{"id":661010,"date":"2026-06-27T11:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T11:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/661010\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T11:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T11:26:08","slug":"metallica-fans-flock-to-cardiff-for-principality-stadium-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/661010\/","title":{"rendered":"Metallica fans flock to Cardiff for Principality Stadium gig"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month, the group announced they were teaming with the Welsh Blood Service “to give something meaningful back to the communities that welcome us”.<\/p>\n

Alan Prosser, of the Welsh Blood Service, called it “a unique moment” for UK blood donation.<\/p>\n

As well as working with the Welsh Blood Service, the band are working with England’s NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) and the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service to co-ordinate with dates at Glasgow’s Hampden Park and London.<\/p>\n

It marks the first time the heavy metal veterans have collaborated with UK blood services, but follows a similar drive in the US and Australia.<\/p>\n

Chris Risner, Metallica’s tour accountant who came up with the idea with band members, said he thought the idea would “see a lot of fruit” knowing the strong connection between the band and its fans but it had been “mind-blowing how big it has become”.<\/p>\n

He he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast<\/a> that “giving back was important to the band… and the fans”.<\/p>\n

“We just started it, and it took off to where it’s at now. <\/p>\n

“[The band] are not surprised because they know how committed the fans are to this… knowing that the fans are such a massive community that adding any sort of blood donation to this band’s fans was a very simple connection in just introducing the two.” <\/p>\n

Simon Campbell-Daves, of Welsh Blood Service, said the “Metallica family” had “come out in their thousands” to support the donation drive and help save lives. <\/p>\n

“We cannot be any more thankful to them and to Metallica for their support in making this happen, it’s been incredible.”<\/p>\n

Blood donation sessions, external<\/a> are being held until 3 July as part of the M72 World Tour stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last month, the group announced they were teaming with the Welsh Blood Service “to give something meaningful back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-661010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}