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Updates about the latest announcements and events happening at Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre.


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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS

Cell Phone & Smart Device Use Prohibited

Immediately after ticket scanning, cell phones and all smart devices (i.e. smart watches, tablets, etc.) must be securely placed in a Yondr pouch for the duration of the evening’s performance. Guests may carry the Yondr pouch with them throughout the evening and the pouch will be unlocked during the exiting of the venue.

The use of cell phones and smart devices (watches, tablets, etc.) are not permitted during the show. Video and audio recording are strictly prohibited and the use of any mobile device including for the purpose of texting, calls, social media, photos, recordings, etc. will be result in immediate removal from the venue.

Guests are expected to keep mobile devices stored away in all areas other than designated “Smart Device Zones.”

Cashless Payments

As the venue is cashless, guests should ensure they have a physical credit/debit card for purchases. Apple Pay, Google Wallet, and other smart device payments are not be available.

TICKET INFORMATION

Assigned Seating Ticket Holders

  • Guests with seats in Sections 102-117 will enter through the East Entrance (off Wesbrook Mall) – see map for entrance details
  • Guests with floor seats are encouraged to use the West Entrance (off the Osborne Lot) – see map for entrance details.
  • Please have your mobile tickets open and ready to scan to expedite entry.
  • There are no in/out privileges.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Prohibited Items & Safety Information

  • Travel light! Bags or purses larger than 12″ x 12″ are not permitted. No backpacks.
  • The following items are prohibited from the venue:
    • Any glass items and tin cans
    • Selfie sticks, GoPro cameras, iPads, tablets
    • Weapons of any sort
    • Fireworks
    • Banners with poles and/or political banners
    • Professional cameras (with large telephoto or detachable lenses)
    • Lasers/laser pens
    • Outside food and drink
    • Video and audio recording equipment
  • All prohibited items must be appropriately disposed of prior to entry to the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre being granted. All patrons and personal belongings may be subject to search. Please be advised that additional items may be prohibited by security.
  • Concessions and merchandise transactions are all cashless.
  • Strobe lighting and other lighting effects will be used throughout the performance
  • Please click here for a full list of prohibited items.

Merchandise

  • Merchandise will be available to purchase in the venue at Section 118.

Getting to the Show

COVID-19 Safety

The Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre is following local health guidelines. The venue does not currently require proof of vaccination for entry and wearing masks in public indoor settings is not required. Masks are encouraged, but not required.

 

 

 


LEWIS CAPALDI ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM, BROKEN BY DESIRE TO BE HEAVENLY SENT OUT MAY 19 ON CAPITOL RECORDS

LEWIS CAPALDI ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM, BROKEN BY DESIRE TO BE HEAVENLY SENT

OUT MAY 19 ON CAPITOL RECORDS

SOPHOMORE ALBUM FEATURES UK CHART TOPPING NEW SINGLE, “FORGET ME” –

WATCH ACOUSTIC VIDEO OUT TODAY HERE

 

GRAMMY® AWARD – NOMINATED SINGER/SONGWRITER ANNOUNCES SPRING 2023

NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINE TOUR WHICH INCLUDES APRIL 6 CONCERT AT NYC’S

RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL AND MAY 3 SHOW AT THE GREEK IN LOS ANGELES

 

TICKETS GO ON SALE TO PUBLIC FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21

 

 

October 18, 2022 — (Hollywood, CA) — Today, GRAMMY® Award-nominated singer and songwriter Lewis Capaldi announces the forthcoming release of his new album Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent, due out via Capitol Records on May, 19, 2023 and available to pre-order HERE.  Featuring his smash single “Forget Me” (a September release that marks his third consecutive UK No. 1 hit), the album will follow Capaldi’s 2019 full-length debut, Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent — a massively acclaimed effort that emerged as the biggest-selling UK album of both 2019 and 2020.  Also today, the 26-year-old artist announced his spring 2023 headline tour of North America, with all tickets on sale this Friday; see below for the full list of tour dates and venues.

 

Made with longtime collaborators including TMS, producer/songwriter Phil Plested (James Bay, Bastille) and hitmakers like super-producer Max Martin (Taylor Swift, The Weeknd), Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent pushes forward with the piercingly honest songwriting and soul-stirring vocal work Capaldi first showcased on his debut album.  I don’t want to create a new sound for myself, or reinvent myself,” Capaldi says of Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent. “The songs I want to write are emotional songs, about love or loss.”

 

An auspicious start to the next phase of his career, “Forget Me” amassed over two million streams within 24 hours of its premiere and is now approaching 100 million streams globally, in addition to making Capaldi only the third artist this year to land a single at the No. 1 spot on the UK charts in its first week.  “It’s about a breakup I went through where after a year, the only real contact I had with my ex was seeing her ‘post-me’ life play out on her Instagram,” he explains. “I was at a point where I was feeling pretty miserable and she seemed like she was moving on and having the best time, thriving, and I hated it. It seemed unfair to me that she appeared happy while I was hurting, and I was fearful she might have forgotten about me completely, so I wrote a song about it.”

