SCORPIONS: Tonight's Concert In Shillong Expected To Draw 30,000

December 12, 2007

According to The Assam Tribune, the SCORPIONS' concert in Shillong, India Wednesday night (December 12) is expected to be attended by 30,000 fans, making it the biggest performance by an international artist the city has seen in recent months.

Organizers of the event have taken on the task of ferrying all the equipment of the band in landlocked Meghalaya. Addressing newsmen in Shillong, operations manager Rohinton Poonawala said that the production team for a month took 25 freight trips to ferry 50 tons equipments from all over the country consisting lights, sounds and others. A "monstrous" backline music instruments of 35 cases were also ferried from Germany to Shillong, he added.

The venue of the show, the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium is being charged with 110 decibels of sound. Centre Point Entertainment Network MD Larsing M said that the entry to the venue will have four rings of security check. Two gates comprising of six channels each will lead people inside the venue, Larsing said, adding that heavy frisking will ensure security.

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