lordsummerisle
Well-Known Member
Wouldn't surprise me, they bunged £50,000 of taxpayers money to the LTA for the Davis Cup.
JLR stadium!
BTW is it the council that is subsidising the MTV tickets?
It's next week.
Wouldn't surprise me, they bunged £50,000 of taxpayers money to the LTA for the Davis Cup.
They need to have words with their PR team. Shouldn't really be tweeting last night saying there's a big announcement tomorrow if its not until next week.
You can have 2 big announcements surely ?
Of course you can have 2 big announcements, but we haven't had one yet. Just some crap pop music coming to town.
I think I'm too old for their designs, without making myself look (even more) ridiculous.The Cuckoos Nest
Well that was a huge anti-climax.
I see the concert is broadcast on MTV (unsurprisingly), good publicity.
Like me you may not follow pop music but 35,000 both days over 3 years is not a small announcement.
Apologies Italia, publicity shy Ann Lucas also thinks its huge. Thats two of you now.
Did they?Maybe they should ask Lucas why, if this is worth so much to the area, the council turned down 2 free concerts at the Memorial headlined by Foo Fighters and Lady Gaga? Surely that would have had similar worth?
Did they?
Like me you may not follow pop music but 35,000 both days over 3 years is not a small announcement.
They did indeed. Radio One Big Weekend 2011:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/bigweekend/2011/lineup/
Which is, or at least was at the time, the largest free music event in Europe. And is broadcast on BBC radio and television. The host city has to stump up about £50K worth of infrastructure for the event but the return was estimated to be in the £1.5 - 2m range for that years event.
Indeed! I'm sure it means lots of car park revenue for you.
So you confirm it's a big event for Coventry and local businesses ?
Well done CCC and ACL. Should put Coventry back on the radar :claping hands:
Well done CCC and ACL. Should put Coventry back on the radar :claping hands:
Seriously???Maybe they should ask Lucas why, if this is worth so much to the area, the council turned down 2 free concerts at the Memorial headlined by Foo Fighters and Lady Gaga? Surely that would have had similar worth?
They did indeed. Radio One Big Weekend 2011:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/bigweekend/2011/lineup/
Which is, or at least was at the time, the largest free music event in Europe. And is broadcast on BBC radio and television. The host city has to stump up about £50K worth of infrastructure for the event but the return was estimated to be in the £1.5 - 2m range for that years event.
Wasn't it more like £150k and the reason they claimed that they wouldn't do it was because it would have meant that there wouldn't have been enough money available to have the Godiva festival which had already been announced, planned and promoted?
They have issues with the locals about the noise levels for the Godiva festival... I can't imagine the Foo's agreeing to "keep it down a tad" can you?
No chance it would have been anywhere near to £150K, more like a third of that. If CCC think it was £150K they are either doing something very wrong or money is going somewhere it shouldn't.
But even if it was £150K you would have thought it was worth it to bring 10 times that into the city. Strange how that is unaffordable but there's no problem raiding the cities reserves to bail out ACL.
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Well, that's what was reported at the time. What are you basing your figure of £50K on? Any reference?
Coventry was offered the chance to host the Big Weekend in May 2011.
However, it claims it could not raise the £140,000 required at short notice, as its budget was already committed to the Godiva Festival.
As a result the festival went to Carlisle, where it attracted live radio and television coverage.
City leaders there boast that the Big Weekend boosted their local economy by £1.7million and put them on the map, attracting thousands of returning tourists to the area.
Coun Ruane contacted the city’s events team to suggest bidding for the festival after he saw how successful it was last year in Hackney.
He has now shared the email exchange with the Telegraph.
It shows that hosting the event could cost as little as £50,000 – significantly less than the figure quoted to the Telegraph.
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