Quotes About Venues

You really need to travel to other major-league venues to understand what you're missing.

There is nothing magic. We own 100-percent interests of venues around the world and partial interests of ventures around the world. We own 100-percent sports teams and we own partial sports teams. There's no magic here.

The new Tests centres are as good as other major venues. For example, Pune and Dharmshala are much better grounds than most others. So why should they be left behind?

I've toured all over the world, and all over the UK too, but I mainly get to see venues, hotels and airports - which is a bit unfortunate.

If I could do acoustic shows for the rest of my life, that's fine with me. They require the right venues, small theaters or little bars. You can't take an acoustic show to a big ol' country music festival. It's more intimate, like being in my living room.

What I've learned by going out and playing smaller venues and being more in touch with people is getting feedback, just by virtue of being able to watch the crowd react and watch their faces instead of being blinded by 3,000 spotlights. I've realized that you can quickly get out of touch with your audience if you're not careful.

I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues.

In order to get a foothold into the London alternative comedy circuit, new acts, like ourselves, had to get booked in one of the smaller venues, usually clubs above pubs, on the outskirts of town. The crowds were small, typically about ninety people.

At this time touring for most bands was still seen primarily as a way of promoting records to boost album sales, with the odd chance to get some income from the larger venues.