Sterile mega-venues, profit-making ticket firms - for pop and rock artists and audiences, there is little room for rebellion or spontaneity
Sterile mega-venues, profit-making ticket firms – for pop and rock artists and audiences, there is little room for rebellion or spontaneityIf you thought it was expensive to get a ticket for a concert these days, just be grateful you don’t have to perform in one: this week, the opening of her much-anticipated globalhas been late to appear onstage almost every night of this initial run of her tour – she is doing six shows this week, of which tonight is her last, and will return in December –...
Going to a concert at the O2 is already so far from “rock ’n’ roll” that once you’re there, you might as well not bother. It’s in the arse end of nowhere, a no-man’s land of motorways and industrial estates, so you have no choice but to hunker down for the whole evening in the sprawling complex of chain restaurants and strange outbuildings.
I digress. But the point is that at big stadium shows – because much of this applies to most of the country’s biggest venues – it’s over before it’s even begun. “It” being, of course, the ancient art of rock ’n’ roll.
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