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Originally Posted by flameswin
Yeah, unfortunately this city just doesn't have any way to justify having two 18-20k seat arenas, especially when one of them is outdated and costs a lot of money to operate.
If anything, what this city needs badly (after a new arena for the Flames) is a multi-pupose, smaller arena. I've been wanting this for years, and it would serve a great purpose.
Make it acoustically pleasing for concerts and modern, but not overly costly/fancy, and use it for all of our sports/concerts that are brutal to watch in a caverness 20k seat arena.
I'm so tired of concerts in the Dome with 5-6k fans filling up less than half the arena, making for a brutal atmosphere, or playing in the Corral that has to have some of the worst concert acoustics in North America.
There's so many bands that come through town that are too big for Mac Hall/Jubilee, but way too small for the Dome.
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Yeah, saw Dylan this year and back in 2005 and both times there was only 5 k and this last time a lot of people started clearing out early. Knopfler was awesome though
but definitely not a arena that is conditioned for concerts which hurts for sure. Was so glad I got to see the Stones out in Vancouver but you never see them or other major acts stop through Calgary which is unfortunate. Looking forward to the new arena for sure!!