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Six60 Saturdays 2021 arrived in Hastings tonight for the biggest show the town has ever seen. 22,000 Six60 fans jammed into Tomoana Showgrounds to witness New Zealand’s biggest band play an energetic and hit filled two-hour set. Tonight’s ticket sales surpassed last week’s show in Waitangi to become the largest attended concert of 2021.
As Six60 Saturdays 2021 builds week on week, their upcoming show at Sky Stadium in Wellington where 30,000 fans are expected will be the biggest show
GLOBALLY since the pandemic began last year.
In a world where social distancing and masks have become the norm, Six60 opens the show by walking directly through the audience of 22,000. Once on the main stage, it was evident just how grateful the record Hastings crowd were to welcome Six60 to their town for the first time.
Sunday, 24 January 2021, 6:53 am
SIX60
SIX60
SATURDAYS 2021 arrived into Hastings tonight for
the biggest show the town has ever seen. 22,000 devoted
SIX60 fans jammed into Tomoana Showgrounds to witness New
Zealand’s biggest band play an energetic and hit filled
two-hour set. Tonight’s ticket sales surpassed last
week’s show in Waitangi to become the largest attended
concert of 2021.
As
SIX60 Saturdays
2021 builds week on week, their upcoming show at
Sky Stadium in Wellington where 30,000 fans are expected
will be the biggest show
GLOBALLY since the
pandemic began last year.
In a world where social
distancing and masks have become the norm, SIX60 opens the
About 20,000 people are expected to attend Six60 s gig in Hastings. (file pic)
Photo: Supplied
About 20,000 people are expected to attend the Six60 gig at the Tomoana Showgrounds in Hastings.
Hawke s Bay medical officer of health, Dr Nick Jones, says the Bluetooth function is vital for big events.
He says it s like the phone giving an anonymous digital handshake to other nearby phones, with the records then stored in the device. It s great that everyone is scanning but of course that just tells you that you were there at the concert. Only a very small proportion of the people at the concert would have really met that definition of being a close contact so it just helps us to focus in on the people who are really most at risk and for them to get that message early.
The event kicks off at 5pm with several support acts before Six60 perform. Dr Jones says scanning a QR code only shows someone has been at the concert, but the Bluetooth tracing can swiftly identify close contacts of a Covid case. But he says that doesn t mean people should stop scanning the QR codes. “The QR code is great as well. “If the vendors, say the food stall vendors at a concert, had QR codes and you scanned that, that would be really helpful because that would limit the numbers [of people to be traced in the event of a case].”