Though he has been known to misinterpret, misremember things as seen on this forum. So his posts aren't always right. Not that I care that much about this particular case.
I'm not a massive ELO fan but really enjoyed Saturday. He's a man of few spoken words is Mr Lynne but I think that endeared him to the crowd. Just got on playing his songs with little fuss. Bit harsh though during the chorus of 'Evil Woman' when the cameras panned on that old bird backing singer with the big knockers
I didn't see any empty seats and 19000 is 6k under capacity . Was a great night and we all seemed to be up and rocking at the end , so it would be a shame if it had made a loss .
It wasn't a cheap night our tickets were £ 80 plus each and the wine and ales etc were a minimum of £5 . However it was the best KC Kcom gig I have attended .
We scored for the deal £40 and then got bumped up to the front! Sometimes things just work in your favour! But I've been on the wrong end of ticket price reductions in the past! But as you say very good concert and a real good vibe about the place!
The capacity was 20,000 for ELO, due to the size of the stage, they sold 19.500, I was told this on the night, by someone from Cuffe and Taylor.
It was 25,000, I'm on the stadium Safety Advisory Group and had to sit through the entire planning meeting.
Then they've given you a bum steer, as the capacity on Saturday was 20,000 mate as confirmed by the promoters. No way on Gods Earth was there over 5,000 empty seats, in the sections of the ground being used, due to the size of the stage.
Jeff Lynne’s ELO Concert 01/07/2017 LP and DC discussed current ticket sales agreeing after some confusion that they were currently at 11,386. It was confirmed that the agreed capacity was 24,950 and that it would be an all seated event. DC disclosed that it was his gut feeling that sales would not exceed 20k. They may have reduced the number of seats due to poor sales, but the agreed capacity was 24.950. Cast. Iron. Fact.
His gut feeling was very good. Maybe it was meant to be that, I'm sensing tax fiddle here from the Allams. It will not go beyond 20.000 and it didn't. They've got form for this been conmen an all. Evil evil bastards.
I think it's more likely that they reduced it to 20,000 as they'd realised that if they'd have extended the available seating any further across the North and South stands then the punters wouldn't have been able to see, due to the colossal stage mate. I think a few touts took a bath anyway, as there were a number of empty seats in the front of the floor section, which was officially sold out, so that's a bonus
I was actually saying that earlier, I couldn't see many empty seats, and also made the point that the stage certainly was further forward and took up more room than it was for Tom Jones, which reduced the seating on the pitch, as well as in the North and South stands. I'm sure OLM is right in the beginning that it was set at 25,000, but I heard that it was reduced because of the stage size, and 20,000 capacity did look more realistic.
Maybe its silly queston time but when our new music venue is open will possible future concerts be a thing of the past at the KC or does the sheer capacity of the KC still make it a big ticket event venue?
How do you know they are losing money, I seem to remember MKM who helped underwrite the Rod Steward gig generated a surplus that went to the Holy Trinity fund?
Almost all the gigs at the KCOM have lost money. The problem is, they're so expensive to stage that you have to sell around 80% of the tickets just to break even, it's only beyond that when you start running into profit. Rod Stewart was a 25,000 sell-out, so made decent money, I think JLS also sold out, but the others have been short, The Who gig lost a fortune.
