Katie Melua To Set Guinness World Record For Deepest Underwater Concert
On 2nd October Katie Melua will set a Guinness World Record for the deepest underwater concert when she performs a concert at the bottom of the North Sea.
The concert will be held at the bottom of one of the four shafts of the Statoil Troll A Platform gas rig. The Troll platform is 472 m high (higher than the Eiffel Tower and the tallest structure ever moved by humans), of which 369 meters lie below sea surface. The Troll field ranks as Europe`s largest offshore gas field in production.
Director of Production at Troll, Geir Amland, “Statoil celebrates our 10 year anniversary in 2006 and we are thrilled that Katie Melua will be performing a concert to celebrate our anniversary. It will be certainly an occasion to remember.”
In addition to the gas rig staff, the audience will include Craig Glenday, Editor-in Chief of Guinness World Records, who will adjudicate and verify the validity of the record - certain criteria will be in place, including that Katie must perform a “traditional concert performance of vocals and instrument to an audience”. This was already the case, as Katie will have her band with her to play the concert, at the invitation of the crew of the platform before the Guinness Book Of Records became interested.
All visitors to the platform, including Katie, the band, crew and Craig Glenday have undergone medical examinations and will all undertake strict and extensive emergency training prior to the helicopter flight to the platform.
The concert, which is being produced by the Norwegian production company Dinamo Story, will be televised on NRK in Norway, with future international distribution to be advised.
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On Sunday 8th October Katie Melua gave an intimate performance for Sky Radio 101FM at the Orange Flagship Store in Rotterdam. 
Katie Melua has set a new World Record by performing the world's deepest underwater concert. Katie and her band played for workers at the Statoil Troll A Gas Rig in the North Sea, an amazing 303 metres below sea level.