Quote by Kevin McDonald

We're doing 3,000 seaters before that we never played anything more than 1,000.

— Kevin McDonald

I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.

— John Mayer

I find with a 400-seater, there's something much more focused about it. I've never really had a bad gig in a 400-seat venue.

— Omid Djalili

With 1,000-seater venues, rather than 5,000-seaters, there are richer opportunities for sucking the audience in.

— Rik Mayall

Its pretty humbling, because I go back to the places where I used to play for 13 people, and now there's 1,500.

— Passenger

We've gone from venues that hold 500 up to 3,000 on our own, so I guess we're not entirely unknown. But there is a…

— Tobias Forge

I wouldn't want to play anything bigger than 10,000 again. I think it's too much, and you lose touch.

— David Cassidy

We'd love to be playing to five or six thousand.

— Steph Houghton

We played an old U-Boat factory in East Germany once and that was massive - 35,000 people.

— Keith Flint

My preference is 3,000, maybe 5,000-seat venues.

— Ronnie Dunn

I haven't been in a million things. And most of them have been really small, or guest parts.

— Patti Harrison

Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.

— Neville Marriner