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INDIANAPOLIS - Scalpers, online brokers and eBay auctioneers figure to reap prices as high as $5,500 for exclusive club seating to the showdown between the Patriots [team stats] and Colts, as demand for tickets is far exceeding the supply.

The defending Super Bowl champion Indianapolis Colts (7-0) host the New England Patriots [team stats] (8-0) on Sunday, making it the first matchup in NFL history between teams still unbeaten this far into the season. The winner would stand alone atop the AFC Eastern Conference and have home field advantage should they meet again for the AFC championship in January.

The Colts have no tickets left to sell to one of the hottest regular season matchups ever.

"We’ve been sold out for years. I don’t have any tickets to sell anybody. There can’t really be a variance (in the number of tickets) once you’re maxed out," Larry Hall, Colts vice president for ticket operations, said Monday.

Tickets are available elsewhere, of course, but buyers will have to pay dearly.

StubHub.com, for example, is offering upper-level sideline seats for $167.50, and that’s a bargain.

Move closer to the field and the price skyrockets. Lower-level sideline seats are going for as much as $4,000; VIP and club seating is going as high as $5,500.

TicketsNow.com is offering tickets at more reasonable prices, if $1,200 for a lower-level sideline seat and $1,659 for a seat in a VIP suite can be called reasonable. Another online broker, TicketLiquidator.com, has row 16 sideline seats available at $1,183 each, or row 4 seats along the Patriots’ sideline at $1,071.

Two lower-level tickets were sold on eBay for $688, and two more in row 11 behind the Colts bench at the 50-yard line were being offered for $3,000.

The Colts are taking no position on the inflated prices, team spokesman Craig Kelley said.

"All of our games are in demand, and fortunately the team has played well. It’s become somewhat difficult ticket to get, but I’m not sure that we hear directly (from the public on) one game as opposed to the other," he said.

Scalping in Indianapolis is legal, although the City-County Council banned it for the NCAA Final Fours and in March extended that to the Super Bowl as part of the city’s losing bid to host the 2011 NFL championship, which went to Dallas.

Indianapolis beat the Patriots 27-20 in the regular season last year at Foxborough, Mass., then took out New England 38-34 in the RCA Dome for the conference title in January. That game drew a season-high attendance of 57,433.

So far this year, the largest crowd has been 57,361 for the opener against New Orleans.

Sunday’s game will be a similar sellout.

"There’s no tickets for the first game; there’s no tickets for the last game; there’s no tickets for the New England game," Hall said. "I don’t have any tickets. I’m happy to be sold out, but ..."

Country singer Keith Urban is launching the second leg of his "Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy World Tour" on Nov. 1 in Columbus, OH, while at the same time readying "Keith Urban Greatest Hits: 18 Kids" due on Nov. 20. The CD features two newly recorded tracks: a remake of Steve Forbert's 1979 hit, "Romeo's Tune," and a new full band recording of "Got It Right This Time (The Celebration)" as well as all of his #1 songs.

Also debuting in stores on Nov. 20 will be a special edition of the greatest hits CD with a DVD of 12 of Urban's most popular music videos including "Better Life," "Making Memories Of Us," "Once In A Lifetime," "You're My Better Half."

Keith Urban itinerary (country singer Gary Allan will open all shows):
November 2007:
1 - Columbus, OH - Schottenstein Center
2 - Grand Rapids, MI - Van Andel Arena
3 - Auburn Hills, MI - Palace of Auburn Hills
8 - Indianapolis, IN - Conseco Fieldhouse
9 - Cleveland, OH - Quicken Loans Arena
10 - Buffalo, NY - HSBC Arena
11 - Pittsburgh, PA - Mellon Arena
15 - Champaign, IL - Assembly Hall
16 - Rosemont, IL - Allstate Arena
17 - St. Paul, MN - Xcel Energy Center
29 - Knoxville, TN - Thompson Boling Arena
30 - Nashville, TN - Sommet Center

December 2007:
1 - Birmingham, AL - BJCC Arena
2 - Little Rock, AR - Alltel Arena
6 - Greenville, SC - Bi-Lo Center
7 - Jacksonville, FL - Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena
8 - Sunrise, FL - Bank Atlantic Center
9 - Tampa, FL - St. Pete Times Forum
13 - Toronto, ONT - Air Canada Centre
14 - Ottawa, ONT - Scotiabank Place
15-16 - London, Ontario - John Labatt Centre

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Everyone has seen those shady characters hawking ducats a safe distance from Broadway theatres. And a sizable percentage of theatergoers has resorted to what's known in professional circles as the "secondary ticket sales market" at one time or another. Some experts contend that on any given night, 100 to 200 seats to a hot show like Jersey Boys are procured through scalpers.

