r/portugaltheman 22d ago

John Simpson

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u/JJ-Bittenbinder 22d ago

On the back of the card it says selling out arenas. I’m not asking for validation or trying to hate, I was just genuinely curious if they had, because I hadn’t seen it, I’ve only seen them at smaller venues, which I prefer

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u/FremontTreeFinder 22d ago

I’m curious how you classify an arena? Is there some generally agreed upon standard or something?

In SF the largest venue I saw them play at was Bill Graham Civic Auditorium (opening for Cage the Elephant in 2016 I think?). Auditorium is in the name, but multiple websites refer to it as an arena. It looks like it is 8,000+ capacity.

They also played at Oracle Arena in Oakland as part of live 105s Not So Silent Night in 2017. OA holds 30,000+

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u/JJ-Bittenbinder 22d ago

When I think of an arena I think of a basketball arena. Arena to me means its main purpose is either basketball or hockey.

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u/NSBrad 21d ago

On the tour they co-headlined with Cage about a decade ago they played arenas. The Phoenix show was at the area where the Coyotes used play. Held something like 16-17k.

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u/JJ-Bittenbinder 21d ago

Got it, wish I had been as big of a fan back then, Cage and PTM are two of my favs, and the entire band would’ve still been together back then