Venue capacity

greenspurs

The Nal wrote: »

Yep its an hour to the Point on the Luas from Citiwest. A fúcking hour. Its 9 miles away.

9 miles from Citywest to the 3 arena ?!
Really?
Must be more than that !!!

funnyname

Fanirish wrote: »

And also simply there is not 200 plus acts a year who would sell 3000-5000 tickets in Dublin to justify such a building. Even the olympia and vicar devote 1/3 or 1/4 of their schedule to theatre or comedy respectively

Surely you'd have a 5k venue at the BGT if they added removeable seats to the floor section just like they have in a lot of venues in the UK.

Fanirish

funnyname wrote: »

Surely you'd have a 5k venue at the BGT if they added removeable seats to the floor section just like they have in a lot of venues in the UK.

BGT was never designed as a live music venue, PA system in place isn’t suitable for most types of concerts, external system has to be installed. Plus bgt is fulfilling its design - venue for touring west end productions and there is rarely ever much free weeks as is.

Thundercats Ho

Liberty Hall hosts gigs, and has a capacity of 411 in the main hall.

Beasty

Saw The Kaiser Chiefs, Razorlight and Somebody's Child in the 3Arena last night

Main floor was all standing which seemed reasonably full with one level of seats that was less than half-full, although anyone with a seat could walk easily into the standing area. The top level of seats was curtained off

How many were there - pure guess but I would say maybe 6-8,000 but I thought it worked well. Anyone wanting a seat could watch from above, and even had a close up of Ricky Wilson when he moved into the arena for a couple of numbers on a mini stage set up for him. I don't think the relatively low numbers had any detrimental impact on the show (but I was right up at the front)

EDIT: Just to add, ticket prices were €50-60 or so, and I guess they would still have grossed over €300k after VAT, which is going to be viable for something like the 3Arena and indeed acts of that quality

Del Griffith

What's the 6000 sqm 'event space' in the Pembroke Square part of Dundrum Town Centre going to be does anyone know?

PTH2009

how come the Simmonscourt Arena in the RDS doesnt get used anymore ??

Didnt MCD or Aiken buy the arena in the citywest recently ??

L1011

PTH2009 wrote: »

how come the Simmonscourt Arena in the RDS doesnt get used anymore ??

The acoustics are spectacularly bad.

I wonder if a better/more modern setup might help though.

The last gig on setlist.fm for it, wasn't actually there as far as I know - it was Main Hall. So you've to go back to 2012.

It also hasn't got a lot of toilets come to think of it!

PTH2009

L1011 wrote: »

The acoustics are spectacularly bad.

I wonder if a better/more modern setup might help though.

The last gig on setlist.fm for it, wasn't actually there as far as I know - it was Main Hall. So you've to go back to 2012.

It also hasn't got a lot of toilets come to think of it!

The find the whole RDS sight to be rundown and in need of a shake up

The RDS arena is a bit of ****hole esp that Angesela stand (I knw it's good for Rugby and show jumping but not for concerts)

GerPen2015

I was at the Waterfront in Belfast monday night for The Strokes, my 1st time in the waterfront and I was very impressed. I had only seating tickets but everyone in the seated sections were up and jumping and dancing and had the freedom to move about from place to place , I have been to gigs in olympia and 3arena in the seats and its always a pain to be told sit down and that you cannot move move about , I would def make the trip back up there for another gig , I think the capacity is just over 2000.