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We've got a stack of tickets over here for you, and all you have to do is email us telling us which pair you want, and answer a little question.
First up is Interpol, playing this Friday (with Calla) in Atlantic City! The show is in support of their new album Our Love to Admire. Who doesn't want to spend a day on the boardwalk, hit the slot machines and see Carlos D's mustache up close and in person?
Next up is Muse who play MSG with Cold War Kids on August 6th. It will be interesting to see the latter in a huge venue, and as for Muse - the only place to see their spectacle of a show is in a huge space like this.
Tell us what show you want to go to, and why, in the comments. We'll pick a winner and be in touch. Registered commenters only! Anyone can register here, email entries will not be entered.
UPDATE: CONTEST CLOSED.
Photo of Interpol's Daniel Kessler via Strangelove 1981's Flickr.
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I sent the email to the question as well but I want the tickets to Muse!!! because I crave some great music live!!!
Incorrect. Interpol play MSG Sept 14th
also sent the email...
want to see Muse to satisfy my craving to see the return of guitar solos and 2-hand tapping.
Hey now! I emailed my response about Matthew Bellamy's first song, and I am a registered user! What's up with the change?
impress a girl, duh.
Ditto on the sending! Ditto on the Muse tickets (I want'em!) But the rules changed?
MUSE is catharsis and I, and whichever friend I bring need will need catharsis on August 6th.
Plus we'll wear neighborhoodies and take picchures!!
Muse! They provided a great background mood for my dark years as an art student ;) Matthew Bellamy's voice crooning was a nice platform for launching crazy art projects :D
Ditto on the email. Ditto on the MUSE because I want'em tickets! But the rules changed?
My reason?
Muse is catharsis.
I and my friend will need catharsis, especially on August 6th...
...especially, in our Neighborhoodies, taking lots of pictures!
I work on music contests (online) and I don't think you can legally restrict entries if you are a commercial entity (which Gothamist LLC is). Just a friendly note in case you find a lawsuit.
I need to go to the Interpol show so I can convince them to write the new jingle for Borgata Casino:
"Where you can sleep tight, gamble right, we have two hundred slots where you can bet tonight"
-W
I want to go to the Muse show so my victory can validate this slightly-skeezy ploy to get people to register.
I want to go to the MUSE show because:
1)it's going to be the best show of the summer
2)I refuse to see a show in hipster hell (so "billyburg" is out)
3)I want to wave the tickets in other people's faces and mock them as I stroll into the best show of the summer!
Did I say this is going to be the best show of the summer?
Emailed it also.
i want to go to the muse show because my teenage brother loves them, and he has never been to a show at msg before, and i would LOVE to take him to his first one! personally i am a huge fan of cold war kids so it would be just as great for me!
I want to take my boyfriend to Muse to show him that Rush is not the coolest trio around. :)
Alternatively, I'd like to go Interpol b/c they need some non-hipsters in the audience. :)
hoping for interpol in AC because daddy needs money for rent and the dice are hot.
INTERPOL!
because i work all day every day in an office and i keep gothamist minimized for the whole nine hours that i am there and sometimes they tell me to stop reading it and work and i tell them no they are crazy and then they read it too and everyone is happy
and i need to get out of new brunswick for
a day
just
a
day
please
thank you
I'd love to see the Muse show because AC is very far away, and I'd rather not endure the hipster bashing/trolling that will come with winning the Interpol tickets.
I WANT TO SEE INTERPOL AND ENJOY A WELL GROOMED MUSTACHE! HEY, SOMETIMES YOU JUST GOT TO!
but in all seriousness, I want to go to the AC show so bad, must see interpol again or my summer will have no highlights for me to remember once Im 65 and tell my grandkids that I grew up during the great IRAQ war and the war on terrrrrrrorrrrr.. ...
i think i am finally ready to see interpol -- evidently, they were looking for me in paris some years ago but, in fear, i gave them the slip heading down through spain -- eventually hopping a ferry to morroco and disappearing into the dunes of merzouga.
but now i am ready. now i am ready.
thank you for your consideration.