 

Directed by NME Award-winner Louis Bhose, the official video for “Forget Me” served up a shot-for-shot remake of Wham’s 1983 hit “Club Tropicana.” Today, Capaldi unveiled an acoustic version of the track, watch the video HERE.

 

After selling out headline shows to hundreds of thousands across the continents over the past few years — and headlining his first-ever festivals last summer — Capaldi will embark on a headline tour of North America next spring. Available to Citi cardholders in the U.S. and American Express cardholders in Canada, credit-card pre-sales for the tour start tomorrow at 10 a.m. local time. Additionally, the Spotify pre-sale and promoter/venue/radio pre-sales start

Thursday at 10 a.m. local time. The public on-sale for the tour begins this Friday at 12 p.m. local time.

 

Along with selling over 10 million albums worldwide — propelling Capaldi from bedroom musician to global pop superstar — Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent delivered iconic singles like “Someone You Loved”: a platinum-selling ballad that earned a GRAMMY® nomination for Song of the Year, won the Song of the Year prize at the Brit Awards, and reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and US Top 40 charts.  With its extended edition featuring Capaldi’s chart-topping single “Before You Go, Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent also earned praise from the likes of Rolling Stone, The New York Times, GQ, Stereogum (who noted that Capaldi “wields those vocal cords like a velvet sledgehammer”) and TIME (who stated that “Capaldi’s talent is tugging at heartstrings – or rather, pulling at them with all his vocal might”).

 

Lewis Capaldi’s 2023 North American Headline Tour Dates

March 30 2023 – Nashville, TN               Grand Ole Opry House

April 01 2023 – Atlanta, GA                    Coca-Cola Roxy

April 03 2023 – Washington, DC             The Anthem

April 04 2023 – Philadelphia, PA            The Metropolitan Opera House

April 06 2023 – New York, NY                Radio City Music Hall

April 10 2023 – Boston, MA                   MGM Music Hall at Fenway

April 11 2023 – Laval, QC                       Place Bell

April 14 2023 – Toronto, ON                  Coca-Cola Coliseum

April 15 2023 – Detroit, MI                    Masonic Temple Theatre

April 17 2023 – Cincinnati, OH               The Andrew J Brady Music Center

April 19 2023 – Chicago, IL                     Aragon Ballroom

April 20 2023 – Minneapolis, MN           The Armory

April 22 2023 – Denver, CO                    The Mission Ballroom

April 25 2023 – Vancouver, BC               Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre

April 26 2023 – Seattle, WA                   WaMu Theater

April 28 2023 – Portland, OR                  Theater of the Clouds

April 30 2023 – Berkeley, CA                  Greek Theatre

May 03 2023 – Los Angeles, CA              Greek Theatre

May 06 2023 – Phoenix, AZ                    Arizona Federal Theatre

May 08 2023 – Austin, TX                      Moody Amphitheater

May 09 2023 – Dallas, TX                       South Side Ballroom

May 11 2023 – Houston, TX                   713 Music Hall

The Stats

Over 25 Billion global streams

1 Million headline concert tickets sold

Biggest-Selling UK Album of Both 2019 & 2020

2 x BRIT Award Winner and GRAMMY™ Nominee

US Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 Single (“Someone You Loved”)

2 x Consecutive No. 1 US Radio Records (“Someone You Loved,” “Before You Go”)

Biggest-Streamed Week 1 Debut Album Of All Time (Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent)

5 x consecutive Top 10 UK singles including 3 x No. 1 (“Someone You Loved,” “Before You Go,” “Forget Me”)

More Weeks in UK Top 10 Than Any Song EVER By British Act (“Someone You Loved”)

Longest-Running Consecutive Weeks In Top 10 UK Album Chart For Solo Artist Album, at 77 Weeks

(Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent)

 

Photo credit: Alexandra Gavillet

 

 

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EMMY AWARD WINNING COMEDIAN JIM GAFFIGAN RETURNS TO VANCOUVER WITH DARK PALE TOUR

EMMY AWARD WINNING COMEDIAN

JIM GAFFIGAN RETURNS TO VANCOUVER WITH DARK PALE TOUR

Sunday, January 15, 2023
UBC – Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre

Tickets on sale Friday, October 14 at 10 AM

MONTREAL (OCTOBER 11, 2022) – Just For Laughs is excited to announce the return of comedian, actor, writer and author Jim Gaffigan to Vancouver with his new show Dark Pale Tour. The six-time Grammy nominated comedian will be at the UBC – Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre on Sunday, January 15 at 7:30 PM and tickets go on-sale Friday, October 14 at 10 AM.

