Newcastle’s O2 City Hall Completes Extensive Restoration
Metropolis Corridor Christopher Down, CC BY 4.0 , through Wikimedia Commons NEWCASTLE (CelebrityAccess) – Newcastle’s O2 Metropolis Corridor now has a retractable seating system, in addition to main restoration works and enhancements in sound and lighting. As well as, the auditorium can now maintain 2,600 (up from…
Metropolis Corridor Christopher Down, CC BY 4.0
NEWCASTLE (CelebrityAccess) – Newcastle’s O2 Metropolis Corridor now has a retractable seating system, in addition to main restoration works and enhancements in sound and lighting. As well as, the auditorium can now maintain 2,600 (up from 2,135) with the flexibleness to change between all standing areas to fully-seated.
The Academy Music Group (AMG) spearheaded the restoration and purchased the venue in 2019. The deal follows an settlement between AMG, Fusion Life-style, and Newcastle Metropolis Council. As a part of the settlement, Metropolis Corridor, will probably be rebranded O2 Metropolis Corridor Newcastle from Could 3 2019 as a part of AMG and Reside Nation’s long-standing partnership with O2, which started in January 2009.
Opened in 1927, the Grade-II-listed Metropolis Corridor is a significant a part of town’s heritage and was one in every of Newcastle’s first devoted live performance venues. The Theatre Royal Belief took over the administration of Metropolis Corridor from Newcastle Metropolis Council in April 2016 and has made vital enhancements to the constructing over the past three years.
Academy Music Group COO Graham Walters mentioned through media launch: “After we acquired O2 Metropolis Corridor Newcastle again in Could 2019, we knew that it wanted vital changes to reinstate it to its former glory and get it firmly again on the schedule for main touring acts. It’s a shocking room, one which has seen the most important names in rock and pop over the past 4 many years. Funding in fashionable services – together with the choice to have an all-standing auditorium – needed to be on the agenda to supply a versatile area, in addition to retaining a seated configuration. This fashion, we will massively prolong the number of stay music and occasions to tour in Newcastle and ensure we protect its future for folks and the neighborhood to get pleasure from for generations to return.”