I'm too young for Fleetwood Mac but I reckon half of my age group's parents would have had a copy of 'Rumours' in the house...

Anyway, we shall soon find out, because while we all debate, the Bulls have got on with it and have 2 or 3 events already pencilled in, so no doubt our discussions are already out of date as preparations will already be well under way and acts being signed up as we speak.

In the seventies, they were a Pale copy of the 'real' Fleetwood Mac imo, but for commercial stuff, it was quality pop to be fair. Not a patch on the earlier, more bluesy, band though, for me anyway.

Let's get something a bit more contemporarry in rather than all these golden oldies. Nothing wrong with living in the past but we need to make a buck here. Fleetwood Mac! Sounds like some old Apple computer that weighed about 5 tons an ran on magnetic tape!

How about a bit of Asian Dub Foundation? Should go down well with the natives, I like a bit of Buzzin and Real Great Britain. In fact they should play some of their songs on a match day to fire up the crowd, songs like Charge etc when we have the ball instead of the usual annoying trumpety sounds!

To be fair, I'd suggest the 'need to make a buck', points in the direction of better known, more 'established' acts, though as I said earlier, if they're talking 'festivals' it suggests more than one band so there should be plenty of scope for a bit of variety and the more people attracted, the better.

Dare I say though, Buzzin sounds like a plague of wasps and might put off more people than it attracts...

Whatever the make up of the bill, lets hope that the organisers dont do a "one size fits all" attempt.

Even though they are all well into their 60's, this incarnation of Fleetwood mac ( the "Classic" 1975-87 minus Christine McVie) would sell out pretty much every night of any tour they do. Thats what promoters are for. they plan just enough gigs to sell out, ensuring that demand can just be met! Currently most of their tours are arena tours though, even though they are rumoured (no pun) to be playing Glastonbury!

My bet is on an 80s-90s revival festival like rewind, which draws 60,000 each year in Henley on Thames!

ZZ Top anyone

As part of his World Tour, Bruce Springsteen is playing at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, home of the Aussie Open tennis. An arena that only holds 14500 people, plus space on the court area. Just a thought......

How much of a money spinner, if at all, would an event like this be for the club even with a full house ? The prestige of such an event at Odsal and for Bradford would make it worthwhile but the club need to increase income. When you consider how many excellent stadiums there are in this country and how few seem to use them for this kind of event makes me wonder if it's worth all the work involved. Elland Rd and Huddersfield have both had them in the past but don't seem to bother now.

Putting on a gig or festival here's the place to book themrl

Would we be actually putting concerts on though. Surely it would be similar to monster truck deal where we make the stadium available for a fee and a promoter takes all the financial risks and arranges everything. We make our money on fee for use of stadium and money throughbars if we open them?.

As i said some pages back, you're right, obviously we haven't got the expertise to run one ourself. But as tigertot pointed out, if you subcontract it then they make most of the money not you. But as tigertot pointed out, if you don't subcontract it, then we haven't got the expertise to put it on. But as tigertot pointed out ...

Don't the big established acts generally go where there is plenty of premium rate corprate seating? I would think Odsa is more cheap and cheerful, more suited to a student type crowd. Plenty going on around the ground but not much seating. Appealing to the under 25's rather than us middle aged.

Confirmed as 80's Strikeback Night featuring Rick Astley, Belinda Carlisle, The Real Thing, Roland Gift, Go West, Altered Images and Sonia.

Sat 25th May.