AEG Live Rocky Mountains is to introduce metal detection technology at each of its venues, with the music promoter’s vice-president and chief operating officer, Brent Fedrizzi, predicting the safety measure will soon be seen as standard.
A Lyle Lovett and Emmylous Harris gig last Friday night at the Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre in the US state of Colorado marked the first event at an AEG-owned venue to trial the walk-through detection measure.
Fedrizzi told the Denver Post newspaper’s Reverb supplement that all AEG-owned venues would feature the technology by the end of the year. “It’s going to take a couple of months to get everything dialed in, but the units are there,” he said.
Similar precautions have been introduced at a number of venues around the world since a terrorist attack at Paris’s Bataclan music theatre in November claimed the lives of more than 80 people.
Fedrizzi believes all venues will eventually feature metal detection technology. "Like any big project, it will take some time to implement," he said.
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