SINGAPORE – Good news for The Rolling Stones fans who could not get tickets to the band’s gig next month at the Marina Bay Sands: The concert will be telecast live on March 15 at the integrated resort’s outdoors Event Plaza for free.
The band’s performance in the Grand Ballroom will be screened on a 14m-wide giant LED screen, in what industry players believe is the first live simulcast of a concert here.
The screening is part of the Marina Bay Sands Rocks Singapore music festival and will be preceded by live performances by veterans from the local club rock scene – A-List with Douglas O., ZulTania, Heritage, Jive Talkin’ and John Molina Krueger.
The festival is scheduled to start at 4pm and the Stones’ gig will be screened at 8pm.
In its press release, MBS says the festival is part of the company’s corporate social responsibility programme, Sands For Singapore.
Tickets to the Stones’ concert, which cost $250 to $700, sold out within two hours when they went on sale last Friday. As of Thursday, scalpers were selling tickets for as much as $1,680 on ticket reseller websites.
The Grand Ballroom will seat 5,500 people for the show while the Event Plaza can hold up to 10,000.
Long-time Stones fans such as writer Joseph Pereira, 60, who did not buy the concert tickets as he found them too expensive, is happy that he will get to see the live telecast.
“It’s a good gesture by the organisers. Even though we’re just watching a screen, the excitement will be there because we’re watching the band play in real time.”
Live simulcast for Stones
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