| PanosBonJovi |
06-03-2019 07:33 PM |
Quote:
Originally Posted by prayer_84
(Post 1253700)
OK, Panos, I really meant no harm so I apologize for sounding rude. I admit you have a point or two. And I know that the Romanians have already spent their money on Ed Sheeran and Metallica, which is why Bon Jovi's show isn't a sellout yet, and probably will never be. The thing is, you've stated your displeasure with the Bucharest show dozens of times already, and to me it sounded like, at least according to you, Bucharest was to blame for the lack of a Greek show. It really isn't. In 2011, the show in Romania took place on July 10, while the one in Athens - on July 20, or ten days later. I could only make a guess here but considering the Italian show (Udine) was on July 17, it may have been easier to move the critical touring gear from Italy to Greece than having to transport it 1,400 km south of Bucharest (which doesn't change the fact that Dusseldorf lies at an even greater distance from the Romanian capital). Otherwise, I would have expected to see the Greek show to be after the Romanian one. Again, it is pure speculation on my part. So, the lack of an Italian show this time around may have made it more difficult to organize a concert in Greece logisticswise. Of course, I may be dead wrong as usual and the reasons may be quite different. I'm glad there's a Bucharest date because it's 360 km from where I live. If I had to go see them in Athens, I would have had to travel 1000+ km. However, these are just minor details. What's more important to me is the fact that the band no longer skips the Balkans when they tour Europe and give us at least one date in the region.
P.S. I really expected to see a show in Belgrade this time around as they have never been there.
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Me too I was expecting a Belgrade show as well, would make more sense. Also, Balkans are growing, the wars are over thank god except some diplomatic issues between Albania and Serbia and the things are more stable as of now.
I will always blame the Greek promoters for lack of major concerts in Greece but that's also a combination of the crisis. Yet again during the "golden years" for the Greek economy, Bon Jovi wouldn't play here for some reason that I don't know.
What I complained about for the show in Bucharest was that it won't sell good due to high competition, and personally I love seeing full venues or at least with as many people as possible.
In my honest opinion, if I were a Greek promoter, strategically, I would prefer to organize a major concert with a huge act in Thessaloniki (Port or Toumba Stadium) as I'd cover: Albania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania and Turkey, instead of Athens. Athens is the capital city and more than 4m live permantly there but Thessaloniki with 1m population covers a bigger area of population as it's closer to 5 countries compared to Athens. Of course you can't roll the dice on people from foreign countries coming to Thessaloniki to watch a show but as I said during summer thousands of people from Balkans go to Chalkidiki, Thassos, Katerini etc. Locations that are nearby Thessaloniki and tourists could land to Thessaloniki's Aiport instead of Athens before they go on holidays etc.
I guess logistics and moving around the stage is the reason they own 3 stages. I can't imagine how hard is to transfer a huge stage, especially Sofia, in 2013 but even if there wasn't a Greek date on the books, it'd still make more sense to choose Greece or Serbia or even Bulgaria as a main city to perform instead of Tel Aviv. It's closer and probably cheaper to transfer the stage from Bucharest to a city that you could access by trucks and won't require oversea travelling. Plus, Bulgaria and any fan who travelled there from Serbia, from Greece, from Turkey, they got an incomplete show and they should have returned this year and even on a discount to make it up to anyone that they left disappointed. |
