Below is a link to a concert review from the show on March 3rd at American Airlines Arena in Miami.
The Arena's website lists seating capacity for major concerts at up to 20,000.
Last night's Queen-Paul Rodgers show drew approximately 8,000 fans.
***The following link contains some of the song ontents of last night's set, and is definitely a spoiler for those who do not wish to know ahead of time of the surprises unveiled at the first U.S. show!!!***
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/lifestyle/sfl-mu04queenmar04,0,3766986.story
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Thanks. I see this as a positive review. Sounds like the boys did a fine job. I agree with the freshness comments
8,000 sounds like a guess to me.
Thank you for posting this review, it's not bad, really. Only 8000 people is a little disappointing for the band, let's hope that not all shows are selling only half of the seats.
the attendance was 9710 of 14,602 available.the 20,000 figure is a total seat figure not a concert capcity.
2/3 full...not bad.
Seems pretty poor to me actually.
there is also a big latin festival going on ,i was told ,that historically keeps attendance at other events down...
the National promoter totally misread the market here.Miami is a terrible place to kick off a tour.Also i think Pieter had it right in saying maybe in some of these towns a mid-range venue would have worked better.I thought they had momentum here but sadly went to Japan.once the tour gets to the northeast the media will create a buzz.is anyone worried about Paul's voice tanking with dates so close?
Note that the review is from the Sun-Sentinel, a newspaper from Ft. Lauderdale, north of Miami.
Local Miami press has almost ignored the concert. I could only find a note about this concert in The Miami Herald in the page where all the concerts of the weeks are listed. I come from a Latin American town and live now in Miami. I thought that living in USA I was gonna be able to enjoy rock more than in my own country. The truth is that to be able to enjoy rock music I should travel to Ft. Lauderdale, Sunrise or West Palm Beach.
Miami is famous for its beaches and tropical life. Its a huge city with a wonderful market for latin rythms but Rock bands do good avoiding this place. Too bad for me :-(
Local Miami press has almost ignored the concert. I could only find a note about this concert in The Miami Herald in the page where all the concerts of the weeks are listed. I come from a Latin American town and live now in Miami. I thought that living in USA I was gonna be able to enjoy rock more than in my own country. The truth is that to be able to enjoy rock music I should travel to Ft. Lauderdale, Sunrise or West Palm Beach.
Miami is famous for its beaches and tropical life. Its a huge city with a wonderful market for latin rythms but Rock bands do good avoiding this place. Too bad for me :-(
Low attendance ... well, remember that Freddie isn't there!
Doniphan..very well articulated.thanks for insight
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Doniphan wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Note that the review is from the Sun-Sentinel, a newspaper from Ft. Lauderdale, north of Miami.
Local Miami press has almost ignored the concert. I could only find a note about this concert in The Miami Herald in the page where all the concerts of the weeks are listed. I come from a Latin American town and live now in Miami. I thought that living in USA I was gonna be able to enjoy rock more than in my own country. The truth is that to be able to enjoy rock music I should travel to Ft. Lauderdale, Sunrise or West Palm Beach.
Miami is famous for its beaches and tropical life. Its a huge city with a wonderful market for latin rythms but Rock bands do good avoiding this place. Too bad for me :-([/QUOTE]
I agree, I moved to West Palm from Miami and have gone to more concerts, I was surprised to see that the concert was at that arena, usually most concerts are at the hockey arena in Sunrise (Ft Lauderdale) or at the Ampatheater up here in WPB where we usually get some awesome concerts and have seen Sting/The Who/Linkin Park/Korn/Rod Stewart/Kiss... and in Surise Van Halen/U2
The promoters really screwed up picking Miami.
Local Miami press has almost ignored the concert. I could only find a note about this concert in The Miami Herald in the page where all the concerts of the weeks are listed. I come from a Latin American town and live now in Miami. I thought that living in USA I was gonna be able to enjoy rock more than in my own country. The truth is that to be able to enjoy rock music I should travel to Ft. Lauderdale, Sunrise or West Palm Beach.
Miami is famous for its beaches and tropical life. Its a huge city with a wonderful market for latin rythms but Rock bands do good avoiding this place. Too bad for me :-([/QUOTE]
I agree, I moved to West Palm from Miami and have gone to more concerts, I was surprised to see that the concert was at that arena, usually most concerts are at the hockey arena in Sunrise (Ft Lauderdale) or at the Ampatheater up here in WPB where we usually get some awesome concerts and have seen Sting/The Who/Linkin Park/Korn/Rod Stewart/Kiss... and in Surise Van Halen/U2
The promoters really screwed up picking Miami.
I wished I attended. I am saving for David Gilmour in Chicago or LA. I am going to a ticket broker. The reason the show sold out was that the ticket agents bought all of the tickets.
"the attendance was 9710 of 14,602 available"
I agree with the guru, this is underachieving to say the least. In Europe a hall of that size would sell out any day. The reasons that are listed here (Latin festival, wrong city etc) cannot conceal the fact that Queen plus Paul Rodgers do not sell 15 000 tickets in a major city. That is very disappointing. On the bright side, it's the hardcore fans who come, so the atmosphere should be great. Plus - there are a couple of hundreds Europeans who travel the States to see the concerts:)
I agree with the guru, this is underachieving to say the least. In Europe a hall of that size would sell out any day. The reasons that are listed here (Latin festival, wrong city etc) cannot conceal the fact that Queen plus Paul Rodgers do not sell 15 000 tickets in a major city. That is very disappointing. On the bright side, it's the hardcore fans who come, so the atmosphere should be great. Plus - there are a couple of hundreds Europeans who travel the States to see the concerts:)