ah Ok, was just curious since I have a ticket in 222 at $99.50 but it is row 17.

Mylo Xyloto was released in October 2011 so it is in the last year in Grammy terms (October 1 - September 30). What is this pre-nominations list, never heard of it - unless it is the eligibility list, in which case they are certainly eligible. EDIT: OK, I see there are pre-nominations (learn something new every day!), but don't see it published anywhere, just a few artists saying they are.

Seems like tickets were up for a few seconds (couple of minutes) b/c I pulled a $168 seat in sec 105, but now it seems like it's down again.

What price level was the ticket you bought? I didn't even pull up anything with the Citi Preferred, hmm, does the app use a different backend? (I already have a ticket, just checking to see!)