Steely Dan: Auckland Vector Arena, 22 Sept
Admit it, Auckland: you’re not quite sophisticated enough to have a venue like the Vector Arena. Underneath the yuppie threads and designer spectacles, behind all your chatter about “culture”, “fashion” and “city planning”, there’s a fat bloke with a mullet, trying to dance to Rikki Don’t Lose That Number (and no, the band did not play Rikki). You can tell this from the fact that the rest of the world figured out decades ago that acoustic baffles have to be hung from arena roofs before big rock shows sound the way they should. You can also tell this because the local security haven’t been told what to do in the event that unexpected dancing breaks out in the aisles and because the staff insist on turning people away at the main doors because their ticket shows a different door number from the one they’re trying to access (even though, on the other side of the door, everyone is in the same foyer anyway). You should only need a valid ticket to get into the main door of a venue, people; the self-sorting segregation occurs within, when people head for their seats. And I guess it’s just bad luck when the “Eftpos is down” at the bar and you have to walk for miles to find a cab to get home again because no one thought to kit the venue out with a taxi rank. But enough gripes about event organisation; here’s the real deal on the show, before the cloth-eared critics of the mainstream media get their mitts on it. Read on…
posted by Chris Bell at 4:30 PM
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