Brixton Academy, London

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Cardiff Arena

The Cardiff International Arena (CIA) is an exhibition and events facility located in the centre of Cardiff, Wales, in the United Kingdom. The arena contains a number of function areas; the largest being the Main Arena. The arena is a music venue for performers from the UK and around the world

Hammersmith Apollo, London

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Astoria, London

The London Astoria is a music venue at 157 Charing Cross Road in London, England. It has been leased and run by Festival Republic since 2000.

• London Astoria web site
• History
• Astoria Theatre History

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Earls Court, London

The Earls Court Exhibition Centre (also known as Earls Court Arena or often simply Earls Court) is an entertainment venue located in West London, England on the boundary between the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Hammersmith and Fulham.

It is served by two underground stations, Earl's Court and West Brompton, opposite its entrances on Warwick Road and the Old Brompton Road.

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Wembley Arena, London

Wembley Arena is a famous entertainment venue, located in Wembley, London, UK. The building is opposite Wembley Stadium. It was built for the 1934 Empire Games by Sir Arthur Elvin, and originally housed a swimming pool, as reflected by its former name, the Empire Pool. The pool itself was last used for the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Cliff Richard holds the record for the most headline shows by one artist, and will play his sixtieth concert in the Arena in 2008. Whitney Houston is the female artist with the most shows at Wembley, with 29. Westlife are the best selling pop band, having played 27 headline shows at the venue, and Status Quo will play their 42nd Wembley Arena show in December 2008.

Wembley Arena was renovated along with Wembley Stadium as part of the regeneration of the Wembley area. The Arena refurbishment cost £35m and the new arena opened to the public on 2 April 2006 with a concert by Depeche Mode.

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Wembley Stadium, London

Wembley Stadium is a stadium in Wembley, located in the London Borough of Brent in London, England. It is owned by The Football Association (FA) via its subsidiary Wembley National Stadium Limited, and its primary use is for home games of the England national football team, and the main English domestic football finals. It is also used for pop concerts and other sporting events.

With 90,000 seats the stadium has the second largest capacity in Europe. Immediately following its opening, it was often referred to as the "new Wembley Stadium" to distinguish it from the original stadium. The stadium is also the most expensive stadium ever built.

The previous Wembley Stadium (originally known as the British Empire Exhibition Stadium or Empire Stadium) was one of the world's most famous football stadia, being England's national stadium for football, and because of the geographical origins of the game was often referred to as "The Home of Football".It hosted the European Cup (now the UEFA Champions League) final a record five times, and is one of seventeen stadia to have held a FIFA World Cup final. In 2003, the original structure was demolished and construction began on the new stadium, originally intended to open in 2006. This was later delayed until early 2007. The final completion date of the stadium was 9 March 2007, when the keys to the stadium were handed over to the FA.

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The O2, London

The O2 arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena located at the centre of The O2, a large entertainment complex on the Greenwich peninsula in south-east London, England. It is the first American style arena in London. With a capacity of up to 20,000 depending on the event, it is one of the largest indoor arenas in Europe.

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MEN Arena, Manchester

The Manchester Evening News Arena or M.E.N. Arena (commonly referred to as just The M.E.N. or simply Manchester Arena) is a large indoor arena in Manchester, England. It is currently sponsored by the Manchester Evening News and has a capacity of 3,000–21,000. It was opened in 1995, and was initially sponsored by NYNEX (a British cable television provider, as opposed to the NYNEX Corporation, a telephone service provider in the United States) as the NYNEX Arena. The Arena took its current name in 1998 after the NYNEX brand name had disappeared as a result of a merger with Mercury Communications in 1997.

The M.E.N. Arena is Europe's largest indoor arena and concert venue. The arena was built to coincide with Manchester's two bids to host the Olympic games in 1996 and 2000 (which were won by Atlanta in 1996 and Sydney in 2000).

The M.E.N. Arena was one of the first indoor venues in Europe to be built following the traditionally American arena layout of 360 degree seating and is the only arena in the UK to have this feature (London's O2 Arena has just one tier of seating that is 360 degrees whereas the MEN Arena has two) Other European indoor venues built to the same concept are the Kölnarena in Cologne, O2 arena in Prague, Color Line Arena in Hamburg, and The O2 arena in London, amongst others.

