Concerts @ the Parc

Aah i see, nevermind mun, back on topic, expanding on an earlier idea, how about a 3 day festival with the most well known bands on the 1st day, welsh bands on the 2nd ( welsh language or not) and the 3rd day devoted to alternative bands, therefore, everybody wins,happy days mun!!!

seassick steve

we could ask him to play the tosspreys anthem
They started out with nothing , and they have most of it left

SMELLYMIKE wrote: we could ask him to play the tosspreys anthem They started out with nothing , and they have most of it left

Smelly the Os need us, they are in crisis and when in crisis, we respond.

we need to look much more seriously at the potential concert revenues

The teeny pop artists are the ones which will attract the most audiences. Commercial artists will sell tickets like Roy mentioned. People have their own tastes but some of the acts mentioned won't fill the place. 

what sort of crowd turnedc up for the Enjoy festival this year? And what was the maximum crowd that could have turned up?

It will always be difficult to attract big names to the Parc for a few reasons. Firstly, Llanelli is not a major population centre so there is a limited demand. Secondly, there are other venues in South Wales which are a more attractive proposition to bands.

Cardiff for example has a much larger potential market, especially when you consider that cities such as Swansea and Bristol are within easy reach. The venues in Cardiff are either bigger than the Parc (Millennium, CCC) and venues like the internatonal arena has built up a reputation amongst promoters for being a good venue.

Then in swansea you have the Liberty, which would be our main rival when it came to getting gigs. With a bigger capacity and being in a larger, more well known town, it is a more attractive proposition to promoters and bands alike.

We might get the odd one-off concert and hopefully Enjoy will carry on and be a success next year. However, I honestly think that the Barn offers a much better venue for gigs. The problem being that each time a gig took place there it would limit the use of the barn for training etc so it would be a balancing act. An indoor festival of local/Welsh bands in the barn would be my suggestion.

Mogs17 wrote: Let's bring it down to idiot level. Swansea and Cardiff get far more gigs etc. than Llanelli, anybody can see that, what with places like Sin City, Brangwyn Hall in Jackland and Cardiff's million music venues. Something like this would get the club and area money, artists will see other artists playing down here and will start inquiring about performing in this part of the world. The more artists we get to play in the Parc the more will come, Band A will see their mates in Band B playing Parc y Scarlets and want to come down and see what all the fuss is about. This would then have a knock on effect on town, attracting more and more live music down this way + further west, that would meen that more venues get opened up in town for music, and Llanelli and Parc y Scarlets can then compete with Swansea and Cardiff for stuff like this. It won't happen overnight, but if we just give it a try. Apologies if i sound a bit optimistic there.

I love your optimism, but honestly can't see it happening. You have to consider that we would be competing against dedicated music venues who have relatively little set up costs. Each time a gig was played in the Parc you would need to install stage, sound, lighting etc taking away from the profits either to us, bands, promoters or all parties.

I agree that it would be good to see gigs down at the Parc, but think there are better avenues for non-match day funding such as conferencing, trade fayres etc as the stadium is better suited to these.