{"id":11657,"date":"2013-02-09T13:48:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T11:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/?p=11657"},"modified":"2013-02-12T09:06:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T07:06:37","slug":"red-hot-chili-peppers-at-the-cape-town-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/red-hot-chili-peppers-at-the-cape-town-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Hot Chili Peppers at the Cape Town Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tuesday 5 February 2013<\/div>\n

I remember, ages ago, this email petition doing the rounds, ‘Get the Red Hot Chili Peppers to play in South Africa’…fast forward a few years and they actually did! And I really hope everyone who signed that petition got to see them, because the show was pretty damn amazing.<\/p>\n

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I suppose I score negative Capetonian points for this confession but last Tuesday was both my first time doing the Fanwalk from Adderley Street to the Stadium and my first time inside the actual stadium itself.<\/p>\n

Having read some worrying stories from the Joburg concert<\/a> I was a little apprehensive, but my last Big Concert experiences (Rammstein<\/a> and John Cleese…not at the same time obviously, though that would be mind-blowing) were amazing and, from what I experienced, well organised.<\/p>\n

The first security point was the pat-down and search – a small table in between the sea of people contained collected disallowed items – bottles of juice and water, piles of spray deodorant and the saddest confiscated pasta salad ever. Some people were given grief for their small cameras whereas others weren’t, which was annoying (especially since it says online in Big Concerts’ FAQ that non-professional cameras are allowed<\/a>) but generally I found the check-in process pretty quick and pain-free.<\/p>\n\n\t\t