Much of this is dependent on your location, best contacts, and goals.My touring days are years behind me, but we often found a sweet spot in a 10-11 day tour to soak up two rounds of weekend dates. It just makes sense to get more than one Friday and Saturday while you're out and keeps people from taking an entire second week of work off as well.This is not the strategy for planting the most flags, going for broke and throwing yourself at it full bore. It is a great strategy if everyone wants to get out, experience things together as a band, maybe sell some records in some new towns, keep stress/exhaustion fairly low and maybe make some friends you can drive out and visit/play with later in the year. That said, this tour length is best if you're focused on one U.S. region and can string together dates that require maximum 8 hour drives. I've met plenty of admirable psychos who bragged about pulling multiple all-night 18 hour drives and covering crazy ground in a short time. I'd rather not burn through the limited gas money.

Hello all, second post on this forum.Currently in a band that just released our first record and planning a week-long tour sometime in the future as our our first real outing. It has prompted the question of how long bands usually/ideally go on tour for once they have more of a following. Speaking to other more experienced musicians I know, the answer has ranged from 2 weeks to 2 months (personally i am averse to the thought of being on the road for more than that). I am aware of the many factors that have to be taken into account as well such as label support, day jobs, .etc. Still very curious.

Very much want to do another "33 shows in 33 days" deal again. I miss that a lot. Ideal tour length: 7 days! Get to missing home, get to loving the road!

Presumably you and your band are not saddled with day jobs. Because that's the limiting factor for most people. But even if you can do longer, I'd certainly recommend starting with a week/10 days to at least make sure you won't kill each other.

15-20 days with one day off in the middle

PurplePeopleEater wrote:Hello all, second post on this forum.Currently in a band that just released our first record and planning a week-long tour sometime in the future as our our first real outing. It has prompted the question of how long bands usually/ideally go on tour for once they have more of a following. Speaking to other more experienced musicians I know, the answer has ranged from 2 weeks to 2 months (personally i am averse to the thought of being on the road for more than that). I am aware of the many factors that have to be taken into account as well such as label support, day jobs, .etc. Still very curious.if it is the first tour for the band, i highly suggest a few short ones (maybe a thursday to sunday weekend thing) to get used to it and more importantly, determine if you guys can handle being stuck with each other for extended periods of time.after that, at least a week. once you hit two weeks shit starts to get weird. i wouldn't start off with more than two weeks for your first "longer" tour.it's awesome but it is also a drain.

4-6 weeks was nothing when I was in my early 20s.That sounds fucking miserable to late 30's me now. MAYBE if the band was big enough that we were in decent hotels, and I could fly my partner and my dog out once a week.I couldn't see any band I play in doing more than 10-14 days max due to work/family/life commitments, especially if we're sleeping on floors and driving in a mini-van.

Anything beyond 10 inches is gonna have no place to go. Wait, what?

Back when we were doing a two-week tour (three weekends! Whoo!) roughly once a year, the week and a half mark was usually when i started losing touch with real life and started really settling in to this is my life now. I live in a van and have no permanent home. We are eternal nomads. And then five days later we'd get home and then i'd have to remember what and where my job was.So i dunno, three weeks?