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Worst Venue Name in History?
Posted by Lawrence on 29 June 2010 - 5:35pm.
Anyone else sick of the incessant renaming of venues as the owners grab every last penny they can from naming rights?
Ford Amphitheatre in Tampa has just been renamed as "1-800-Ask Gary Amphitheatre". I kid you not. http://www.bohemian.com/citysound/?p=3321
And I thought "Jiffy Lube Live" would take some beating...
There was a time whan an exotically titled venue, mainly in the USA it has to be said, made you think "I'd love to see [insert name of band] play at Desert Sky Pavilion/Coral Sky Amphitheater/Wolf Mountain Amphitheatre/etc."
We have some clunkers in the UK - Manchester Evening News Arena springs to mind - but surely we have nothing as bad as 1-800-Ask Gary Amphitheatre? Do we?









