Tour Prediction and Speculation Thread Tour • Page 671

Great bill I have to admit! Bush mentioned that they r touring worldwide this year so fingers crossed for a UK tour!

 

I know Filter has definitely dipped in popularity over the years, but Rival Sons being billed over them is crazy to me

 

Rival Sons has been pretty consistent in touring with a lot of arena and amp level bands over the past few years. I saw them with Smashing Pumpkins and Stone Temple Pilots a couple years ago. And I'm pretty sure they opened on Black Sabbath's final tour. Meanwhile the last time Filter headliner in Oregon it was at Portland's local dive bar venue. No shade to Filter, but I think the billing makes sense.

 

UK festivals face ‘really tough’ year due to fewer headline acts and rising costs interesting article

 

I don't know that Filter was ever really that big despite having a bunch of songs on the radio. And, honestly, that's probably because they spent so much time as an opener and at radio rock festivals over the years as a middling act.

And from 2000 on, I actually think having that one song hit hard at Top 40 and adult contemporary probably did them more harm than good... They kinda became a "who is this for?" kinda band. They were never heavy enough for the metal kids, not industrial enough for industrial kids, etc.

But looking concertarchives.org, I think they've been a pretty consistent 800-1.5k capacity venue headliner depending on the market and package. Legacy will only get you so far, and I think Rival Sons probably tipped that point in the last few years.

 

That’s a pretty fair point, honestly… I guess I thought that they’d have seniority with them being an older group with big hits.

Now that I think about it too, they also haven’t toured much this decade either, which I imagine wouldn’t help a band of their status. Richard was pretty focused on composing for films for a while. I think the Rob Zombie/Alice Cooper tours they did were their first tours in a while. But I could be wrong

 

Yeah, they didn't do too much in the 2010s. They were active but I don't think they did much that moved the needle. And when they do its festivals, support slots, and package tours/co-headliners. Beyond that bigger Rob Zombie tour you referenced... They did a package tour with Helmet and Local H; a headliner with Orgy as direct support; opened for Coal Chamber, Ministry, Candlebox, and 10 Years on tours.

So they're basically just playing to people who probably know who they are, anyway.

 

Rival sons has been at 2k cap rooms when they've come through my area on headliners.They've opened for smashing pumpkins, greta van fleet and they're opening for guns n roses on some European dates. I think it's safe to say they're bigger than Filter

 

Tried copy/pasting but here are Blondshell 2025 dates:

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NIN dates starting to pop up

https://www.ticketmaster.com/nine-i...=Facebook- TM&utm_medium=affiliate&ircid=4272

 

Lets gooo...hopefully the rest of the dates come today

 

THANK YOU. I have been dying to see her. 930 club it is!

 

Mayday Parade / Microwave / Grayscale should be coming today

 

Cleveland @ Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse 8/31 as well

 

NIN playing United Center in Chicago as well

 

Damn! Nickelback Is Neat

 

What’s the Chicago date?

 

I need a SoCal date now

 

Gene Simmons tour announced. But… fuck Gene.

 

Reallyyyyy hoping for a Red Rocks, Gorge, or Hollywood Bowl NIN date.

 

Weren't those wildfires in LA near the Hollywood Bowl or have they since been contained?

 

I COULD be off base, and I KNOW I'm being cynical, but the article to me really shows the casualness, and spectacle that live music has become these days. It seems every festival wants to cater to the influencers, and the trendy people who want OTHER people to know they were there vs actually wanting to go themselves, and that's apparently a huge market. Festivals aren't catering to music fans as much anymore, but trying to bring in experience fans and because that's been making them money, they're getting bigger and bigger, and costlier and costlier and well, is the bubble going to pop?

I know I'm probably coming across as an old man, but not every festival has to have the who's who of pop stars, and experience tents, and huge architecture builds for insta photos etc. Half the pop stars they book haven't even been around long enough to hone their stage show beyond 'big production'.