{"id":35663,"date":"2025-04-16T11:52:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T10:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/?p=35663"},"modified":"2025-04-16T11:52:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T10:52:54","slug":"can-cardiff-handle-big-concerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/music\/can-cardiff-handle-big-concerts\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Cardiff Handle Big Concerts?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cardiff has slowly paved its way to being a top-billing location on the tour posters&nbsp;of some of&nbsp;the world\u2019s biggest artists.&nbsp;Long gone are the days of&nbsp;reminding your favourite band that Wales exists, or urging&nbsp;your&nbsp;favourite singer to&nbsp;add a show at&nbsp;the CIA&nbsp;to their already limited UK tour&nbsp;(consisting of three London dates and&nbsp;<em>maybe&nbsp;<\/em>Manchester if you\u2019re lucky). Somehow, over the last few years, our capital has made a name for itself within the music industry,&nbsp;firmly cementing our place as the land of song&nbsp;and becoming&nbsp;one of the most desirable stops for a musician to visit on their&nbsp;travels.&nbsp;But how has this change&nbsp;of heart suddenly put Wales back on the map, and is our beloved capital city the ideal host for names as big as&nbsp;Beyonce, Taylor Swift, and Kendrick Lamar?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200bIts unheard of \u2013 the industry\u2019s top-streamed names, usually hailing from somewhere in the United States,&nbsp;<em>actually<\/em>&nbsp;have&nbsp;a clue where Wales is. Last year, Taylor Swift brought her Eras Tour here for one night only and sent fans into a frenzy by speaking a few words of broken Welsh, and blessing the crowd with a surprise song so coveted that it had the rest of the world raging, \u201cwhere is Cardiff, anyway?\u201d The year before, the city was littered in feather boas and pink cowboy hats as Harry Styles graced the country once again. Each time, overpriced hotels have sold out, streets have closed, and residents have been waiting upwards of four hours for a train following the final boom of the speakers in the Principality Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200bThe rise in popularity of Cardiff is, by most of us, a welcome change. We used to pray for times like these, back when Birmingham was the closest option and the final resort was spending hundreds on a hotel and National Express to a random English city. Raging at Americans who cried out for another edition to their 50-date tour, and wondering what was so appealing to artists about London to make them so tempted to take up a four-night residency in Wembley Stadium rather than seizing the opportunity to explore the UK. However, now we have it, there\u2019s an old saying ringing in all our heads \u2013&nbsp;<em>be careful what you wish for.&nbsp;<\/em>I have been ever so tempted at times to tell&nbsp;musicians to take their bookings on our rugby pitches back and to stay far, far away from the chaos they\u2019d undoubtedly ensue within the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200bI\u2019ll put it this way \u2013 as much as we&nbsp;<em>want&nbsp;<\/em>it, we simply aren\u2019t built for the mania of sold-out gigs at the Principality Stadium every summer. Up until last June, Cardiff didn\u2019t even have its own designated bus station within the city centre, and yet we welcomed thousands upon thousands of people into the city with open arms and absolutely no preparation on how we\u2019d get them out of it. Our government announces plans for a London-like Metro service, but as is the fashion for transportation&nbsp;proposals here (ahem, our bus station took over a decade to build), none of us are too positive about the success of said scheme. Instead, big names coming to Cardiff dooms us for another few nights of slow walking through the city after the encore, missing the last bus home and being denied entry to St Mary Street&nbsp;Maccies&nbsp;because the demand is too high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200bI\u2019m an avid concertgoer, so have had my fair share of experience in gigs across the city, having attended venues as small as The Globe and indeed as huge as the Principality itself. For those of us in Wales who don\u2019t live in the capital city, Cardiff has long been our only option to see our favourite artists with even that being a trek from our small towns mispronounced by millions. I\u2019ve always thought that Cardiff deserved a higher level of preparation to allow us to welcome such opportunities into our culture, yet with the&nbsp;closures of grassroots venues and erasure of the local music scene, it truly feels as though we are in way over our heads taking on so many bookings. Now, with the likes of DEPOT in the Castle and the new&nbsp;Blackweir&nbsp;music festival, I dread to think of the carnage that awaits our city this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200bSo \u2013 are we an ideal host after all? The answer is, I suppose, trickier than yes or no. Unfortunately, you won\u2019t see Taylor Swift booking her next gig in Ceredigion&nbsp;or Caernarfon, so Cardiff will continue to be us&nbsp;Welshies\u2019 only option for a live music experience in our own land. 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