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Speaker 1: I'd ever do for ce Ellen. So submissions are now open.

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Speaker 1: You can actually have your say on whether eden Park

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Speaker 1: should be allowed to double the number of concerts that

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Speaker 1: they have. At the moment they have six, they want

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Speaker 1: to be able to hold twelve, and from me, it's

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Speaker 1: absolutely a held yes, give them twelve concerts. It's a

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Speaker 1: great place to hold a show. I've been to a

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Speaker 1: few music shows there now, went to Billy Joel pink

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Speaker 1: Ed Sheeran, and honestly because of how good it was

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Speaker 1: as a music venue, I've struggled to remember a time

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Speaker 1: when eden Park wasn't a music venue. It just seems

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Speaker 1: really natural, like it always has been. But that's I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's not that long ago that we let absolutely no

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Speaker 1: concerts take place there. Twenty twenty one was the first

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Speaker 1: time they ever had a concert with six sixty. I

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Speaker 1: need to say at this point, obviously, in the interests

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Speaker 1: of transparency, that a couple of the shows I went to,

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Speaker 1: I was there because eden Park invited me, and I'm

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Speaker 1: not naive. I suspect that they invited me so that

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Speaker 1: I could see what a great venue it was, and

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Speaker 1: it worked because I was quite impressed with it. Now

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Speaker 1: Obviously it's not the only venue that Auckland City's got.

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Speaker 1: There are a bunch of them, and if you want

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Speaker 1: to have an open air stadium concert, obviously you have

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Speaker 1: Mount Smart. But I still reckon Eden Park beats on

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Speaker 1: a number of fronts. I mean, it's much easier to

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Speaker 1: get to and from eden Park than it is Mount Smart.

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Speaker 1: Mount Smart for a really really big show like a

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Speaker 1: Harry Styles. I went there for Harry Styles. Absolute pain

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Speaker 1: in the butt to get in and out of Eden Park.

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Speaker 1: You can just walk, just walk for two and a

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Speaker 1: half k's and you're in a bar in Pondsmby then

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Speaker 1: you've got the capacity thing. Mount Smart can do about

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Speaker 1: forty thousand people for a live show. Eden Park can

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Speaker 1: apparently do more than fifty thousand, which obviously means more

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Speaker 1: money for Auckland City, which is a bit that I'm

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Speaker 1: rarely interested in, specially given where we are with an

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Speaker 1: economy at the moment. The hotel occupancy for Pink, which

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Speaker 1: was the last big one at eden Park, was apparently

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Speaker 1: ninety seven percent. In Auckland. That people staying in hotels

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Speaker 1: represents people coming in from somewhere else, right, so they're

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Speaker 1: bringing their money from other places in the country in

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Speaker 1: the region. It'll be even more money flowing in for

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Speaker 1: cold Play later this year because they're only playing Auckland.

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Speaker 1: They're not playing anywhere else in the country, so if

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Speaker 1: you're in New Zealand you want to see them and

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Speaker 1: they're playing three shows. So actually, so far Eden Park

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Speaker 1: is doing good things for Auckland's economy and just to

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Speaker 1: underscore the value of the place, think of the biggest

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Speaker 1: events that we've had on Auckland's calendar in the last week.

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Speaker 1: While we had Harry Styles, we had Pink, we had

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Speaker 1: the fee for Women's World Cup, and we're going to

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Speaker 1: have cold Play soon. Three of those Pink, the Women's

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Speaker 1: World Cup and Coldplay, all of them at eden Park.

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Speaker 1: After Coldplay, what's on Auckland's calendar as cool things to

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Speaker 1: do outside of the regular stuff like the tennis Nothing,

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Speaker 1: there's sale GP and then there's nothing else. So I'd

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Speaker 1: argue we actually need Auckland Park to have some more

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Speaker 1: concerts because they attract the big stuff and who would

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