Live Performances - upcoming & reviews

vav said:
this is excellent and incredibly accurate and reflective of small to large bands.
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I was talking to the lead singer of Stars on their Patreon and he said it was really difficult to make the tour with Metric and Broken Social Scene work because the three bands essentially have massive overlapping fanbases so it makes it harder to convince venues to book them. You’re not advertising to three separate groups of people, you’re advertising to basically just one group. They’re also all Canadian so they’ll have to get work Visas just like Los Campesinos.
 
Mr Gundam said:
I was talking to the lead singer of Stars on their Patreon and he said it was really difficult to make the tour with Metric and Broken Social Scene work because the three bands essentially have massive overlapping fanbases so it makes it harder to convince venues to book them. You’re not advertising to three separate groups of people, you’re advertising to basically just one group. They’re also all Canadian so they’ll have to get work Visas just like Los Campesinos.
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Idk overlapping fan bases to me says go with a slightly larger venue if you can, because in theory the overlap’s sides of the benn diagram add a percentage to each band’s side, as it were, raising the overall tix sold.

However what this article doesn’t really touch on is how mid level venues are more or less gone. They were already struggling but Covid killed them, and those that made it likely did so by selling to one of the larger companies that owns venues all across the country or inking ticketing/promoter deals with Ticketmaster which; as the news cycle recently covered, is effectively the same thing.

In any event this setup is once again on purpose, and the effect is that once your band gets to larger venues you’re forced to work with Ticketmaster and therefore raise your ticket prices to maintain your margins because they’re going to raise the price regardless. You may also get locked into promoter contracts and/or various house clauses that will take a piece of your merch sales.

Also, if you get big enough to play a big festival? Congrats! Here’s a check, You cannot play within a 150 mile radius for the next year and a half due to something called a radius clause to funnel all of your fans to that festival.

Also, no one talks about just how few tour busses there are in the US. It’s almost certainly less than a thousand, last estimate from an industry pro i hear was less than 900. A big band uses 2-5, so average that out to 3. That’s 300 sets of buses available at any given time to split between both bands and professional sports. Guess what happens when demand outpaces supply.

Etc etc etc
 
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