Marc is like Korn
Empire Records was such a sweet movie I had to make reference to it while talking about Korn!
I don’t think I’ve ever seen this much excitement fora show in a long time. I’d even say there is more hype over this show than there was for both G n’ R and Motley Crue.
I’d say there is 2 reasons for this. The first being that Korn has never played The QC before, and second is the opening band, Five Finger Death Punch.
Tickets go on sale February 20 at 10am through ticketmaster as usual and the show is slated for April 2 over at the Agribition Building.
This leads me in to a whole new topic…the Agribition Buidling. Regina is lacking good venues for music. Actually let me rephrase that. Regina is lacking a good medium size venue. The clubs in town that have shows sound good, but a band like Korn is far too big to play any one of them. The Brandt Centre is far too big to even make it look like there is a decent crowd for them to play in front of.
This leaves promoters with 3 choices. Agribition Building, The Event Plex and Conexus Arts Centre Convention Hall. I might be forgetting another building over at Evraz Place, but I’m sure the sound will suck just as bad as the rest of the rooms there.
Sound doesn’t work well in big open rooms built out of cement, with hollow rafter’s on the roof and nothing for the sound to actually bounce off of and sound decent. Shows also don’t work in rooms when the stage is only 3 feet off the ground, the roof is super low, and the rafters that are hanging from the roof are solid and block the sound from reaching people standing in the back.
Regina sucks when it comes to watching shows that are fit for 500-2000 people. I know that’s a big gap, but liquor laws prohibit any night club in this province from having more than 500 people in them even if they can hold 2000. Watching a show at the Brandt Centre stinks with anything less than 3000 people because it’ll look super empty. Even with more than that it still does since they’ve recently added the new seats (which has helped out a lot with the sound in the building).
Have you heard of the slogan “Infinite Horizons”? That’s the brand spanking new slogan the mayor and his gurus at city hall have come up with for Regina. I truly hope that part of the horizon is a venue that sounds great and can hold more than 1200 people at any given time for a show.
Maybe even a venue that you can leave and not feel like you have to shower afterwards to rid the smell of cow sh#t from your clothes!
ETB
February 10th, 2010 at 9:42 pm
Korn tickets are $150? Holy mother. We are in a recessions right now and for the next decade so why is Korn even bothering? I can barely cough up $1.50 for a corn dog from the lunch truck that comes to my work. And the food on that truck is terrible so I don’t know why I keep giving them my money. Times must be tough on the Wolf too because whenever I call you at lunch on your cellphone Evan, you never answer. Haha, don’t wanna waste any minutes of airtime hey? Hahas.
No idea how much they are yet, I haven;t been told. But the recession is over, I think. I don’t really pay attention. But the reason i don’t answer is because I can talk on my cell phone if I want, I don’t need to talk on a work one!
February 15th, 2010 at 12:58 pm
Tix are $54.00 (icluding fees). Hey Mark, if you graduated after grade 4, you could afford these concerts.