The M.E.N.'s seating capacity is one of Europe's most flexible for an indoor venue. It is often chosen by touring acts because its design and layout makes the venue ideal for any type of performance. The seating is split into an upper tier (bowl) and a lower tier, separated by 35 hospitality suites.

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SECC Glasgow

The Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC), located on the north bank of the River Clyde in Glasgow, is Scotland's national venue for public events. It has five main exhibition halls of area up to 10,000 m².

It is best known for hosting concerts, with concerts taking place every other night in the 12,500 seater Hall 4 and Hall 3, which has a capacity of 3,000.

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Liverpool Echo Arena

Echo Arena Liverpool is the Arena half of ACC Liverpool situated on the Liverpool waterfront which opened January 25 2008. The BT Convention Centre is the other half of the complex and opened in April 2008.

The full ACC Liverpool building, designed by Wilkinson Eyre and Buro Happold, consists of two main elements either side of a central entrance: an arena and a convention centre. The arena has 7,513 permanent seats around three sides of a central floor suitable for indoor sports events. The capacity for end-stage or in-the-round concerts is 10,600 including floor seating. The convention centre has a 3,725 square metre multipurpose hall on the ground floor, with a 1,350 capacity auditorium and eighteen break out rooms above. It can be possible to use the exhibition hall in conjunction with the arena, giving a total exhibition space of over 7,000 square metres.

It was announced on 31 October 2007 that Liverpool will be the host of the 2008 MTV European Music Awards to be held at the Echo Arena in November 2008.

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NIA Birmingham

The National Indoor Arena or The NIA is a large indoor arena and is owned by the NEC Group. It is situated in central Birmingham, England and was opened in 1991, as the largest indoor arena at the time in the UK (until the Manchester Evening News Arena opened four years later). The NIA hosts a range of events ranging from sporting events, to musical concerts, and has a capacity to seat up to 13,000 using both permanent seating and temporary seating configurations.

The NIA is located alongside the Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line's Old Turn Junction and opposite the National Sea Life Centre in Brindleyplace. Close to the NIA, is The ICC which is also owned by the NEC Group.

The seating is arranged into upper-tier, lower-tier and flat floor seating sections. The lower-tier and flat floor sections are made up of removable seating whilst the upper-tier is made up of fixed seating. Areas for disabled visitors is provided between the upper-tier and lower-tier flooring, on the Atrium level.

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Sheffield Arena

The Sheffield Arena is an arena in Sheffield, England. It is well known for hosting big name concerts and sporting events in Sheffield. It is situated near Rotherham, Sheffield City Centre, Attercliffe, Meadowhall and the Centertainment and is the premier concert venue for Yorkshire. It opened as the Sheffield Arena, was re-branded as the Hallam FM Arena, but has returned to its original name as of 1 November 2007.

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Nottingham Arena

Nottingham Arena, just east of the city centre, it is close to the historic Lace Market area. As well as hosting ice skating and ice hockey, it also doubles as the Trent FM Arena Nottingham, where many popular bands play, and it serves as a conference centre.

The current building was first announced in September 1995 at an estimated cost of £13 million - part of which was to come from National Lottery funds. The plans were unveiled in October 1996, by which time the British Olympic Association had got behind the proposal. The first public skating session took place in April 2000. The final cost of the project was around £40m, 10% of which came from the lottery - one of the highest grants awarded. National Ice Centre  The stadium is home to the Nottingham Panthers ice hockey team, founded in 1946 (although disbanded in 1960 and reformed 20 years later).

The capacity of the main arena is up to 10,000 depending on the configuration used. The NIC is also a Wi-Fi hotspot using the BT Openzone network.A rare 1,100 year old Saxon jug was turned up during excavations in July 1998. It was put on display at the Nottingham Castle Museum.Trent FM Arena Nottingham was formerly called Nottingham Arena and was renamed on first April 2008, as part of a four year naming rights for the local radio station.

