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No more concerts at SOL

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Mr Redknapp said:
What have they done to deserve that?
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Having witnessed the total clusterfuck that Hampden served up on Saturday for a concert, I've since come to the conclusion that any stadium or venue with more than 25,000 seats is capable of hosting gigs without any need to plan or execute any plan. Queues an hour long for a beer, queuing for tokens for half an hour to then join the beer queue for 40 minutes. No reasonable public transport after the gig, no taxis, train stations that were as good as useless so no way of getting back to civilisation without walking for an hour.

I don't think St James' Park needs to worry and they're more than capable of hosting Ed Sheeran with the above in mind.

chriswallace85 said:
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.
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I normally just stumble about drunk until i'm near the front. Was at the Roses on Saturday and if anyone asked me what the acoustics were like I honestly couldn't tell them. Didn't care tbh. Not there to admire Ian Brown's voice. Was there to have a few drinks and belt out all the tunes with thousands of others.
 
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A shame - I felt it put us on the map nationally, and while it isn't the end of the world, losing these & premier league status really does diminish sunderlands national presence. I think it will effect outside perceptions of the city and investment - so yes, disappointing, although hardly the football clubs responsibility
 
Doberman said:
Having witnessed the total clusterfuck that Hampden served up on Saturday for a concert, I've since come to the conclusion that any stadium or venue with more than 25,000 seats is capable of hosting gigs without any need to plan or execute any plan. Queues an hour long for a beer, queuing for tokens for half an hour to then join the beer queue for 40 minutes. No reasonable public transport after the gig, no taxis, train stations that were as good as useless so no way of getting back to civilisation without walking for an hour.

I don't think St James' Park needs to worry and they're more than capable of hosting Ed Sheeran with the above in mind.



I normally just stumble about drunk until i'm near the front. Was at the Roses on Saturday and if anyone asked me what the acoustics were like I honestly couldn't tell them. Didn't care tbh. Not there to admire Ian Brown's voice. Was there to have a few drinks and belt out all the tunes with thousands of others.
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Won't be hour long queues for food and drink at St James' but Rafa will have to run around a lot to get the orders out quickly
 
Holding the concerts was all about giving the club a revenue stream during the summer. They have lost this money hence all of the the ditrct debits been brought forward by a month.
Losing the concerts is a loss for the town, we could have held 2 concerts in June this year. 50000 x 2,people in to the town all bringing cash in to the town.
Not sure what benefit the club have by cancelling the concerts only the ability to have the 1st game of the season at home. Oh and hold a home game as a friendly against one of the old firm.
Well done Bain and Honest Dave useless twats.
 
AndrewP said:
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.
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Is it any different to those who sit in the Gods at Wembley for gigs or even at SOL when gigs were on?
 
box2box said:
Also read didn't make any money from concerts.
It does highlight the poor quality of staff around the club to achieve a loss on these. The 'commercial director' is now at Wembley now .......
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Yea that shows how bad he actually was at his job. He ends up at the largest stadium in the country.
 
Weremuthe said:
Didn't David Moyes use it as one of his excuses? i.e. The pitch wasn't ready when the players returned.
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It was Moyes who actually got them stopped as he said the players werent getting use to playing at the stadium. And he wanted pre season friendlies even though they lose the club money.
Dont fall the clubs story about them losing money, it was all to please Honest Dave.

errant said:
Which is telling when faced with these 'gigs made the club a loss' claims...
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Thats the point the club are spinning a yarn that a lot of people have bought into. They were stopped to please honest Dave who wanted home friendlies and the first game of the season at home.
 
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Forty said:
They were stopped to please honest Dave who wanted home friendlies and the first game of the season at home.
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When you put it like that, Moyes' argument almost makes sense - but then you think how everything he touched was a shower of shit?
 
california_surf said:
At least the metro threat strikes will suddenly stop on the days we had concerts. As newcastle didn't want money coming into Sunderland.
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Utter bollocks by the way.

As a footnote, the RMT has no plans for any disruption on the T & W Metro at the moment, so stop worrying.
DB ,the Metro owners have been playing the game with the workforce.
 
Whilst I think stadium gigs are utter chod, this a HUGE loss for the city if not the club. The main difference between Sunderland and Newcastle for me has always been live music events. Worryingly many bands are now missing out the North East completely too.
 
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