Post by shaggy on Jun 14, 2006 12:47:48 GMT
I'm stood in the rain getting soaked and feeling very miffed. No Nickleback as a result of the total incompetance from the show organisers ability to secure this gig at same time that the other shows were announced a few months previously (and had already sold out). Annoyed that, having shelled out £60 (plus a £6 booking fee) for a Gold Circle Standing Area ticket, that I wasn't closer to the stage like I was led to believe, but in the second section of the 3 standing areas. Even more angry that I feel I have been robbed (because the organisers had had to drastically reduce their ticket prices when they realised their exorbitant charges for tickets had backfired on them) and they had slashed all their ticket prices to get people to part with their money to try and make the show a sell out. Standing in an enclosure with people who had paid a fraction of what I had paid to be there does not exactly inspire me to be all cheerful. And to top it all off the one band I was really hoping to see - Nickleback are not even on the bill cos they had probably made other arrangements by the time this show was booked. Well done KC Stadium Promotions for being Grade A useless morons!!!!!
The show is in Hull and local radio station Viking Radio were running a competition with Hallam FM to give a new band a shot at the big time opening for one of the biggest names in rock music....and the winners come from.....Chesterfield. Say what? Chesterfield? Are Viking Radio therefore saying we can't find a decent LOCAL band in the entire Hull area? But then again, since when have the brain dead bozos at Viking Radio ever really promoted anything other than pop chart bands, so what chance did any local rock band have of being selected? So up onto the stage come a gaggle of youths with a combined age of 13 who have little or no stage presence and who seem to be lost on the huge stage. Their music lacked professionalism and polish and they should go away and seriously consider their abilities beyond a school prom stage. I know for a fact that we have better quality and more deserving older local acts. Maybe these "radio moguls" at Viking Radio should have made the effort to have gone along to watch the Best Original Band Competition that had its grand final not more than 2 weeks previously!!
Next up is a band from London who may as well have just openly admitted they ripped off all their tunes by listening to a U2 greatest hits cd. Kubb? They were more like Crud. Nice white shirts though - they obviously passed the doorstep challenge. I kid you not folks, every song riff could have come straight from The Edge's repetoir of classic U2 riffs. And get this folks, Kubb were voted best up and coming act in that rock iconic magazine - Smash Hits!! Does this not tell you something about the promoters of this show?
Well let's just hope Bon Jovi at least give us a show eh? Well they did ok. Quite a few songs from New Jersey/Slippery era when they were at their creative and show stomping best. Quite a lot of songs from their new opus Have A Nice Day. But the band just seemed to be coasting along and not the rock band that I enjoyed seeing of a few years ago. Tonight JBJ just ambled around the stage, no real energy and sparkle. The odd jump up and down on the spot bit but that's all. I don't think I saw him break out of Sunday stroll mode all show. It was like he just couldn't be bothered really. And I could tell straight away his voice was totally gone. Losing it for the high notes, even right at the beginning of the gig, and not holding them notes as good as he once did. Maybe that's why Ritchie sang I'll Be There For You cos that song is all high powerful vocals. This was a band who appeared to be struggling to compete with their former glories. Age is not the issue here. Jon is just a few years older than me so he shouldn't be over the hill yet. Hell, The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, KISS, Iron Maiden and whole plethora of rock bands are older than JBJ and they would have embarrassed him with their energy levels. Or was it that JBJ knew just what a complete shambles the organisers here had made of this gig and that his band had been dragged into playing a show that should either have been properly promoted and announced at the same time as the other UK dates or should have never have taken place at all.
Over the weekend Bon Jovi were playing 2 sell out shows at Milton Keynes Bowl in front of 60,000 fans a night with a top notch support band as part of the billing. Tonight, Bon Jovi were playing to 20,000 on a rain soaked Tuesday evening with support coming from 2 bands not fit to play at your local pub venue. Two weeks ago I was at the Monsters Of Rock Festival and paid £38.50 and saw 7 bands, tonight my entertainment had cost me £60 for a mediocre performance by one of rock's biggest and most popular acts and 2 non entities I wouldn't have paid £3 to see in some pub. Not exactly value for money is it. As for my opinion on the organisers, well, words like incompetant and clueless don't even come close and as result I feel many top bands may now avoid Hull KC Stadium like the preverbial plague.
The show is in Hull and local radio station Viking Radio were running a competition with Hallam FM to give a new band a shot at the big time opening for one of the biggest names in rock music....and the winners come from.....Chesterfield. Say what? Chesterfield? Are Viking Radio therefore saying we can't find a decent LOCAL band in the entire Hull area? But then again, since when have the brain dead bozos at Viking Radio ever really promoted anything other than pop chart bands, so what chance did any local rock band have of being selected? So up onto the stage come a gaggle of youths with a combined age of 13 who have little or no stage presence and who seem to be lost on the huge stage. Their music lacked professionalism and polish and they should go away and seriously consider their abilities beyond a school prom stage. I know for a fact that we have better quality and more deserving older local acts. Maybe these "radio moguls" at Viking Radio should have made the effort to have gone along to watch the Best Original Band Competition that had its grand final not more than 2 weeks previously!!
Next up is a band from London who may as well have just openly admitted they ripped off all their tunes by listening to a U2 greatest hits cd. Kubb? They were more like Crud. Nice white shirts though - they obviously passed the doorstep challenge. I kid you not folks, every song riff could have come straight from The Edge's repetoir of classic U2 riffs. And get this folks, Kubb were voted best up and coming act in that rock iconic magazine - Smash Hits!! Does this not tell you something about the promoters of this show?
Well let's just hope Bon Jovi at least give us a show eh? Well they did ok. Quite a few songs from New Jersey/Slippery era when they were at their creative and show stomping best. Quite a lot of songs from their new opus Have A Nice Day. But the band just seemed to be coasting along and not the rock band that I enjoyed seeing of a few years ago. Tonight JBJ just ambled around the stage, no real energy and sparkle. The odd jump up and down on the spot bit but that's all. I don't think I saw him break out of Sunday stroll mode all show. It was like he just couldn't be bothered really. And I could tell straight away his voice was totally gone. Losing it for the high notes, even right at the beginning of the gig, and not holding them notes as good as he once did. Maybe that's why Ritchie sang I'll Be There For You cos that song is all high powerful vocals. This was a band who appeared to be struggling to compete with their former glories. Age is not the issue here. Jon is just a few years older than me so he shouldn't be over the hill yet. Hell, The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, KISS, Iron Maiden and whole plethora of rock bands are older than JBJ and they would have embarrassed him with their energy levels. Or was it that JBJ knew just what a complete shambles the organisers here had made of this gig and that his band had been dragged into playing a show that should either have been properly promoted and announced at the same time as the other UK dates or should have never have taken place at all.
Over the weekend Bon Jovi were playing 2 sell out shows at Milton Keynes Bowl in front of 60,000 fans a night with a top notch support band as part of the billing. Tonight, Bon Jovi were playing to 20,000 on a rain soaked Tuesday evening with support coming from 2 bands not fit to play at your local pub venue. Two weeks ago I was at the Monsters Of Rock Festival and paid £38.50 and saw 7 bands, tonight my entertainment had cost me £60 for a mediocre performance by one of rock's biggest and most popular acts and 2 non entities I wouldn't have paid £3 to see in some pub. Not exactly value for money is it. As for my opinion on the organisers, well, words like incompetant and clueless don't even come close and as result I feel many top bands may now avoid Hull KC Stadium like the preverbial plague.