 

About Jim Gaffigan

Jim Gaffigan is a six-time Grammy nominated comedian, actor, writer, producer, two-time New York Times best-selling author, three-time Emmy winning top touring performer, and multi-platinum-selling recording artist. He is known around the world for his unique brand of humor, which largely revolves around his observations on life.

A top ten comedian according to Forbes’ 2019 comedy list, Jim released his 8th stand-up special, The Pale Tourist, on Amazon. He was also recently awarded for being the first comedian to reach one billion streams on Pandora. His 9th stand-up special, Comedy Monster, premiered on Netflix last December.

Up next, Gaffigan will be seen as the lead in the Sci-Fi dramedy, Linoleum, and will star as Mr. Smee in Disney’s Peter Pan and Wendy, opposite Jude Law and Yara Shahidi. He will also co-star Jerry Seinfeld, Melissa McCarthy, James Marsden, and Hugh Grant in Netflix’s Unfrosted, and co-stars in the independent film Susie Searches which premiered at TIFF this year. HBO Max recently announced Gaffigan joined the cast of Full Circle, a limited series from Steve Soderbergh and Ed Solomon which follows an investigation into a botched kidnapping connecting multiple characters and cultures in present day NY. Gaffigan was also recently heard in Disney/Pixar’s highly anticipated film, Luca, opposite Jacob Tremblay and Maya Rudolph.

Gaffigan and his wife currently live in Manhattan with their five loud and expensive children.

 

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Joji Announces the SMITHEREENS Tour

Joji

Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre

 

 

The Japan-born singer and producer Joji is one of the world’s most enthralling artists with over 7 billion streams to date. Joji’s sophomore album, Nectar, debuted at #1 on Spotify’s inaugural US Weekly Top 50 Albums chart, #1 on Billboard’s Independent albums chart, and #3 on the Billboard 200. Nectar debuted at #1 in Australia and in the top 10 in New Zealand, Canada, UK, and Norway. Joji also earned his highest-ever debut on the Billboard Hot 100 with the RIAA-certified Gold song “Run,” and his national television debut on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

General tickets go on sale Thursday, June 16 at 10:00 AM on Ticketmaster.

 

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Carly Rae Jepsen Announces the So Nice Tour 2022

CARLY RAE JEPSEN

Saturday, October 29, 2022

Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre

 

 

After multi-platinum Grammy, Juno and Polaris Prize-nominated singer/songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen released her critically acclaimed album E·MO·TION in 2015, it became “a modern touchstone for a new crop of pop-leaning artists and legacy acts,” as NPR noted. The album also inspired an abundance of memes — extending the cultural cachet that Jepsen earned from the ubiquity of her GRAMMY® -nominated blockbuster hit “Call Me Maybe” (from her U.S debut album Kiss), which not only climbed to No. 1 on the iTunes Singles charts in over 47 countries, sold over 20 million singles worldwide, and was certified Diamond in the U.S., but was referenced by everyone from former secretary-of-state Colin Powell to Cookie Monster.

Jepsen’s 2019 album Dedicated, retains the joyful, hook-filled feeling of its predecessor. But where E·MO·TION was an ’80s-influenced synth-pop classic that Rolling Stone called “a pop masterclass” and Stereogum called “indisputable, unfuckwithable pop genius,” Dedicated has a more ’70s-inspired feel at times, though the album defies categorization as a whole, with Vulture stating, “Dedicated is both stranger and freer than the last record, but it also feels more confident and considered.” Working with a crew of trusted songwriters and producers, among them John Hill, Jack Antonoff, Captain Cuts, Patrik Berger, and her longtime collaborator Tavish Crowe, Jepsen indulged in more sonic experimentation than she had in the past. Dedicated features the fan favourites “Party For One,” “Now That I Found You,” “Too Much” and “Want You In My Room.”

Jepsen landed the lead role in the 2014 Broadway production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella and later starred as the iconic Pink Lady, “Frenchy,” in FOX’s four-time EMMY award-winning musical GREASE: LIVE.  Jepsen voiced the character of Odette in the animated movie “LEAP!,” which also featured Jepsen’s song “Cut To The Feeling.”

Following the release of Dedicated Jepsen embarked on a global tour playing to audiences in North America, Asia, Australia and Europe. Jepsen released Dedicated Side B in 2020 which included previously unreleased music from the Dedicated sessions and shot to #1 on the iTunes chart upon release.

Fans have been eagerly anticipating her newest single, “Western Wind”, Jepsen’s first new single since the release of Dedicated Side B. General tickets go on sale Friday, June 10 at 10:00 AM on Ticketmaster.

 

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