Bruce Springsteen - Manchester - Cancelled?

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Springsteen gig off after complaints

John Scheerhout


RESIDENTS living around Old Trafford cricket ground have shown who is really the boss by stopping a Bruce Springsteen concert at the ground.

The club had sold 50,000 tickets for the gig on May 29, but last night Trafford councillors refused to grant a licence for the event after hearing the concerns of residents who had suffered noise and crowd problems at previous concerts, particularly Oasis.

The decision will anger fans of the rocker and has infuriated bosses at Lancashire CC, who will appeal against the decision and point out that the average Springsteen fan was far more sedate than followers of Oasis.

Concerns

The club said it had addressed residents' concerns with plans to provide stewards outside their homes, bring in heavy goods vehicles through entrances other than those near their homes, increase the number of toilets for fans and increase the number of stewards.

Rob Ballantine, Lancashire's concerts consultant, who was at the hearing, said: "A lot of references were made to the crowd behaviour at the Oasis concert in September and we tried to say this was totally irrelevant because we are talking about a Springsteen concert. The audience profile is completely different.

"Born To Run was a hit in 1975, nearly 30 years ago. A Bruce Springsteen audience is a lot older than that of an Oasis concert. This was going to be totally different.

"We are now being forced to go to the magistrates court to win the licence on appeal."

Body blow

Lancashire CC chief executive Jim Cumbes described it as "an astonishing decision". He added "This is a body blow to the finances of the club and seems to have brought to an end the partnership between ourselves and the council which up to four years ago had been moving forward so successfully.

"We cannot understand why they have rejected an event which would have brought the world's top-selling star to Manchester."

Residents raised a petition after two Oasis concerts in September which resulted in unruly behaviour by a large number of fans which caused disturbance and noise.


28/03/2003

That is crazy.

Poor Bruce...I am sure he will add yet another show onto Giants to make up for the lost revenue.

HE BETTER GIVE ME MY SODDING FORTY QUID BACK THEN :X

****ING TRAFFORD COUNCIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just read this myself now, and came up to voice my anger...... this is me voicing my anger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh well, looks like I may have to make the trip down to London days before my exams start!!!!!!!


on a plus side, I bet it will still go on, they've sold so many tickets, and on an appeal...... it seems illogical to cancel it because of some skin head Oasis fans......

Yet more proof that we should line Oasis up against a wall and have them sent to a place where they can't ruin any more Sprinsteen concerts!

hopefully they'll get the appeal since i was planning on going down with some mates to see it.

the biggest problem is that the champions league final is in manchester the night before and the council thinks it's innapropriate to have 2 large events 2 days in a row. guess which one's going to net the council more money?

anyways 3 things will happen here.

1. they'll get the appeal and it'll go ahead. this is pretty likely since it's really close to the concert and theres a good chance of the promoter suing if its licence has been withdrew after being granted rather than being rejected in advance.

2. the venue will move. could move to the britannia stadium in stoke which isn't too far away or somewhere close or in london/

3. the whole thing gets called off

personally i hope it goes ahead because the champions league final was in glasgow last year and was a great night so we were planning on going down for the night of the final and the springsteen gig.

this is off the site :

Although we are confident of winning any appeal that we may launch, we are in the hands of the promoter who may feel that such a parochial attitude is not worth challenging. He [Goldsmith] was very impressed with how we handled the very successful Robbie Williams concerts 2 years ago, when over 150,000 people attended a three night concert. Following on from the Champions League Final on 28th May, this would have been a huge boost for the Borough's economy and the Cricket Club's finances."

Neither the Police nor the Council's officers objected to the Licence.

Yeah, because that would be convinient anybody who lives in Manchester (I'm guessing the majority)...... I'm guessing if they did this, probably around about 75% of the audiance would want their money back, and it would be a huge disaster selling so many tickets in two months....

k moving it might not be the best idea but Harvey Goldsmith (the promoter) has been doing big gigs for years and will know exactly what to do.

on the other hand moving it may not guarantee people getting refunds. alot fo the warranties on tickets do say that pretty much anything is subject to change at the promoters convienience with total cancellation being the only way ur guaranteed a refund and thats just the face value of the tickets. no booking fee, delivery or credit card charges r refunded.

harvey goldsmith is a very smart man and will have had his back covered from the start to make sure if anything goes wrong then he's not losing out.

it better get on again!!!

it would be quite close but for tv screening fees etc i'd have thought? i don't know...

either way I'm angry

I'm guessing the reason is largely because of the Oasis thing

The cricket ground is in a residencial area, whereas the football isn't.....

Aparently last time, those skin head hooligans were doing number 1's, and 2's in people\s gardens,......They're animals!