The tour stops here
The Guardian, Canada
July 21, 2007
Like the song from the 1984 comeback album ‘Done With Mirrors’ says, Aerosmith is ready to ‘Let the Music Do the Talking.’
With more than 30,000 fans expected to pack the Charlottetown Driving Park Entertainment Centre for today’s 10-hour concert, the P.E.I. capital’s population will literally double for a day.
While the concert gates open at 12 p.m., some who purchased their tickets through Aerosmith’s website were told in an e-mail from the band's website they could get in before 11 a.m.
The P.E.I. band Intoxicado kicks the music off at 12:30 p.m. Following that it will be, in order, Serena Ryder, Wil, Ciara, 54-40, Christa Borden, Cheap Trick and then the main event.
Aerosmith is expected to take the stage around 9 p.m.
Concert promoter David Carver, a native of Charlottetown, is the man that made it all happen.
Carver said he’s been chasing Aerosmith for the past 18 years.
“Once I started out in this business, Aerosmith was one of five bands I wanted to book and be able to die happy," Carver said in an interview this week from the concert production office inside the Civic Centre.
Well, three down, two to go. The other acts on his dream list, which he’s booked successfully in the past, are Bob Dylan and Van Morrison. He won’t say who the remaining two are, but he promises next year’s show will be bigger than today’s.
Whether that show takes place on P.E.I. or somewhere else in the Maritimes he has yet to decide.
Aerosmith is on a 36-city world tour and Charlottetown is their 27th stop. The U.S. rock legends are coming off a concert in Sarnia, Ont., on Thursday night. Earlier this month, the band had stops in Russia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, France and England, among many dates.
Charlottetown is one of only three Canadian dates on Aerosmith’s schedule this year. The band will play at the Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto on Sept. 18.
Carver said he’s been in contact with Aerosmith’s agent, Dan Weiner, every three months for basically the past two decades. Persistence finally paid off.
He got a call from Weiner in January.
“He called up and said they were looking for new markets, playing in places they’ve never been to. They were playing (Thursday) in Sarnia and I knew right then that I had them."
Carver got off the phone with Weiner and called Tourism P.E.I.
Of the approximately 30,000 tickets sold, 25,000 of them were sold off-Island, meaning there could be as many as 5,000 to 6,000 vehicles heading into Charlottetown today.
Charlottetown police say they will have every available officer on duty and the private security firm Carver hired will have more than 200 members inside the venue.
Dan Barry, who’s co-ordinating the security detail, said all concertgoers will enter through the main doors of the Civic Centre and will go through a screening process prior to exiting the doors at the rear of the building and onto the field at the CDPEC.
Bobby Dunn, general manager of Charlottetown Transit, says the buses will be operating from 12 p.m. right through to midnight, picking up and dropping people off every half hour, at the top and bottom of each hour.
“We can load, on some of the buses, 70 people at a time, and the regular transit is operating right through until 7 p.m. anyway and the University Avenue route goes to 11 p.m.," Dunn said.
July 21, 2007
Like the song from the 1984 comeback album ‘Done With Mirrors’ says, Aerosmith is ready to ‘Let the Music Do the Talking.’
With more than 30,000 fans expected to pack the Charlottetown Driving Park Entertainment Centre for today’s 10-hour concert, the P.E.I. capital’s population will literally double for a day.
While the concert gates open at 12 p.m., some who purchased their tickets through Aerosmith’s website were told in an e-mail from the band's website they could get in before 11 a.m.
The P.E.I. band Intoxicado kicks the music off at 12:30 p.m. Following that it will be, in order, Serena Ryder, Wil, Ciara, 54-40, Christa Borden, Cheap Trick and then the main event.
Aerosmith is expected to take the stage around 9 p.m.
Concert promoter David Carver, a native of Charlottetown, is the man that made it all happen.
Carver said he’s been chasing Aerosmith for the past 18 years.
“Once I started out in this business, Aerosmith was one of five bands I wanted to book and be able to die happy," Carver said in an interview this week from the concert production office inside the Civic Centre.
Well, three down, two to go. The other acts on his dream list, which he’s booked successfully in the past, are Bob Dylan and Van Morrison. He won’t say who the remaining two are, but he promises next year’s show will be bigger than today’s.
Whether that show takes place on P.E.I. or somewhere else in the Maritimes he has yet to decide.
Aerosmith is on a 36-city world tour and Charlottetown is their 27th stop. The U.S. rock legends are coming off a concert in Sarnia, Ont., on Thursday night. Earlier this month, the band had stops in Russia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, France and England, among many dates.
Charlottetown is one of only three Canadian dates on Aerosmith’s schedule this year. The band will play at the Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto on Sept. 18.
Carver said he’s been in contact with Aerosmith’s agent, Dan Weiner, every three months for basically the past two decades. Persistence finally paid off.
He got a call from Weiner in January.
“He called up and said they were looking for new markets, playing in places they’ve never been to. They were playing (Thursday) in Sarnia and I knew right then that I had them."
Carver got off the phone with Weiner and called Tourism P.E.I.
Of the approximately 30,000 tickets sold, 25,000 of them were sold off-Island, meaning there could be as many as 5,000 to 6,000 vehicles heading into Charlottetown today.
Charlottetown police say they will have every available officer on duty and the private security firm Carver hired will have more than 200 members inside the venue.
Dan Barry, who’s co-ordinating the security detail, said all concertgoers will enter through the main doors of the Civic Centre and will go through a screening process prior to exiting the doors at the rear of the building and onto the field at the CDPEC.
Bobby Dunn, general manager of Charlottetown Transit, says the buses will be operating from 12 p.m. right through to midnight, picking up and dropping people off every half hour, at the top and bottom of each hour.
“We can load, on some of the buses, 70 people at a time, and the regular transit is operating right through until 7 p.m. anyway and the University Avenue route goes to 11 p.m.," Dunn said.
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