The idea that we can draw massive crowds is a lovely idea but whilst we are alot bigger than Darlington their grandiose stadium should act as a warning
Lower the unnecessarily high entrance fee and we'd draw the crowds, the KC would be nowhere near big enough. Fathers would revert back to taking their sons, something that nowadays most families cannot afford to do.
When your selling 24,000 tickets for a music event, over a couple of months, nobody has a clue what the weather will be like on the day. There are no concerts at the KC, because most of the concerts staged there lost money, that's why we no longer have them and I see little prospect of them returning. The only way we're likely to fill the KC(outside of a football match), is if Luke Campbell and Tommy Coyle have world title fights on the same day and the tickets are sensibly priced.
We didn't sell out of £16 tickets, how low does the price need to be? There are plenty of other issues aside from the cost that means we don't sell out.
Perhaps better concerts may help. Out of the three at a push I may have watched REM, but Neil Diamond and Elton John? No chance. People expect venues now where they are covered and the experience won't be affected by the weather (MEN for example). I watched the Red Hot Chilli Peppers in Hyde Park and all it did for the entire day was lash it down, it absolutely pissed it down. I can't remember any of the concert, all I can remember is trying to keep dry. Then making the journey back to the hotel with the current Mrs GLP absolutely pissing wet through. I now choose venues that are covered.
We didn't sell out of the £16 tickets as the results hadn't been great, there was a distinct lack of goals and entertaining football, and like it or not success breeds success. If the team carry on as they have done for the last couple of games the KC will be bursting at the seams in no time, and in even less time were the ticket prices more realistic.
They're the only ones described as playing to 'a capacity crowd', JLS also played to 20,000, but Bryan Adams, REM, Bon Jovi and The Who all had unsold tickets(I don't know how many, other than The Who fell short by £250-350k).
That isn't a long term plan though - a club like ours can't rely on results to get crowds in - it's about the match day experience which, quite honestly, at the KC is crap.
If you look on the HDM website there is daily news about millions of pounds worth of funding for redevelopments all over Hull. Houses, roads, tourist attractions, eye sores, parks etc Pretty much none of them ever come to fruition.
There's a lot of investment in Hull at the moment, Reckitt Benckiser £100m, Siemens £160m, Castle Street upgrade £160m, along with new hotel developments, the redevelopment of Holy Trinity etc, the problem is that there's not enough stuff that people can actually see happening, particularly in the city centre.
Let's see whether we sell out for the Drama's, I have a feeling that we will as we're now looking like we have more of an attacking threat, and are more likely to play attractive football. There are no other issues, not relevant to this issue anyway,not one's that stop the KC being full on match days. Fair ticket pricing and a team that's playing attractive football would see it hit capacity for each and every home game.
Nope. They're staying away cos of Allam and rightly so. They've got principles. I'll be hugely disappointed if we sell out as it will mean the hold outs have sold out.
You missed my point again. Probably because you didn't attend any of the concerts at the KC. Pearson made a mistake on the very first Elton John concert. Tickets had sold very well for weeks leading up to it but for some reason AP decided to slash the prices on the day of the concert. All that was separating the more expensive seats from those who had paid a tenner at the last minute was a rope, and people simply stepped over it. Hull people are not stupid and every concert from then on suffered from slow tickets sales because word got round that tickets will be a tenner each on the day of the concert, and unfortunately for Pearson it pissed it down, all day, on the day of the concerts which obviously stopped people attending. I still doubt if they were a big a let down as we are led to believe.
How condescending. I did attend a gig at the KC, I enjoyed it, there was plenty of room to move around and there was no queue for a beer or the toilets.
Not condescending at all. You say you saw 'a gig' at the KC, yet you claim to know all about them and how successful they were. I went to every one, and the one I dipped out on was JLS, and the females in my family had a box for that one. For The Who we had a sponsors deal, £150 each x 10 which included a meal, free bar and best seats ( which was debatable) How they managed to lose £250k on that concert is questionable and I don't believe it. The Who played Sheffield a couple of days before with 8,000 tickets sold and they never lost money. I think the reason why Pearson pulled the plug on the KC concerts goes far deeper then this reported loss.
Sunderland, on a Tuesday night had 39,000 for QPR. Prices were £25-30 . Sunderland are hardly playing attractive football. So if we can't sell out against them on a Saturday let's stop this pretence that the we would sell out a 40,000 stadium if only we had one.
