Saturday, October 30, 2010

More seats for Cape Town U2 concert

Johannesburg - Temporary extra seating may be added to Cape Town stadium to accommodate more people for the U2 concert in February, organiser Big Concerts said on Friday.

"We are considering installing temporary seating on the upper tiers of the stadium similar to what was utilised during the soccer world cup," the company's CFO Justin Van Wyk told Sapa in a telephone interview.

"This is a very complicated and technical engineering process as we would have to remove the facade on the outside to allow cranes to pack seats up there."

Van Wyk said many logistical issues needed to be sorted out, and the engineers used to design the stadium would have to be called in for a professional opinion.

"The extra seats are not a definite thing yet... it looks likely, but we are not ready to commit at this stage."

If the organiser's plan was successful, about 6000 extra seats would be available for the concert on February 18 in Cape Town. Tickets were sold out on Friday.

Currently, a person would only be able to watch this concert if they purchased a limited number of tickets for stadium suites.

The Irish rock band would also be playing at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg on February 13. A few tickets for this concert were still available.

source : http://www.channel24.co.za/

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