That the selling and reselling of tickets is a hot business in Gotham should surprise no one. The city, after all, offers a dizzying array of entertainment options, from concerts to shows to sporting events. As a result, New York City constitutes approximately one-third of all the secondary market ticket sales, according to Donald J. Vaccaro, the founder and president of TicketNetwork.com, a company that includes TicketLiquidator, a sort of cyber-Casbah where promoters, show producers, venues, and assorted others sell tickets to consumers. TicketNetwork also controls the software that many brokers now use.

Still, despite the booming business, only one percent of the more than 10,000 employed in the scalping industry actually work in New York City, according to Vaccaro. This odd fact is owing to New York State's ticket scalping law - a law which may soon undergo a change set to shake the industry to its very core.

Currently, the New York law is in the minority in the nation in setting a price cap on the resale of tickets. The current law lets brokers charge up to 45 percent above face value for large events, such as rock concerts and sports outings. However, for venues with fewer than 6,000 seats (read: Broadway theatres), the cap is 20 percent above face value.

In recent years, New York has grown fairly isolated in its attitude to scalping. Florida and Illinois recently dropped their resale caps. And the Connecticut General Assembly in 2006 proposed a bill that would repeal its scalping ban - a bill that, as of press time, looks poised to pass. A similar bill is in play in Massachusetts.

So why has New York stood firm? "It's directly because of the New York theatre lobby," said Vaccaro. "They wanted to protect the New York theatregoer from what they thought were outrageous prices that were hurting the Broadway market." Others have noted that those same producers and theatre owners weren't particularly happy that all that money being made off tickets to their shows was going in other people's pockets.  (Full Story)

Congratulations to our friends Slayer for their recent Grammy Award WIn!  The BlueLightTickets.com team solutes your efforts.  Check out Slayer's current tour dates and availabe concert tickets.

Event	Venue	Date/Time	Availability
Slayer	Lifestyles Communities Pavilion Columbus, OH	Monday 2/12/2007 7:00 PM	view tickets
Slayer	Hammerstein Ballroom New York, NY	Thursday 2/15/2007 6:00 PM	view tickets
Slayer	Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel Providence, RI	Friday 2/16/2007 8:00 PM	view tickets
Slayer	9:30 Club Washington, DC	Tuesday 2/20/2007 7:00 PM	view tickets
Slayer	House Of Blues - Myrtle Beach North Myrtle Beach, SC	Thursday 2/22/2007 8:00 PM	view tickets
Slayer	House Of Blues - Orlando Orlando, FL	Friday 2/23/2007 7:00 PM	view tickets
Slayer	Revolution Fort Lauderdale, FL	Saturday 2/24/2007 6:00 PM	view tickets

Incubus is tearing up stages all across the U,S,A.  Check out their upcoming tour dates and available tickets.

Event	Venue	Date/Time	Availability
Incubus	Wiltern Los Angeles, CA	Monday 2/12/2007 8:00 PM	view tickets
Incubus	Wiltern Los Angeles, CA	Tuesday 2/13/2007 8:00 PM	view tickets
Incubus	State Theatre-mi Detroit, MI	Tuesday 5/22/2007 6:30 PM	view tickets
Incubus	Kool Haus Toronto, ON	Wednesday 5/23/2007 7:00 PM	view tickets
Incubus	Agora Theatre Cleveland, OH	Sunday 5/27/2007 8:00 PM	view tickets
Incubus	Greek Theatre - Los Angeles CA Los Angeles, CA	Friday 6/1/2007 7:30 PM	view tickets
Incubus	Greek Theatre - Los Angeles CA Los Angeles, CA	Saturday 6/2/2007 7:30 PM	view tickets

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Chelsea and Shannon

Second Annual Event to Be Held July 17-19, 2007 at Venetian Resort Hotel Casino

VERNON, CT--(MARKET WIRE)--Jan 3, 2007 -- TicketSummit.org is pleased to announce its second annual secondary-ticket conference and trade show, to be held July 17-19, 2007 at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. The conference will showcase top industry leaders, while providing networking opportunities, interactive forums and expert panels to educate and enhance secondary-ticket industry awareness. "With one more day than last year's show, this year's three-day event is certain to be bigger and better than ever. As a result of extraordinary secondary-market growth, we expect attendance to triple to more than 1,000 participants," said Steve Kobelski, Executive Director of TicketSummit. (Full Story)