Feels like the right time to start a new thread for next year's gigs.
John Mayer playing the 3Arena on 29 March 2024.
Absolutely. Cardiff is a sports hall with the ‘arena’ name tagged on.
There’s no arena in the UK or Ireland with a capacity of 10k or under. I’ve never hear All Pally referred to as an arena before. Simply because it isn’t, whether by definition (“a level area surrounded by seating, in which sports, entertainments, and other public events are held.”) or capacity.
Now that Earls Court has gone the only London indoor arenas are the O2 and Wembley Arena.
Things I didn't expect to be reading about in the 2024 Gigs thread...
Paolo for thomand park
Not for those venues anyhow.
don’t think OPW has decided if it will iveagh comcerts next year or how many
You should see the Westpoint Arena in Exeter. More like a warehouse
I take it both Cardiff and Nottingham do not have arenas then?
Damn no AC/DC announcement today, one more week left if they want that Christmas Market
Billy Joel playing the Principality Stadium in Cardiff for his only 'European show of 2024'. He must want a Welsh cake
Iveagh Gardens is still TBC with gigs at the venue potentially under threat from the consultation launched by the Office of Public Works due to deranged nimbyism.
No point switching to PM. If we can't agree on basic facts then we're not going to agree on the nuances. Time to draw a line under it, I think.
No it's fine you should just have watched the tape. I wasn't the one making assumptions it was all there.
I didn't think Russian occupation of Georgia was up for debate when I posted but there we are.
The end.
Its not arena like in architecture yes......but for christ sake it is an arena capacity and feels like an arena when your there....
The utilia "arena" in Cardiff is a bloody sport hall ffs
Don't see the point in this debate
did Peter Aiken get a bang to the head ?!
On October 28th he said the 1st Marquee acts, would be announced by 1st week of November, more than a month later - nada, at this stage it is unlikely it will happen, as they missed out on the xmas pressie market completely, they always had 6 or more acts announced at this time of the year for the marquee.
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Nuitini did two nights there rather than do an arena. Kasabian played an actual arena (Wembley) the following month.
Ally Pally falls down both on capacity and the simple unarguable fact that it is not architecturally an arena.
Any hints? Nothing yet on the Marquee or Iveagh Gardens. Hopefully be something early next year.
That’s not true at all, in the past year both Kasabian and Paolo Nutini have both used it (and sold out) for example.
10,000 is firmly arena territory as far as capacity goes. The arena is Cardiff is less than that for example. You could say it’s not the same in terms of construction but Wembley Arena is only a few thousand more.
2 sold out nights at Brixton is also arena territory, that's why DMAs ended up up playing Wembley Arena earlier this year (due to Brixton being shut)
As before people have undoubtedly had enough of this. All points already made. PM me to continue.
Friday or Monday for Dublin might happen
Confirmed now as Sunday 25th August for APE
Few announcements next week as wrap up before Christmas
Not in the UK, and not even in a far less populated Ireland. 10k too small.
Architecturally it’s also nothing like an arena, being an entirely flat venue with no seats surrounding. The retractable seats are only taken out for seated classical concerts and the like.
It’s used by acts who do a night there rather than two in Brixton. I’ve seen Pixies, Interpol, Paul Weller, Portishead and others there. None are arena acts. That’s not to say that the Fonts couldn’t sell out UK arenas but they’ve never tried.
Watch the video! nothing he said was wrong written down in the context of the situation however he didn't read the room at all was some dope.
The Russian himself didn't have to vehemently declare himself so it ticked people off. How do you know he wasn't just a Russian settler?
What's not wrong about Flowers making assumptions of something he admitted a few seconds beforehand to have no knowledge about? He was wrong in my view perhaps not yours, fine.
Accurate in stating it’s not the thread but @Wrongway1985 inaccurately portraying a situation and attacking an act without solid grounds. I’m happy to continue the conversation in private and will raise the issue of Abkhazia and South Ossetia being breakaway republics prior to the war with Russia. They were de facto controlled by the Abkhaz (from 1993) and Ossetian (from 1992) forces.
In 2008 the Russians did not bomb central Tiblisi but a munitions factory and the airports that could accommodate military planes. Putin is evil but this war was started by Saakashvili as stated in the European Court of Human Rights report below and Reuter’s reporting of it. HRW and other human rights bodies reflecting the same.
How we got here from Flowers’ gentle attempt at rapprochement……
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE58T4MO/
ECHR:
https://www.echr.coe.int/documents/d/echr/HUDOC_38263_08_Annexes_ENG
10,000 capacity is an arena.
I read up on it. How do you assess that the vast majority booed rather than some of the crowd. It also doesn’t seem very dignified to boo a refugee fleeing a war. At least 300,000 Russians have fled to Georgia since the invasion of Ukraine. Putin May have started this war but the citizens who had to flee are not responsible for that.
Read the words he used and tell me what you take issue with. I don’t really like The Killers but Flowers was responding quite graciously to some people booing a refugee. The band’s apology was that “it was never our intention to offend anyone". Not stating they’d said anything wrong, which they didn’t.
Alexandra Palace not an arena. The Fontaines May now, or soon, be a UK arena band but until they book one we won’t know. I believe they’d have no issue filling the 3Arena in Dublin.
Showaddywaddy are returning to the Ulster Hall in Belfast next September!
No surprise that the Saw Doctors have added another Big Top date in Galway after the first one sold out in 20 minutes.
We have six Big Top gigs announced for next year so far, but we had eight gigs this year over the two weeks, and there are still a Friday night and Sunday night open for next year, so I imagine we'll get a couple more announcements in due course.
Oh they're a fun band!
viking drinking songs you say.....
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