Time For A Proper Canadian Tour (like 2005/2011)

HughFreakingDillon

Zod said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Zod said:

If they're going to play St. John then it would be amazing to see a show on the complete opposite side of the country in Victoria.

I still think we're too small market for it to happen, but I would crap my pants if they played here.  I think our Arena only holds about 7000 people if you sell the entire floor and side/behind stage tickets.

With a band that plays small tours.. I'm not sure what the odds are of them play a venue that small.

I still haven't gotten over the fact Foo Fighters were booked to play here before Taylor Hawkins passed away.   I never expected them to play our small Arena, I was so stoked we were getting a show here, and we had floor tickets.   Then the double whammy of him passing away, and the show getting cancelled :(

you never know. The Hip could sell out $15,000 seaters and they played there. 

That's true, but the hip had limited options. They weren't that big outside Canada, so playing a 7000 seat Arena in Victoria was better than playing a theatre in Seattle or a bar in Illinois If they stuck to 15000+ seaters they would of only every played Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Kingston, Montreal, and Quebec City?  They sort of had to go smaller to have some other places to play.  PJ doesn't really need to do that, they can play venues that size in North America, Europe, Australia, South America, even bigger venues in many of those places.

In regards to PJ, and the slim chance they play here one day, I used to think we'd make a good warm up show city.  Sort of like the London 2013 show. We're 130km/80miles from Seattle, it's nice here, our Arena is small but decent, and we love a good live show   It's too bad they don't really do warmup shows anymore :(

FAN CLUB SHOW IN VICTORIA!!!

nautical_disaster

lastexitlondon said:

Was it 05 they played st.john?

Yup! The only reason I went to only two shows is the fact that I was a broke student at the time lol. I would have gone to those St. John's shows in a second if it would have been a possibility

demetrios

1ThoughtKnown

It was St. John’s Newfoundland in 05.

St. John is in New Brunswick. 

PJNB

1ThoughtKnown said:

It was St. John’s Newfoundland in 05.

St. John is in New Brunswick. 

Saint John

1ThoughtKnown

1ThoughtKnown

😂 yeah I know they spell it out. Named after the river I think 

JimmyV

St. John's

Quebec City

Montreal

Ottawa

Toronto x2

Thunder Bay

Regina/Saskatoon

Calgary

Edmonton

Vancouver x2

JimmyV

Dream the Canadian Dream!!!

HughFreakingDillon

JimmyV said:

St. John's

Quebec City

Montreal

Ottawa

Toronto x2

Thunder Bay

Regina/Saskatoon

Calgary

Edmonton

Vancouver x2

you did that on purpose, didn't you?

JimmyV

HughFreakingDillon said:

JimmyV said:

St. John's

Quebec City

Montreal

Ottawa

Toronto x2

Thunder Bay

Regina/Saskatoon

Calgary

Edmonton

Vancouver x2

you did that on purpose, didn't you?

You should be impressed I didn't try to sneak in a few New England shows.

HughFreakingDillon

obviously WINNIPEG, where Neil Young spent his formative years, MUST BE INCLUDED. BLASPHEMY JIMMY V

JimmyV

HughFreakingDillon said:

obviously WINNIPEG, where Neil Young spent his formative years, MUST BE INCLUDED. BLASPHEMY JIMMY V

OOF! You are right, my bad.

St. John's

Quebec City

Montreal

Ottawa

Toronto x2

Thunder Bay

Regina/Saskatoon WINNIPEG

Calgary

Edmonton

Vancouver x2

1ThoughtKnown

Thunder Bay and not Kelowna and Penticton is just wrong. I’d put Sudbury ahead of Thunder Bay… 

can’t eliminate the Paris of the prairies either 

HughFreakingDillon

JimmyV said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

obviously WINNIPEG, where Neil Young spent his formative years, MUST BE INCLUDED. BLASPHEMY JIMMY V

OOF! You are right, my bad.

St. John's

Quebec City

Montreal

Ottawa

Toronto x2

Thunder Bay

Regina/Saskatoon WINNIPEG

Calgary

Edmonton

Vancouver x2

ya gotta keep Saskatoon on there. 

and add Victoria for a Fan Club acoustic show!

demetrios

JimmyV said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

obviously WINNIPEG, where Neil Young spent his formative years, MUST BE INCLUDED. BLASPHEMY JIMMY V

OOF! You are right, my bad.

