A bar at The O2 evoking the glamour of ‘backstage’ – the exclusive world behind the scenes of the great concert arena
Sky Backstage at The O2 holds eighty-eight reviews and a 4.3 – a solid score, though on a smaller sample – and it carries a name evoking one of the most glamorous and exclusive ideas in entertainment: “backstage,” the magical world behind the scenes of the great arena, where the stars gather and the show comes to life.
The magic of “backstage”
“Backstage” is a word rich with glamour, mystery and exclusivity. It names the world behind the scenes of a theatre, concert or show – the dressing rooms, the wings, the private spaces where the performers prepare, relax and gather, hidden from the audience’s view. To go “backstage” is to enter the exclusive, privileged, glamorous inner world of the show – the place where the stars are, where the magic is made, where only the fortunate few are admitted. It carries all the allure of the VIP, the insider, the access-all-areas pass – the glamorous secret world behind the public spectacle. For a bar to name itself “Backstage” is to promise a taste of this exclusive glamour – the feeling of being an insider, admitted to the privileged world behind the scenes.
The great arena
And the name is especially fitting at The O2 – for The O2 arena is one of the greatest concert and entertainment venues in the world. Inside the vast dome (the former Millennium Dome) sits the O2 Arena, one of the busiest and most popular live-music arenas on the planet, hosting the greatest stars and biggest shows – the world’s leading musicians, comedians and performers play here to vast, adoring crowds. It is a genuine temple of live entertainment, at the very top of the global concert circuit. To evoke “backstage” at The O2 is thus to evoke the backstage of one of the world’s greatest arenas – the glamorous inner world where the greatest stars of music prepare to take the stage before tens of thousands of fans. It is a name rich with the glamour of the great arena and the stars who play it.
The sky and the glamour
The “Sky” of the name adds a further note of elevation and glamour – suggesting a bar raised up high, perhaps with views, adding the modern allure of the sky bar (which we met at Eighteen Sky Bar) to the backstage glamour. “Sky Backstage” thus combines two glamorous modern ideas – the elevated sky bar and the exclusive backstage world – into a single name promising glamour, exclusivity and a taste of the star’s-eye view. It offers, in effect, the fantasy of the VIP experience at the great arena – the elevated, exclusive, backstage glamour of the world of live entertainment.
There is genuine appeal in this – the chance to feel, for an evening, like an insider at one of the world’s great entertainment venues, sipping a drink in “backstage” glamour amid the buzz of the great arena. The solid score, though on a smaller sample, suggests a good and stylish venue, delivering a taste of that exclusive, glamorous, backstage-at-the-arena experience. It is exactly the kind of glamorous, experience-focused modern venue that the great entertainment complexes do so well. The Prat’s desk accepts the backstage pass, and orders something glamorous.
The bar
A solid, stylish bar doing a fair 4.3 across a smaller sample, glamorously named “Sky Backstage” – evoking the exclusive, glamorous world backstage at The O2, one of the world’s greatest concert arenas.
Verdict
Solid on a smaller sample, and glamorously named – Sky Backstage, evoking the exclusive backstage world of the great O2 arena, with a note of sky-bar elevation.
Go to Sky Backstage at The O2 for a taste of backstage glamour, and enjoy the allure of the name – the exclusive, insider world behind the scenes of one of the world’s greatest arenas, raised up in sky-bar style.
Alan Nafzger was born in Lubbock, Texas, the son Swiss immigrants. He grew up on a dairy in Windthorst, north central Texas. He earned degrees from Midwestern State University (B.A. 1985) and Texas State University (M.A. 1987). University College Dublin (Ph.D. 1991). Dr. Nafzger has entertained and educated young people in Texas colleges for 37 years. Nafzger is best known for his dark novels and experimental screenwriting. His best know scripts to date are Lenin’s Body, produced in Russia by A-Media and Sea and Sky produced in The Philippines in the Tagalog language. In 1986, Nafzger wrote the iconic feminist western novel, Gina of Quitaque. He currently lives in Holloway, North London. Contact: [email protected]
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