I would totally love to see Muse live, mostly due to having never seen them live before, or having been to MSG before ever!!
I've only been living in NYC now for about 4 months, but I love the environment and I've been trying to experience as much as I can. I love the music that Muse makes, the weaving lyrics and awesome voice of Matthew Bellamy, it's all great and all that I've heard of Muse live has been amazing. It would be a fun time and I could blog about it the whole thing too!
I want to see Muse because it would inspire ultimate jealousy from my ex boyfriend, the music snob.
I would like to see Muse because only a supermassive black hole could stop me from seeing them live.
I want to see Muse because they put on one of the better live shows around today and I've managed to catch them every time they've played NYC since 4.20.00 @ Brownies.
i want to go to the interpol concert because paul banks is the epitome of cool.
I crave me some Interpol...because I need something depressing, nonsensical, and able to make a bastardly bastard I once dated incredibly jealous. Come on, could there ever be a better reason?
MUSE because:
1. I love gothamist and it helps me get through the work day
and
2. I haven't listened to too much muse, but my friend loves them and we've got pretty similar tastes, so I want to both rub this in his face and see an amazing band
INTERPOL because I'm in need of an awesome live show and I'd love to admire some live Interpol! Oh, and it's my Interpol-loving friend's birthday.
i would like to go see the Muse concert, not because of Muse, but because of Cold War Kids. I was introduced to them by my best friend, who I no longer have...
muse
for the longest time i'd hear these songs with a distinct voice long ago and never knew the band. then i found out it was matthew bellamy and half the songs from 'black holes and revelations'!!
that and perhaps a normal dude can give a special girl that loves muse some joy with these tix...
muse........... because:
declare this an emergency
come on and spread a sense of urgency
I think I'm drowning
Asphyxiated
I wanna break this spell
you've created
Eerie whispers
trapped beneath my pillow
won't let me sleep
your memories
Don't let yourself down
don't let yourself go
your last chance has arrived
hopelessly I'll love you endlessly
hopelessly I'll give you everything
but I won't give you up
because I want it now
I want it now
give me your heart and your soul
I'm not breaking down
I'm breaking out
last chance to lose control
Okay. I would absolutely LOVE to see Muse on August 6th.
I think it would be a great present for my boyfriend for his birthday/our anniversary. He rarely gets to see any good shows because he's either:
a) saving the world, one community service project at a time.
b) taking care of his overly dysfunctional and physically sick family.
c) dealing with my problems 24/7.
d) playing video games like a normal guy should.
Apparantly, he doesn't get to go out much. Muse is one of his favorite bands, and snagging these tickets will take care of my "AH GEEZ, APPARANTLY I DON'T KNOW MY BOYFRIEND ENOUGH TO GET HIM A SEMI-AWESOME PRESENT!" situation.
MUSE!! MUSE!! MUSE!!
Because they are ridiculous... and seeing them would be ridiculous!!!!
And if I see the show, I'll stop using so many exclamation points!!!!!!!
MUSE MUSE MUSE!!!
I absolutely LOVE them! They are the best live band ever! I saw them at bamboozle and it was just a teaser and not their whole set! I want to see their whole set in it's entirety.
I let the destiny of a girl who could be extremely over joyed by some good news up to you and your all mighty powerful ticket holding hands.
PICK ME!
Thanks,
Jen
Muse. Because I was a teenager in the 90s listening to Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains, those bands have broken up or sold out, the years have passed, and lo and behold - I am an aging, balding, weight-gaining fart who is out of touch with new music.
I want to see Muse because I have never seen them before, and if they are to be believed, the Apocalypse may happen any time now. And if it does without me seeing them first, I really just won't be able to appreciate it fully. And that'd just be sad. Although I suppose the Apocalypse will just have happened, so there won't be a whole lotta time to ruminate on that. Still though, I'd like to see Muse.
interpol please and so I can gamble my life savings away.
MUSE please, because #3)i have never seen them perform live before, #2)absolutely love their style of liberace rock and i need to destress in a constructive way, and of course, #1)I LOVE GOTHAMIST!!!
sank u!!
