(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 can't see Newcastle having many decent gigs, there's serious logisitical issues in terms of the access tunnels aren't big enough to get the stage stuff in and no-where for the trucks to park. Ashley was the one who wanted the gigs, just no-one was interested. The Stadium of Light is bigger aswell because of Newcastle's lobsided stands and has a much bigger pitch space.
I believe there's strong noise restrictions aswell.
(11 Jun 2023, 10:29 am)Adrian wrote Are they able to do that with a timetabled service? Remember, the Metro was off for everyone, not just those going to the Sam Fender concert.
Not too sure legally but who's going to complain. If there's no-one getting on at the first stop then there's very little point of it running beyond that as those people will just use the Metro as it was running just not stopping in Newcastle.
I wouldn't be surprised if locals just used the local buses instead which dropped them closer to their homes, it's no different to a Metro replacement really when the buses are never really busy. I know I would've, and it's cheaper than the Metro aswell.
It's the same with the SF3, don't really see the point of it running non-stop to CLS, imo. it would've been better to just run the 21 every 5/10 minutes instead, it basically duplicated it anyway and there's very few houses in the centre of CLS and no-one is going to get that then walk 20 minutes when they could just use the bus to their door.