The 1975 - Being Funny in a Foreign Language (Oct 14, 2022) Album • Page 189

I love the lead in to ballad from lostmyhead. one of my favorite parts of the album

 

Ballad is so fucking good

 

Ballad is top 10

 

Top ten list is hard, feels like I’d need to split it into upbeat and downbeat top tens.

 

UGH!
It’s Not Living…
Happiness
You & Me Together Song
Part of the Band
Robbers
Somebody Else
If You’re Too Shy
Sincerity is Scary
Love It If We Made It

 

Lostmyhead
About You
Me
Fallingforyou
If I Believe You
I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)
Love It If We Made It
Somebody Else
Sex
Oh Caroline

 

part of the band
paris
the birthday party
the 1975 (BFIAFL)
robbers
nana
a change of heart
ballad of me and my brain
give yourself a try
roadkill


I could do another ten with no order if I wanted lol

 

runner up songs I didn’t want to cut but had to rounding out a top 20

This must be my dream
About you
Settle down
The city
me and you together song
love it if we made it
sex
inside your mind
looking for somebody to love
somebody else

 

If I Believe You
Sincerity Is Scary
Love It If We Made It
Paris
If You’re Too Shy
Give Yourself A Try
—
A Change Of Heart
The 1975 (BFIAFL)
I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)
Mine
—
Milk
Bagsy Not In Net
The Sound
I Like America And America Likes Me
Menswear
I Couldn’t Be More In Love
Robbers
Looking For Somebody To Love
Heart Out
Ballad of Me and My Brain
Roadkill
You
Settle Down
Happiness
I Think There’s Something You Should Know
The City

 

Replies going about as expected.

 

Every time I see Fiddler's, it's just a "sigh..." reaction. I just don't like that venue, and they get so many good shows.

 

I hate him but high ticket prices are not his fault

 

Opting into platinum tickets is a choice the band makes tho

 

Yeah, it’s a bunch of bullshit.

 

using Ross to distract from them using platinum pricing is pretty messed up they’re right

 

true but the organization of the 1975 is not necessarily run only by matty and he even says he doesn’t understand money in that video, the people who do understand money and make those money decisions probably pushed them into the pricing

 

The "choice" is often "do you want to do the tour or not" - most bands are not offered the option to remove dynamic pricing from their tour. They're offered a tour and more often than not it's based on around estimates that include dynamic pricing, without it, the tour doesn't make "enough" money for the promoter, and so its inclusion is a prerequisite to getting the venues/promoter/etc. even offered to the band to accept in the first place.

Size of your band, power you/your team has, and what the numbers actually are for the estimated profits, go a long way into the calculus of if you have the sway to not use it. For example, Yellowcard and their current tour: not enough sway. Some interesting context for the monopoly and profit driven motivations of the concert industry.

 

I assume if an act wants to take a lower guarantee they COULD theoretically opt out (or price at market value). For The 1975, I imagine production costs/crew are quite expensive coming from the UK so the platinum opt-in helps offset that.

 

In general, the enmity should be directed at the large corporate entities that make it prohibitively difficult or even impossible to charge only "forty or fifty quid" for a gig to begin with.

 

I mean The 1975 played smaller venues last fall/winter.

Dynamic pricing sucks so much. I know it’s not always in their control, but I have a lot of respect for the artists that fight it. The first time I saw it was last fall when blink went on sale, so hopefully bands start hearing about the backlash to it.

 

It's been a few months since I talked to anyone about it, and the size of the bands the people I would talk to work with are on a smaller scale, but the numbers were something like losing over 1/2 the guarantee (making a 4-5 person tour virtually impossible for anyone with a family) and risked upsetting the virtual monopoly for these sized venues in the states, making any future tour also unlikely.

 

That makes sense. Sounds like basically the entire risk falls to the band without it. So unless you are playing venues you are confident about selling out, I doubt they do it.

 

Net/net those of us who want floor and/or good seats probably gonna have to eat it on this one.

 

Why would anyone gamble on people showing up or not after the last 3 years? Make the money while you can because you never know what’s going to happen.

 

This needed to happen…