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On their Rock Or Bust tour, AC/DC play at Kantola Event Park, Hameenlinna, Finland, Europe, supported by Vintage Trouble.Full article:
Scott Lavender (promoter, Live Nation, Finland) : I’ve worked on AC/DC shows for many years but this is first time I’ve actually been the promoter. The company has been doing them for over fifteen years but previously it would have been our head promoter at the time, Risto Juvonen.
The venue was Kantola Events Park, in Hämeenlinna, and it’s a purpose built greenfield site. It’s one hour from Helsinki, one hour from Tampere, so it’s very well situated for fans from either of those two major population centres. It’s an area we’d been looking to develop for several years with the city, so it was just good timing that it was ready for opening this summer when AC/DC was touring so we could propose a 55,000 capacity show, with just the one ticket price €83, to open the park with a bang.
I’ve seen the last three AC/DC shows. The first was in 2001, then 2009 and 2010, but I feel they’ve outdone themselves this time and given the audience something extra-special. This time the production was particularly good, more ambitious than ever. The stage they brought provided a great backdrop to what they were doing, and our audience was really hungry for a good rock band. It was encouraging that, as well as the classics, the new stuff came over very well.
I think AC/DC has become the soundtrack to a lot of people’s lives, so they cross a lot of barriers, age barriers, sexual divides…
The term 'people’s band’ gets thrown around a lot, but I think they’re one band that actually deserves it. I feel they’re a very democratic band, very transparent in the way they work.
(Source : interview with Johnny Black, Audience magazine, Sept 2015)
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The venue was Kantola Events Park, in Hämeenlinna, and it’s a purpose built greenfield site. It’s one hour from Helsinki, one hour from Tampere, so it’s very well situated for fans from either of those two major population centres. It’s an area we’d been looking to develop for several years with the city, so it was just good timing that it was ready for opening this summer when AC/DC was touring so we could propose a 55,000 capacity show, with just the one ticket price €83, to open the park with a bang.
I’ve seen the last three AC/DC shows. The first was in 2001, then 2009 and 2010, but I feel they’ve outdone themselves this time and given the audience something extra-special. This time the production was particularly good, more ambitious than ever. The stage they brought provided a great backdrop to what they were doing, and our audience was really hungry for a good rock band. It was encouraging that, as well as the classics, the new stuff came over very well.
I think AC/DC has become the soundtrack to a lot of people’s lives, so they cross a lot of barriers, age barriers, sexual divides…
The term 'people’s band’ gets thrown around a lot, but I think they’re one band that actually deserves it. I feel they’re a very democratic band, very transparent in the way they work.
(Source : interview with Johnny Black, Audience magazine, Sept 2015)