For Anyone in Antarctica on December 8, 2013.....Concert of a Lifetime!!

[h=2]Metallica To Perform Live in Antarctica on December 8th, 2013[/h]

[h=5]December 8, 2013[/h][h=5]Carlini Argentine Base[/h]After over 30 years as a band, we have been unbelievably fortunate to visit just about every corner of the earth... except for one. That is all about to change as we are set travel to Antarctica, the only continent that Metallica has never played on until now!! We are partnering with Coca-Cola Zero for one of the most unique and special concert events in our career as we’ll be performing near the heliport of the Argentine Antarctic Base Carlini on Sunday, December 8, 2013.
Latin American fans in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Mexico will be able to enter a contest for the chance to win an Antarctic cruise that sails December 3-10 and will stop at Carlini. We’ll be playing inside a dome on the base and in another twist, the show will be transmitted to the audience via headphones with no amplification... a real first for us! The show will also be streamed live for our friends in those Latin American countries who cannot join us at the base and filmed to share with everyone at a later date.
To enter the contest to join us in Antarctica, click here: http://www.coca-colazero.com.ar/es/index.html. Contest entry begins on October 28th.

http://www.metallica.com/tour/dec-08-2013-antarctica.asp

[h=1]Carlini Station[/h] From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Carlini Station, formerly known as Jubany Scientific Station,[SUP][1][/SUP] is an Argentine permanent base first established in 1953 on King George Island (named Isla 25 de Mayo by Argentina), in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It had been named after Argentine pilot José Isidro Jubany, but was renamed on March 2012 to Carlini after Argentine scientist Alejandro Ricardo Carlini.[SUP][1][/SUP]
[h=2]Description[/h] Located near other bases of Uruguay, Chile, Korea, Russia, China and Poland, and next to a colony of more than 16,000 penguins and 650 sea lions, it has a maximum lodging capacity for 60 people, with an average winter population of 20 people.
The station was erected in 1982, and has 15 buildings, two laboratories and a movie theater. In order to reach it, it is necessary to fly from Ushuaia to Base Marambio, and then sail for a few days

[h=1]Metallica to play Antarctica without amps[/h] The band's upcoming concert won't just be their most remote gig of all time – it will be their quietest

Metallica's upcoming concert in Antarctica won't just be their most remote gig of all time – it will be their quietest. The band have confirmed plans for a show on the planet's iciest continent, revealing that due to Antarctica's unique conditions, they will be performing without amplifiers.
It's a "journey to the bottom of the Earth", Metallica wrote on their website. The US rockers are travelling to Argentina's Antarctic research base, Carlini, to perform "near the heliport" on Sunday 8 December. A group of contest winners will rendezvous with the band at Carlini as part of a 10-day Antarctic cruise.
"We'll be playing inside a dome on the base," said the statement. "In another twist, the show will be transmitted to the audience via headphones with no amplification – a real first for us!" The gig will also be live-streamed to fans "[in] participating countries" via coca-cola.tv and coca-cola.fm. "At a later date", Metallica plan to "share" the footage in what will probably be the world's first Antarctic concert film.
Metallica have yet to explain why their concert is being organised as a kind of silent disco, with fans wearing headphones. It's likely to be an issue of logistics: by performing amp-free, the band will require much less equipment to be brought over the Drake Passage. According to promoters Coca-Cola, the gig complies with Argentina's environmental management programme for Antarctica, and follows the guidelines of the international Antarctic-Environmental Protocol.
In addition to being the only continent on earth where Metallica have never played a concert, Antarctica is the only continent where no foreign band has performed. In 2008, bad weather forced Fall Out Boy to call off a planned show on its western peninsula; apart from McMurdo Station's famous open mic nights, the only officially documented rock concert was a performance by scientists as part of Live Earth 2007.