DreamOutLoud13
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Tampa and Houston will sell out, and Pitt and KY will be near sellout.
We'll see.
But I have serious doubts about a sellout for both Tampa and Houston.
For Pitt and KY, there's just no way.
Unless they get a huge bump in interest after the release of RHMT.
The Louisville Kentucky show will be the highest attended concert in the history of that city, maybe even the entire state.
are you sure about this one or are you just making it up?
concert capacity for papa john's is 45k. kenny chesney did 42k there last year. stones did 40k at churchill downs a decade ago.
current unsold tickets for U2 i at 3,766 - 41,234 sold - this is not including GA tickets, of which there are oodles still available but you can only reserve 50 at a time (which you can, if you and 50 of your closest friends so desire). sure, it's all GA whereas chesney was only partially GA, so there's room for more butts on the floor, but there are also a shit ton of seats available.
so yea... do you have any proof of this one or are you just making the assumption that louisville is a podunk shit town that has never seen any major shows before?
So you just pulled it out of your ass.You could say I'm assuming this more than it being fact. The state of Kentucky let alone louisville has not seen that many large stadium shows over the past 50 years. Louisville also was not until recently a place where artist would play. I did not know that Kenny Chesney played there last year. Kenny Chesney usually depends on 3 or 4 opening acts to bring his attendance numbers up. Plus with it being Kentucky, Kenny Chesney is a natural for the region, while U2 is bit off the norm for taste in Kentucky.
Here is the Stones Boxscore from 2006:
September 29, 2006
Louisville Kentucky
Churchill Downs
GROSS: $5,060,297
ATTENDANCE: 40,912
SHOWS: 1
SELLOUTS: 1
Average Ticket Price: $123.69
SUPPORT: Alice Cooper
I wonder which people are more polite, your average person in Louisville, or your average person in New York City.
You can't just blatantly make something up, present it as fact, and not expect a reaction.
I wonder which people are more polite, your average person in Louisville, or your average person in New York City.
Should I interject here, being that I AM a Kentuckian?
I don't think U2 will have any trouble selling those last few thousand tickets. They still have almost three months to do so, and a lot of people within a decent distance of Louisville might make a last minute decision to attend the show if tickets are still available. I myself would have gotten tickets to the Louisville show if I hadn't already gotten Chicago 2 tickets. I even considered going to both shows, but I really can't afford it, and June is already going to be a nightmare of scheduling for me, without having to go on far away trips EVERY SINGLE WEEKEND (between Chicago and other duties, I'm already doing a lot of travelling during the month).
Granted, I don't really live close to Louisville because I'm on the far western side of the state (Chicago is a 6 hour drive, Louisville is a 4 hour drive, into another time zone, so it feels like 5), but to say that Kentucky are Kenny Chesney people, and not U2 people seems to be making an assumption that we're all country music fans? I'd say that's really not the case. Classic rock 70s-80s is huge here. The other factor is that we don't get a lot of great events coming to our state, so when someone decent DOES come, people will go just so they can have something to do.
When you live in a location where literally everyone tours, you might decide to only see the bands you really like, and skip the shows of people you only listen to in passing. In Kentucky it's more like "wait, something to do that doesn't involve horses or college basketball?! FINALLY, and then you buy a ticket."
Do most artist play shows in either Louisville or Lexington and skip the rest of the state when they play Kentucky?
As far as stadium shows taking place in Kentucky we know of The Police, Rolling Stones, Kenny Chesney and now U2 coming up. Can you think of any others?
Coldplay
du Arena
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Dec. 31, 2016
$4,301,291
31,285 /31,285
1 / 1
$381.18, $107.55
Do most artist play shows in either Louisville or Lexington and skip the rest of the state when they play Kentucky?
That was a cheap ploy to draw me into a "MetLife is geographically closer to NYC's population center than most other stadiums" argument, and I'm not going to take the bait.Just like most artists play NYC and skip the rest of New York State (heck sometimes like U2 this year they skip New York State altogether and play New Jersey instead)?
Or most play Chicago and skip the rest of Illinois?
Amazing how bands play the population centers and not little towns in the middle of states with the high school auditorium as the largest venue.
Just like most artists play NYC and skip the rest of New York State (heck sometimes like U2 this year they skip New York State altogether and play New Jersey instead)?
Or most play Chicago and skip the rest of Illinois?
Amazing how bands play the population centers and not little towns in the middle of states with the high school auditorium as the largest venue.
Do most artist play shows in either Louisville or Lexington and skip the rest of the state when they play Kentucky?
As far as stadium shows taking place in Kentucky we know of The Police, Rolling Stones, Kenny Chesney and now U2 coming up. Can you think of any others?
NSYNC played Louisville Cardinal August 2001 at their height.
George Strait Cardinal 2001.
George Strait Cardinal 1999
DMB C-Downs 2010
Beach Boys C-Downs 1974(riding greatest hits resurgence)
Actually there are a lot of cities throughout New York State that get played besides New York City. Cities like Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester, Albany, and Saratoga Springs.