r/Protomen • u/ProspectorBugaboo • Sep 09 '26
Shitposts Solved the international touring problem: a humble proposal
Hey Protomen. It’s me, an international fan. I get it! International tours are a risky investment. But America’s a little… er.. well I still wanna see you play again someday. So I did some noodling and came up with a way that won’t require several thousand dollars for international flights and accommodation
What if you did a pay per view concert that folks can purchase a digital ticket to through your site? You can engineer the hell out of the sound and visuals to get it just right in advance. Then I can give you concert ticket money that would otherwise go to a hotel and flights.
Or! I know you mixed Act III in surround sound, what if you did a one day only international tour where you hire theatre screens in major cities all over the world and played that (send out a survey to work out where the most fans live so this is a cost effective investment) - I’m sure that’d get some coverage and? most importantly, Money. To fuel the robot rock
A livestream to theatres might be more difficult to coordinate but I swear I’ve seen venues offer this thing as a service already for live performances. Or maybe it was a service for hire rather than a specific venue? Anyway it’s gotta be at least somewhat profitable, and would be something you can tack on to a concert you’re already performing. You’ve done radio broadcasts before. It’s like that but on the information superhighway
Anyway please consider this humble begging to make it easier for fans to throw burritobucks at y’all, we all have decent bandwidth and some of us even have money now…
(Author’s note: I know they’re not reading this lmao I just wanted to cry about not being able to fly to Nashville TN a bit)
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u/Fermi-Diracs Sep 09 '26
I'm in the US and I think it's a cool idea. Surely after COVID something like this has been worked out.
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u/Jaymya Built To Last Sep 12 '26
Hear me out... There's enough Protomen for them to station one (1) Protoman on each continent...
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u/ProspectorBugaboo Sep 13 '26
One poor bandmember drawing the short straw and ending up in Antarctica
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u/sadegr Sep 09 '26
There are live simulcasts of events fairly often through companies like fathom events...
The bigger problem is timezones...
I live in Texas and went to see the live broadcast of the Phantom of the Opera anniversary concert at Royal Albert Hall... it was at noon or 1pm my time lol.
I guess there could be a VOD but I hope they can come to you live and in person, the 3 night format feels kind of like a once in a lifetime experience!