Tour Prediction and Speculation Thread Tour • Page 898

I actually don’t think that was planned. They did a one off at USC and that went viral and then decided to make a week of it. I believe last nights show in Nashville is the last but I could be mistaken.

 

I don’t know where to post this but saw Hit The Lights at a 300 person floor show in Jersey last night and they said new music is on the way soon.

 

The show last night was so good. I was expecting a full playthrough of Summer Bones but was glad that was not the case haha

 

How was that show? I just played the same venue (Brix City) 2 weeks ago and the sound was horrendous inside. We couldn't hear ourselves at all and neither did the other 2 bands we played with. Then again, the lineup was us (hard rock/metal), a pop rock band and a hardcore punk band.

 

Yeah AAR are actually doing one of the coolest things I've seen an act at their level do. And it's gaining them a lot of publicity and traction. These house shows will help their new album so much more than those rumored Offspring and Jack's Mannequin shows would've done.

(and the Jonas Bros tour will be huge for them too)

 

I thought they turned it down so they could do that JoBros tour?

 

Speaking of Jack's Mannequin, I'm shocked by how much demand there is for this tour. Unfortunately a family thing came up and I had to sell my tickets. Originally bought them for $70 each, I went on stubhub and saw the cheapest listing was like $325. I thought that was odd, so I listed mine at $200 each and they sold within minutes.
Interestingly Something Corporate played the same venue last year and those tickets were going for 30 bucks the week leading up to it.

 

Jack’s show in Toronto is at a 2500 cap venue and sold out very quickly, which was pretty cool to see. Now I just need to know who the support is

 

I was a little too young for all of it (my first concert was Jack’s Mannequin People & Things), but I get the sense that Jack’s was a more long term popular, versus SoCo being a bigger nostalgia hit?

 

I would assume this is the reason. Also, Tyson told Billboard that JoBros originally contacted them about doing this tour two years ago, so it's been in the works for a long time. They probably wouldn't have contractually been allowed to do another big support tour in the same year.

 

so I lived through it and this is my take right or wrong. Soco felt like they were about to blow up. Like as big as dashboard was blow up. Then it ended, and jacks mannequin started it felt like a lot of their hype was carry over. So they were bigger but if soco hadn’t been shelved they would have probably been huge.

 

WCAR has a big song on their last record- “Black Hole”. that entire tour is really stacked with strong artists so I’m happy for the way it’s selling, but WCAR is sneaky popular! I wouldn’t have expected them to fill up a 3K room either.

 

These numbers are crazy considering they've sold maybe 15-20% of the tickets available in New York. Love that band though, they'll always have a place in my heart.

 

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

The date in my city for the Something Corporate tour had like $8 tickets on stubhub the day of. And it was a sold out show too. The market really crashed on that one

 

speak of the devil

 

Yeah, I think the general consensus is that the non-Andrew members of SoCo were just burnt out from years of touring. They started really young and the gap between LTTW and North was only about a year apart, so there wasn't much time to actually relax. Andrew had always written songs (thus Jack's), but the rest of them ended up getting real jobs in the interim (I know Josh went to law school and did the Firescape record, I think Clutch got into real estate). That first Jack's tour ended up getting cancelled when Andrew got sick so that EIT record didn’t get a proper tour IIRC.

 

It wasn’t the best but what can you expect in a warehouse/brewery setting. They had monitors for the bands which I’m sure helped and Hit The Loghts had in-ears so I’m sure they were fine

 

There was also a lot of conflict between Andrew and Josh, two songwriters who were each battling to be heard.

 

damn wish Philly was getting the early november

 

He's never coming back to the UK :( honestly the only times I ever saw him live was his 2 solo shows which his just him and a piano at small venues and that's it and he's never toured with his live band.. which is a real shame

 

Good for them for booking with an independent promoter, but I think the average casual wcar fan in the current year probably needs that live nation machine to be made aware of the show

 

My wife didn't know who SoCo was but she heard Dark Blue on the radio when it came out and became a big JM fan. SoCo never made it to radio, unfortunately.

 

Trust me... I know ha. In the year I hit 30 shows (the most for me), I'd say transportation (combo of scooters and ubers) was easily $30/show average and average on alcohol was probably $35-$40 a show (typically a double vodka redbull if a week night show to wake me up, and then a couple of tall boys) so $70 x 30 = $2,100 PLUS the concert tickets themselves.

It's by far the biggest consistent expense in my life (besides necessities) but also the one that's most valuable to my sanity and fulfilling / joyful.

I AM doing my best to cut back on drinking though and have had some successful 1 drink / no drink shows lately.