*COLDPLAY will begin its year-end US tour with a show at Mohegan Sun Arena on Saturday, December 29, at 7:30 pm.

Tickets are $95 and $150 and will be going on sale Friday, November 16, at 10 am, through TicketMaster.  Visit Ticketmaster.com, call 800-745-3000 or visit any Ticketmaster outlet.

Tickets will also be available at the Mohegan Sun Box Office starting Saturday, November 17, subject to availability.

Naturally 7 is listed as being the opener that night.

*Also going on sale Friday morning will be the tickets for a March 8 show by MATCHBOX TWENTY, who will bring their North American headline tour to Mohegan Sun Arena that night.

Tickets are $49.50 and will be available at the same time the abovementioned Coldplay tickets are available, and although through the same TicketMaster options. Mohegan Sun’s box office will also begin offering these tickets on Saturday morning.

Of course, Matchbox Twenty was in Perth this past weekend, playing a headlining gig with INXS in the support position. For fans of the Australian band, that must have been quite a show. Not only was it the tour ending event for INXS (the show at the recently-opened Perth Arena was the scheduled finalé of that leg of INXS’s tour to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of Kick), it was also — as has been widely reported this week — the end of the touring career for INXS, as Jon Farriss announced during the set Sunday night.

An INXS show at New Haven Palace in New Haven in 1985 was the second concert I ever went to, and the first one my parents allowed me to go to without them. It was a great show, as were all the shows by that band that I had the joy of attending.

I am actually surprised the guys hung on for as long as they did after the death of Michael Hutchence, and yet I was still disappointed to hear the news about the band’s break-up when my friend Carleen (one of the girls I went to that New Haven concert with so many years ago) sent me a note about it Tuesday morning. 

Until next week, I’ll be seeing you… on the road.

Questions and comments should be sent to Shannon Hicks c/o The Newtown Bee, 5 Church Hill Road, Newtown CT 06470, or shannon@thebee.com, or call the office at 426-3141. Shows listed at clubs are for ages 21 and over unless specified.

UPCOMING SHOWS

NOVEMBER 16 — Midnight Rodeo Band at The Cookhouse, New Milford; Fountains of Wayne at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den, Uncasville; Tim Reynolds & TR3 at Fairfield Theatre Company’s StageOne, Fairfield; Wiped Out (Joe Proc and students) at The One-Eyed Pig, Newtown; Tired On Sunday at Proud Mary’s, Newtown;

November 17 — LeAnn Rimes at The Warner Theatre, Torrington; Midnight Rodeo at The One-Eyed Pig; Leslie Costa & The Usual Suspects at Proud Mary’s; A Night of Music at The Quick Center for the Arts at Fairfield University, Fairfield, featuring The Christopher Robin Band, The Doug Wahlberg Band, Holden Truelove, Remember September, Daniela Cardillo and Johnny Books (fundraiser for The Lebo-DeSantie Center for Liver & Pancreatic Disease at St Vincent’s Medical Center);

November 18 — Tim Reynolds & TR3 at Infinity Music Hall, Norfolk;

November 21 — Deep Banana Blackout at Toad’s Place, New Haven; Old School and Wagon Wheel at The One-Eyed Pig;

November 23 — Trans-Siberian Orchestra at Mohegan Sun Arena (shows at 3 and 8 pm); Lamb of God at the Oakdale Theatre, Wallingford, with special guest In Flames, Hellyeah, and Sylosis; Caravan of Thieves at Fairfield Theatre Company’s StageOne; Enter The Haggis at Infinity Music Hall; Mike & Lucinda at The One-Eyed Pig; Alternate Universe at Proud Mary’s;

November 24 — Max Creek at Infinity Music Hall; Blood, Sweat & Tears at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den; Maxwell at The MGM Grand at Foxwoods, Mashantucket; Chris Morrison & Friends at The One-Eyed Pig; Old School at Proud Mary’s; NRBQ at Toad’s Place;

November 28 — Steve Earle at Infinity Music Hall;

November 29 — Dave Mason at Infinity Music Hall (acoustic show);

November 30 — Lez Zeppelin at Stone River Grille, Sandy Hook (rescheduled from November 1, tickets from original date will be honored); One Direction at Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville (also December 1); Darryl Hall & John Oates at The MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods, Mashantucket; Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes at Mohegan Sun’s Wolf Den; Commander Cody at Infinity Music Hall; Tired On Sunday at Proud Mary’s.

 

DECEMBER 1 — One Direction at Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville (also November 30); Neveready at The One-Eyed Pig, Newtown; Old School at Proud Mary’s, Newtown; Boplicity at My Place Restaurant, Newtown;

December 2 — Smashing Pumpkins at Mohegan Sun Arena (rescheduled from November 4, tickets from original date will be honored); The Brian Setzer Orchestra at The MGM Grand at Foxwoods, Mashantucket; Gary Hoey at Infinity Music Hall, Norfolk (Christmas show);

December 4 — Neil Young & Crazy Horse at the Webster Bank Arena, Bridgeport.

December 6 – Clay Aiken at The Palace/Stamford Center for the Arts, Stamford;

December 7 — Dark Star Orchestra at The Dome at The Oakdale Theatre, Wallingford; Martin Sexton at Infinity Music Hall;

December 8 — Dave Matthews Band at Mohegan Sun Arena; Train at the Oakdale Theatre, Wallingford (WTIC-FM All-Star Christmas Show), with special guests Andy Grammar and Phillip Phillips; Crystal Pyramid at The One-Eyed Pig;

December 9 — The Who at Mohegan Sun Arena; John Gorka at Fairfield Theatre Company’s StageOne, Fairfield; The Smithereens at Infinity Music Hall;

December 13 — Steel Magnolia at Infinity Music Hall;

December 14 — B.J. Thomas at Infinity Music Hall, Norfolk; Shawn Colvin at Fairfield Theatre Company’s StageOne;

December 15 — Three Days Grace, All That Remains and Hinder at the Oakdale Theatre, Wallingford, with Fozzy and Otherwise; Bourbon Cowboys at The One-Eyed Pig (White Trash Christmas Party);

December 21 — The Sideguys at Infinity Music Hall;

December 22 — Hubinger Street at The One-Eyed Pig;

December 23 — Eran Troy Danner with Marty Q at Infinity Music Hall;

December 28 — Assembly of Dust at Fairfield Theatre Company’s StageOne;

December 29 — Coldplay at Mohegan Sun Arena, Naturally 7 opening; New Desperation at The One-Eyed Pig;

December 30 — Ryan Montbleau Band at Fairfield Theatre Company’s StageOne (also December 31);

December 31 — Cyndi Lauper at Mohegan Sun Arena; Ryan Montbleau Band at Fairfield Theatre Company’s StageOne; The Marshall Tucker Band with special guest Jeff Pevar at Infinity Music Hall.