Chris Willman Music WriterBritish music star Sam Fender found quite a platform when he played sold-out, back-to-back shows at the Virgin Money Unity Arena, a pop-up venue in Gosforth Park, Newcastle.
He found 500 platforms, in fact. The outdoor shows had fans gathering in groups of five in that many elevated pens, for a total capacity of 2,500 on the massive field each night.
Jealous American music fans looked at photos and news coverage of the event, which was judged to be a happy, beer-soaked success, and asked: Why not here?“Why not here” is also a question Fender’s U.S.
handlers are no doubt asking, as they hope Fender will follow in, say, Lewis Capaldi’s footsteps in becoming a cross-Atlantic sensation.
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