In sync with Pink
DUNEDINITES will look towards the weekend with Pinktinted glasses ahead of the pop star’s 37,000person stadium spectacle this weekend.
The setup began at Forsyth Barr Stadium yesterday ahead of Pink’s Beautiful Trauma concert tomorrow night.
Organisers yesterday said more than 37,000 tickets were sold for the concert, making it one of the largest for the venue.
The show clocks in at more than two hours and features dancing and aerial acrobatics.
Live Nation production and logistics VP Nik Tischler said it was a ‘‘massive thing’’ logistically getting the gear to Dunedin.
The two 747s and one 767 needed to carry the almost 70 tonnes of gear were too big for Dunedin Airport, he said.
The set therefore had to be flown to Christchurch, loaded on to trucks, and freighted down by road.
‘‘We did Kendrick Lamar in Dunedin recently, and in 25 years of working, I got a bill that I’d never seen before; to deice a plane. I didn’t know where that went in the budget.’’
The tour crew comprises more than 100 people, and 130 local staff will be making sure the concert runs smoothly.
Superfan Kara Flanagan (29) loves all things pink.
The colour infiltrates her wardrobe and also found its way on to her car.
‘‘The love of the colour, I don’t know where that came from.’’
She was excited when she found out the singer was returning, but was not able to afford a ticket.
‘‘I asked my mum to buy one, but found out recently she missed out on tickets in the initial run.
‘‘I am very gutted. I’m obsessed with Pink.’’
She would get a Pink tattoo if someone was able to buy her one, she said.
She and a friend counted down in a diary for 104 days before the singer’s 2002 Party Tour concert.
‘‘She sings about some good things, not just about guys.’’
For a preconcert Pink treat, two Otago Polytechnic students have the answer.
Sachien Budhia and Georgia Rhodes, thirdyear bachelor of culinary arts students, will sell pink doughnuts on Anzac Ave before and after the concert.
Passionfruit and lemon curd are one of three sweet dough nut flavours and they will sell savoury ‘‘doughnut burgers’’ from a Polytechnic food truck.
Mr Budhia said the pink doughnuts were about being ‘‘customisable to the customer’’.