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Why bands are disappearing: "Young people aren’t excited by them" (www.theguardian.com)

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I was looking into why I just don't see cover bands at my local venue but this hits a bit deeper at the issue.

I wonder if how niche music tastes have become has something to do with it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bought concert tickets for October. Total cost for tickets was $195.20. It's not a local show (ie: the bands have recognition beyond our town), so we have to travel to the city - 4 hours plus a $75 ferry. Plus overnight stay and food in the city. And we need a sitter to watch the kids, overnight.

So we're pushing $600-$700 for a concert. That's a "once every few years" thing, when we've saved enough and the band is one we really want to see.

Local shows are rock cover bands on a Sunday evening, usually, but I work Monday at 6am.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

yup, same here. Any musician who has even relatively small name recognition tickets are now always almost if not over $200. There's no way we can just go to concerts every week/month like our parents did, tickets used to be $20-30! Even with inflation that's still way way less. I'd love to go to more concerts, but they need to find ways to bring ticket costs down, or just suck it up and make less profit. (I know, I know, how blasphemous)