Reply With QuoteIt's a perfect size for acts that won't come to the Motorpoint and wouldn't be able to sell out the Principality, of which there are plenty.Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
The City is well versed in hosting events, this is good.
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Where in Bristol do you live ?
It's a perfect size for acts that won't come to the Motorpoint and wouldn't be able to sell out the Principality, of which there are plenty.
The City is well versed in hosting events, this is good.
As they should be
The motor point is being flattened
It's going to be bigger than many other UK music venues without the population to support it and in direct competition with the new Bristol arena
I think a capacity of 10000 ish is perfect
I agreeAs they should be
Just outside - Portishead
And a new tram/train line with new stations is being built from Cardiff Central, across Callaghan Square, to the Bay.
https://www.railtechnologymagazine.c...ardiff-central
https://tfw.wales/projects/metro/sou...sformation-faq
They are dualling the tracks and building a new Bute Town station right now. In the next few years a new platform will be built at the south of Cardiff Central and the new track will be laid down the service road, across the surface car park and then tramlines through Callaghan Square and then up a ramp to join the newly-dualled Bay Line.
This will enable travellers from wider afield to get off the train at Central and hop on a tram for 5 mins to get to the new arena.
It is a good plan.
A detailed analysis here:
https://swalesmetroprof.blog/2023/01...opes-for-2023/
So just right for you ?
How far as you from the feeder canal that joins the river Avon with the floating harbour , just to the east of Central Bristol?
I am not doubting we need a replacement for the CIA
It's the size of the venue that seems a bit over ambitious given it will be considerably bigger than arenas in Liverpool, Leeds , Sheffield and Nottingham
Given that the one in brizzle is going to be bigger and up and running before ours I think a smaller facility would be wiser
As for the train station are there any plans to rip up cardiff central as , unless money is the object we surely need a bigger station
https://tfw.wales/projects/cardiff-central-enhancements
Possibly. Driving probably wouldn't be good so depends what happens with buses and trains.
About a 45 minute drive, depending on the time of day. Why?
I am hoping to do some pike fishing there in the summer
If there is no room at your house you will have to sleep in the garage
Live Nation/Ticketmaster wouldn't be involved if they didn't think it would work.
The capacity is adjustable, the same way Birmingham’s NEC is and to a lesser extent the Motorpoint is.
15k is a good capacity. 10k and you might as well just keep the Motorpoint as the amount of extra bands that it would attract isn’t worth it. 10k also wouldn’t be able to compete with Bristol’s arena that would be double the size.
Why can’t Cardiff support a 15k venue? We regularly get the biggest acts in the world playing at the Millennium Stadium to ~80k people.
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You do realise that when the really big acts play the millenium they come from all over the UK?
People are not going to come to Cardiff arena from Bristol, Swindon , Exeter , Bath as they do now if there is a similar venue in Bristol
They are part of the venture , they are not building the whole thing
Which is why I used the term "involved".
They could be 95 percent involved
They could be 1% involved. They'd still be involved.
But a big business like that won't be bothered if it loses 1 percent of its stake but would be if it was the majority investor ?
In wall street they would call it risk capital
Kiss? :P
Why not? Cardiff has a massive catchment area and every big band that people are interested in aren’t going to solely play Bristol.
Concerts aren’t like football where the support is localised and you need a large population to build a large stadium.
Looking at the people with upcoming arena gigs across the country you’ve got Rick Astley, Niall Horan, Noel Gallagher, Slash, Arctic Monkeys, etc.
If they played in Cardiff it would sell out.
Even if they didn’t, surely it’s better to entice these sort of acts and sell 13,000 tickets rather than miss out on them to other places, such as Bristol, because we can only promise them a 10,000 crowd?
I havnt seen kiss since 1997
Even then they looked old gits
You need a big population for arenas in the same way you need a big population for airports
If we had built a 12000 seater venue 6 or 7years ago we would have stolen a march on brizzle and the arena they are coming up with now would have been playing catch up
Now it's the other way round and two arenas close to each means one is going to miss out on a lot of gigs
Liverpool , Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield all compete up north so I would suggest that a 10000 seater venue in Cardiff is going to get plenty of gigs being as the only one available for the west Country and South Wales for the last 30 years has been the CIA with just 5000 seating capacity and 7000 standing
I think it's just logical and sensible because a 15000 seater venue is BIG and half of our gigs will now be in Bristol
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