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Originally Posted by blueandgoldguy
It's too bad the bleachers at the Waverly Soccer Complex couldn't be torn down and the construction of a 5 - 7,000 seat soccer stadium take place, with room for some expansion. A CPL team playing in IGF will have a terrible atmosphere with around 5,000 or less in the lower bowl of the stadium. The experience is everything when enticing people to sporting events nowadays and a stadium at 20% capacity is not exactly ideal. I guess we will see what they have in-store for entertainment at these games next year.
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Almost like they should have built IGF at Polo Park and refurbished University Stadium.
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Originally Posted by blueandgoldguy
The concert industry in this town has suffered a bit since the Jet came back. Fewer big concerts in general and some of those that have come in recent years are selling fewer tickets then before. Take a look at Poll Stars numbers for the top 200 arenas for the first six or seven years of the MTS Centre's existence vs. the last 3 or 4 years. While concert tours seem to have become more numerous with each passing decade, the number of tickets sold at MTS Centre have declined from a 10 years ago. No doubt, the Jets have played a role in this decline.
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True North must have paid a pretty penny and had someone owe them a favour to be one of the only 2 Canadian stops on the Beyonce/Jay-Z tour a few years ago. The revenues from that show were by far the lowest of any on the tour (by millions), and it's not Beyonce and Jay-Z giving up money to come here. They didn't stop in Minnesota.
Don't really think that's much of a factor – the numbers and logistics don't look good from the artist's perspective these days. The biggest factor is the dollar, coupled with location – and that artists are actually shifting to more of a festival focus where you don't have any of the burdens of an arena tour. Also with the diversification of the music industry, more people, especially young ones, are listening to smaller independent artists that would never play an arena. Personally I hate arena concerts, no atmosphere.
Winnipeg is in an extremely difficult location for touring artists. Most tours go in a U shape – start in Vancouver/PNW and go down the west coast, across the southern states, and up the east coast – or vice versa. Winnipeg adds a lot of time and logistical issues to stop in for most artists, and the dollar isn't making it easier. Generally a stop here requires a day off on either side, which can be a lot of lost money. Because tickets here can't fetch a price like a major city with millions of people, the business case is often weak. Minnesota tends to get left out of tours sometimes as well when artists are on a tight schedule.
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