Imogen Heap: "So expensive to tour"

TranceAddict Forums (www.tranceaddict.com/forums)
- Music Discussion
-- Imogen Heap: "So expensive to tour"

Posted by Trancefxs on May-30-2010 22:32:

Imogen Heap: "So expensive to tour"

From her Twitter account:

quote:
"So expensive to tour! Just had a rather depressing meeting with tour manager. Record sales low (across the industry) really impacting me."

"Sad truth is touring US especially such a monopoly. Audience end up paying double ticket price to the venue @Seattle_D. Huge mark up."

"This may be the last tour in a while. A bit emotional. Ugh. Not easy keeping afloat in this climate!"

And they were saying that music artists nowadays are supposed to make the large bulk of their money from touring...

Posted by Sand Leaper on May-30-2010 22:40:

This is the problem with Twitter: all you ever get is soundbites, fragments and little pieces of an issue where you need a much larger framework to start a discussion.

Why did people pay double prices in Seattle? What exactly does "poor record sales across the industry" mean? Does she just mean actual physical records? What "monopoly" is she talking about? Why is it "especially in the US"?

Those "tweets" (ugh, I can't believe I actually used that term) could be interpreted to mean a dozen different things.

Posted by Mgz on May-31-2010 01:34:

ticketmaster pretty sure has the monopoly on tix sale thou

Posted by iammesol on May-31-2010 01:50:

quote:
Originally posted by Sand Leaper
This is the problem with Twitter: all you ever get is soundbites, fragments and little pieces of an issue where you need a much larger framework to start a discussion.

Why did people pay double prices in Seattle? What exactly does "poor record sales across the industry" mean? Does she just mean actual physical records? What "monopoly" is she talking about? Why is it "especially in the US"?

Those "tweets" (ugh, I can't believe I actually used that term) could be interpreted to mean a dozen different things.

Poor record sales across the industry clearly means people aren't buying music no matter what genre or level of sale.

As said above, if you don't go through Ticketmaster (which charges unbelievable "convenience" fees), you don't go.

Try and understand twitter before you hate on it.

Posted by Ang ' ela_ie on May-31-2010 02:09:

The transition to MP3s versus tangible albums is probably going to hurt some artists more than others. For the big names people will buy their albums AND are part of a culture that finds it acceptable to pay enormous amounts of money to go and see them live. However, I'd imagine that Imogen Heap has a following that might buy her album online, but don't generally value seeing music live, especially if its being sold through Satan. I mean Ticketmaster.

Posted by enydo on May-31-2010 02:14:

quote:
Originally posted by iammesol
Poor record sales across the industry clearly means people aren't buying music no matter what genre or level of sale.

As said above, if you don't go through Ticketmaster (which charges unbelievable "convenience" fees), you don't go.

Try and understand twitter before you hate on it.

Twitter is not at all hard to understand.

Posted by Kismet7 on May-31-2010 04:03:

what does her touring have to do with the type of touring in the EDM market?

different echosystems.

shes getting raped by a major label, in conjunction with the venue and ticket retailers are leeching hard on touring and live show revenues, instead of paying artists properly.

Posted by Mr.Mystery on May-31-2010 04:13:

quote:
Originally posted by enydo
Twitter is not at all hard to understand.

Nope, it's pretty obvious it's an awful, awful place.

Posted by Seppuku on May-31-2010 05:56:

Twitter hate is annoying, I just see it as another news source for things relevant to me. A lot of users do ruin it though.

Posted by enydo on May-31-2010 06:13:

I don't hate Twitter. I just think saying "Try and understand Twitter before you hate on it" is hilarious.

Posted by Seppuku on May-31-2010 06:16:

That was more directed at the "awful, awful place" comment. To be fair though, with all the Bieber/other rampant bullshit, its easy to see why one would think that.

Posted by iammesol on May-31-2010 07:49:

Trace, get out of my brain.

Posted by iTranscendence on May-31-2010 10:05:

The RIAA must die in a fire.

Posted by Sand Leaper on May-31-2010 10:25:

quote:
Originally posted by iammesol
Poor record sales across the industry clearly means people aren't buying music no matter what genre or level of sale.

Says who? Where are the statistics to back this up? I could just as easily claim that Imogen Heap is being fed some bs story by her label cos they don't wanna pay her.

quote:

As said above, if you don't go through Ticketmaster (which charges unbelievable "convenience" fees), you don't go.

I guess you'd know that if you went regularly to gigs in the US. I'm not in the US, so I wouldn't know this. This shows how people conveniently generalize and stereotype, in order to compress their issues down to the soundbite-format Twitter operates with.

In other words, Twitter continues to make the world more dumb. I guess I shouldn't be too surprised about that.

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on May-31-2010 13:24:

Get with the program dood, people are not dumb, they are just part of the distributed cloud brain. Individual cathedral mind is no longer necessary, for we have the wisdom of the crowd with its addiction to updates. The sheer mass ensures somebody will always be updating somewhere and giving you the precise tidbits you need. Who is doing what, saying what, partying where. The zeitgeist has spoken, now you must listen or risk irrelevance and laughter. No, not laughter. Tittering.