The Civic Center also received publicity in 1983 for a planned Kiss concert which never occurred . Rhode Island promoter Frank J. Russo scheduled the band on their Creatures of the Night Tour/10th Anniversary Tour for shows at both the Worcester Centrum on January 22 , 1983 and the following night at the Civic Center , but canceled the Civic Center show when it sold only 2,000 tickets . Russo publicly offered to trade tickets to the Centrum show for Civic Center show tickets in lieu of refunds , with a free ride to and from Worcester . Hundreds of fans participated and were picked up by several chartered buses on Sabin Street in front of the Civic Center . A week later the situation was featured in a two-part WPRI Channel 12 news story by reporter Brian Rooney , citing it as a prime example of how the newly built Centrum was cutting deeply into the Civic Center 's business by providing aggressive competition for events
Creatures of the Night Tour/10th Anniversary Tour
Creatures of the Night Tour/10th Anniversary Tour
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