There’s nothing the kiwis love more is an event. It doesn’t matter too much what the event is and whether they are truly interested in it but if it’s an event, then a ticket must be bought and a social extravaganza organised around it (usually involving getting dressed up in strange clothes and having your faced painted).
Can you imagine what’s going to happen to the box office now that Becks and possible Posh are coming to town. Galaxy FC are to play Pheonix (our new footie team) here in Wellington and I’m pretty sure that there aren’t going to be many tickets bought by football fans.
I for one will be queuing up to see Golden Boots in action. Hope his new football strip is more attractive than the Man U one used to be!
This will be a true Wellington occasion – just to prove it, the Council chipped in to pay the appearance fees to get the players to come over to Wellington. Big events such as these swamp the economy with lots of dosh as people stay, eat, party and shop in town.
Wellington does big occasions well and it brings a real sense of excitement to have big names in town – whether its sport, art, culture or music you can be sure that the Wellingtonians will go out and have a ball. And who can blame them – any excuse to get away from NZ TV!