Reservations - Possible Additional shows

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  • Jwmcc
    Jwmcc Posts: 451
    Poncier wrote:
    Yes, but the concert industry is definitely struggling thus far in 2008.
    To wit;
    Using a few local example.
    You refernce 2003. That year Bruce Springsteen played 2 Gillette Stadium shows and 2 Fenway Park shows. All were sell outs. This year the Globe let slip that the Boss would be at Gillette on Aug 1 and 2. Last Saturday Aug 2 show went on sale, and lots of seats are still availble (I just pulled up a 10 lot onTM in the 2nd level, not even the uppers), and tix prices for the Boss have only risen from $85.00+fees in '03 to $97.50+fees today.

    Dave Matthews Band always sells its 2 Tweeter shows (Fenway in 2005)out in about a half hour, this year you can still get seats (pavilion even through LiveNation's site, who'll be wresting sales there from Ticketmaster next year with its own ticketing site) for both shows.

    The Police at Tweeter is oficially a bomb (I just pulled a pair in section 1 row M, seats 6 and 7, thats 7th row on the right, and for shits and giggles was able to pull up 50 count'em 50 consecutive seats in section 12). Now the Police can be attributed to oversaturation ( 2 Fenway shows and a Garden show last year) and ridiculously high prices ($225+fees for pavilion seats).

    Some other stalwarts are selling relatively poorly at Tweeter including Rush, while some are selling well (Jack Johnson, Tom Petty), but overall sales are definitely down.

    That being said, I expect the demand for the 2nd show to be there, but wouldn't fall off my chair in shock if it didn't happen based on what I'm seeing with some other artists.



    I wonder if the shaky economy has something to do with the sales so far. People may not be willing to shell out a few hundred bucks for a few seats to a show, especially to someone like DMB who have toured for what, five straight years?
    Jw
  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,937
    Certainly the economy has a part in it.
    With tix prices continually rising and people forced to tighten spending with rising gas prices, food prices, home heating prices etc. there's bound to be an eventual backlash at the box office. PJ keeps the tix prices relatively low, but frankly so do Springsteen and DMB, and they are experiencing slower than normal sales this year.
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  • cd21miller
    cd21miller Columbia, MO Posts: 302
    what's the chance that they add some shows elsewhere this summer (or early fall)...maybe do a 5-8 show tour across texas and the midwest?

    or is this really IT for the year?

    i know the economy is jacking with everyone, but that doesn't mean people still don't want to see good entertainment.
  • flyinwhole313
    flyinwhole313 Posts: 1,651
    4Powers20 wrote:
    Dont worry they are going to confirm it as soon as the other shows go on sale. It's not a coincedence that the Thursday Camden was announced first. They want people to buy thursday first because it will be no problem selling tix for a friday show. Same thing with Mansfield. Thats why the Saturday show is getting "added".

    BRILLIANT!
  • locked
    locked Boston Posts: 4,048
    imspinnin wrote:
    are you anti-boots also??
    :confused:

    bite your tongue spin!
    "This here's a REQUEST!"
    EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
    10/25/13 Hartford
  • locked
    locked Boston Posts: 4,048
    imspinnin wrote:
    Maybe you and blou can call it a date...:p

    Boston Lou was my "date" for Boston 1. (ha!)

    someone else cancelled so he got the ticket..

    too bad for them because that show featured:

    Throw Your Arms Around Me (Ed solo pre-set)
    Hard to Imagine (opener)
    Black
    Come Back
    Low Light
    Love Reign O'er Me (by all accounts the best performance)
    State of Love and Trust

    It's like Ed wrote the setlist just for them!

    go figure!
    "This here's a REQUEST!"
    EV intro to Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns
    10/25/13 Hartford
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