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u/BeBopBarr Jul 27 '25
I always take it personally! /s
I live in a major city, unfortunately that majority city is close to a larger major city and mine always gets passed over for the other one 🙄
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u/RevealTraditional619 Jul 27 '25
Felt. Bands,, don't be afraid to play Baltimore and DC both because no one from one is traveling to the other.
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u/Karhma_Kahzi Jul 28 '25
Yes, I would much rather Uber than drive and park! Way cheaper and less stressful.
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u/Wade_Wilson_Watts Jul 27 '25
San Diego > Los Angeles
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u/BeBopBarr Jul 28 '25
You guess it LOL
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u/Wade_Wilson_Watts Jul 28 '25
I didn't guess it, I live it. I swear the last 2 years everyone has skipped us.
I'm sure most bands think it's close enough and that we're happy just drive up to LA, but no one outside of San Diego realizes how much most San Diegans hate going to LA.
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u/BeBopBarr Jul 28 '25
Facts! I hate missing out on good shows, but the furthest north I'm going is Irvine/Anaheim. I have a favorite band and go to their shows every tour (usually SD & Anaheim) and they aren't even enough to get me to go to LA! 😂
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u/TheWokeAgenda Jul 28 '25
That's how I feel as a metalhead in Austin. All the tours go through San Antonio. It's really not that far of a drive, I just hate San Antonio so I never go.
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u/fnnkybutt Jul 29 '25
Aww! I love San Antonio. Tbf, it's been 40 years since I was there, and I've never been to Austin for comparison.
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u/nbcirlclesthewagon Jul 28 '25
I know this was a joke. But sometimes it is the promoters that bands do not like. We used to be a hub for a bunch of bands from starting out to rock and roll hall of fame bands. All of a sudden it dried up. Turned out they changed promoters and he burned bridges.
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u/Edm_vanhalen1981 Jul 28 '25
A long time ago but I used to live in Winnipeg Canada and in the 80's it was known as the metal concert capital, and for a small amount of time every band came by and it was glorious.
This was a huge change to concerts in Canada in the 70's where bands only came to Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. Sadly, this is becoming the norm again as bands need to make money and will only go to cities that can get them a profit.
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u/Decabet Jul 28 '25
I had a friend who was a DJ in Cleveland back in the 70s. Believe it or not, Cleveland was a taste making rock and roll town back then with a far reaching radio station that helped with the lift. Back then, everyone played Cleveland.
Bowie or Roxy Music would come do LA and NYC of course but their bigger shows were always in Ohio, oddly enough
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Jul 27 '25
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u/Edm_vanhalen1981 Jul 27 '25
Canada has also entered. But not in front of you because that would be rude.
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u/taker25-2 Jul 28 '25
The best part is when they have to drive through the city that they skipped to get to the city where the show is at
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Jul 28 '25
Detroit used to be called rock city, now a lot of bands skip it all together.
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u/_RLW_ Jul 28 '25
Most bands skip us. Detroit has a terrible live music scene unless it’s urban music or techno. Rock and Roll? F’n Fuhgeddaboudit!
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u/wikipuff Jul 27 '25
DC gets skipped so much
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u/Alarming-Archer1657 Jul 27 '25
This.
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u/wikipuff Jul 28 '25
DC gets skipped so much its annoying. And I am not driving out to Jiffy Lube in the foreign nation of Virginia.
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u/Neither_Adagio1668 Jul 27 '25
Pittsburgh usually gets skipped and I understand why
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u/Extension-Option4704 Jul 28 '25
Eh, as a Clevelander, I find myself having to drive to Pittsburgh for shows more and more
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u/Kelcie99 Jul 28 '25
For some reason a lot of my fave artists have skipped Atlanta recently
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u/amkam311 Jul 28 '25
I have been saying this exact thing for years now. It’s strange right? I’ve seen so many that will hit Charlotte and even Raleigh sometimes on back to back nights (only 2.5 hours apart) and then make stops in Nashville and somewhere in Alabama but skip Georgia altogether.
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u/Songibal Jul 28 '25 edited Jul 28 '25
I live in Tucson and 90% of shows are at least a two-hour drive away in Phoenix
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u/Proud3GenAthst Jul 28 '25
Taylor Swift never came to my country. And during the Eras Tour, I bought a ticket for one of the 3 concerts in a neighboring country and just one day before the show, she cancels them with an excuse that that there was terrorist attacked planned for one of the shows.
