Gig review: Snoop Dogg in Wellington (+pics)

I loved it, it was the absolute shizzle....did sound abit funny at the beginning, but the buzz of being there made it unnoticible...and when he did the akon duet..omfg!!!...ice cube was really mean as too...wadda kewl new album....I'd go again, for sure

I went to the Sydney Show on Saturday and it was soooo good! Ice Cube was the man and so was snoop, Daz n Kurupt they all put on a wicked show. I did see Snoop years ago in Auckland and he was good then. I can't believe some of the b@#$%^&t comments that people have posted here about people that listen to hip hop! Firstly I am a HUGE hip hop fan, I am mother and have a very good job/house and life! My favourite thing ever is going to concerts, I have been to so many I have lost count and am going to keep going to them as long as I can. Everyone has their own taste in music and if everyone was the same and listened to the same s@#$t then the world would be SO BORING! Everyone should be able to have their say without being looked down on! Who say's what YOU say/think is right? Anyway can anyone tell me if Daz & Kurupt were in the line up Peace, Love & Happiness to ALL...

It,s not the venues fault... It's the Sound Techs or whatever you call them not doing their job properly... Cmon they are supposed to be professionals aren't they? Those people wern't even amateurs. Professionals are professionals because they can make a good sound no matter where the venue is, what shape it is or whatever. I payed good money for that show and the noise makers ruined it with the sound, no sorry, painfully deafening mess that was coming out of those poor poor speakers. I dont know how to play,write or sing music but i do know that wasnt music, not even close to it.. And judging by all the people that were leaving(escaping back to sanity) before the show ended they thought the same too. To the noise makers at the Snoop concert: i paid for a service that You couldnt deliver..wheres my refund?

Sound Reinforcement Providers, should try harder, and care more.

I find it funny the amount of reviews and comments regarding the "bad" sound quality of shows being the venues fault, generally without a decent understanding of acoustics and the physics of sound.

Professional sound reinforcement is not the same as throwing a cd player in your home stereo and turning it up to eleven.

Yes, It is not the best venue acoustically. But EVERY venue presents it's own acoustic challenges to the reproduction of the generally already loud stage noise that the deaf musicians are hearing to the screaming punters.

I believe Vector Arena origionally got slagged off also, following a Red Hot Chilli Peppers show, yet recently the venue has had decent sounding shows. I think what it comes down to is properly implementing the sound reinforcement systems in a constructive and reinforcing manner to cover the audience at an apropriate sound level and working with the rooms acoustical properties as opposed to against them.

For example a reverbeous concrete room can actually sound not half bad if the sound system is covering the audience area and steered away from throwing loud sound at reflective surfaces like concrete walls etc.

Also, Another personal pet peeve is the mis-conception that turning it up or down will fix the rooms reflective acoustics. The level of the reflections will generally increase or decrease relative to the level of the original source of sound (e.g. The speakers). It is however large amounts of this reflective sound that causes lack of intelligibility to the sound.

Sound Reinforcement Providers, try harder, and care more.

Comment #5 is the best thing I have seen on the internet, ever!

Bone Thugs and Ice Cube were the highlights. They really got the crowd going. By the time Snoop got on stage, I don't know if the crowd was tired or he was, but he just didn't seem very enthused. He had the look on his face like, "What am I doing here?" it really put me off him

Cube was my highlight of the show. Played a good selection and is the premo-est entertainer, i can honestly say he's probably better live than recorded.

ha ha ha

what was ice cube like? i saw him 12 years ago he was way rad then

Line was too long. Should have checked people through more than one entrance. Missed most of BTNH because it took ages for people to be processed through to inside. There was still a huge line behind us that im sure would have missed BTNH altogether. Pretty crap organisation really! Great concert though :)