[Happ Hazzard]

This may have been already covered but i missed it but why are there no concerts at the stadium this year? Didn't last years Jones and Party @ the Proact events do really well? Could they just not find appropriate acts this time around?

[azul]

Happ Hazzard, on 29 May 2015 - 09:02 PM, said:

This may have been already covered but i missed it but why are there no concerts at the stadium this year? Didn't last years Jones and Party @ the Proact events do really well? Could they just not find appropriate acts this time around?

What planet have you been on?

[Bonnyman]

azul, on 29 May 2015 - 09:04 PM, said:

What planet have you been on?

Blatter world

[Westbars Spireite]

They made so much money they haven't finished counting it.

[azul]

Erwan dsihounou, on 29 May 2015 - 09:12 PM, said:

Blatter world

If we lived in Blatter world we wouldn't be scratching around for the odd 100K

[Happ Hazzard]

Just looking what acts are touring this summer, we could have had any of the following:

The Prodigy
Simple Minds
Liza Minnelli
UB40
Take That
Bryan Ferry
Manic Street Preachers
The Beach Boys

Dunno what the club are playing at really, the stadium standing unused all summer, leaving money on the table.

[mr. smith]

Simple minds, maniacs, ub40, bryan ferry wouldn't sell it out.
Take that too big.
Prodigy not actually touring this summer apart from festival dates.
Liza Minnelli, god knows.
Beach boys I would doubt they'd fill it.

[KevoBMMD]

Happ Hazzard, on 30 May 2015 - 12:23 AM, said:

Just looking what acts are touring this summer, we could have had any of the following:

The Prodigy
Simple Minds
Liza Minnelli
UB40
Take That
Bryan Ferry
Manic Street Preachers
The Beach Boys

Dunno what the club are playing at really, the stadium standing unused all summer, leaving money on the table.

With that choice, it wouldn't be worth covering the pitch and setting up, Tom Jones failed to sell out and the party at the Proact was as popular as the Play Off Home Leg.

Sometimes the hassle involved outweighs the Profit when the Artists are not big enough to pull the people or they want too much to appear/

[BozaSpireite]

Only take that would sell out on that list

[starsky72]

I think you underestimate the popularity of The Prodigy.

They're booked for an arena tour in November, they sell plenty to make it a worthwhile gig (IF they were touring this summer and IF they weren't playing too close by)

[Goku]

Op is a troll but yeah prodigy would have bigger fish to fry if they wanted to play anywhere I'd imagine

[Spireite-Karl]

mr. smith, on 30 May 2015 - 01:24 AM, said:

Simple minds, maniacs, ub40, bryan ferry wouldn't sell it out.
Take that too big.
Prodigy not actually touring this summer apart from festival dates.
Liza Minnelli, god only knows.
Beach boys I would doubt they'd fill it.

Surely 'God only knows' is the Beach Boys

[Ernie Ernie Ernie]

Happ Hazzard, on 29 May 2015 - 09:02 PM, said:

This may have been already covered but i missed it but why are there no concerts at the stadium this year? Didn't last years Jones and Party @ the Proact events do really well? Could they just not find appropriate acts this time around?

Earth to HH over, come in HH

[dim view]

Ernie Ernie Ernie, on 30 May 2015 - 07:37 AM, said:

Earth to HH over, come in HH

He raises an interesting point. We have a first class venue but we have management that is frit. No bottle. Get the date, the act, and the organiser right and it's guaranteed income.

This post has been edited by dim view: 30 May 2015 - 07:45 AM

[Westbars Spireite]

If we just hire out the venue, yes.

We are up against a multitude of other venues then and our problem is that we fall between the capacity of the smaller arenas & the big stadium gigs.

Understandably promoters will take the easier and better trodden paths.

[ELTON 2020]

Westbars Spireite, on 30 May 2015 - 08:54 AM, said:

If we just hire out the venue, yes.

We are up against a multitude of other venues then and our problem is that we fall between the capacity of the smaller arenas & the big stadium gigs.

Understandably promoters will take the easier and better trodden paths.

There's festivals too which don't help. A lot of these are being phased out because of lack of demand. i wonder which acts would actually fill the Proact....... scratches head. Beach Boys are at the city hall in Sheff. They only have two original members - Al Jardine and Mike love - all the rest are kids
Maybe: Duran Duran iron maiden AC DC bon jovi Paul McCartney Roger Waters Taylor Swift Rolling Stones Pink ....... One Drection would be way down my list

Spireite-Karl, on 30 May 2015 - 06:48 AM, said:

Surely 'God only knows' is the Beach Boys

That song sums up a lot about our football atm

[Mr Blue Sky]

Happ Hazzard, on 29 May 2015 - 09:02 PM, said:

This may have been already covered but i missed it but why are there no concerts at the stadium this year? Didn't last years Jones and Party @ the Proact events do really well? Could they just not find appropriate acts this time around?

Troll

[spireitewolf]

Westbars Spireite said:

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They made so much money they haven't finished counting it.

Couldn't organise a pixx up in a brewery

[azul]

Westbars Spireite, on 30 May 2015 - 08:54 AM, said:

If we just hire out the venue, yes.

It worked for the Elton John concert, let someone else do the work and take the risk

Sadly the profit generated wasn't enough for DA and he wanted a bigger slice of the pie

Last years concerts and the discovery it wasn't the holy grail probably had as much to with the subsequent belt tightening as anything else

[Goku]

Elton John 1866, on 30 May 2015 - 09:36 AM, said:

There's festivals too which don't help. A lot of these are being phased out because of lack of demand. i wonder which acts would actually fill the Proact....... scratches head. Beach Boys are at the city hall in Sheff. They only have two original members - Al Jardine and Mike love - all the rest are kids
Maybe: Duran Duran iron maiden AC DC bon jovi Paul McCartney Roger Waters Taylor Swift Rolling Stones Pink ....... One Drection would be way down my list


That song sums up a lot about our football atm

"A lot of these are being phased out cos of lack of demand" - examples?