by strongbow » Mon Aug 29, 2016 8:00 pm
I think the "dream" can be best understood within the full context of the interview from which the quote is extracted.
Cliff was talking about booking the RAH for a whole month without the strain of personally performing on consecutive nights (he is, after all, pushing 76). So the idea would be to have another performer who would do alternate nights for the month. Cliff would do Monday, the other performer would do Tuesday, Cliff would do Wednesday, and so on.
He did suggest having approached Neil Diamond about being the "other," but Neil wasn't interested, preferring instead to do fewer nights at larger venues (like Earls Court). In addition to audience sizes (5,000 at RAH versus 18-19,000 at Earls Court), being the "other" performer in this scenario commits you to spending a whole month in London.
Apparently, Daniel O'Donnell is prepared to be the "other" but there's a matter of finding a month that fits both of them. As a matter of personal opinion, while I know that Daniel is a very popular concert attraction, I'm not quite sure whether he could entirely hold up his end of selling-out a half month of RAH gigs.
Of course, Cliff could book the RAH for a month himself and just do every other night. But I imagine that the economics of leaving the venue unused for half the time would be a problem.