Music Banter - The Mars Volta

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Originally Posted by DontRunMeOver

I agree with adidass, De-loused in the Comatorium is better, particularly because they don't try to pass off a minute of two of pointless noise as HALF OF A SONG every time, like they do on Frances the Mute. I'm going to watch them next week at Birmingham Academy - yesssssss!

Adidass... does a band becoming big = not playing in Croatia? I hadn't heard of this rule before, but suppose it might be true. What kind of bands DO come and tour in Croatia (apart from Croatian bands)?

generally yes, that's a rule when it comes to Croatia, like i said somewhere else, by far the biggest and most important band that was in Croatia recently were The white stripes, and the sad part is, with a band of that magnitude and excellence you would think they could pack an entire stadium, no, not in Croatia, they played in a courtyard of an old slaughterhouse and about 5 thousand people came, if that many, i could have easily gone infront of the stage , it was that "dense" but i chose to stay some 20 meters away to avoid the "moshing", the Rolling stones came here in 98 i think, but they're geezers and i don't count them as being important, Metallica was supposed to come but they cancelled the concert at the last minute, so did Lenny Kravitz and queens of the stone age ( the queens decided to end their european tour and go to tour the states with SOAD ). the reason? they didn't sell enough tickets to make the concerts profitable. why? because of the main reason big and important bands don't come to Croatia, we're not a very wealthy country, the average salary here is some 800 euros, in order for the concert (of a big band) to be profitable ( and cover the costs of the equipment and the crew ) the tickets have to cost at least 40 euros, not many people can afford that. the white stripes concert cost about 25 euros and that was a reasonable and affordable price, but they're what you might call a low maintenance band, only two people and the stage was relatively simple. of the bands i listen to only franz ferdinand and queens of the stone age are relatively known and could attract a bigger crowd, but they're in high demand and they choose to go to places where people can pay more for the ticket and where they can pack and entire arena no problem. and especially because of incidents like the one with Metallica, managements of bigger bands choose to avoid coming here because of the risk that they won't sell enough tickets.....it's all very sad and frustrating, if i want to see anyone good, i have to go to Italy. only the relativley unknown and underground bands come to Croatia, for example the young gods, the exploited, mercury rev, some world music stars like Cesaria Evora and Mariza, like i said ,The mars volta before anyone heard about them and they played in a small club and so on. you can imagine how someone like me, who is crazed with music and recently concerts, feels living in such a country.