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Speaker 2: Cold Player in the country. They are a huge band.

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Speaker 2: The excitement is brewing in across Auckland tonight. For that

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Speaker 2: excitement brewing for me as well as I'm going. We

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Speaker 2: have in Parksio Nick Sautner on the line. Nick, one

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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty thousand punters over three concerts. Does this

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Speaker 2: make it the biggest door ever to New Zealand?

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Speaker 3: This will be the biggest tour of New Zealand And

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Speaker 3: thank you so much for your time. The biggest rock

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Speaker 3: band on the planet show number one seven three tonight

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Speaker 3: and as you can imagine, we are pumped. I'm sure

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Speaker 3: if you ask the question tomorrow people will be saying

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Speaker 3: Cold Played, Edenpik will be there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I've heard that stat that Coldplayer the biggest

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Speaker 2: rock band in the world at the moment. People try

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Speaker 2: and push back on that, but if you actually start

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Speaker 2: looking into it, it actually it actually stacks up. What

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Speaker 2: can people expect for the gig tonight? What of the

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Speaker 2: band got planned?

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Speaker 3: It is an amazing show. It's fortunate enough prior to

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Speaker 3: sign the artist we went over and saw it in

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Speaker 3: Perth and the tours started in March twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 3: Our gates open at five o'clock externally. I've just been

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Speaker 3: walking externally at Eden Park. There are people purchasing merchandise.

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Speaker 3: They're killing to get on the GA floor. I just

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Speaker 3: encouraging people to get here early. There's three support artists

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Speaker 3: starting from five point thirty, a huge amount of food

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Speaker 3: and beverage on offer. We're just looking forward to another

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Speaker 3: memorable moment at our National Stadium.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, fantastic.

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Speaker 2: So Nick, you'll get to watch this concert three times

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Speaker 2: right tonight, Friday and Saturday.

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Speaker 3: Well, given the sky Full of Stars was my wedding

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Speaker 3: dance and my four year old Love's beautiful, my six

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Speaker 3: year old love Skyful of Stars, they've already created their

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Speaker 3: outfits come long later in the week. But I talk

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Speaker 3: about we've got a big responsibility here. We've got three

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Speaker 3: thousand staff working. We want people to come have a

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Speaker 3: safe and enjoyable experience and walk away memories that they'll

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Speaker 3: never forget. So yes, I am working tonight, but I

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Speaker 3: can assure you there will be a time when I

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Speaker 3: just reflect and I'm so proud of the team and

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Speaker 3: what they've been able to achieve when you look at

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Speaker 3: the artists that Eden Park has had since obtaining our

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Speaker 3: Consequences and let's bring on more rock at eden Park. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Good on your neck and I imagine there'll be a

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Speaker 2: lump and throat and a few tears at some point

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Speaker 2: from the CEO of even Back over the next few days.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much.

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