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I was just looking at what bands were playing the Manchester Arena that now goes under another name. I’ve not been there for a few years so was just curious as to what their current line up of performers was.
I used to go there a lot when the kids were of school age. Panic at the Disco was about the most relevant, get down with the kids band on there at the moment lol. There was also: Olly Murs, Ed Sheerhan and the usual raft of past it rockers that can’t reach the high notes anymore, and probably need to wear ‘Tena pants for men’ to stay on stage for any length of time: Roger (backing tapes for the vocals) Waters, Peter Kay (He must’ve really liked his job when he worked there as a steward ffs?) Elton John performing his recent album ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’ and Ozzy, who has since been cancelled for biting the heads off bottles of Complan — i didn’t even know he was still lucid nowadays ffs???
Then i saw Peter Gabriel was on in June. I’ve always been a big fan of his and went to see him play there a few years back. The show was great, just good music without all the usual bollocks. So i decided to have a look how much the tickets were. The ticket page wanted to know if i wanted the ‘Suite Experience’ the ‘Champagne Experience’ or the opportunity to drink in the ‘Heineken Sky Lounge’. I’ve been in there and it was nothing special, like the set of a 70’s daytime tv quiz show — and so i looked for the ‘Carlsberg Special Brew and Buckfast Experience’, but there wasn’t one.
i checked out the ticket prices, basically £100 per person. I used to take the whole family to gigs there, but at those prices and the price of the beer, i’d have to be actually performing to afford to buy tickets for them all nowadays,it would be cheaper to go on holiday.
So i’ll just content myself with buying the album and paying the energy bills instead. They’ll be digging up dead soul singers next for the ‘i never saw them when they were good, but this will do, Jools Holland experience’ next.
I’m going to the Manchester Meltdown 9 hours of bands for a tenner experience instead, and will no doubt enjoy it far more than i would at the arena.