All of this just makes me miss the days of having to regularly check a band's outdated website for any updates or tickmaster.com for any upcoming shows.
i'm not calling out any one specific individual but, it happens a lot in threads like this one. fan entitlement is so annoying. the MCR thread for a while was just unbearable with people getting so pissy that they weren't announcing new music and were staying quiet during the pandemic because all their shows were cancelled. a site-beloved band we all thought defunct is going to play some shows this year, and somehow folks are still finding ways to get mad.
Everyone on this website is way too protective. I love this band, but I’m not afraid to say that changing panels to maroon on social media and not following up with something shorty after is a little underwhelming. I’m happy there is some activity, but I’m not gonna get too excited until there is real news or an announcement. If it is a tour, I would think selling tickets is the main goal. And quickly. And fan or customer approval does matter. We are taking about metrics on bringing a new product to market and finding the target audience or measuring reach. Gaslight could literally send a tour announcement to 25 music publications and update their social media and sell out.
Also, I seem to recall a week or so of teasing ahead of the '59 Sound 10-year tour, and I think they did just fine with that.
The brilliant move with that tour was announcing a re-release of ‘59 Sound along with the tour. They could talk about making the record with music publications and I gave fans something new to purchase. The crowd size huge at the show I went to.
So you’re saying a week long tease to a re release and a tour worked well, but are complaining they’re teasing for too long, when it hasn’t been as long as the 59 sound reunion tour was incredible. Just constantly contradicting.
I mean, we don't know what it is. Could be a Handwritten repress for all we know, and a tour to coincide. Presumably a summer tour, and it's March. I think we're all fine to wait a few more days.
I somehow don't have 59 sound on vinyl... and now I don't know if I should order or it wait for this.
I’m here for the tea. someone on Reddit pointed out that Benny isn’t in the Mercy Union picture. I know it’s Reddit and it probably means nothing, but I just wanna speculate. Either way, whatever they announce is getting my money haha!