CelloMom On CarsJul 19, 2024

"To deter long-distance travel, the band offered an initial presale of tickets for local postal codes only.

#MassiveAttack are giving train travellers special privileges: access to a VIP bar with separate toilets, extra pre-sale tickets and free transfers to and from the train station via electric bus. They are also working with the local train network, Great Western Railway, to lay on five extra trains for travelling fans."

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240717-the-band-that-doesnt-want-you-to-travel-for-their-tour

The band that doesn't want you to drive to their concerts

Massive Attack have been campaigning on environmental issues for years – and are now fixing their gaze on the music industry itself with a groundbreaking Bristol show next month.

BBC
Show threadGary ParkerJul 20, 2024
@CelloMomOnCars @TomSwirly if they want to deter travel maybe they should consider playing (and supporting) many small venues around the country rather than one huge festival date?
Show threadTroubleJul 20, 2024
@witewulf @CelloMomOnCars @TomSwirly venue size is an important factor of efficiency. Consider if they only played for one attendee every night. Sure, transport is not overloaded. They could even send a bicycle courier to pick them up. But driving and setting up a stage puts the overhead of all that energy use on one person's head instead of amortizing it over lots of people.
Show threadGary ParkerJul 20, 2024

@trouble @CelloMomOnCars @TomSwirly have you *heard* of Massive Attack? They’re not gonna be playing to one person. If they do a tour of smaller venues (I’m talking
proper concert venues here, not pub backrooms) they’ll pretty much fill them. And the stage, PA, lighting rig and local crew are all there already. Nothing needs to be built.

It’s just big artists being lazy/greedy and playing once to an audience of 20,000 rather than ten times to audiences of 2,000

Show threadTroubleJul 20, 2024
@witewulf @CelloMomOnCars @TomSwirly 1 is merely a hypothetical. I know it's not real. It's trying to show that numbers matter in the greater calculus of the carbon economy.
Show threadGary Parker
@trouble @CelloMomOnCars @TomSwirly 1, 10, 100, 1000…an act like that is still going to sell almost all of the tickets they put on sale for small to medium-sized venues, especially if people don’t have to travel long distances to get to the show. People who are casual fans or just interested are more likely to go to a local show than travel hundreds of miles to a one-off big outdoors show.
Jul 20, 2024 at 5:42pmWeb