I Turned Down Oasis To Watch Coronation Street

Kiss, The Offspring and Lostprophets have been confirmed to headline the Download 2008 festival this summer but who else will be playing? The man booking the bands is former Rock City director Andy Copping.

As vice president of music for Live Nation, one of the world's largest concert promoters, he is responsible for organising UK tours for some of the biggest rock and rock stars.

"It was like me when I turned down Oasis to go and watch Coronation Street, remember?'"

I do. And it's a story that has been in the pages of the Evening Post in the past. In March 1994 he was offered the chance to put the band on at the Talbot Street venue for just £100.

He'd never heard of them, was busy and said no. A few weeks later they were dominating headlines.

By August they'd been booked and played a sell-out show there.

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Source: www.thisisnottingham.co.uk