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Imogen Heap: "So expensive to tour"
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| Trancefxs |
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... |
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| 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. |
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| Mgz |
| ticketmaster pretty sure has the monopoly on tix sale thou |
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| iammesol |
| 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. |
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| Ang ' ela_ie |
| 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. |
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| enydo |
| 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. |
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| Kismet7 |
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. |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| quote: | Originally posted by enydo
Twitter is not at all hard to understand. |
Nope, it's pretty obvious it's an awful, awful place. |
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| Seppuku |
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. |
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| enydo |
| I don't hate Twitter. I just think saying "Try and understand Twitter before you hate on it" is hilarious. |
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| Seppuku |
| That was more directed at the "awful, awful place" comment. To be fair though, with all the Bieber/other rampant bull, its easy to see why one would think that. |
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| iammesol |
| Trace, get out of my brain. :p |
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