Will you Travel Next Tour?

JE224127

Living in Alabama, I have always had to travel somewhat far to see them. I’ve been to 14 shows and would always make a list of some rarities that I wanted to hear at the shows I picked to attend. Not sure if that list will get any marked off this time around and that’s okay-been a great run. On the flip side, my 13 year old will know a bunch of songs when he sees his first show in Nashville. I can handle that trade-off. I will go to at least one show a US tour until they decide to hang it up.

danny

not if ryanair keep cancelling

Abe Froman

Between the much higher probability of cancellation and having the same 15 same staple songs I will probably do less traveling for PJ shows. I don’t need drive more than a couple hours to hear Betterman,  Jeremy, etc  4 shows per tour. Especially, with little chance of ever hearing the songs I love such as:  Blood, Grievance, Save You, STBC, Rearviewmirror, Habit, Of the Earth and so on. 

MR242791

I doubt it.  the concerts aren't the same post covid and traveling is getting more expensive. 

BLACK35

1ThoughtKnown said:

Travelling to see PJ shows has resulted in my wife and I exploring places/countries we may have never visited. Slovenia (Ljubljana and Lake Bled) after the Trieste show for instance. In fact, we probably never even visit Trieste without PJ (another amazing place). Or stopping in Mendoza, Argentina and staying at a winery in between the Santiago and Buenos Aires shows in 2015.

The key for us isn’t travelling only to see PJ. It’s wrapping and planning the vacation around three (usually) PJ shows. Its relaxed and always a blast. Some of my favourite memories are those vacations.  

Hell, I’m off to London in a couple weeks! 



You hit it on the head as far as the way my wife and i look at it. Now we have only been to USA and of course Canada so far. We were going to do some West coast shows this year. But unfortunately the wife had started a new job and only been there a month. So don't think she was going to get time off.  
We are now in current talks to make our next adventure to europe somewhere  next time they go back. We hoping they go back next year, fingers crossed. But it is fun exploring new places.

covered in bliss

Will there be a next tour? 

lastexitlondon

I wont travel this tour.! But only because of me. Not them

gotthebottle

Edved007 said:

Travel and PJ are like my two favorite hobbies, and I absolutely love to combine them.  I've been blessed to see them all over the world and will continue to do so, but if this does become the new normal, I will be much much more picky on where I go and the amount of shows will certainly go down. I'll want to be sure I'm only going to places I really want to go or have never been to before and PJ being there will be the added bonus vs. the reason to go.  

I've been patiently waiting for years to plan a once in a lifetime type trip to Australia hoping to see the country and see a few shows while I go. I admit I'm not currently as excited for that as I was a few years ago, but I still want to see Australia so I'll make it happen, but my days of planning my trips completely around PJ might be coming to an end. 

If not for a U2 tour in 2010 I probably would still be waiting to see Australia.. but then came Springsteen tours in 2013,14, and 17.... so seeing live music there is a Great reason to go! And now waiting for PJ so I can return!

tino_11

covered in bliss said:

Will there be a next tour? 

Great point. I can’t help feeling disappointed with the lack of variety in the sets. I did always love that more acoustic part of the first encore. But you never know when your last show might be so live in the moment and enjoy it as much as you can whatever they play. 

ryph raph

It will be 13 YEARS since the band came to Cleveland. 
Getting very expen$ive & time consuming (we do have real jobs) to travel to see the band.
In the past we have traveled 8 times since 1991 and seen 7 performances here.
You need to take out a loan to travel to see P.J.
With the setlist, time onstage cuts, weak new studio material, they are becoming "just another touring band".

vant0037

HughFreakingDillon said:

I'll be hitting Minnesota when they play there next. @vant0037

Yessss looking forward to it!

kaw753

From Points Guy website....

IN THIS POST

1. June 23-25: Brussels Airlines strike
2. June 24-July 2: Ryanair Europe staff strike
3. June 25: Italian pilot and crew strikes and Air France-KLM pilot walkout
4. July 1–Aug. 31: London Gatwick flight cap
5. July 1-31: Spanish EasyJet staff strike
6. July 1-30: Lufthansa to ax up to 1,000 flights
7. July 15-17: Spanish EasyJet staff strike part 2
8. July 29-31: Spanish EasyJet staff strike part 3
9. Late July-August: British Airways check-in staff strikes at Heathrow

1ThoughtKnown

kaw753 said:

From Points Guy website....

IN THIS POST

1. June 23-25: Brussels Airlines strike
2. June 24-July 2: Ryanair Europe staff strike
3. June 25: Italian pilot and crew strikes and Air France-KLM pilot walkout
4. July 1–Aug. 31: London Gatwick flight cap
5. July 1-31: Spanish EasyJet staff strike
6. July 1-30: Lufthansa to ax up to 1,000 flights
7. July 15-17: Spanish EasyJet staff strike part 2
8. July 29-31: Spanish EasyJet staff strike part 3
9. Late July-August: British Airways check-in staff strikes at Heathrow

Thanks for this! I fly into Gatwick from Vancouver for the Hyde Park shows. Hopefully the Trans-Altantic flights aren’t interrupted. 

JeBurkhardt

kaw753 said:

From Points Guy website....

IN THIS POST

1. June 23-25: Brussels Airlines strike
2. June 24-July 2: Ryanair Europe staff strike
3. June 25: Italian pilot and crew strikes and Air France-KLM pilot walkout
4. July 1–Aug. 31: London Gatwick flight cap
5. July 1-31: Spanish EasyJet staff strike
6. July 1-30: Lufthansa to ax up to 1,000 flights
7. July 15-17: Spanish EasyJet staff strike part 2
8. July 29-31: Spanish EasyJet staff strike part 3
9. Late July-August: British Airways check-in staff strikes at Heathrow

I read this and thought “crap” because we are flying Lufthansa from Chicago to London on July 6th. I read the link and it clarified that the flights affected would be on the weekends, we are flying on a Wednesday. Phew, I can exhale again.

TKe

I'm in Finland, I have to travel. First and last time they played here was 29 years ago.

JojoRice

Ya but probably not cross country anymore. Will primarily stick to east coast & central shows going forward. 

josevolution

Nah I’m done not even trying to get tickets to the closest shows to me, passed on Camden passed on MSG heck the last time I saw PJ @MSG was 2010 

DEGBTI

I will to a stadium show if that ever happens again. Only because we would get more songs, I would think. But I'm out for arenas if this is the new norm. I went to my home town show in San Diego and both LA shows. They were awesome. But those three shows covered their current catalogue, so I'm good. I actual have Nashville all lined up and paid for. Hotel, flights, tickets. Told the wife the other day unless there is a change I'm cancelling the trip. No need to drop a few thousand to see a repeat set list and a shortend show. I could easily predict 75% of the set list, thats not good enough for me to justify the $ spent.

Merkin Baller

Weston1283 said:

I would add a third option 
“Yes, but much less than I used to”

If I can drive there in a few hours, I will always go.  

There are also some situations, like Nashville on a Friday, that give me a reason to travel for more than just PJ.  In these instances, I’ll likely go.

Taking multiple days off of work, flying to cities mid week on the opposite coast and spending thousands of dollars on hotels and flights, is what’s going to be cut out for me.

+1

LL624

covered in bliss said:

Will there be a next tour? 

That was my thought too. 

But if there is, no I will not be attending as many nor traveling as far. The return on my investment was less than fulfilling this go around.