Kanye West, Lady Gaga plan HSBC Arena show

The Buffalo News
Jeff Miers

Kanye West and Lady GaGa will perform at HSBC Arena on Sunday, Dec. 20th, promoter Live Nation announced.

Tickets for the show will go on sale at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 3rd through LiveNation.com, the HSBC Arena box office, and Tickets.com. Charge-by-phone tickets will be available through 888-223-6000.

Dubbed the "Fame Kills Tour starring Kanye West and Lady Gaga," the show brings West to town hot on the heels of the abundant controversy saturating the media in the wake of his behavior at this year's MTV Video Music Awards, which took place last week. West, not exactly a stranger to shooting off his mouth during televised awards shows, grabbed the microhone from a stunned Taylor Swift and proceeded to suggest that Beyonce should've won the "Best Female Video" award, and not Swift.

Aside from the fact that they have both broken the platinum barrier in terms of album sales, West, who specializes in a creative, collage-art, pop-based form of Hip-Hop; and Lady GaGa, a dance-pop diva in the Madonna mold have little in common. Still, the tour has been in the planning stages for months, and in the process, has become one of the most buzzed-about bills of the year. The jaunt will take West and Lady GaGa to 34 cities between early November and late January.

Tickets for the "Fame Kills Tour" are priced $129.50, $99.50, $69.50, and $39.50.