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Jovian · 12-16-2002, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Cara

I was talking to Jon's assistant tour manager after the Sydney concert even though Jon just said to us the show in sydney was "f**king great", I knew the reason to do rumba was to test the "market" and at the end of the week of all rumbas i said to him "you are not coming back for a full tour are you?" (dave, tico had previously told me yes....) and the reply was a reluctant but definate "NO"....

Answer to Why? Too expensive and far to travel....obviously the market too risky - ticket prices would have to be higher than usual and why do a show in Aus that will not make any money when you can sell out shows in japan and Germany 5 times over?

And that's probably the reason the guys will be skipping Scandinavia too, at least on the Bounce Tour (though hopefully not on EVERY SINGLE tour from now on). Granted, we still don't know the additional dates, but I think it's pretty safe to say that we won't be seeing them on these latitudes at all.

Logistics-wise the only plausible times for them to come here are the beginning and the end of the tour, and somehow I doubt that Jon would appreciate singing outdoors some time before the 25th May, considering how cold it got out there on the 31st May last year by the time the guys took the stage.

I guess it really is so nowadays that for the guys and their organisation, +23 million people in four countries (Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark) is not a big enuff market to warrant a date or two in the tour schedule. They know from experience that they just CAN'T sell out a stadium here, and although they CAN very well sell out the smaller indoor arenas, or at least Elysee Arena and Hartwall Arena in Finland and Globen and Scandinavium in Sweden, it might very well be that we won't be seeing them here any more. Not unless they decide to do that long-awaited (and long overdue) arena tour in Europe, in which case it shouldn't make any difference to them where they play as long as the arenas sell out (which they'd probably do over here). Or unless they somehow start ignoring the financial aspects of touring and want to give us Scandinavians the kind of a special treat they gave us on the Crush Tour.

So I guess I should give the same advice to the Finnish fans as Cara gave to the Aussie fans -- start saving for that overseas trip to Germany or wherever if you still want to catch our guys live.