There’s A Lot Of People Touring

Touring has been a troublesome factor for a lot of artists, each established and underground, over the previous few 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 chatting with Sense Music Media (h/t Blabbermouth).

“I feel one purpose 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.

“But it surely’s powerful on the market. I imply, there’s bands who cancel loads now due to low ticket gross sales. I’ve seen ’em cancel coming to Australia. I feel that Judas Priest ladies 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 loads. I tour everywhere in the world solo and I’ve bands that I’ve in several elements of the world so I can go tour. ‘Trigger I could not afford to tour by myself with my band right here. But it surely’s powerful everywhere in the world. It is fairly good in America proper now, I feel, however I feel it is simply the identical as all over the place. However there’s nonetheless a metallic scene — it is nonetheless there — I feel it is simply saturated with numerous stuff. I imply, after we toured with KK’S Priest this final time, Iron Maiden was touring on the West Coast after 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 after we had been there on objective, 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 powerful and it is costly. So what occurs is everyone 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; concert events are costly lately, as is all the pieces else, and numerous concertgoers should make choices on what they’ll afford to see.