SQL query in 2012 works, 2005 does not - sql

Question

I have the following query that i need help with converting it to syntax that MS SQL 2005 would understand since FORMAT among other things in it are not supported by that old version.
"SELECT " & _
"TMP.*," & _
"COUNT(*) OVER () AS rCount " & _
"FROM (" & _
"SELECT venueID, " & _
"venueName AS venueName, " & _
"venueAddress + ', ' + venueCity + ', ' + venueState + ' ' + venueZip AS venueAddress, " & _
"venueLatLong AS coordinates, " & _
"FORMAT(venueEventDate, 'MM/dd/yyyy', 'en-US') + ' # ' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,venueTime) AS dateAndTime, " & _
"SUBSTRING(venueLatLong, 1, CHARINDEX(',', venueLatLong)-1) AS Lat, " & _
"SUBSTRING(venueLatLong, CHARINDEX(',', venueLatLong) + 1, 1000) AS Lng, " & _
"(round(" & _
"3959 * acos " & _
"(" & _
"cos(radians('" & center_lat & "')) " & _
"* cos(radians(SUBSTRING(venueLatLong, 1, CHARINDEX(',', venueLatLong)-1))) " & _
"* cos(radians(SUBSTRING(venueLatLong, CHARINDEX(',', venueLatLong) + 1, 1000)) " & _
"- radians('" & center_lng & "')) " & _
"+ sin(radians('" & center_lat & "')) " & _
"* sin(radians(SUBSTRING(venueLatLong, 1, CHARINDEX(',', venueLatLong)-1)))" & _
")" & _
", 1, 1)) AS distance " & _
"FROM meetUpMarkers) " & _
"TMP " & _
"WHERE distance < " & radius & " " & _
"ORDER BY venueName,distance DESC;"
I tried to replace FORMAT with CONVERT but it still seems to be incorrect.
When i change FORMAT to CONVERT i get the error:
Type venueEventDate is not a defined system type.
UPDATE
Uggg... now when I run it local i get this:
Now even when i run it local i get this error???!??! and its 2012:
Msg 8114, Level 16, State 5, Line 2
Error converting data type varchar to float.
Does this mean line 2, word 5 has the error?
Would appreciate the help.

Answer 1

Arguments for FORMAT() and CONVERT() are in a different order. The error message indicates you put the field name into the data type argument position. It's:
FORMAT ( value, format [, culture ] )
vs
CONVERT ( data_type [ ( length ) ] , expression [ , style ] )
Try replacing FORMAT(venueEventDate, 'MM/dd/yyyy', 'en-US') with this:
CONVERT(VARCHAR, venueEventDate, 101)`