Too many concerts in Vancouver? (in NYC?)

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Posted in music on September 25, 2007

Too many concerts in Vancouver? (in NYC?)

concert The Vancouver Sun asks, "Can There Be Too Many Concerts"?

"I don't think it's over-saturated," said Riley O'Connor, Chairman of Live Nation, which produces about 1,500 concerts across Canada each year.

"It will get over-saturated when everybody starts losing money and nobody's making money. I haven't seen that yet. I've been doing this 30 years and I've never seen a point of saturation."

Part of the reason for the increase in the number of concerts -- and O'Connor agrees there has been an increase -- is the dramatic decline in album sales. Since artists can no longer depend on album sales for their income, they are having to tour more than they would have in the '80s and '90s.

"There's no doubt there's been a trending back to reliance on playing live, because you can capture that revenue stream right away. You can live on that revenue," O'Connor said.

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Posted on September 25, 2007 3:56 PM

Comments (10)

Eh, at least I know someone is reading my posts on this site:

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2007/09/brooklynvegan_g.html#comment-239177

Posted by nyctaper | September 25, 2007 5:11 PM

Bands used to take a rest after a concert tour. But now concert tours never end, they keep coming back, and back. Ex. Decemberists, Shins, Bright Eyes, etc.

Posted by Anonymous | September 25, 2007 6:37 PM

Stupid title, there can't be "too many" concerts. It's a free market, if the demand isn't there to make it profitable, then there will be less concerts there. It's like saying there are too many restaurants. From a consumer's standpoint the more the better...

Posted by Anonymous | September 25, 2007 8:01 PM

>>>>>>"Stupid title, there can't be "too many" concerts. It's a free market, if the demand isn't there to make it profitable, then there will be less concerts there. It's like saying there are too many restaurants. From a consumer's standpoint the more the better..."

I think "Anonymous" needs to get laid!

CHEESEBURGER!

Posted by woo hahahaha | September 25, 2007 9:05 PM

being from vancouver, i honestly can't complain :D

Posted by massromantic | September 26, 2007 1:04 AM

all i can say is, there is gonna be a lot of deaf old people in about 30-40 years...

Posted by Anonymous | September 26, 2007 1:16 AM

honestly i am surprised there are any shows at all in Vancouver since so many of those kids moved to Montreal / Toronto, and then now to New York. you almost can't tell who's a canuck anymore in this damn town (gasp!)

Posted by su | September 26, 2007 3:55 AM

eh?

Posted by Anonymous | September 26, 2007 9:51 AM

"Stupid title, there can't be "too many" concerts. It's a free market, if the demand isn't there to make it profitable, then there will be less concerts there."

Consequently, if you read the article you would've seen that that was the crux of the argument being made, and the title questioned whether there were too many concerts for the amount of demand in the city.

There's still a ton of shows that pass over Vancouver, and it's still in distant third when compared to TO and Montreal, and lags behind Seattle as well.

Posted by Quinn | September 26, 2007 12:19 PM

in 30 years?! Im already deaf!

Posted by Anonymous | September 26, 2007 12:31 PM