(11 Jun 2023, 9:44 am)Shrek wrote I went to see Kip Moore at the Sage a few weeks ago, he's American but he played the Champions League music before he came out. Most bands I've been to see will do something local to get the crowd going. 

As for which stadium is better for gigs, Newcastle were never interested in them during the Ashley era. Going forward it's likely you'll see a lot more there, not just Sam Fender.

On Nexus, I do think they could have planned this better, but it's an incredibly difficult process with so many people needing to use the network and the limited staff and resources available. They need to learn from this, but from what I've heard from people who were at the gigs at Sunderland and Newcastle last night, it was no worse than normal to get home.

I was on the ground in Newcastle last night and there was more than enough resource to get people home from the Newcastle end (if anything, too much resource). Whether the planned disruption caused a significant amount of customers to make alternative arrangements (lifts, Uber, etc) or not remains unclear.

Journey times of course were slightly longer and inconvenient to need to change at Gateshead, but overall I think most customers that used the Sam Fender shuttle buses were happy.


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