Hyde Park 2013

[5co77ie]

Will AEG live not get Hyde park?

http://m.guardian.co...ia&type=article

[LondonTom]

Yeah my mate was less than impressed at walking through Hackney after a gig for the big weekend. (I told her to stop being so fucking stupid, especially given the police presence /event stewarding and connection to the Olympics )

[dacbo]

Victoria Park?

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Yeah my mate was less than impressed at walking through Hackney after a gig for the big weekend. (I told her to stop being so fucking stupid, especially given the police presence /event stewarding and connection to the Olympics )

[Chrisw16]

Stone Roses playing two shows in Finsbury Park next June. Could this now be seen as the obvious replacement for Hyde Park and new location for Wireless and HRC?

[Paul ™]

Unless the local council (Harringey I believe) have had a massive turn around, they were only allowing one weekend of concerts up to last year in FP.

[eFestivals]

Stone Roses playing two shows in Finsbury Park next June. Could this now be seen as the obvious replacement for Hyde Park and new location for Wireless and HRC?

It appears to be the case that these shows are being promoted by SJM, so there's no reason currently to think that Live Nation will use the same site.

[zahidf]

Bon Jovi announced a stadium tour with no london date yet. I assume they are waiting to see where the Hard Rock Calling gigs will be before announcing that:-)

[5co77ie]

http://www.accessaa.co.uk/news/live-nation-coo-slams-royal-parks/

John Probyn, has confirmed. Discussions with alternative sites in the capital are already underway.

[PastCaring]

Cristal Palace?

[LondonTom]

I don't know London well enough to answer this fully, who are the likely new venues which wouldn't be as stringent on noise? Looks like both events are remaining in the capital

[eFestivals]

Clapham common won't be it. The stuff thwey have there has already been scaled back because of complaints.

You're right about the Olympic Park - that might be it.

[gazza_20]

I'd go with Hackney Marshes, as the residents wouldn't have the lawyers etc to go to and could maybe even be mostly brought off with locals tickets. (But it is fairly built up around there)

Is there not a plan for an open air concert area in the Olympic Park to? (I am sure I saw that, would make sense as it would free the stadium up for Athletics in the summer).

Other than you've got Clapham Common which has SouthWest4 ...Victoria Park (Although I can't remember if that's owned by the City or Royal Parks, so might have a similar problem.)

I don't think any of the other places that would be london proper have a big enough space really.

[5co77ie]

Good point Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is the legacy of the Olympics - can't find out who owns the live acts part of it.

[5co77ie]

AEG Live new tenders of Hyde Park:

http://www.efestivals.co.uk/news/12/121105c.shtml

[dacbo]

Victoria Park (Although I can't remember if that's owned by the City or Royal Parks, so might have a similar problem.)

[guitarbhoy1888]

They've also said today they eat to introduce cheaper tickets

Wonder if it will help

[LondonTom]

Victoria Park has quite a bit of noise problems, plus already hosts a bunch of events, Field Day, Lovebox etc...

[the wonderwhy]

In fairness, they can just call it 'Hyde Park Live' or something & have 6 completely different headliners with no set genre. Bit like Eden Sessions but on a bigger scale?

Olympic Park is a good shout, although when I went there I got the impression that the 'vast amounts of green, open space' weren't suitable for live events. Too much uneven land/vegetation, rivers etc. around. I didn't walk round the whole thing, admittedly.

[Paul ™]

http://www.eventmagazine.co.uk/Events/article/1158220/aeg-takes-hyde-park-concerts-live-nation

This saying that LN didn't walk away and were in the bidding process till the end.

[5co77ie]

http://www.eventmaga...rts-live-nation

This saying that LN didn't walk away and were in the bidding process till the end.

Edited November 6, 2012 by 5co77ie

[LOCHLAND5]

Possible - tho does anyone know if they're actually bidding?

I think the problem for the Royal Parks is that without Live Nation as one of the companies tendering for the contract, they'll consider the tendering process to be flawed and won't give them a good return - especially now it's now known publicly that Live Nation aren't (currently) in the mix. It'll encourage anyone else that might be interested to submit very low speculative bids in the hope of picking up a bargain.

So my view stays where it is, that LN are playing a game of chicken with the Royal Parks, in the hope that the tendering process will get amended into something more to their liking. If it does get amended that'll benefit both Live Nation and Royal Parks.

[eFestivals]

Think you guys maybe over analysed this one.

I got it wrong, but I'm pretty sure I was right about there being a motive behind the statements they were putting out. It was what the motive was that I got wrong.

By the way if you were selling your company would that make you not bother to tender ? I would of thought you would definitely tender to make a sale more attractive if you were successful !

Scott works for efestivals, but the opinions here posts here are his own (just as mine are my own).

I hadn't realised he'd posted this but he'd said similar to me directly, and I told him it wouldn't work that way.

[5co77ie]

By the way if you were selling your company would that make you not bother to tender ? I would of thought you would definitely tender to make a sale more attractive if you were successful !

[Damsonz]

While there are alternative London locations they definitely don't suit as well as Hyde Park - they're less well served with both parking and public transport options (including linking into the mainline train services out of London), as well as being less appealing places for the more genteel audiences that the big London events typically attract.