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Shellac Vs Slint: Italia mon amour 2007 tour

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sphincter wrote:
mattgringo wrote:
Mazec wrote:Actually, most of my complaining on this thread is not based on living far away from where Shellac happen to be playing. Rather, I'm pissed about a general tendency among underground/indie/post-punk/whatever bands toward only playing western Europe. There are a lot of people out there in central and, god forbid, even eastern Europe who are into this shit and want to see good live acts.


As a wise man once said, "If you book them, they will come"


I remember someone making this argument once before on a messageboard about a band, I think it was someone like Jawbreaker or Descendents or something and the complaint was from a dude who lived in Croatia. Anyway, a member of the band (apparently) came on the board and posted this link to a page showing album sales across Europe, and they'd only sold 15 albums in Croatia...which made the point quite well.

Anyway, perhaps a bands popularity in a country has something to do with it's touring habits, I sure as shitting hell wouldn't get on a plane and slog around a country to play to 15 people one night, then pay out and loose all my cash for the rest of the trip. I'm in it for the money though.


My band has probably sold something like 5 records in Croatia and that didn't stop us from playing there on two different tours. I can't remember the exact attendance, but each show had at least 10x that many people there and we got paid a lot better than we would have for a comparable show in the US.

If we only played places where we'd sold a bunch of records we would never leave town.

There are plenty of bands that fit into the "If you book them, they will come" category.
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