I don't think the Friday opener would be a demotion, but people aren't predicting them for that, think someone said that's gonna be Shed Seven this year. They're being touted to open Other or Pyramid on the Saturday/Sunday which I don't think they'd take.
I don't think I'd realised it was Ticketek. They were backing Bryan Adams in arenas this year too.
It is very interesting. They are omnipresent as a retailer in Australia - think nearly every gig I booked while there that was in a mid-size venue or above came through them.
A bugger for Newcastle to lose out, but it is bonkers they would announce five days and flunk.
Part of me wonders if they thought they had snagged Fender, and then he pivoted back to St James' Park. Would be interested to discover.
Honestly, call up The Killers. They don't cost an arm and a leg, are a proven ticket-shifter with a decent support bill and haven't actually played in the Tyne and Wear since 2017. (They did sell out to 30,000 at Riverside Stadium in 2022.)
If they could remove the queue system from the resale it would be much appreciated. Keep the resale as it use to be for the F5 enjoyers!
I say this as have been successful 13 times in a row and finally defeated by the green bars of doom this year!🥲
Yeah, the first few times I saw them, they eschewed a fair chunk of the hits. (I'm actually in the music video for Better Than That, which they shot at Halifax's Victoria Theatre during an underplay show there.)
They are generally always reliable live - best I've seen them was the stripped back tour last year or '23, whichever one it was. They did York there, and that was terrific.
For festivals, they have started to get a little more straight up with the hits, but you only have to look at Glastonbury to know they like a curveball.
Stereophonics, conversely, like to play with a straight bat - and given that their stadium run this year seems to carry a nominal "greatest hits" tag, you'd assume no curveballs there either.
Really enjoying the new Sam Fender album, Crumbling Empire is probably my favourite track so far. Might be the headliner I'm most looking forward to, I think these songs will sound great in a festival setting.
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