Interpol! Because I'm in serious need of some cathartic gloom.
Muse, please.
Because ever since hearing Endlessly few years ago, the song has been on a constant loop in my head and I yearn to hear it live.
Both bands are garbage. If you choose to give me the tickets I will do all the world a favor and burn them on my hibachi grill. G'n'R owns.
I need Interpol tickets because I havent been in Jersey in at least 8 months.
Interpol.
To see Carlos D's mustache and see him chew on saltwater taffy...
INTERPOL because:
when I was the NEW kid in NYC, a man dressed in black looking a little like a NARC and a little like a PUBLIC PERVERT that hangs on the subway gestured to me come over as I was looking for the NEXT EXIT out of this grimy UNTITLED, illegal lower east side dive. To much forced PDA and stitled conversation here.
The man in black seemed like another OBSTACLE 1,2 but this bar was EVIL tonight and NOT EVEN JAIL would make me stay. He said C'MERE while he beckoned me to the door with his MAMMOTH fingers. I was lonely in this big city - never in my life before did I feel it a TIME, TO BE SMALL so I moved forward slowly, remembering PACE IS THE TRICK. SLOW HANDS wrapped around my wrist pulling me out in the light of street lamp. I was ALL FIRED UP by this boldness and came at him like a WRECKING BALL and growled at him "HANDS AWAY buddy. WHO DO YOU THINK you are?"
He said "I am the SPECIALIST.. And I want to TAKE YOU ON A CRUISE." I just rolled my eyes, oh the SCALE of the lies men will got for LENGTHS OF LOVE. The MASCARA on my eyes smudged on my cheek and he bent forward brushed it away. I felt my heart PRECIPITATE as the REST MY CHEMISTRY became flushed. He grabbed my hand and said come with me to PIONEERS TO THE FALLS. What I said? A bar on Avenue A.
We moved like LEIF ERICKSON in search of a beacon from a phantom LIGHTHOUSE on unchartered shores.
SAY HELLO TO ANGELS as we walked into the half empty bar and then he introduced me to ROLAND. who was cutting with array of knives limes, maked them perfectly CUBED. Then I met his other mate. HEINRICH MANUEVER close to me while my STRANGER IN THE NIGHT got me a drink. Both his friends leered at me in a hungry way and I knew that there would be NO I IN A THREESOME tonight with them and slinked away slowly.
The man in black returned. And said come with me to the jukebox. I want show you something. He said play SONG SEVEN. I did.
As the room became filled by a booming voice singing "STELLA IS A DIVER AND SHE IS ALWAYS DOWN," I turned my companion who was quietly gaging my reaction while smoking a marlboro red and asked him what his name was. And he replied Paul and I was listening to a song of his new album.
And that is how i became introduced to INTERPOL*
(It is mostly somewhat true story. Please note names of people and places have been changes to protect the innocent and maybe to get all the names of the songs in their catalog to fit).
I have been a long fan and was away when tickets went on sale. I would love to hear the new song in such an intimidate environment.
Whoops..... Forgot to register first.
As previously posted, INTERPOL because:
when I was the NEW kid in NYC, a man dressed in black looking a little like a NARC and a little like a PUBLIC PERVERT that hangs on the subway gestured to me come over as I was looking for the NEXT EXIT out of this grimy UNTITLED, illegal lower east side dive. To much forced PDA and stitled conversation here.
The man in black seemed like another OBSTACLE 1,2 but this bar was EVIL tonight and NOT EVEN JAIL would make me stay. He said C'MERE while he beckoned me to the door with his MAMMOTH fingers. I was lonely in this big city - never in my life before did I feel it a TIME, TO BE SMALL so I moved forward slowly, remembering PACE IS THE TRICK. SLOW HANDS wrapped around my wrist pulling me out in the light of street lamp. I was ALL FIRED UP by this boldness and came at him like a WRECKING BALL and growled at him "HANDS AWAY buddy. WHO DO YOU THINK you are?"
