set to open in the city this April.In a licensing meeting for the latter, ASM Global had objected over “public safety” reasons and accused the application for a licence being “simply unlawful”.Initially, ASM stated they had no issue with the new venue opening until midnight, however, issues arose at the prospect of the space being allowed to open until 2am at the weekend. In written submissions to Manchester City Council’s licensing committee, the operator of AO Arena said it only wanted to promote licensing objectives to “safeguard public safety and the prevention of public nuisance”.The firm argued Co-op Live should close by midnight at the latest, and not be given the ability to open 24/7 on 25 occasions every year as requested.Gary Grant, representing AO Arena operators ASM Global, claimed that the brand took an interest in the appeal for a licence by Co-op Live as they are “significant stakeholders in Manchester’s cultural and leisure life” (via Manchester Evening News).From there, Co-op Live hit back at the AO Arena, accusing it of making a “ludicrous and disingenuous” objection to the £385million venue’s opening.
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The producers and key creatives behind the Live Aidmusical Just for One Day, which officially opened Tuesday night at the Old Vic, have banded together to ensure that 10 percent of every ticket sold goes to the Band Aid Charitable Trust established by Bob Geldof and others to help relieve the hunger and poverty in Ethiopia.
The trust also can expect more funds pouring into its coffers if and when the show transfers from the Old Vic into the West End — and possibly to Broadway, where its capitalization will be many times more than the approximately £6 million ($7.6 million) it cost to develop and stage in London.
The former Boomtown Rats frontman who spearheaded the landmark Live Aid mega rock concerts that took place at Wembley Stadium in London and at John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia on July 13, 1985, featuring the biggest rock acts of the time — David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Queen and Tina Turner, to name but a few — has negotiated a deal that guarantees the trust will be the biggest benefactor both pre and post-recoupment.
If audiences have as good a time as your columnist and his wife did at a recent preview performance, then the sun won’t be setting on Just for One Day any time soon.
Who knew that one would get an opportunity to see former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher going head-to-head with Geldof? Dynamite.
Worth noting that executives from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s LW Theatres also were in attendance, and there are rumors that they’ve already earmarked one of the organization’s six West End houses for a Just for One Day transfer.
I covered Live Aid at Wembley — an unbelievably amazing period because Bruce Springsteen had played the same venue on the weekend prior — and when I watched Just for One Day, it
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