Summer Tours Threatened? Spandau Ballet, Neil Young, Culture Club

Rip It Up, Issue 89, 1 December 1984, Page 4

Summer Tours Threatened? Spandau Ballet, Neil Young, Culture Club

At press time the Auckland City Council had still made no decision on a suggestion that rock concerts be banned from all council-owned venues that includes Western Springs and Mt Smart Stadium. Concerts which stand to be affected by any such measure are Neil Young (Western Springs, Feb), Spandau Ballet (Springs, March) and Culture Club (Springs, March-April). It would be criminal rf concerts were banned from Western Springs, a venue that has contained crowds from 40,000 to 60,000 with no significant trouble. Why punish concert-goers when the recent trouble at the Deep Purple show was outside the gig, not inside? (Incidentally, the council’s Parks Dept, receives about $40,000 in rent for each of the big concerts.) At present it seems reasonably likely that other action such as strict policing of alcohol bans will be implemented in preference to such draconian measures but the best way to make sure of seeing the above acts is to drop mayor Cath Tizard a line, c/Auckland City Council, Private Bag, Auckland, telling her how much you want to see the concerts and why she should let them go ahead. Do it!