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No wheelchair ramp for the Rolling Stones
Apr 15, 2006, 1:03 GMT
Wellington - The Rolling Stones have overcome a city council demand that wheelchair access and a safety ramp be installed on the stage for their concert in Auckland, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
'The guys are very old, but none of them needs a wheelchair ramp,' their production manager Robbie Barclay told the Weekend Herald.
The Stones are due to fly in on Saturday for their concert at Auckland's Western Springs on Easter Sunday.
Barclay said city council officers originally demanded that the huge stage being erected for the concert should have all the safety features normally required of a permanent building .
'No one ever asked for a disabled toilet,' he said. 'But they wanted a rail around the stage and a disabled ramp and steps and all that sort of stuff, as if we were building a permanent structure.'
Barclay said the stage - 24 metres high, 63 metres wide and about 32 metres deep was the biggest touring stage in the world.
The council relented in the end, but the ageing Stones will still be off to bed early - council rules decree the concert must end at 11 p.m.
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I think they are referring ot the overall stage, screen, etc.
Not the literal height of the bit the band were standing on.
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AG MusgroveApr 18th, 2006 - 21:10:43
It's sad you seem to print everything dished up to you.
The concert was surperb. Jagger awesome, but no ways was the stage 24 meters high! Stop and think about actually how high that is before printing it like an automaton.
Some sort of sanity check maybe.
We were 40 meters from the stage at ground level. The stage may have been 4 meters high - max!
Your journalism is cavelier.
AGM
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