St. John's

Charlottetown

Halifax x2

Moncton

Quebec City

Montreal

Ottawa

Toronto x2

Thunder Bay

Regina/Saskatoon WINNIPEG

Calgary

Edmonton

Vancouver x2

Fixed

JimmyV

1ThoughtKnown said:

Thunder Bay and not Kelowna and Penticton is just wrong. I’d put Sudbury ahead of Thunder Bay… 

can’t eliminate the Paris of the prairies either 

Thunder Bay is the only one I've even remotely heard of, but Hugh makes a good case for Saskatoon.

St. John's

Quebec City

Montreal

Ottawa

Toronto x2

Winnipeg

Saskatoon

Calgary

Edmonton

Vancouver x2

mcgruff10

We need Pearl Jam to do an Under Great White Northern Lights part two.  

Zod

HughFreakingDillon said:

JimmyV said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

obviously WINNIPEG, where Neil Young spent his formative years, MUST BE INCLUDED. BLASPHEMY JIMMY V

OOF! You are right, my bad.

St. John's

Quebec City

Montreal

Ottawa

Toronto x2

Thunder Bay

Regina/Saskatoon WINNIPEG

Calgary

Edmonton

Vancouver x2

ya gotta keep Saskatoon on there. 

and add Victoria for a Fan Club acoustic show!

Thanks, why do people keep forgetting about Victoria?  We're bigger than St. John's, St. John, Halifax, Moncton, Thunder Bay, Saskatoon and Regina.  I always felt like 2005 might of been our best bet at getting show as we're bigger than the capital cities of the Atlantic provinces

Also, to be unbiased I would add Halifax onto the list.  St John's on the edge of Canada.  It's a long way to go without doing another show in Atlantic Canada.

I think feasibly I'd do:

St. John's,
Halifax
Quebec City
Montreal
Ottawa
Torontox2
Winnipeg
Saskatoon (it's bigger than Regina)
Edmonton (Has a nicer arena than Calgary)
Vancouver
Victoria.

Didn't put St. John, Thunder Bay or Penticton on my list because they have less than 100k people   If New Brunswick needs representation, maybe Moncton, but Moncton isn't that big 

1ThoughtKnown

Kelowna is bigger than 100,000 and deserves a show. Tool is playing there soon, but I skipped it because of the ticket prices 

rmwigham

1ThoughtKnown said:

Kelowna is bigger than 100,000 and deserves a show. Tool is playing there soon, but I skipped it because of the ticket prices 

You should take another look.  Ticket prices for Calgary have completely collapsed and they're slowly but surely releasing the ridiculous VIP seats for normal (not Platinum) pricing (snagged 4th row floor last night after realizing it and it looks to be happening for Kelowna too).  Sorry to side track things.  Except screw Edmonton (and if PJ is going to schlep all the way up there, there's no reason not to do a Calgary show since they need to pass through either way).

1ThoughtKnown

rmwigham said:

1ThoughtKnown said:

Kelowna is bigger than 100,000 and deserves a show. Tool is playing there soon, but I skipped it because of the ticket prices 

You should take another look.  Ticket prices for Calgary have completely collapsed and they're slowly but surely releasing the ridiculous VIP seats for normal (not Platinum) pricing (snagged 4th row floor last night after realizing it and it looks to be happening for Kelowna too).  Sorry to side track things.  Except screw Edmonton (and if PJ is going to schlep all the way up there, there's no reason not to do a Calgary show since they need to pass through either way).

I grew up in central Alberta (near Jasper) and still say fuck Edmonton lol.  The Saddledumb is a horrible venue, it’s gawd awful. 

Thanks for the heads up! I’m going to take a look at the Tool tickets for Kelowna and see if I can grab a few. They were outlandish when I saw the announcement 

HughFreakingDillon

Zod said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

JimmyV said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

obviously WINNIPEG, where Neil Young spent his formative years, MUST BE INCLUDED. BLASPHEMY JIMMY V

OOF! You are right, my bad.

St. John's

Quebec City

Montreal

Ottawa

Toronto x2

Thunder Bay

Regina/Saskatoon WINNIPEG

Calgary

Edmonton

Vancouver x2

ya gotta keep Saskatoon on there. 

and add Victoria for a Fan Club acoustic show!

Thanks, why do people keep forgetting about Victoria?  We're bigger than St. John's, St. John, Halifax, Moncton, Thunder Bay, Saskatoon and Regina.  I always felt like 2005 might of been our best bet at getting show as we're bigger than the capital cities of the Atlantic provinces

Also, to be unbiased I would add Halifax onto the list.  St John's on the edge of Canada.  It's a long way to go without doing another show in Atlantic Canada.