He said "I am the SPECIALIST.. And I want to TAKE YOU ON A CRUISE." I just rolled my eyes, oh the SCALE of the lies men will got for LENGTHS OF LOVE. The MASCARA on my eyes smudged on my cheek and he bent forward brushed it away. I felt my heart PRECIPITATE as the REST MY CHEMISTRY became flushed. He grabbed my hand and said come with me to PIONEERS TO THE FALLS. What I said? A bar on Avenue A.
We moved like LEIF ERICKSON in search of a beacon from a phantom LIGHTHOUSE on unchartered shores.
SAY HELLO TO ANGELS as we walked into the half empty bar and then he introduced me to ROLAND. who was cutting with array of knives limes, maked them perfectly CUBED. Then I met his other mate. HEINRICH MANUEVER close to me while my STRANGER IN THE NIGHT got me a drink. Both his friends leered at me in a hungry way and I knew that there would be NO I IN A THREESOME tonight with them and slinked away slowly.
The man in black returned. And said come with me to the jukebox. I want show you something. He said play SONG SEVEN. I did.
As the room became filled by a booming voice singing "STELLA IS A DIVER AND SHE IS ALWAYS DOWN," I turned my companion who was quietly gaging my reaction while smoking a marlboro red and asked him what his name was. And he replied Paul and I was listening to a song of his new album.
And that is how i became introduced to INTERPOL*
(It is mostly somewhat true story. Please note names of people and places have been changes to protect the innocent and maybe to get all the names of the songs in their catalog to fit).
I have been a long fan and was away when tickets went on sale. I would love to hear the new song in such an intimidate environment.
i meant intimate environment. but intimidate might also be fitting when considering interpol.
muse would be good times..
Why give me the interpol tickets?
I am a tired over worked legal intern
N ot sure when my law school hell will end
T rying to regain my happy existance
E xcited that an Interpol concert could help me
R elive the days of music and beer
P lease take pity on my soul and make me yell
O H yea by
L etting me go to this concert...PLEASE
after days of listening to interpol's latest, i was feeling crazy body-creep. it was going into the bloodstream and made it run new races, both fast and slow, up my legs, around my middle, down both arms to my fingers. that made a swelling feeling, like when you put your arms out and spin around til your heartbeat is about to escape. through the listenings i was like a boy with neatly parted hair infintely reliving the explosion of his chemistry set in his hands. the shock is a full and welcome surprise because it's new, and persistent. interpol's latest just kills me and i want to see the devil draw the three card in person. i want to see them live. and i want to see atlantic city. i imagine it as a once-beautiful and glamorous woman now about 57,
wrinkled and garish. she sleeps in the motels painted in the on-sale colors, and wherever she walks she's trolling. interpol in atlantic city. that's the one-two punch in the teeth i'm asking for.
Muse be awesome to see. Why do I want to see them? Well, it turns out I am getting to that age (29) where my concert attending is slowly decreasing. Haven't seen a show in a while. So I'd like to see if the music is "too loud" yet or if I find the screams of 15 yr old kids annoying. It'll be a test of aging. Oh yeah, and MUSE is F'n fantastic. That helps!
Muse: such mind-numbing, brain-farting, nose-bleeding, heart-shuddering, idiocy rock. Have you seen that video of them on the naval-base aircraft carrier? The one where its just Muse, in the middle the fucking ocean, and all those zooming helicopter shots? With those lyrics: "Far away / This ship is taking me far away / Far away from the memories / Of the people who care if I live or die" (Starlight). Okay, I get it. See, the "far way" is his loneliness, and the "ship" is his heart? His soul? No, I guess my feeble mind simply cant comprehend Matthew Bellamy's MacArthur-Genius-Award style poetry. Its a good thiing they rock so hard. Muse - Sheer craptacular rock-moronity.
Please gift me with tickets to either of these magnificent bands, both of which I love and adore. It would put me and my significant other in an extreme state of BLISS to put on the BRIGHT LIGHTS.
MUSE PLEASE!!