Wellington's Westpac Stadium Gets Ready For AC/DC
January 26, 2010, 14 years ago
Tom Hunt from Stuff.co.nz is reporting:
Despite 15,000 tickets still being unsold for AC/DC's second Wellington show, the concert's promoter is promising a rocking good time.
The AC/DC set is almost complete after 55 shipping containers delivered pyrotechnics, a fleet of forklifts, power generators, huge speaker stacks and, of course, a massive stage that takes up one end of Wellington's Westpac Stadium.
The show comes with a total of 132 touring crew, boosted by 380 local crew – many of whom have worked at the stadium since Tuesday last week when the stack of containers holding the set and gear started to arrive.
The stage includes a walkway into the audience, ending with a hydraulic platform to lift the band more than six metres skywards.
Cabling to run the extravaganza stretched "hundreds of kilometres", promoters' production representative Peter McFee said.
Promoter Garry Van Egmond said that when tickets first went on sale in Wellington last year they were going out the door at the rate of a 1000 a minute, easily outselling the Auckland show and prompting the announcement of a second Wellington show.
Wellington outselling Auckland for a concert of this type was "unheard of", he said, but he was unable to explain the capital's evident fasciation with the Aussie rockers.
And though that second show, this Saturday, still had about 15,000 tickets left to sell, Mr. Van Egmond said a less-than-full stadium was not of financial concern.
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