Touring has been a troublesome factor for a lot of artists, each established and underground, over the previous couple of years and it is solely getting harder for a lot of. Longtime vocalist Tim “Ripper” Owens (KK’s Priest, ex-Judas Priest, ex-Iced Earth) shared a few of his ideas on the difficulties dealing with touring musicians when talking to Sense Music Media (h/t Blabbermouth).
“I feel one cause is there’s lots of people touring. I imply, in America it is simply continuous. Our KK’s Priest excursions did fairly good in America, however it’s costly for giant bands. We will not come to Australia — KK’s Priest. We tried. We’re hopefully gonna do it. We tried to get there, however the ensures and bills, it wasn’t including up, so KK‘s not doing it. We’re not a brand new band that goes and loses or breaks even or no matter.
“However it’s robust on the market. I imply, there’s bands who cancel lots now due to low ticket gross sales. I’ve seen ’em cancel coming to Australia. I feel that Judas Priest women tribute band was coming there and needed to cancel. And it is due to the expense. I am lucky that my [solo] band’s there, so I am fortunate. And that is how I tour lots. I tour everywhere in the world solo and I’ve bands that I’ve in numerous components of the world so I can go tour. ‘Trigger I could not afford to tour alone with my band right here. However it’s robust everywhere in the world. It is fairly good in America proper now, I feel, however I feel it is simply the identical as in every single place. However there’s nonetheless a metallic scene — it is nonetheless there — I feel it is simply saturated with quite a lot of stuff. I imply, once we toured with KK’S Priest this final time, Iron Maiden was touring on the West Coast once we had been touring, Judas Priest was touring, Megadeth was touring. Judas Priest, I feel they could have made their tour simply to play the subsequent metropolis once we had been there on goal, as a result of we’d play Canada, in Toronto, after which the subsequent day they had been enjoying in Niagara Falls, which is true down the road. However that is how it’s. So I feel it is actually robust and it is costly. So what occurs is all people spends their 300 {dollars} on an Iron Maiden ticket and 150 or no matter Judas Priest is in America — Maiden‘s in all probability 100 and one thing and Priest might be 50 or one thing like that in America, I am guessing — 50 or 60. However that turns into some huge cash. So it turns into costly.”
He isn’t mistaken; live shows are costly lately, as is the whole lot else, and quite a lot of concertgoers need to make choices on what they’ll afford to see.
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