Plug pulled on Sir Paul McCartney

bluenoseam

Springsteen is somewhat infamous for running foul of curfew, when he played at Glastonbury 2-3 years ago he over-ran the curfew & paid the fine (£10,000) which organisers got hit with over it. The thing to remember is that Hyde Park might seem like it's out of the way but it is in the middle of a residential area, so 10.30 is a fairly reasonable curfew.

Ultimately it's a lack of communication between artist, who would still be playing at 5am if they let him & the venue which should have said that 10.30 was the curfew, at 10.40 we ARE pulling the plug.

art_for_arts_sake

After his performance at the Jubilee Concert it's about time someone pulled the plug on him permanently. He's clearly dependent on his backing band to reach the high notes for him. Mind you, he still managed to turn in a better performance than Cliff. Time to move over for the youngsters.

rdwarr

Frapachion wrote: »

If you try and travel anywhere near London on a train you get a "penalty fare" too, best to stay away.

Only if you think you can get away without buying a ticket. You're making yourself look a bit sill now TBH.

davidlizard

I have travelled in and out of London hundreds of times and never once received a penalty fare. Buying a ticket tends to help, and not thinking that the rules don't apply to me.

Good to see guards clamping down on fare evasion.

Re music stopping at a certain time. Many festivals rely on goodwill of local residents - not only from the time the music stops but also for the crowds to disperse - organisers and artists therefore should not take the mickey by having the music going on longer than expected. If they ignore this, then next year requests for licencing will be refused.

bazster

Westminster have made total fools of themselves. They have now gone down in history as the clueless old f***s who pulled the plug on Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney on stage together. What was potentially one of the most memorable moments in rock history will now be legendary for the utterly rude and disrespectful way in which both performers and audience were treated by Wastemonster (incidentally one of the most corrupt councils in the land) and by the spineless show organisers (Live Nation and Hard Rock Cafe).

Perhaps the jobsworths and weasels concerned should've considered that 60,000 people (many of them from overseas) paid something like £70 each, travelled huge distances at considerable expense and in diabolical weather, and spent hours sitting/standing in mud, to be denied what would have been just 10 more minutes of the show.

Petty, pointless, counter-productive. Goodbye Hyde Park: no more shows there for me, for thousands of others like me, or for Bruce Springsteen. I and my companions spent literally hundreds of pounds yesterday, in future that money will go anywhere other than Westminster, and most likely not even in the UK.

bazster

davidlizard wrote: »

If they ignore this, then next year requests for licencing will be refused.

Now there will be no-one wanting to play at the show next year anyway.

paddyrg

bazster wrote: »

Now there will be no-one wanting to play at the show next year anyway.

They probably will - don't forget this is an industry with big money involved, and money talks.

The compound in Hyde Park is (IIRC) operated by Live Nation (who are HUGE international promoters). Some events may be co-promoted, some will be them letting the compound, but ultimately their right to set up that compound represents millions of pounds per year. Whilst most people will only see one event a year in that compound, it actually works really hard - it is rebranded overnight to become somebody else's once-a-year event. Today might be Mandela 46664, tomorrow the Red Bull Thisorthat, and 2 days later the Hard Rock Thingumygig. If LN lose that compound they lose the UK venue for a number of their events and shows. To risk all that for the sake of one performer breaking the curfew (which is, I assure you, a part of their contract) would be madness.

Personally, I think it is reckless of the artists who do this - they say it is 'for their fans', but then why not start the set earlier? Or reduce their fees to make tickets cheaper?

melbell

Im glad they shut it down I had 3 days of The Stone Roses. I live within 300 meters-ish of the stage, I could hear every word.

Whilst your there rocking away. think of the residents!!

dacouch

The chances are the plug was pulled by the organiser rather than then council as he would be looking at a big fine. They have agree to a licence and have to stick to it.

Would you be happy if the pub at the bottom of your road had a music licence till x o'clock and the popular local singer over ran but the pub ignored the licence and kept on playing the loud music

Dave_C_2

There is a huge difference between waiting for the end of a song and telling The Boss that the next one must be the last and literally pulling the plug!

It's common knowledge that he does marathon sets. Not much forward planning there!

Yet another example of jobsworths running rip-off Britain - and the Olympic farce hasn't even started.

Dave