Live Nation to drop ticket service fees for selected concerts Wednesday

Today, Live Nation announced that it’s dropping service fees on more than five million lawn tickets and hundreds of concerts, helping add value and save money for fans throughout North America. The 24 hour event makes June 3rd the biggest one day sale in concert business history. Now that’s something for fans to sing about!

“No Service Fee Wednesdays,” kick off June 3 at 12:01 a.m., offering fans some of the lowest prices of the summer with no ticket service fees on any LiveNation.com-ticketed amphitheater show, and only at www.LiveNation.com.

In the greater Los Angeles-area, this includes lawn tickets to the following shows at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater and San Manuel Amphitheater:

The Offspring (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater) – June 5

New Kids On The Block (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater) – July 10

Slightly Stoopid & Snoop Dogg (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater) – July 11

311 (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater) – July 12

Marilyn Manson & Slayer at Mayhem Festival (San Manuel Amphitheater)– July 12

99.1 KGGI FM’s The Big 3-0 Show—Pitbull, Flo Rida & more! (San Manuel Amph)—July 18

Coldplay (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)—July 19

Fishfest 2009—MercyMe, Jars of Clay & much more! (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)—July 25
The Fray (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)– July 29

Crue Fest 2 (San Manuel Amphitheater)– July 31

Journey (San Manuel Amphitheater)—August 1

Rock The Bells 09 (San Manuel Amphitheater)— August 8

Toby Keith (San Manuel Amphitheater)— August 15

Aerosmith w/special guests ZZ Top (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater— August 23

Def Leppard w/special guests Poison & Cheap Trick (VWA—Aug 30; San Manuel Amph—Sept 6)
Nickelback (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)— September 3

Dave Matthews Band (Verizon Wireless Amphitheater)— September 13

Throughout the rest of the summer, Live Nation becomes Free-Nation, as it offers a variety of “No Service Fee Wednesdays” specials at www.LiveNation.com, making Wednesday the biggest day of the week for savings on concert tickets for hundreds of shows and millions of fans.

“Summer concerts are a great escape in these tough times,” said Michael Rapino, President and Chief Executive Officer of Live Nation. “Starting this Wednesday, Live Nation and the world’s top artists are making it less expensive for fans to see their favorite bands by waiving service fees on over five million tickets at www.LiveNation.com. We wanted to do something that had never been done before and “No Service Fee Wednesdays” provide incredible value to millions of music fans to attend the hottest concerts this summer.”

Tickets for “No Service Fee Wednesdays” go on sale at 12:01 a.m. local time on June 3, 2009 at www.LiveNation.com. This promotion is not valid in combination with other special pricing offers and is subject to availability.


ABOUT LIVE NATION:
Live Nation's mission is to maximize the live concert experience. Our core business is producing, marketing and selling live concerts for artists via our global concert pipe. Live Nation is the largest producer of live concerts in the world, annually producing over 22,000 concerts for 1,600 artists in 33 countries. During 2008, the company sold over 50 million concert tickets and drove over 70 million unique visitors to LiveNation.com. Live Nation is transforming the concert business by expanding its concert platform into ticketing and building the industry's first artist-to-fan vertically integrated concert platform. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, trading under the symbol LYV. For additional information about the company, please visit www.livenation.com/investors.