Europe having a bad day

Unfortunately, you´re so ****ing right.

Your leg of the tour is at least six months away, why were you expecting tour dates this week??? The only shows being added right now are the fill out dates for the first leg of US tour. We won't get the summer dates until March for the US shows why are you worried??

Your leg of the tour is at least six months away, why were you expecting tour dates this week??? The only shows being added right now are the fill out dates for the first leg of US tour. We won't get the summer dates until March for the US shows why are you worried??

Because tickets here usually go on sale a half a year before the concert.

As to my knowledge the last concerts in Scandinavia were far from sold out. And in 2003 where they played here in Germany only a few kilometres from the Danish boarder it wasn't sold out either. Where were all the Scandinavians who want a show so badly. Only a very few people from Danmark were there, not enough to fill an arena or even stadium in Denmark.

Aren't you knowledged.

The shows they did in Finland in 2000 were sold out. After that they haven't been there. The show in Stockholm 2001 wasn't sold out, but it was still a big crowd.

The problem is that they're asking too much money. No promoter is going to book them because the price they want demands that the arena has to be really big and sold out in order for the promoter to get any money. This way they have to make less shows and only in countries with enough fans to fill stadiums. It's disgusting.

Ice

What do you mean by really big?? Here in the US an arena typically holds 20,000 to 25,000 depending on how many seats you lose because of the end stage setup. A stadium here holds somewhere between 60,000 and 85, 000 depending on the stadium and the setup. the band typically gets between 850.000 and 1 million guaranteed for a show. So at a show where 20,000 tickets are sold for $100.00 the gate is 2 million the band gets 1 million and the promoter the other million minus his costs which are probably 500,000 to 700, 000, which means the promoter gets 200,000 to 300,000 thousand at the end of the day.

Is it just me or does rainsong's sig pic always **** up the layout? Wrong or incomplete tags maybe? Please have a look. Thank you.

I'll have a look.

Aloha !

The difference is that Bon Jovi simply doesn't want to play the same sort of venues in Europe as they do in America. Plus, people over here will never pay 100E for a stadium show like people in America do for a Bon Jovi show. It just won't happen, which is why Bon Jovi probably doesn't want to do shows in smaller venues. It means less money for them.

Not in it for the money? Suuuuuure Jon.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

Well they are not going to get my money, if they do not play live in my country.

I have not bought ANY Bon Jovi music this year. And will not buy, unless they play in Finland.

Live experience is the main thing for me.