Abbey Aid
Abbey Aid was an open-air pop concert held at the Abbey Stadium, Cambridge, England in May 2006. It was the first of its kind in Cambridge, targeting pop fans as opposed to the more established Cambridge Folk Festival which targets a substantially different audience. It was a huge flop.
History
As the name suggests, Abbey Aid was originally designed as a
The original nature of this concert was that it would be three sessions long, starting on the Friday night with a 'Party on the Pitch' followed by a series of local bands performing on the Saturday afternoon and culminating in a pop concert on Saturday evening. Due to the club's precarious financial state preparations for the concert progressed at an extraordinarily fast rate considering the total lack of experience of the organisers in this field; logistics were arranged, local acts booked and a headline act found in the shape of
However, just when the concerts seemed to be heading in the right direction, the unlikely stumbling block of world
Abbey Aid was rescheduled and took place from 26 to 27 May (under the banner 'Party on the Pitch'), with the following acts playing:
The concert had a capacity of 7,000 despite the stadium's larger capacity, as all tickets were to stand on the pitch. None of the stands at the ground were in operation due to the club's failure to gain a safety certificate for the concert due to the way they were constructed for
References
- ^ "CEN News : City Edition : Another blow for United as they lose at abbey again". Archived from the original on 10 March 2007. Retrieved 12 July 2007.