THERE WILL be no repeat of the sound problems at the Michael Bublé concerts for future events in the Aviva Stadium, the stadium’s director Martin Murphy has said.
Mr Murphy sought to assure fans going to the Neil Diamond concert at the Dublin stadium on Saturday night and to The Script on Saturday week that the problems with the sound quality in the upper stands had been resolved.
In September, following Bublé’s two concerts at the stadium, fans claimed they could not hear what he was singing or saying and others complained about echoes coming off the roof of the stadium.
The problems were confined to the upper tiers of the West and East Stands, with those on lower tiers and on the pitch enjoying good sound quality.
“There won’t be a problem on Saturday. Those were our first concerts and everything was being tried out for the first time,” Mr Murphy said.
“The glitches that were there were in the upper tiers. It related to the tweaking of the sound system which we have dealt with.”
The concert on Saturday will be only the third at the stadium, which will welcome its millionth paying customer on the night.
Diamond visited the stadium three weeks ago while he was in Ireland to see the venue. He has previously played Lansdowne Road and Croke Park.
The capacity for The Script concert will be 50,000 and it is expected to be sold out. All available tickets sold out when they went on sale in November but a number of additional tickets will go on sale tomorrow.
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