Well, Pavarotti or, say, Caruso he is not. And it shows.
Good grief, doesn't Geldof's manager or booking agent have enough good sense to cancel the Milan concert before the performance when ticket sales (45) are in the tank? I can answer that: Obviously not!
Or Tim Robbins.
Maybe his fans just don't like Fridays...
Heck I get that kind of crowd for Wedneday night karaoke. At least I tell myself that
Why are 45 people walking out on me! Don't they know I was the driving force behind 10 Live 8 concerts!
Geldof walked out of Milan's 12 000-capacity Arena Civica on Friday without playing, given the paltry attendance. His manager explained that a concert for less than 400 people would not be viable... The 54-year-old Irish rocker... sought to placate angry fans afterwards by promising to give a free concert in September. A scheduled performance in Rome on Saturday night, for which 300 tickets had been sold, was also cancelled, La Stampa said.I'm sure the free concert will be much more viable than playing for the handful of people who had so little to do that they showed up for Bob Geldof. What a crock.
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It's painful enough to watch aging NFL players hang around collecting a paycheck. At least the team can usually sweet-talk them into retiring before being embarrassingly cut from the team. Since Geldof is his own boss and doesn't have the sense to know when the show's over and retire, he has to find out this way. Obviously, his manager and handlers didn't have the guts to give him the bad news. They let him wander out on stage, look at the 50 people who showed up, and figure it out for himself. Sad.