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No more concerts at SOL

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dangermows said:
Won't the acoustics still be the same regardless of what seats have been sold?
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Hmmm not really. Different speaker positioning etc with the majority of the crowd out front rather than a lop-sided distribution if the stage was facing down the pitch. Our ground will undoubtedly have friendlier acoustics but it's not an exact science. Whenever we go to these kinds of things - stadium gigs, open air gigs, arena gigs - we always have a wander about to where the sound's decent anyway.
 
Brett said:
Question is how can we make a loss when other stadiums do regular gigs.

Now the 50,000 people that will spend money in Sunderland Will be spending it in another city.
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Or if the club actually starts trying to be a club and is successful that will generate far more than concerts ever will.
 
Which concerts tanked at the sol? Rhianna second time, bon jovi, red hot chilli peppers?

The rest seemed pretty popular so fuck knows how we couldn't turn a profit when the likes of the etihad, ricoh etc could
 
timeforheroes1 said:
Which concerts tanked at the sol? Rhianna second time, bon jovi, red hot chilli peppers?

The rest seemed pretty popular so fuck knows how we couldn't turn a profit when the likes of the etihad, ricoh etc could
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Wouldn't say Bon Jovi tanked. They were giving away some tickets for back end of the stadium, otherwise they sold (I believe 42,000+ tickets which isn't bad when you consider I think they played Glasgow and Manchester too). People who travel for gigs are more likely to go to somewhere like those two than the north east you'd suspect.

chriswallace85 said:
Might not be the full ground - they've hosted concerts side on in recent years.
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Can imagine Sheeran having the full on stadium rather than the weird layout SJP had for likes of Kings of Leon, Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart like.

Sheran has done consecutive nights at Wembley and just headlined Wembley. I'd assume the stage would be gallowgate end and have standing on pitch and sell surrounding seats. Total guesswork like but he could defo sell 50,000+ up here
 
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TicoTorres said:
Can imagine Sheeran having the full on stadium rather than the weird layout SJP had for likes of Kings of Leon, Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart like.

Sheran has done consecutive nights at Wembley and just headlined Wembley. I'd assume the stage would be gallowgate end and have standing on pitch and sell surrounding seats. Total guesswork like but he could defo sell 50,000+ up here
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I'd agree - just going off past concerts. You could still sell plenty tickets doing it sideways on. They set up that way at Hampden Park as well.
 
TicoTorres said:
Sheran has done consecutive nights at Wembley and just headlined Wembley. I'd assume the stage would be gallowgate end and have standing on pitch and sell surrounding seats. Total guesswork like but he could defo sell 50,000+ up here
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He's massively popular and I don't doubt he could sell 50,000 tickets, but with the strange lop sided nature of SJP, it'll mean nobody will want the seats in Level 7 so they'll be limited. Could still probably hold close to 40,000 though.
 
Brett said:
Ed Sheeran is playing st James park on stadium tour so it seems Sunderland have ended concerts for good.

Think it's very short sighted of the club sadly
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We made no money from them, screwed up the pitch and stopped any chance of home pre season games.

Apart from that they are great.

Mr Redknapp said:
His songs are so emotional man, anyway his two most popular songs were getting sued for plagiarism
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And he looks a wrong un
 
I put this on a previous thread about the same subject -

From memory when the SOL started hosting gigs figures of around £850k where quoted in the press as the fee the club received for the 'hire' of the SOL. The stadium was effectively handed to the promoter who did all the organisation and the pitch could be covered for 3-4 days before it would be affected. Take That had the stadium for a little longer for one of thir gigs because it was the first of their tour so they needed longer to set the stage up but the club were replacing the pitch anyway during that pre-season.

I might be wrong with this but I suspect the 'losing money' might have started when the club tried to take more control using their "1879 Events" set up to do the catering etc. at the gigs.
 
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