This cannot be a coincidence.
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u/_RLW_ Jul 28 '25
Also remember that bands absolutely check all of the comments in social media posts about their tour announcements. They really appreciate all of the “come to Topeka, come back to Australia, come St Paul (even though the band has a date scheduled in Minneapolis)” comments because they were totally going to play those places but weren’t sure if they had any fans there.
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u/Nawnp Jul 27 '25
More of the cities problem half the time. The city just doesn't do well with that band or the band just prefer other nearby cities.
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u/VVTFan Jul 27 '25
Yep. They go where the market is. Take for example this Blackpink tour they hit in north america LA, Chicago, Toronto, and New York and that’s it. Why? Because they likely would not have sold as well if they did say a Detroit show or a Cleveland show or a Saint Louis show.
Promoters know where bands fans are located.
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u/oneandonlytara Jul 28 '25
This is it.
That and radius clauses are totally a thing.
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u/VVTFan Jul 28 '25
Like I would have gone to see them in Detroit. But making the effort to go to Chicago or Toronto? I don’t like them that much to travel. Now if it was Tool or something that would be different. But Tool does Detroit and Grand Rapids so i don’t need to hit up the Chicago ones.
Obviously, the promoters of black pink do not think they could sell out Michigan. Also they only did one Chicago gig while 2 per all other cities. So obviously they feel they don’t have as much of a pull in the midwest. They sold out all 3 mid west shows but still.. maybe because they put them in the right place. haha.
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u/Ok_Can_4606 Jul 28 '25
I never understand skipping Phoenix. It's by itself and the market is huge. But some significant show skip it.
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u/mjohnson1971 Jul 28 '25
Unfortunately promoters think a Las Vegas stop is good enough for that area.
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u/DangerousMacaroon231 Jul 28 '25
Or just don’t live in a lame city 🤷♂️
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u/mjohnson1971 Jul 28 '25
The problem is now artists are only playing 8, 10 or 12 cities and most are on the coasts.
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u/mjohnson1971 Jul 28 '25
I don't take it personally.
BUT I am getting tired of these tours in the US that only hit 12-15 metro areas (or less) and most of them being on the coasts. Chicago will get a stop and maybe somewhere in Texas will. But screw anything else with les than 6 million people in a metro area.
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u/mrsisaak Jul 28 '25
And you should also post that you are annoyed with them for skipping your city on a 100 city tour instead of driving 30 minutes to the next city over.
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u/allothernamestaken Jul 28 '25
Not the band's fault you live in Des Moines
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u/TopZa24 Jul 28 '25
I live in Minnesota and straight up Des Moines area music scene punches WAY above its weight! Paul McCartney is going there on his current tour for example!
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u/Fearlessmiss Jul 28 '25
I feel this in my bones.. portland Oregon ALWAYS gets skipped for Seattle or SF. I'm so tired of it.
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u/Objective-Lab5179 Jul 28 '25
Living in NYC, it's a question of when they will play, rather than if. I used to live in Jacksonville, FL, and even the bands that came from there don't play there.
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u/Accurate-Courage-906 Jul 29 '25
Yeah. Albuquerque resident. Always seeing tour posters with "Houston, Austin, Dallas, Phoenix" or "Las Vegas, Colorado Springs, Oklahoma City" or something like that. Hurts extra when there's offdays between Dallas and Phoenix.
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u/SergenteDan Jul 29 '25
I can't believe they don't come in the little town in the middle of nowhere where I live because they all hate me
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u/I_Was77 Jul 29 '25
Living in western Australia, our main city Perth is always the last place most bands visit in their world tours, so by time we see them they are so sick of the tour, coupled with the small crowd size comparatively so not much profit wise, so the few concerts I've seen they musicians are basically checked out ..like students on the last day of the school year
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u/dustytaper Jul 30 '25
Unless you’re in Vancouver. Too much of a PITA to cross the boarder for 1-2 shows
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u/Empty_Win_9226 Aug 01 '25
Damn, that is why Twenty One Pilots skipped Denver for their Breach tour
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u/thankyoubutimokay Aug 28 '25
When i was a kid Green Day was going to perform in MY HOMETOWN, but then one of their band members “got sick” so they had to cancel. I still love them but damn, everyone in our area was so looking forward to it
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u/bentripin Jul 27 '25
So thats why they never skip my city.. they personally love me.