LiveNation’s New Facebook App About As Useful As Tossing Sheep

Yesterday LiveNation announced they have created a new Facebook app that allows you to choose your favourite artists, receive tour updates and also buy tickets.

The app also divides your favourite artists into three lists: those with upcoming local shows, upcoming distant shows and those who are not currently touring. You can add artists manually or tap into your MP3 directory and upload them from there.

The whole point of the app is help people quickly find and buy tickets and allow them to share their favourite artists on their profile. The app has good intentions, but while it attempts to be user-friendly and convenient, it proves to be more of a hassle then anything else.

Once you’ve logged into Facebook you’ll need to log in again to your LiveNation account. After that, you can begin manually adding artists and venues that you want to receive updates for. If you don’t want to go through this tedious process you can try having the app connect to your I-Tunes library, that apparently can’t even synch up with the artists listed in the “Favorite Music” section of your Facebook profile.

I actually had high hopes for a useful Facebook app to come along but this won’t be it. I think I’d rather spend my time tossing sheep at people or sending booze-mail then using this dumbed-down website version to buy tickets.