Sky_Blue_Dreamer
Well-Known Member
I consider the MM/GR part of the BR era. To be entirely clear I should have just used pre-SISU.
Richardson had long gone when the council took on the project. I didn't bother reading after that.
Apart from the bits you missed out and got wrong.
Accurate otherwise though.
I'm boycotting since I can't walk about with a boiling hot crate of Carling to last me the day on my shoulderSay it every year, but the Godiva jumped the shark when they tried to get big time.
Get rid of all the crap, have shitty bands playing in a field to the entirety of Coventry pissed/stoned out their box.
Fuck the outsiders. Fuck Roman fucking Keating and fuck trying to make it fucking Glastonbury.
Say it every year, but the Godiva jumped the shark when they tried to get big time.
Get rid of all the crap, have shitty bands playing in a field to the entirety of Coventry pissed/stoned out their box.
Fuck the outsiders. Fuck Roman fucking Keating and fuck trying to make it fucking Glastonbury.
Absolutely crazy for CCC to go into a hugely competitive business with zero experience expecting to be able to make a go of it. Plenty of people with years of experience lose a lot of money on live events.Most big concerts like this usually work with a big national promoter, why were CCC going it alone on this? Seems completely amateurish
The question remains, why have CCC suddenly decided to start staging concerts and, as you say, pay Wasps a hire fee? They've not done that in all the years they part owned the Arena.Wasps don’t put on the concerts, the promoters put on the concerts and hire the venues.
If ronan keating wasn’t gonna sell out the exhibition hall then it’s not bailing out wasps is it by having him perform at Godiva, it’s bailing out the promotors so they don’t have to cancel the gig. Wasps would have made money from the gig had it happened, as they went Godiva they made nowt..
Disagree. It was kicking off all over the shop in the 2 or 3 years before it changed to its current format and I saw families caught up in it.
Much better how it is now.
Fair enough. I never saw any trouble, I found it far more enjoyable when it was a Cov thing not trying to be a national festival. Each to their own. Find it soulless and dull now.
Just charge a fiver to get in. Keeps out the pricks there for a rumble and then they could drop the prices of a pint to £11.20.
It shouldn't be that hard to get sponsorship for a major event like this. Then add in parking charges, produce some decent merchandise and you should be able to cover the shortfall. Have the council even tried going down that route?
Although it does raise the question if there was an overspend this year due to all ill thought out plan to stage gigs at the Ricoh why do we then have to make it chargeable every year? Are the planning to make the same mistakes every year from now on?
Entrance fee never stopped them in Ikon
Current leader isn’t John muttonYou couldn't make this shit up. The council basically sticking two fingers up to everyone again. Hot on the heels of the current leader informing us he can make up whatever rubbish he likes to suit him as they never get pulled up on it.
Christ, legoheads changed his tune since swapping employees.
Christ, legoheads changed his tune since swapping employees.
In all seriousness this has actually been quite noticeable in recent months. Wonder if someone at the BBC has had a word with him.Christ, legoheads changed his tune since swapping employees.
Just seen on the news that there are plans to charge for parking at this year’s Godiva (which begs the question why this hasn’t been done before) but also charging anyone who lives outside Coventry. Ridiculous and doubt they’d even be able to police it.
I was referring to George DugginsCurrent leader isn’t John mutton
They tried this when they had some sailing race in Portsmouth that the taxpayer had to stump millions up for. I was living there at the time and you just had to put your postcode in on Ticketmaster. You can imagine it didn't exactly go as planned and most of the free (or they might have been cheap not totally free) tickets were quickly up on eBay and they couldn't shift the full price tickets.I really don't know how you'd get people to prove they were or weren't residents in Coventry. Are they going to check everyones ID on the way in. Do you have to bring your council tax bill or a utilities bill (even though most are now paperless)?
Marlon kings not stepping foot in Coventry for the next 2 years out of protest
The question remains, why have CCC suddenly decided to start staging concerts and, as you say, pay Wasps a hire fee? They've not done that in all the years they part owned the Arena.
It’s a fair point, one I wondered about too.
Can’t answer that one.
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