Off Topic Get your gladrags and your handbags ready...

Yes, 3,800. Used to hold 5,000 back in the sixties. It was no different to what it is today but there are more rules and regulations now. The dance floor used to be, and still might be, the largest one north of Birmingham.

 

HCC should be looking at building a venue at least the size of Leeds or Sheffield arenas......

As for them running events, I doubt it, more likely to have a (at arms length) management company as a partnership organisation running the new venue.....

I've also been to some decent gigs at Doncaster Dome which I believe only holds around 2100 max

 

Was that about 81/82?

Three of us went in a Triumph Herald estate. Slept in the back of it in a carpark somewhere after the gig. Remember it was very loud. A great gig.

Saw a lot of great bands at the Spa in those days. Tom Robinson Band were another that were really impressive. I was infront of the stage with a bottle of whiskey and Tom asked me for a drink. Later he signed it 'To Ernie, the pisshead, Tom.'

I've still got it somewhere.

 

Hole in the exhaust?

 

It was a tidy little car.

For its age.

Doing a three point turn one day, the stub-axle sheared. The wheel fell off, damaging the suspension beyond repair.

Scrap.

 

One day for a 3-point turn? No culs-de sac for you then .

 

I very much doubt that that the likes of One Direction, Take That, Blue, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry or even Taylor Swift will be around long enough or have their stuff still mto have an audience

LOL I very much doubt that that the likes of One Direction, Take That, Blue, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry or even Taylor Swift will be around long enough or have their stuff still meaning something 50 years on and have an audience of that age.

 

I'm retired & he's still too old for me to bother with, but I'd not have gone to see him if 20 years ago either.....too late now but a group like Fleetwood Mac would have been a better attraction

 

No they wouldn't, that's just your opinion, no more than that - you prefer Fleetwood Mac over Rod Stewart, lots will agree with you, and just as many won't. Rod Stewart will sell out easily, as Fleetwood Mac probably would.

 

Wash your mouth out with soap.

 

Since they're not down to come we have to surmise - personally, I'd have a wee wager that they'd easily sell out (don't tell FT that though).

 

The Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green, yes. The middle of the road later variation, no.

 

That's Rod Stewart surely. Decent guitarist like Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nix so much better..

 

You were doing ok till you mentioned Stevie Nicks - Christine McVie is more Fleetwood Mac than Ms Nicks will ever be ............. in my humble opinion.

 

Not a patch on the Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green.

 

Stevie Nicks never sounded as good as Christine Perfect, later McVie, did here.

 

Beg to differ. Every single incarnation of Fleetwood Mac from '67 to the present day would sell out anywhere. They always have.

 

I don't disagree. I was disagreeing about his statement about how good the later Fleetwood Mac were.Not a patch on the Peter Green one.