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djsf Jul 24, 2024

CelloMom On Cars

"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

CelloMom On Cars Jul 19, 2024

"The music industry can take inspiration from an unlikely source when it comes to progressive, eco-friendly travel measures: the world of football. There is a long history in the UK of football clubs chartering extra trains and buses for away fans and subsidising fares, but it is not standard practice in the music industry.

"Football clubs are way ahead of music festivals on this," Tanzer says. "Football's been doing it for decades.""

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

CelloMom On Cars Aug 18, 2024

How one pop band is trying to turn concertgoers into #climate activists

"According to Planet Reimagined, around 12,000 audience members participated in climate-related civic actions during #AJR's tour, such as signing petitions, sending letters, leaving voicemails, registering to vote, making donations and volunteering. An additional 10,500 scanned QR codes and signed up for emails to learn more about an issue."

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/15/nx-s1-5061571/ajr-music-climate

@CelloMomOnCars I've always loved this crew's music & I love this ethos.

Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK Jul 20, 2024

@Niall @CelloMomOnCars this is a smart move - not only are Massive Attack from Bristol to start with, the city is very easily reached from London, Reading, Swindon and many other places by a fairly efficient and reliable train service (which has also been electrified in recent years)

@CelloMomOnCars

@SheDrivesMobility

Materie und Antimaterie

Massive Attack und Taylor Swift

@CelloMomOnCars @SheDrivesMobility

Vorhin in der U-Bahn gelesen: Der Berliner Senat verbietet nun Dienstwagen in "Knallfarben" nur noch Dienstwagen in "gedeckten" Farben dürfen beschafft werden.

Ist auch besser. Autos in Tarnfarben fallen den Radfahrern nicht so früh auf.

Atomic Fox Jul 20, 2024

@CelloMomOnCars

SPECIAL TRAINS

SPECIAL TRAINS

Flippin' Amtrak didn't lay on special trains for the final Space Shuttle launch. There were a million people from across the USA and the world on Cocoa Beach that day. I was one of 'em, and I would have been very, very glad not to come by car, but they left me no other choice.

Future Sprog Jul 20, 2024

What a great idea. Good band too!

@CelloMomOnCars

Gary Parker Jul 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?

Trouble Jul 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.

Gary Parker Jul 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

Trouble Jul 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.

Gary Parker Jul 20, 2024

@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.

Tim McCormack Jul 20, 2024

@witewulf @CelloMomOnCars @TomSwirly It would also be a shitshow for the small venues because they'd end up overcrowded and would have to deal with hordes of fans trying to get in.

But maybe if they only announced they were playing there 20 minutes in advance? :-P

Gary Parker Jul 20, 2024

@timmc @CelloMomOnCars @TomSwirly no, they won’t be overcrowded. They’ll have capacity limits on the audience size like venues always do, based primarily on fire safety regs.

And advance tickets sales mean no one turns up expecting to get in on the door.

OpticalNail 🇵🇸Jul 21, 2024

@witewulf @CelloMomOnCars @TomSwirly The slight issue is that you Brits aren't the only ones who want to see them. They seem to have a rather packed schedule this summer all around the world.

Gary Parker Jul 21, 2024

@arh @CelloMomOnCars @TomSwirly lol, Taylor Swift knows what a “packed schedule” is 😂

Looks to me like their itinerary for all of 2024 comes to about 19 dates?

Look, they’re doing the right thing, don’t get me wrong. They’re trying to make a change, that’s what counts. I just think there are other ways of doing it, but money gets in the way 😏

Tom Ritchford Jul 21, 2024

@witewulf @arh @CelloMomOnCars Taylor Swift is by the way one of the greatest climate pigs of all time, and one of the most boring songwriters since... since... forever.

Gary Parker Jul 21, 2024

@TomSwirly @arh @CelloMomOnCars yeah, I know…bad/extreme example. But she works damn hard

DJ Enno Jul 20, 2024

@CelloMomOnCars

Lyle Solla-Yates Jul 21, 2024

@CelloMomOnCars this is super smart

Ben Pfaff Jul 21, 2024

@CelloMomOnCars Great Western is a real rail line? I assumed it was fictional because it appeared in Thomas the Tank Engine.

Maybe everything in Thomas is real?!

Mans R Jul 21, 2024

@CelloMomOnCars Great Western Railways run some lovely diesel trains.

ꙮ 𝄃𝄁𝄂𝄀𝄀𝄁𝄃🇫🇯🇱🇨🇱🇧Jul 22, 2024

@CelloMomOnCars how about new album?