In the Round

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  • eboweddie
    eboweddie Posts: 1,116
    I'm thinking a stage in the middle of the arena.  That can't move.. And we can see Mike running around the entire stage!!! 

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  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,210
    I would favor a u2 type set up too.  More people get a chance to be close to the band.  
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  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 13,079
    mcgruff10 said:
    I would favor a u2 type set up too.  More people get a chance to be close to the band.  
    except when I saw U2 in Philly this year the band spent most of the time on the main stage and Bono was up and down the ramp and barely ever in front of the band. It's like the band was just a backup band. it was strange a bad way to watch the show. do i focus on the band or on Bono?  I didn't like it at all.  
  • njnancy
    njnancy Posts: 5,096
    on2legs said:
    Are we talking a stage that rotates or just a round stage in the middle of the arena?   The rotating stage might be cheesy.  A fixed stage is not. 

    The last three times I’ve seen U2 they have had a regular stage at the end of the arena where they play most of the show but they also have a walkway down the middle of the arena to a small round stage towards the back of the floor.  They do a good job of moving back and forth and it creates a ton more rail space for people on the floor.  

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    I was talking about a rotating circle in the middle of the arena. 
  • njnancy
    njnancy Posts: 5,096
    tempo_n_groove said:
    PB11041 said:
    njnancy said:
    I saw Yes and ELO in the round, probably a couple more bands that I don't recall. That was a big thing when I was first going to concerts. 

    I haven't seen anyone do that in a long long time, though.

    You could never do GA in the round. 
    Tell that to all the bands currently doing it.  It actually makes GA less problematic 
    Yep!

    The band moves around to different parts of the stage so you'd get to interact with a different band member during the course of the show.
    They don't need to move, the stage moves.
  • njnancy
    njnancy Posts: 5,096
    "In the round" and playing on a round stage are two entirely different things.
  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    Trap all the line/list weirdos in the round? Let's do it! Haha!

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  • on2legs
    on2legs Posts: 16,084
    2-feign-reluctance said:
    Trap all the line/list weirdos in the round? Let's do it! Haha!

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    Agreed.  The U2 setup basically blows up most of that lining up nonsense.  Almost everyone on the floor at U2 is only about 3 people off the rail at any given time.  It kind of spreads the wealth around.
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  • Kevinman
    Kevinman Atlanta, GA USA Posts: 1,923
    I thought they already did this in Champaign in 2003.  Not positive because I didn’t go to the show, but I thought I remember reading this.
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  • mrk2
    mrk2 Finland Posts: 2,093
    Pearl Jam was considering a separate "acoustic stage" at FOH, ie near the mixing desk in 2013. Taken from Karrie Keyes blog, the band's monitor mix engineer:   https://soundgirls.org/test-run/

    "In the process of designing this acoustic stage – I go to see Fleetwood Mac (which was a fantastic show), and as I sit in the audience, I try to imagine this acoustic stage right in the middle of the audience and honestly it scares me. The acoustic stage eventually gets scrapped and I am relieved."
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  • KV4053
    KV4053 Mike's side, crushed up against the stage Posts: 1,514
    Mike, Jeff, Ed, Stone... And Matt in back.

    That's the way it's been since the beginning.  That's the way it should stay until the end.

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  • danny
    danny Posts: 2,283
    i watched arcade fire in the middle of the room and i thought it was excellent
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  • SEACIDE
    SEACIDE Posts: 410
    KV4053 said:
    "In the round" is cheesy. PJ is not cheesy.
    naw ... THIS is cheesy ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGNiXGX2nLU
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  • helplessdancer
    helplessdancer Posts: 5,293
    in the round
  • Wma31394
    Wma31394 Posts: 3,045
    Kevinman said:
    I thought they already did this in Champaign in 2003.  Not positive because I didn’t go to the show, but I thought I remember reading this.
    I dont recall anything different than the normal stage setup for that show 
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