• Cipher22@lemmy.world
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    In other news, rich artists tend to focus on locations likely to provide a profit and that they’re likely to survive the visit.

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    There’s an error there, Tasmania is coloured red. They never visit Tasmania. You live in Tasmania, you want to see your favourite band, it’s a plane ticket and a hotel stay, plus ticket. So close and yet so far. I hear the Tasmanians have given up and just built a huge ear horn, to collectively use.

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      yeah the Australian red should just be brisbane, sydney, melbourne.

      W.A. and S.A. occasionally get concerts, Tasmania rarely get concerts, and I’ve never heard of a band going to the N.T.

    • Sʏʟᴇɴᴄᴇ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Except when they come and play exclusively for Dark Mofo and then leave. To be fair to you though, that’s rarely part of a “world tour”

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        Probably wouldn’t be huge bands doing that though, yeah? I would assume that would mostly comprise of older bands, who do one offs? If a larger band were flying in for mofo, wouldn’t it be more economically viable for them to do a few spare gigs around the rest of Australia? Seems a waste to gather all that gear and staff, and travel a lot of that, just for one gig.

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          For sure except, from what I understand, they can afford to pay the bands for exclusivity. I don’t think it happens much any more but I’ve definitely seen more than a few bands come to oz just to play there then leave over the years.

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      As a recent transplant from the US living in not Toronto or Vancouver, I agree.

      To be fair to the artist though, I don’t think many US tours include any stops in Montana or the Dakotas (nevermind Hawaii or Alaska).

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        As someone from Alaska, this hurts! I live out of state currently so can’t speak for recent or upcoming, but when I was a kid larger bands would come through. Metallica, Kiss, Megadeth & Pantera (I went to those last two) etc. Basically, large bands with good pull. Although, Jewel was going to play once when she was huge but canceled because not enough tickets were sold (Kiss played that night/venue instead ⚡)

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          I was just guessing … I’m from northern Ontario in Canada … I live near Sudbury and whenever there are major concerts, it’s always Toronto, which is about four hours from here … and that’s just the distance travellilng to get there, you basically have to set aside two days to attend a concert because if its a major event, thousands of people are doing the same and there will be no hotels, no parking, no taxis, no transport and everything will be expensive … and even if you’ve paid for everything, expect hours to get to the venue and hours to leave because of all the traffic.

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            Ugh, yeah that’s awful. I meant “this hurts” as my frustration at lack of bands playing there!

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    Could we chop off the top half of Australia please.

    I live there and artists go on Australian tours and don’t even come to the Northern Territory.

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      Why are we even coloured in? World tour means Canada, UK, Germany, maybe France or Netherlands.

      We are usually a down under tour with Sydney, maybe Melbourne, and Brisbane if they are kind. Poor NZ though.

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        Poor NZ though

        As someone who has paid out the arse for flights from Wellington to Melbourne to attend an (also expensive) concert, I appreciate the empathy.

        The travel isn’t the end of the world (it’s only a 3 hour and change flight), but of course the prices go way, way up around the dates of major events.

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        “Canada” means two nights in Toronto and then right back down to the States.

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      They have a song called “trapped under ice” and of course they decided to NOT play it on their tour in fucking antartica

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    Smaller metal bands don’t often have the means to tour off the beaten path. Just the logistics of organising tours in e.g. South America or Africa are likely prohibitively expensive.

    Some bigger rock and metal bands have actually been pretty good in touring places that aren’t just the standard tour countries.

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      Smaller bands? Fucking Mastodon are losing money when they go on an international tour nowadays… Times are fucking hard for anyone who isn’t a superstar, support the bands you like in any way you can!

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      Rage Against The Machine went to play for guerillas in the jungle once, does that count?

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      For musical tours it’s usually something more like: Seattle, LA, a big city in Texas, Minneapolis OR Chicago, Atlanta, NYC and sometimes Boston. But I take your point lol

      The odd thing to me is the Minneapolis or Chicago. In pure numbers, it should be Chicago every time, but Minneapolis seems to draw a strangely outsized amount of musical acts. I think it’s because MSP is a big airline hub. Or something? I honestly don’t know.

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    Why the fuck would a global tour go to places that can’t afford tickets?

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        Even Norway wouldn’t pay the ticket costs. You realize that taking a tour to Norway, when there’s no other reasonable options for shows nearby means Norwegians would be paying a massive premium for the artist to get there right?

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          You realize I am Norwegian and know what people here are willing to pay for seeing less known artists go live.

          Just check prices for anything live at Oslo spectrum, or DNB Arena.

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            Lesser known artists don’t have the overhead global super stars do. Selling 50k tickets in Norway, would have to be thousands of dollars each to cover the costs because there’s nowhere nearby they could travel to efficiently and perform again.

            You live in a far away place surrounded by places that don’t have a high level of expendable income. I live in a similarly hard to access, not wealthy place and wouldn’t expect Taylor Swift or the like to be passing thru at all.

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              Meanwhile, tickets in Norway:

              • X Ambassadors - ca. $45 (February 2024)
              • Jason Derulo - ca. $60 (March 2024)
              • Jonas Brothers - ca. $60 (June 2024)


              Similar prices for when Taylor Swift was here last…

              Most people in Norway have a good salary, and live very comfortably. Most Norwegians can afford to go to concerts or other entertainment.

              Norway is far from some Third World country, that apparently seem to be what some people think.


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              there’s nowhere nearby they could travel to efficiently and perform again.


              What? Like airplanes don’t exist? Or idk this thing called cars?

              Travelling in, to or from Norway is far from difficult or expensive

              6-hour drive, Oslo - Stockholm
              6-hour drive, Oslo - Copenhagen

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                What’s Taylor’s tickets going for now? I’ve never considered Norway anything other than a very wealthy country. That’s not really the issue it hand here though. The issue is that it’s very remote and traveling there is very expensive which would need to be factored into ticket prices which are already very high on these tours that we’re seeing. That you think these concerts easily pack up onto a plane or a freaking car just shows you have no idea the scale of performance that you’re talking about. Jason Derulo does not have near the stage setup that someone like Taylor Swift would have. That’s just an indisputable fact.

                Also, and serious question…if these artists thought they could make money do you think they intentionally skip your country? These are now billion dollar events. They have actuaries that tell them where they can maximize their profits. They can’t make their money in Norway so they don’t go. Just like they can’t make their money in Regina Saskatchewan so they don’t go.

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      I do alright. I live pretty much smack dab between Detroit, Cleveland, and Columbus so an artist is likely to hit at least one of those. The hour and a half drive before and after a show sucks, but even Chicago and Pittsburgh are close enough for a weekend trip for a show.

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    “I’m going to the places where people can afford to see somebody who goes on a world tour.”

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    Unless you’re Horse the Band, which did their best to hit up every country on their world tour.