PETALING JAYA: Fans of US singer Bruno Mars are urging fellow concertgoers to go and vote on May 9, despite his 24K Magic World Tour concert in Malaysia coinciding with polling day.
Facebook user Alvin Lee said fans should still be able to vote as Mars’ concert would be held at night, while voting would be during the day.
Ming Lye Chan said one person’s vote was much more important than 100 Bruno Mars.
“Please go out and vote!” she said.
However, Nur Khairunnisa Shaharum said she would skip voting because Mars’ concert was just “too hot to be missed”.
Meanwhile, Jannis Tan Yi Tung asked concert organisers to reschedule the concert.
“Please consider that a lot of people who will be attending the concert are not only Kuala Lumpur citizens, but are from other states too,” she said.
Tan added that for out-of-state fans to be able to vote during the day, they would have to book flights between voting time and the concert, making it more difficult as seats would be limited.
Election Commission chairman Tan Sri Mohd Hashim Abdullah announced yesterday that polling day would fall on May 9.
Mars concert organiser PR Worldwide told fans to wait for an official announcement on its Facebook page.
“Thank you for all your messages and calls in regard to the upcoming election and Bruno Mars concert.
“Please stay tuned to PR Worldwide for an official announcement,” it said.
All 12,000 tickets to the Bruno Mars 24K Magic World Tour concert in Axiata Arena, Bukit Jalil, have been sold out.
This is not the first time a concert has fallen on election day, as Italian opera singer-songwriter Andrea Bocelli also had his concert on the same day of GE13 on May 5, 2013.
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