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Thursday, January 24, 2008
Elton John performs in Tenerife tonight
The day finally arrived for the historic concert at Golf Costa Adeje and Elton John was due to have arrived in Tenerife at lunch time today, by private plane from Abu Dhabi. Canarias24horas have a photo of the 1,296 square meter specially prepared amphitheatre that was being built for the concert.
There's another 2,560 square meters backstage and, for those who love statistics, but not saving energy, it will use 226K watts of sound and 216K watts of lighting. Interestingly, in that report they say there that ticket sales have "surpassed initial expectations" having reached 20,000 sales.
However, LosGigantes.com say that the organizers say that 17,000 have been sold and that they expect to sell the other 3,000 at the box office tonight. And neither is quite the 50,000 that previous reports told us there'd be room for.
However many thousand turn up, there are still only "almost 4,000" parking spaces, which we find kinda funny. Well, we find the whole thing kinda funny, given that there is never only one version of a report on anything here ...
The H10 Costa Adeje Palace Hotel, where one report suggests Elton John will be staying in Tenerife.La Provincia say that Elton John has a room booked for tonight at the 4 star, Costa Adeje Palace hotel, while all other reports suggest that he's staying in a suite at the 5 star Hotel Gran Tacande.
Somehow, I don't think this will mean he's exactly roughing it either way, but if you're curious, La Opinión show us a photo of the bedroom in the suite that he's allegedly staying in.
While Tenerife bus company, TITSA, have laid on extra buses for concert goers, Elton John was to be arriving from the airport in a "high class" car. No swakny limousines for him.
In fact, La Opinión opine that the days of stars' crazy demands might have been consigned to history, because Elton John hasn't made any - except asking for his own bathroom and three specific British channels on satellite tele.
The concert, say La Opinión, starts at 9 p.m. with "British punctuality." They might find that phrase has become historical, or at least an oxymoron!
Elton John llega a Tenerife con 14 de sus fans más incondicionales
Elton John llega a Tenerife sin exigencias de una gran estrella
Sir Elton John, en un concierto histórico
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