Town have confirmed that they hope to stage a second concert next summer, the day after the Barry Manilow gig on Friday 16th May. Tickets are now on sale for the veteran American’s visit to Portman Road.

Joint-MD Ian Milne told TWTD: “We’re hoping to have another one the day after the Barry Manilow concert but we’re waiting for the details.”

Town’s other MD Jonathan Symonds added: “It makes sense to have back to back concerts. We’re putting the staging in there and it won’t affect the pitch any more by putting a second night on, which is always one of our concerns. And it would be good to get another really big name at Portman Road.”

Symonds says Town are working with a promoter to stage the concerts: “We’re here to run a football club. We want to use the stadium as much as possible, but do we want to take risks on acts? Probably not.

“If we can get a guaranteed income it makes a lot of sense from our point of view. Putting on concerts is not what we do, getting a promoter in works really well.”

Milne continued: “We could have done a joint venture where we shared the risk, but, as Jonathan says, it’s something that we don’t know about and it makes sense to do a dry hire and, as they say, sweat the asset as much as we can.”

In the new world of Financial Fair Play, Symonds says Town are investigating other similar money-making projects: “There are other things that we’re looking at as well, things like comedy nights, some sort of tribute act type events, the sort of things football clubs do when they’re not playing football. We are considering any event that bring in additional income to support the football.”

Might they look at the possibility of staging a pre-season tournament in the future? “The issue we had this season was that we reseeded the pitch,” Symonds said.

“We put quite a lot of work into that and that paid off, but it meant we weren’t in a position to have anything at Portman Road in pre-season this year, but that doesn’t mean that we won’t be able to do that in the future.”

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BoxerBlue added 23:36 - Oct 16 I hope its Linkin Park but it will probably be some crappy pop act
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Davin44 added 23:39 - Oct 16 ive been hoping linkin park would come to PR for years. are they touring the UK next year?
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BoxerBlue added 23:47 - Oct 16 Would be great they have a new album coming out soon a rework of there previous album kinda like reanimation
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shoopdelang added 01:04 - Oct 17 Hopefully a proper band. Not an OAP special
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Lukeybluey added 06:51 - Oct 17 Get our home town boy Ed Sheeran to play! or Metallica.
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Benters added 07:43 - Oct 17 Black Sabbath " Generals gathered in their masses,just like witches at Black masses" that would be bloody smashing to hear that blasting out.
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bluelady added 08:08 - Oct 17 Ed Sheeran great call and def sell out! Black sabbath??? Really!
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Superfrans added 08:40 - Oct 17 Ed Sheeran would be good. Or Fleetwood Mac? :-)
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MaySixth added 09:35 - Oct 17 Should of put this back to early July and then they could get someone that would be appearing at Latitude as a warm-up
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BwoodBlue added 09:49 - Oct 17 Hopefully not someone as horrifically dull and middle of the road as Manilow. Or as horrifically dull and dreary as Ed "Dreary" Sheeran. Needs to be a proper band but I'm sure I'll be disappointed
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MattinLondon added 09:58 - Oct 17 In regards to Linkin Park - I'm pretty sure the lead singer is a Town supporter
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MattinLondon added 09:59 - Oct 17 I'm hoping for Muse
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sixx added 11:06 - Oct 17 Gotta be Kiss, touring the UK next spring, if not Maiden.
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Lanky added 11:15 - Oct 17 Here's hoping for a decent band.
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skyblue23 added 11:42 - Oct 17 Jay z and kanye west!
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itfchorry added 12:55 - Oct 17 Iron Maiden please
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ManofSteel added 13:12 - Oct 17 Foo Fighters are currently recording new material. Fingers crossed!
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Skip73 added 15:15 - Oct 17 How about getting Katy Perry to Portman Road.....Grrrrr!
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adamisablue added 17:28 - Oct 17 liking the metal suggestions, would love to see a rammstein and maiden double headline. that would draw people in from everywhere
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ONENIL78 added 21:51 - Oct 17 I wonder if tickets will be cheaper than a Cat A game
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