Image Courtesy Warner Music NashvilleAfter playing for a sold-out crowd of 13,000 last week with Florida Georgia Line and Thomas Rhett at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, Frankie Ballard says it’s pretty cool to play a venue where you can actually rock the house.
“The one thing I learned about that place is that it’s hanging from the fifth floor. It’s actually suspended in the air,” Frankie says, showing off his knowledge of the building.
“There’s a giant hub above the scoreboard and bridge cables that are anchored around the circles and it’s actually floating and there’s like an inch of tolerance all the way around the outside, so the engineers wanted the house to actually rock, and it will,” he says. “You can feel it moving. Sometimes it feels like an earthquake in there because it’s actually swinging in the air.”
He discovered one thing that’s not necessarily so easy, though, is trying to park a tour bus in New York City.
“Honestly it’s kind of hectic, cause there’s not a lot of places to park… We were like, ‘Well we’re on the show,’ and they were like, ‘Well we don’t really care,’ you know. So we were gonna shuttle in from Jersey or something. Then at the last minute, they were like, ‘OK we’ve got a space,’ so we actually got to park the bus down there, which was cool. But it’s right on the street, you know there’s people walking everywhere. It’s exciting, you know there’s so much happening in the streets and you’re like ‘Wow! Madison Square Garden!’”
The “Young & Crazy” crooner reunites with the Anything Goes tour March 21 in Orange Beach, Alabama.
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