world tour

In other news, rich artists tend to focus on locations likely to provide a profit and that they're likely to survive the visit.

sad finnish noises
I think a lot of people have a misconception about how much money modern musicians are making

There's an error there, Tasmania is coloured red. They never visit Tasmania. You live in Tasmania, you want to see your favourite band, it's a plane ticket and a hotel stay, plus ticket. So close and yet so far. I hear the Tasmanians have given up and just built a huge ear horn, to collectively use.

yeah the Australian red should just be brisbane, sydney, melbourne.
W.A. and S.A. occasionally get concerts, Tasmania rarely get concerts, and I've never heard of a band going to the N.T.
- And Brisbane only if you're lucky.
- cries in Canberran
- Same thing with other large countries like the US and Canada. No band is going up to Alaska or Nunavut.
Except when they come and play exclusively for Dark Mofo and then leave. To be fair to you though, that's rarely part of a "world tour"
- Probably wouldn't be huge bands doing that though, yeah? I would assume that would mostly comprise of older bands, who do one offs? If a larger band were flying in for mofo, wouldn't it be more economically viable for them to do a few spare gigs around the rest of Australia? Seems a waste to gather all that gear and staff, and travel a lot of that, just for one gig.

That's a lot of Canada colored in for Toronto and maybe Vancouver

As a recent transplant from the US living in not Toronto or Vancouver, I agree.
To be fair to the artist though, I don't think many US tours include any stops in Montana or the Dakotas (nevermind Hawaii or Alaska).
Yo what about Banff
For the US section .... I think they skip coloring Alaska too.

Could we chop off the top half of Australia please.

I live there and artists go on Australian tours and don't even come to the Northern Territory.

Why are we even coloured in? World tour means Canada, UK, Germany, maybe France or Netherlands.
We are usually a down under tour with Sydney, maybe Melbourne, and Brisbane if they are kind. Poor NZ though.
- Poor NZ though
  As someone who has paid out the arse for flights from Wellington to Melbourne to attend an (also expensive) concert, I appreciate the empathy.
  The travel isn't the end of the world (it's only a 3 hour and change flight), but of course the prices go way, way up around the dates of major events.
- "Canada" means two nights in Toronto and then right back down to the States.
Could probably change Australia to 3 red circles for Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
Could we chop off the top half of Australia please.
Done. Should I put it in Tupperware or ziplock?
- Tupperware please, they have the most storage

Then you also have Metallica who played Antarctica.

They have a song called "trapped under ice" and of course they decided to NOT play it on their tour in fucking antartica

New Zealand, South Africa, and Scandinavia shouldn't be too difficult, right?
- You wouldn't believe the bribes it takes for the Queen of Denmark to allow rock concerts. She's an incorrigible smoker.

Smaller metal bands don't often have the means to tour off the beaten path. Just the logistics of organising tours in e.g. South America or Africa are likely prohibitively expensive.

Some bigger rock and metal bands have actually been pretty good in touring places that aren't just the standard tour countries.

Smaller bands? Fucking Mastodon are losing money when they go on an international tour nowadays... Times are fucking hard for anyone who isn't a superstar, support the bands you like in any way you can!
Rage Against The Machine went to play for guerillas in the jungle once, does that count?

You forgot the part where the US is only CA and NY.

And Canada is just Toronto
- Or in some cases not Canada at all . But definitely not where I live .
And australia is only Sydney and Melbourne (this coming from a Perth lad)
For musical tours it's usually something more like: Seattle, LA, a big city in Texas, Minneapolis OR Chicago, Atlanta, NYC and sometimes Boston. But I take your point lol
The odd thing to me is the Minneapolis or Chicago. In pure numbers, it should be Chicago every time, but Minneapolis seems to draw a strangely outsized amount of musical acts. I think it's because MSP is a big airline hub. Or something? I honestly don't know.

Why the fuck would a global tour go to places that can't afford tickets?

You mean like Norway?
- Even Norway wouldn't pay the ticket costs. You realize that taking a tour to Norway, when there's no other reasonable options for shows nearby means Norwegians would be paying a massive premium for the artist to get there right?

Yeah let me go to Ukraine real quick 💀

I hear they have some killer pyrotechnics.

The other parts aren't worth visiting

I wonder how many Dream Theater fans there are in North Korea.
- Pretty sure getting caught singing Pull Me Under is seen as attempting to defect to the south and met with execution.

"I'm going to the places where people can afford to see somebody who goes on a world tour."

As a resident of Ohio, that might as well be a grey spot too.

I do alright. I live pretty much smack dab between Detroit, Cleveland, and Columbus so an artist is likely to hit at least one of those. The hour and a half drive before and after a show sucks, but even Chicago and Pittsburgh are close enough for a weekend trip for a show.

The absence of Scandinavia checks out. Generous of them to leave Poland in, though.

Hey now! Sweden is a hotspot for great metal concerts!

it is these days you couldn't say that back in the 70s and '80s much from what I understand
Please for the love of God tell me there is a genre called troll rock

Unless you’re Horse the Band, which did their best to hit up every country on their world tour.

Really? Well I managed to miss this one :'(

Come to Brazil

If it ain't a metal band, good luck with that
Really makes me wonder why they don't come here more considering shows always sellout. Maybe it's the exchange rate

Assuming that guy is American, he is roughly 13 foreign countries over the US average.

Fuck Portugal I guess.

The average American is unaware of Portugals existence
- X --> Doubt
- I am above average, but I don't know what you're talking about.
I went to SonicBlast this summer, it was awesome! And Brutus came to Porto twice in, like, 3 months so it's not all bad :)