The correct title of the venue (and where I was going wrong!) is the Save On Foods Memorial Centre and this is a link to the venue website. Tickets to the concert are $69.50 (plus charges) and it appears that it is selling well as the best seats available on the floor are right back in the 39th row of the third block back! (Click here to purchase tickets for the concert which starts at 7.30pm.)

This venue holds 7,000 people and is the home of the Victoria Salmon Kings who are a professional hockey team playing in the ECHL. This venue has "more than 1,000 Club and King Club Seats, a fine dining restaurant, a Club lounge, retail space, meeting space, superior sightlines and world-class acoustics"! The address of the venue is Save-On-Foods Memorial Center, 1925 Blanshard Street, Victoria, BC V8T and the telephone number is (250)-220-2600.

The arena floor is 17,000 square feet and there are 5 dressing rooms backstage. They vary in size from 450 square feet to 720 square feet and all have a toilet and shower in them. The stage is adjustable and can vary in height from 4 foot to 7 feet high. It's maximum dimensions are 60 feet wide to 40 feet deep. There is also an interesting item on the venue website here which tells you the approximate wage rates for various personnel at the venue - ushers and ticket takers get $12 an hour, uniform security $20, stagehands $15 and Royal Canadian Mounted Police get $50 an hour (they probably leave their horses outside!).

To date only one piece of pre-show publicity has been posted on any news website online. Click here to read it (unfortunately it doesn't mention Kasim by name).

Unfortunately I've failed miserably at finding out anything about this venue online! I can't even find the address, far less what size venue it is or how many bricks are in the building.

This concert is the first of 10 concerts in Canada. Typically on Meat Loaf tours over the past few years he only plays one or two in this country (mainly in Toronoto) so this is a good indication on how well Bat Out Of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose has been received here.

Kasim's last concert on this tour was on Sunday in Indio, California and the distance up to Victoria, British Columbia is 1,410 miles by road and would take 20 and a quarter hours. Obviously there's no way that Kasim, Meat Loaf and the rest of the band will have driven that distance (but the trucks will probably have had to take the set that route) but from what I understand the route by road means that they will also have taken a ferry across to Victoria.

Meat Loaf Bat Out Of Hell III Tour Mileage by road to date (estimated) - 4,437 miles.