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Bournemouth International Centre

The Bournemouth International Centre, BIC,  Capacity 6,500 (Windsor Hall) 2,000 (Solent Hall)  The Bournemouth International Centre is one of the leading venues for conferences, exhibitions, entertainment and events in Southern England. Owned and managed by Bournemouth Borough Council, the BIC operates alongside its sister venue, The Pavilion Theatre and Ballroom to provide the event organiser and leisure visitor with some of the best facilities on England's south coast. The BIC was best known for its swimming pool with wave machine but this was closed in 2004 to make way for a new conference hall. The Solent Hall was put in its place and this holds 2,500 people for standing music concerts.

The main Windsor Hall has a concert capacity of 8,000 (800 seated and 7,200 standing) and is one of the bigger indoor music venues in the UK. The BIC is often included in the UK tours of famous artists such as Oasis, Status Quo, The Flaming Lips, Westlife, McFLY, Girls Aloud, Heaven and Hell, Kelly Clarkson, Jethro Tull, Sugababes, Alice Cooper, Rihanna, Boyz II Men, Razorlight, Avril Lavigne, Deep Purple, Kings of Leon, Kaiser Chiefs Arctic Monkeys, Keane, David Essex, Jools Holland, Stereophonics, Mighty Boosh Basement Jaxx, French & Saunders, as well as Muse.

Situated in the heart of Bournemouth with public transport links close by, the Bournemouth International Centre hosts a variety of events all year. The venue can be seen as an arena due to its main hall capacity, and usually played at when artists are on arena tours.

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Brighton Centre

Brighton Centre, Location Brighton, England  Opened 1977  Capacity Concerts: 5,100 Conferences: 4,500 Basketball: 3,600.  The Brighton Centre is a conference centre located in Brighton, England. The capacity of the main hall for conferences is 4,500 people and 5,100 for standing concerts.It also has smaller rooms for weddings, banquets etc. As well as hosting business conferences, entertainment events, and a regular records & comics sale, the Centre is known for regularly hosting conferences of the major British political parties.

The main hall was also the home venue of former professional basketball team Brighton Bears, which folded in 2006. Basketball will return to Brighton in 2008 with the addition of Brighton Cougars to the British Basketball League, though it is unconfirmed whether the Brighton Centre will be used as the home venue.

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Twickenham

Twickenham, View from West Stand  Location Twickenham, England  Capacity 82,000  Tenants  England national rugby union team  Twickenham Stadium is a stadium located in Twickenham, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is the largest rugby union stadium in the United Kingdom and has recently been enlarged to seat 82,000. This makes it the second largest stadium in the UK after Wembley Stadium.

The stadium is the home of the Rugby Football Union (RFU), and as such primarily a venue for rugby union and hosts England's home test matches, as well as the Middlesex Sevens, the Guinness Premiership final, as well as EDF Energy Cup and Heineken Cup matches.

The stadium is considered an icon of English rugby. Although the ground is usually only occupied by rugby union, it has in the past hosted a number of events, such as Iron Maiden, Genesis, U2, The Rolling Stones, The Police, Eagles and most recently R.E.M. concerts. It has also been the host of Rugby League's Challenge Cup final.

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Newcastle Arena

The Metro Radio Arena Newcastle is an 11,000 seat sports and entertainment venue based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Former member of the 1960s band, The Animals, Chas Chandler and his business partner Nigel Stanger conceived and helped build the arena.
The Arena is currently home to the Newcastle Eagles basketball team and the Newcastle Vipers ice hockey team.

The arena is also host to many different solo artists and bands including AC/DC, The Killers, Genesis, Kylie Minogue, Shayne Ward, McFly, Meat Loaf, Donny Osmond, Gwen Stefani, Michael Buble, The Who, Girls Aloud, Diana Ross, Justin Timberlake, Sugababes, Westlife, Rihanna, Cliff Richard, Christina Aguilera, MUSE, Pink, Tom Jones, Will Young, Guns N' Roses, Kelly Clarkson, Rod Steward, Oasis, Queen, Green Day, Busted, Elton John, Sting, Beach Boys, Lionel Richie, Shania Twain, Gareth Gates, Atomic Kitten, Ozzy Osborne, Ronan Keating, Foo Fighters, Barry Manilow, Destinys Child,Robbie Williams, Bob Dylan, Take That, Boyzone and Pavarotti.

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