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[MacLac]

True and this is with Edmonton's free reign over concerts coming to Alberta for the most part given the Saddledome's building constraints. Once Calgary's new arena comes online, it's going to get even tougher. Hopefully more and more things to fill up the arena, and an effort to get the district to offer more than banks.

I disagree, YYC's Fireplace will merely be an "add-on" to the concert circuit. By no means will they "steal" away any concerts away from Rogers. YEG is a money making machine for the scene. Do you honestly and truly feel that the "Fireplace" will be the sole and only destination on the concert circuit in AB? You must live in YYC to have that uninformed opinion....

 

[Gronk!]

2026 concerts at Rogers Place as of today

January
- The Offspring, Bad Religion
February
- Hardy
- Megadeth, Anthrax, Exodus
- Live, Big Wreck
March
- Goo Goo Dolls, Dashboard Confessional
April
- Lee Brice
May
- Triumph
June
- The Guess Who
- Bailey Zimmerman
July
- no concerts
August
- no concerts
September
- no concerts
October
- no concerts
November
- no concerts
December
- Rush (2 nights)

 

[johnnyboy]

I disagree, YYC's Fireplace will merely be an "add-on" to the concert circuit. By no means will they "steal" away any concerts away from Rogers. YEG is a money making machine for the scene. Do you honestly and truly feel that the "Fireplace" will be the sole and only destination on the concert circuit in AB? You must live in YYC to have that uninformed opinion....

Post-COVID tour planning has changed the game. I've been around the industry since Donald K Donald, and can tell you that people I know in the biz at Live Nation and AEG have already openly speculated that the savings of travel and set-up will mean more for Calgary than Edmonton. The bean counters at LN know that it's much easier - and profitable - to do two nights in Calgary than one in both. And the tour route from Seattle - > Vancouver -> Calgary -> Billings/Missoula/Bozeman -> Boise is a lot easier than going 300 kms off track for a single show. Calgary will absolutely steal concerts away from Rogers.

 

[MacLac]

I couldn't disagree more with a statement in my entire life than, "Calgary with absolutely steal concerts away from Rogers." With your logic, what's the point of doing shows across Canada - when you can do 10 of them in Toronto,......give me a break....

 

[Oilguy]

I disagree, YYC's Fireplace will merely be an "add-on" to the concert circuit. By no means will they "steal" away any concerts away from Rogers. YEG is a money making machine for the scene. Do you honestly and truly feel that the "Fireplace" will be the sole and only destination on the concert circuit in AB? You must live in YYC to have that uninformed opinion....

It absolutely stands to reason that Edmonton will see some reduction. Right now we are benefiting greatly from Calgary not being able to host and them coming up here to see concerts. Once that changes I suspect we may see less multiple nights here and even a few misses. We are still a great market but incredibly hard to not see an impact here,

 

[MacLac]

I couldn't disagree more with a statement in my entire life than, "Calgary with absolutely steal concerts away from Rogers." With your logic, what's the point of doing shows across Canada - when you can do 10 of them in Toronto,......give me a break....or even better, "Hey we just sold 18,000 tickets in YEG, naw - cancel the show - we're gonna do 2 in YYC for 24,000 tickets for 2 shows....."

 

[MacLac]

It absolutely stands to reason that Edmonton will see some reduction. Right now we are benefiting greatly from Calgary not being able to host and them coming up here to see concerts. Once that changes I suspect we may see less multiple nights here and even a few misses. We are still a great market but incredibly hard to not see an impact here,

Less multiple nights.....sure.....but ZERO misses......

 

[Oilguy]

Less multiple nights.....sure.....but ZERO misses......

The multiple nights thing will hurt as that was helping drive some hotel stays.

As for zero misses, we will see. Calgary has shown itself to be incredibly ruthless and aggressive and I can see them trying to entice promoters to just park there for a couple of nights.

 

[SarcasticMarmot]

Just a small note that Calgary has an AHL team alongside their NHL and WHL teams. That's atleast an extra 36 nights a year their arena is unavailable for concerts compared to Rogers.

I still think we will lose some concerts, but retain the majority. I could also see Calgary's larger international visibility leading to some acts that have been doing the Montreal - Toronto - Vancouver run to start adding Calgary.

 

[johnnyboy]

I couldn't disagree more with a statement in my entire life than, "Calgary with absolutely steal concerts away from Rogers." With your logic, what's the point of doing shows across Canada - when you can do 10 of them in Toronto,......give me a break....

Go ahead and disagree all you want, but it's already happened. Tyler Childers played the Saddledome last summer and skipped Edmonton on tour planning. He could've 100% sold out a show here at Rogers as well, but the tour was planned for one date in Alberta, and it was easier for them to do Calgary than Edmonton.

 

[kcantor]

My apologies. In no way was I trying to insinuate that events at Rogers resulted in 2.02 unique individuals coming in to downtown. I guess I should have used visits or person visits or ....something else.

No apologies necessary… the metric itself is a useful one and you are not the first one and probably won’t be the last one to misinterpret or misrepresent it. When trying to make comparisons between different types of events (hockey vs concerts vs residents vs workers) it can be useful, simply not in isolation.

As an example, my guess is that 9 sold out Garth Brooks concerts add a lot more new economic activity to downtown than 9 regular season Oilers games, just as 3 or 4 Stanley Cup final games would add a lot more than 3 or 4 regular season or pre season games.

 

[Gronk!]

Regardless if Rogers Place loses concerts to the new Calgary arena or not, we will still get the big concerts at Commonwealth Stadium. Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, U2, David Bowie, AC/DC, Metallica, Guns 'n' Roses, Garth Brooks, and maybe Taylor Swift.

 

[johnnyboy]

Regardless if Rogers Place loses concerts to the new Calgary arena or not, we will still get the big concerts at Commonwealth Stadium. Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, U2, David Bowie, AC/DC, Metallica, Guns 'n' Roses, Garth Brooks, and maybe Taylor Swift.

Absolutely. Commonwealth is the only reason that Edmonton is on any stadium touring map.

 

[MacLac]

Go ahead and disagree all you want, but it's already happened. Tyler Childers played the Saddledome last summer and skipped Edmonton on tour planning. He could've 100% sold out a show here at Rogers as well, but the tour was planned for one date in Alberta, and it was easier for them to do Calgary than Edmonton.

Who? So did Motley Crue for the Stampede.....8,000 tickets....Missed YEG but YEG only misses out for piddly ass concerts

 

[johnnyboy]

Who? So did Motley Crue for the Stampede.....8,000 tickets....Missed YEG but YEG only misses out for piddly ass concerts

Please stop. You're only showing how ill-informed you are with every post.