Quote Originally Posted by Der Kaiser View Post
In fairness Bristol, the closest major city to us, also doesn't have a major arena. That means for any sort of mid tier concert anyone from south wales, west wales and the west country must either travel to Brum or London. If we beat Bristol to the line, and get this arena built, it's likely the pull of it will be far greater than just Cardiff and the surrounding areas.
That's what worries me , getting ours built before Bristol but if they also build a decent sized arena they It will be a direct competition to us and we will have the daft situation whereby bands can pick and choose like they do in the north of England where you have Nottingham , Leeds , Sheffield , Manchester and Liverpool all with arenas competing with each other ........build one in Cardiff and the days of having to travel two hours to brum to see the major acts will be over , unless Bristol build a similar venue which will see rock stopping at the Severn bridge ..........let's be honest we have been lucky that the CIA is the only venue of any size in this part of the world because crap sound or not , we would not have got half of the bands and touring shows we have had it Bristol or Newport had built a ten thousand arena

My view is they will just build a roof over the Cardiff blues stadium and we will have a crappy multi purpose venue with crap sound and not available when our glorious regional rugby side isn't playing , Bristol will get it's act together and we will be up shit street with just the CIA to pick up the scraps

Build it on the M4 on the north of Cardiff and you have the perfect location but slap it in the already congested city centre and wtf is the parking access going to be like , it's a nightmare as it is