I think feasibly I'd do:

St. John's,
Halifax
Quebec City
Montreal
Ottawa
Torontox2
Winnipeg
Saskatoon (it's bigger than Regina)
Edmonton (Has a nicer arena than Calgary)
Vancouver
Victoria.

Didn't put St. John, Thunder Bay or Penticton on my list because they have less than 100k people   If New Brunswick needs representation, maybe Moncton, but Moncton isn't that big 

I think "forgetting about Victoria" is just a fact of being so close to Vancouver. People just assume Victorians would just head to Van for the show. Big bands rarely hit Regina either because it's so close to Saskatoon. 

SweetDaddyLou

I'd love to Via Rail around the country and see as many shows as possible, if not all, this would be awesome!

NWOntario

Would just like to point out that Thunder Bay a, is the greatest city in the world, and b, once hosted a Pearl Jam concert. I'm sitting next to the poster, and every so often I look at it and remind myself, "They really did play the arena where you learned how to skate."

HughFreakingDillon

I really wish I had done a few dates on both the 2005/2011 tours. 2011 I had two very young children, but 2005 I was childless. Should have really done at least 4 shows or so. All I did was Winnipeg. 

erebus

NWOntario said:

Would just like to point out that Thunder Bay a, is the greatest city in the world, and b, once hosted a Pearl Jam concert. I'm sitting next to the poster, and every so often I look at it and remind myself, "They really did play the arena where you learned how to skate."

I concur, but we really do need a new arena/convention center to draw more shows.

Zod

HughFreakingDillon said:

Zod said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

JimmyV said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

obviously WINNIPEG, where Neil Young spent his formative years, MUST BE INCLUDED. BLASPHEMY JIMMY V

OOF! You are right, my bad.

St. John's

Quebec City

Montreal

Ottawa

Toronto x2

Thunder Bay

Regina/Saskatoon WINNIPEG

Calgary

Edmonton

Vancouver x2

ya gotta keep Saskatoon on there. 

and add Victoria for a Fan Club acoustic show!

Thanks, why do people keep forgetting about Victoria?  We're bigger than St. John's, St. John, Halifax, Moncton, Thunder Bay, Saskatoon and Regina.  I always felt like 2005 might of been our best bet at getting show as we're bigger than the capital cities of the Atlantic provinces

Also, to be unbiased I would add Halifax onto the list.  St John's on the edge of Canada.  It's a long way to go without doing another show in Atlantic Canada.

I think feasibly I'd do:

St. John's,
Halifax
Quebec City
Montreal
Ottawa
Torontox2
Winnipeg
Saskatoon (it's bigger than Regina)
Edmonton (Has a nicer arena than Calgary)
Vancouver
Victoria.

Didn't put St. John, Thunder Bay or Penticton on my list because they have less than 100k people   If New Brunswick needs representation, maybe Moncton, but Moncton isn't that big 

I think "forgetting about Victoria" is just a fact of being so close to Vancouver. People just assume Victorians would just head to Van for the show. Big bands rarely hit Regina either because it's so close to Saskatoon. 

I do, but a local show would be amazing.  When you think about it, it's about a 3.5 hour trip from Victoria to Vancouver or 5-6 hours to Seattle to see big shows.   The 5 hour drive from Saskatoon to Edmonton isn't that much different, if we use the, there's something close argument

The only time I've ever slept in my own bed after a PJ show was Calgary 2009.  I was living in Edmonton at the time, so we drove the 3 hours back after the show.    Not an option when you live on an Island :(

Zod

1ThoughtKnown said:

Kelowna is bigger than 100,000 and deserves a show. Tool is playing there soon, but I skipped it because of the ticket prices 

Kelowna is just over 100,000, kind of like Nanaimo here on Vancouver Island.  That's not a super big market.  When I was working on my list, I was mostly trying to think of places that have over 250,000 people.

It's all moot though, because so much of Canada is small market. There's a reason most bands dip in from US tours to play the bigger markets only :(

Ryan

When they’re only playing 9-12 dates over a three week leg, you’re never going to see a tour like 2005 again.  A 2005 itinerary now would take like two months for the band to complete with how many days off they take (one between each show, at least one or two days off between cities).  In 2005 they play six shows in seven nights going from Saskatoon to southern Ontario.  That would never happen now.


I think the itinerary we saw in 2011 is best-case, but as I mentioned before, Canadian dates sprinkled in with US dates, like 2013, 2016, 2022 is most likely.