Brian Cage Explains Why He Prefers To Perform In Arenas As Opposed To Smaller Venues & Doing Residencies
Cage discusses his preference.
The Hitting The Turnbuckle Podcast rolled out a chat with Brian Cage. As the conversation moved along, Cage began to give his take on performing in arenas versus more intimate venues.
On the subject of AEW, he prefers to perform in arenas. Cage went on to state that he’s not big on residencies because he feels it ‘kills the town’ and he’s not a fan of performing in the same place over and over.
“We’ve done some smaller shows, as far as bigger arena shows but they’re like a little smaller. So they’re scaled down, where you can get more of a sold-out capacity and then, two, when it’s more filled, the crowd is more lively. It just is. The more space you have — it could be 6,000 people regardless, but if there’s 6,000 people in a 7,000-seat arena and 6,000 people in a 10,000-seat arena, the six in the seven is gonna be louder, just because they’re all contained. They’re all next to each other, they all feed off of each other’s energy… Now when it comes to the smaller, smaller venues, like the (Aragon) Ballroom that they did and a few different residencies, they have a cool look and a cool setup and there’s some convenience sake for ‘em but, ultimately, this is just my opinion personally, I prefer it in the normal arenas, so you’re not in the same place the whole time because you kind of start to kill the town… And again, it’s just for me. There’s more an illusion that you’re on a bigger stage in the bigger arenas, even though it’s still on TV, it’s still being watched by all the same amount of people… It just creates the illusion that it’s bigger than what it could be like when we’re doing some of the smaller shows at the residencies, and even then, those can still be fun and okay… I don’t like it as much because I don’t like performing in the same place over and over and over and over again because again, it loses the mystique and just kind of feels more, you know, paint-by-numbers, so to speak, and again, that’s just me.”
Cage is out of action after undergoing two surgeries in an eight-week window. He opened up about his recovery, and his comments can be read here.
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