Lordes take på koncerter/tours

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https://www.stereogum.com/2205718/lorde ... ring/news/
Basically, for artists, promoters and crews, things are at an almost unprecedented level of difficulty. It’s a storm of factors. Let’s start with three years’ worth of shows happening in one. Add global economic downturn, and then add the totally understandable wariness for concertgoers around health risks. On the logistical side there’s things like immense crew shortages (here’s an article from last week about this in New Zealand), extremely overbooked trucks and tour buses and venues, inflated flight and accommodation costs, ongoing general COVID costs, and truly. mindboggling. freight costs. To freight a stage set across the world can cost up to three times the pre-pandemic price right now. I don’t know shit about money, but I know enough to understand that no industry has a profit margin that high. Ticket prices would have to increase to start accommodating even a little of this, but absolutely no one wants to charge their harried and extremely-compassionate-and-flexible audience any more f*cking money. Nearly every tour has been besieged with cancellations and postponements and promises and letdowns, and audiences have shown such understanding and such faith, that between that and the post-COVID wariness about getting out there at all, scaring people away by charging the true cost ain’t an option. All we want to do is play for you.

Profits being down across the board is fine for an artist like me. I’m lucky. But for pretty much every artist selling less tickets than I am, touring has become a demented struggle to break even or face debt. For some, touring is completely out of the question, even if they were to sell the whole thing out! The math doesn’t make sense. Understandably, all of this takes a toll — on crews, on promoters, and on artists. You’ll notice a ton of artists cancelling shows citing mental health concerns in the past year, and I really think the stress of this stuff is a factor — we’re a collection of the world’s most sensitive flowers who also spent the last two years inside, and maybe the task of creating a space where people’s pain and grief and jubilation can be held night after night with a razor thin profit margin and dozens of people to pay is feeling like a teeny bit much.

Me personally? I’m doing pretty good. You guys have come to the shows in such mammoth numbers (we sold almost 20,000 tickets in London, like what the hell) and not having crippling stage fright hanging over me for the first time is such a f*cking blessing that you could tell me I had to cycle from city to city and I’d still be loving it. But I’m not immune to the stress — just a month ago I was looking at a show that was pretty undersold and panicking, only for it to sell the remaining 2000 tickets in ten days. Wild stuff.

I wanted to put all of this in your minds to illustrate that nothing’s simple when it comes to touring at the moment, and if your faves are confusing you with their erratic moves, some of this could be playing a part.
Dertil hører jeg, at flere selskaber er begyndt at tage store summer fra tours, som jo ellers indtil nu har været der, at kunstner kunne tjene deres penge (de har jo i mange år skrabet album salg).

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Har osse set problematikken på Buzz&Bizz på Facebook, dog en mindre kunstner

man tager afsted med ingenting + et banklån til udgifter og ender nogenlunde i nul når man er kommet hjem

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...og det er desværre kun toppen af isbjerget :cry:

Der er to ting jeg frygter for 2023

1)
Festivallerne, som i forvejen kæmper mod aflysninger, svingende brændstof og energipriser, food leverandører som sætter priserne med samme fart, som en vejrballon stiger til vejrs, kunstnere, produktion, crew, infrastruktur, hegn og lokummer + en generel samfunds inflation som bonger ud på 10,1% - do the math - 6 ud af 10 festivaller kæmper mod corona nedlukninger, udsatte billetter fra tidligere nedlukninger, momslån med 8% rente samt masseflugt af frivillige = blodbad, eller i det mindste, endnu mere plads i min kalender i 2023 😳 Jeg priser mig lykkelig over, at jeg ikke skal sidde og lave balancebudgetter på et festivalkontor!

2)
Som jeg oplever det, køber folk deres billetter i sidste øjeblik, spillestedernes el- og varmeregningerne falder til den første og ordet kassekredit til kulturbranchen er blevet slettet fra retskrivnings ordbogen - do the math again..

Men, når der lukker sig en dør, åbner der sig jo altid en ny, og heldigvis er branchen jo en omstillingsparat een af slagsen - så håbet lever!
Maximum bass - on ALL frequencies!

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ja fremtiden er festivaller i højere grad hvor osse artister er frivillige ...

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Mange er de kaldede ,.. men få er de udvalgte :-)

Glad for at jeg valgte noget andet allerede efter
få "betalte" jobs,...

Tror musik 95 pct er passe som levebrød

Tilbage blir dem der gider musikken ulønnet

Måske OK

Man kan selvfølgelig stadig tjene penge på at undervise, eller sælge grej, hvor det mere er en form for drøm man sælger
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