David Campbell is talking about the O2 Arena when he calls it “The Dome”. He moves to correct himself, but hesitates. “Actually,” he says, “after all this time I think we can go back and talk about The Dome now. There was a silly period when no one would talk about it at all. Then there was a period when it was only ‘The O2’, we couldn’t say ‘The Dome’. Now it’s called the tent.”
It has been called a white elephant, too, and an £800 million flop, but the Government’s once-maligned Millennium Dome has, finally, after years of growing pains, come of age.
The O2 Arena is one of Britain’s best-known venues and arguably the world’s most popular, having sold almost four times the