Purple_H@ze
19 Mar 2006, 18:20
Hi,
Before this e-mail is construed in the wrong manner, please accept my thanks for the concert your company organized for the South African community yesterday. I believe the event was a huge success for Big Concerts and for 5fm and quite possibly for Africa as well.
Now that that has been said, please can I have some answers to the following questions I have prepared a sum of my own, which has by no means been completely verified and may also not be correct, however let’s use it for reference purposes. According to ICC South Africa’s website, the stadium has a capacity of 20 000, not including the field, which for arguments sake could hold another 10 000. You repeatedly told us that the tickets were sold out, therefore I would assume it is safe to say you sold 30 000 tickets. The average cost of a ticket could be calculated at R400. That gives us R12million. With this in mind please explain the following:
1) The irony in the fact that a concert that was sponsored by Coca Cola, ran out of the beverage half way through the day.
2) Castle lager, who also had sponsorship banners up, faced the same problem in the course of the day.
3) You did not deem it necessary to provide beverages for people in temperatures exceeding 20 degrees for roughly 2 hours
4) Why people had to queue for longer than 1.5 hours to get one drink
5) How you could only have one cold drink stand on each embankment and only one person manning this outlet
6) Why there were only 3 places visible to buy beer
Once again if we look at the calculations, one person manning this outlet serves on person every 2 minutes, that’s 30 people an hour, but your outlet is catering for half the attendance, so that’s 15 000 people for one outlet? Somehow this must make sense to you, because I am struggling to see how this is logical.
I honestly feel as though I should be reimbursed because I think I passed out somewhere between State Far Better and Collective soul from sunstroke / dehydration. Not to mention I had people mobbing me for the drinks I managed to buy.
Your only redeeming factor was the musicians you invited, otherwise I would say you were in for some lawsuits. Your management of this event could only be classed as pathetic, dangerous and completely illogical. You have made a lot of money from this I assume, yet you did NOTHING to acknowledge the fact that people were seriously uncomfortable. I cannot believe your attitude nor your ignorance to the events of yesterday. Please, this mail serves as a request…. The next time you do something of this magnitude please ensure you have organized it properly, it was an embarrassment to have collective soul playing and the power cut towards the end of their set. The big screen monitors had to remain off while they were playing so as not to overload the power, which meant people who were further from the stage could see nothing.
Please, THINK before you organize something like this again.
Regards,
D Doubell
Before this e-mail is construed in the wrong manner, please accept my thanks for the concert your company organized for the South African community yesterday. I believe the event was a huge success for Big Concerts and for 5fm and quite possibly for Africa as well.
Now that that has been said, please can I have some answers to the following questions I have prepared a sum of my own, which has by no means been completely verified and may also not be correct, however let’s use it for reference purposes. According to ICC South Africa’s website, the stadium has a capacity of 20 000, not including the field, which for arguments sake could hold another 10 000. You repeatedly told us that the tickets were sold out, therefore I would assume it is safe to say you sold 30 000 tickets. The average cost of a ticket could be calculated at R400. That gives us R12million. With this in mind please explain the following:
1) The irony in the fact that a concert that was sponsored by Coca Cola, ran out of the beverage half way through the day.
2) Castle lager, who also had sponsorship banners up, faced the same problem in the course of the day.
3) You did not deem it necessary to provide beverages for people in temperatures exceeding 20 degrees for roughly 2 hours
4) Why people had to queue for longer than 1.5 hours to get one drink
5) How you could only have one cold drink stand on each embankment and only one person manning this outlet
6) Why there were only 3 places visible to buy beer
Once again if we look at the calculations, one person manning this outlet serves on person every 2 minutes, that’s 30 people an hour, but your outlet is catering for half the attendance, so that’s 15 000 people for one outlet? Somehow this must make sense to you, because I am struggling to see how this is logical.
I honestly feel as though I should be reimbursed because I think I passed out somewhere between State Far Better and Collective soul from sunstroke / dehydration. Not to mention I had people mobbing me for the drinks I managed to buy.
Your only redeeming factor was the musicians you invited, otherwise I would say you were in for some lawsuits. Your management of this event could only be classed as pathetic, dangerous and completely illogical. You have made a lot of money from this I assume, yet you did NOTHING to acknowledge the fact that people were seriously uncomfortable. I cannot believe your attitude nor your ignorance to the events of yesterday. Please, this mail serves as a request…. The next time you do something of this magnitude please ensure you have organized it properly, it was an embarrassment to have collective soul playing and the power cut towards the end of their set. The big screen monitors had to remain off while they were playing so as not to overload the power, which meant people who were further from the stage could see nothing.
Please, THINK before you organize something like this again.
Regards,
D Doubell