Pride Park Stadium Park Stadium has also hosted events away from sport. It first hosted singer Rod Stewart on 26 June 2005 while touring his "" album. This was followed by Red Hot Chili Peppers, who played at the ground as part of the tour for their "Stadium Arcadium" album on 5 June 2006. Monster Jam came to Pride Park Stadium on 28 & 29 May 2011. Pride Park Stadium Pride Park Stadium, commonly known as Pride Park, is an all-seater football stadium in Derby, England, that is the home ground of English Football League club Derby County. With a capacity of 33,597,
Pride Park Stadium after the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster had seen the legal requirement for English football stadia to become all-seater by 1994–95 season resulting in its capacity dwindling to just 17,500 by the mid-1990s, not enough for the then-ambitious second tier club. An additional problem came with the ground's wooden components (considered unacceptable in the wake of the Bradford City stadium fire in 1985) and, in February 1996, chairman Lionel Pickering made the decision to move the club to a new stadium, having originally planned to rebuild the Baseball Ground as a 26,000-seat stadium. The club originally planned to build a purpose-built 30,000-seat