The Australian Pink Floyd have played the O2/Wembley Arena in London to 12-15,000 people.
some just artists have no obvious cultural visibility/journos are bored of them now (or just dont see them as cool enough to cover), so you no longer see reviews or features anywhere despite the fact that normal people really do listen to / continue to listen to these bands a lot.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 09:26 (five years ago) link
I was pretty surprised to see Dropkick Murphys are playing Alexandra Palace (cap 10,250).
I looked at other events there and even more improbable to me is King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 09:37 (five years ago) link
What Size places are king gizzard doing? They’ll fill a 2000 seater several night in a row in Melbourne burn thta is hometown.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 09:46 (five years ago) link
10,250
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 09:47 (five years ago) link
xps yeah the thread whose name I can never remember but something to the effect of "you don't care about them anymore but they're actually bigger now than when they were a hype band" is a relevant corrective
― wot's the tea mum? (not beef again) (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 10:10 (five years ago) link
i figure it's a combo of me getting old and the changing industry.
― enochroot, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 11:40 (five years ago) link
Yeah, Vulfpeck were first thing I thought of when I saw this thread. Friend said he was going to see them earlier this year. Hadn't heard of them, watched the YouTube clip he sent me and assumed they'd be playing somewhere like Dalston Vortex, not two nights at Brixton Academy. Also a bit surprised (but pleased) to see that Big Thief are gonna be playing Hammersmith Odeon next year.
― Supposed Former ILM Lurker (WeWantMiles), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 12:08 (five years ago) link
Excellent thread idea, I have these thoughts all the time now. Can't think of "oh, they're really that big?" right now, more like acts that I've never heard of that sell out a 3,500 capacity venue here and have literally hundreds of millions of streams.
Just looking at the current calendar of this venue:
-AJR (apparently pop-EDM, exact the sort of thing that makes sense to be huge but have no critical presence or word-of-mouth from anyone I know)
-Cigarettes After Sex (kind of noirish dream-pop, could easily imagine this being released on an indie Bandcamp label with a few thousand streams & small club shows, rather than millions + big theater tours, but sure?)
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 15:24 (five years ago) link
Bill Callahan is playing the 3,000 capacity Edinburgh Usher Hall and stalls will not be seated. I appreciate he's more popular than ever but this makes no sense to me
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 11 July 2019 00:04 (five years ago) link
misfits playing msg
― Thus Sang Freud, Thursday, 11 July 2019 16:23 (five years ago) link
the first band I remember really thinking this was The 1975 (in America), but that was years ago
― alpine static, Thursday, 11 July 2019 17:59 (five years ago) link
xp - re Bill Callahan. A friend and I are thinking of going but were taken aback that was the venue. I think Calexico and Iron & Wine are playing there too.
Both Bombay Bicycle Club and Royal Blood are booked for Dundee’s similarly-sized Caird Hall this autumn (around 3,500 depending on the seated / standing split).
― michaellambert, Thursday, 11 July 2019 18:47 (five years ago) link
I often think this about festival bills. But yeah, we're old.
― kraudive, Thursday, 11 July 2019 20:21 (five years ago) link
lol Bon Iver moved from Wells Fargo (20k) to Liacouras (10k)
The show in Philadelphia on 10/10 at Wells Fargo Center has been moved to the Liacouras Center on the campus of Temple University. All tix purchased for Wells Fargo Center will automatically be transferred to the Liacouras Center in equal or better seating locations. [1/2] pic.twitter.com/KVTuuaYMUG— Bon Iver (@boniver) August 19, 2019
― Frozen CD, Monday, 19 August 2019 19:36 (five years ago) link
Jordan - that stage where you think they aren't popular anymore but are actually way more popular than they were when they had "buzz"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 August 2019 20:11 (five years ago) link
yeah Vulfpeck is weird, younger guy I worked with loves them, first time I'd heard of them
Father John Misty/Jason Isbell played an 8400 capacity place that the 1975 played recently, Billy Eilish tooI knew they had good followings, but I didnt think that big, though I guess both could probably headline
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 August 2019 20:14 (five years ago) link
see: every single contemporary jam band
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 19 August 2019 20:14 (five years ago) link
an endless number of EDM acts with really terrible names that ilm or philip sherburne wouldn't touch with a 10 ft polehttps://armorymn.com/events/ganja-white-night-buds/
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 19 August 2019 20:17 (five years ago) link
i had tickets for gillian welch at the hollywood bowl and it was only on the night of the show that i realized she was supporting father john misty (who i had never heard of). in fact if i try hard i have still never heard of him.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 19 August 2019 20:18 (five years ago) link
I knew they had good followings, but I didnt think that big, though I guess both could probably headline
The Misty/Isbell tour played a 5,000 capacity indie-leaning amphitheatre here in Houston that surprisingly enough Misty himself headlined at on his prior tour. Isbell himself has been a 1000+ theatres the last couple times he's been in town.
Billie Eilish has graduated to big arenas: she's headlining the Toyota Center (18 thou capacity) this fall.
Sturgill Simpson's two most recent headline shows here were at 5,000 seat venues. He sold out a 500 capacity club before that.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 August 2019 20:37 (five years ago) link
tame impala are massive, look at the view counts on their music videos sometime
― ciderpress, Monday, 19 August 2019 20:42 (five years ago) link
guster selling out terminal 5 fit in here?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 20 September 2019 20:29 (five years ago) link
Lana Del Rey is now at selling-out-the-biggest-venue-in-Europe stage (Manchester Arena; 21K capacity). I love that it’s happening but it’s kinda surprising, as a coupla albums back she almost seemed like a ‘cult’ artist and was at the local Apollo theatre (3K capacity).
― piscesx, Sunday, 22 September 2019 01:48 (five years ago) link
that's interesting because i'm pretty sure her biggest success commercially is still Born to Die and its singles, by a decent margin. oh and "young and beautiful" but that's from a close enough time to count
― ufo, Sunday, 22 September 2019 01:59 (five years ago) link
Pretty sure she could sell out at least 8k by her last album
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 22 September 2019 03:26 (five years ago) link
Jason Isbell is headlining (over Lucinda Williams) at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion (Houston's Summer Shed-capacity 16,500) this summer.
― blue whales on ambient (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 16:56 (three years ago) link
was i hallucinating or did i see that THEE OH SEES are headlining Red Rocks this summer?
― alpine static, Wednesday, 2 June 2021 22:25 (three years ago) link
related thought: is this summer a lousy time to think about this kind of thing because venue capacities might be reduced? or are we past that?
― alpine static, Wednesday, 2 June 2021 22:26 (three years ago) link