Possible sell outs

No, I'm not talking about the artists on the O.C. mix.

Wondering if there are any of the 'hot buzz' shows coming up that folks think are going to sell out any time soon.

Examples (ie, shows I'm planning on): British Sea Power, Decemberists, Broken Social Scene, Psychedelic Furs.

BSP should be fine…… I dont think the furs sold out last time, did they?

Its hard to judge the other two. Air should sell out, but I dont have tickets for it yet either.

The British Sea Power show at the Bowery Ballroom is sold out, and that's a bigger venue than Black cAt.

bsp has the potential to sell out, everything else will not. in fact, i predict that the psych furs will be a 2 for 1 deal the week of the show so i'm waiting on buy a ticket.

bags, you doing double duty tommorow night? paul kelly and ctc?

Originally posted by Rutherford J. Balls:
The British Sea Power show at the Bowery Ballroom is sold out, and that's a bigger venue than Black cAt.

The walkmen sold out bowerey ballroom….. didnt sell out 930.

NY is a much bigger concert market than DC, you need to stop making this pointless comparison.

BSP will have played 3 times in 8 months, did they sell out the other two times? I am sure there are people who wont go and see them so soon after they played, especially in such a busy concert month.

Grandaddy/Saves the day could sell out.

Air will sell out (waiting for night #2)

Originally posted by lily1:
bags, you doing double duty tommorow night? paul kelly and ctc?

I'm in San Francisco, and I'm catching a band called Sciflyer all the way out in a part of town called The Sunset. Only in Cali…. Sorry to be missing CTC, Kurosawa seems to have quite a crew rounded up.

Originally posted by mark e smith:
The walkmen sold out bowerey ballroom….. didnt sell out 930.

Are you sure they didn't sell out at the door? If they didn't, it was really close.

I'd recommend buying tickets in advance for all of the shows you list (except maybe the Furs). Better safe than sorry.

though i'm surprised that air hasn't sold out the first night yet. (which is good seeing how i have yet to pick up a ticket.)

Originally posted by J'Mal:
Grandaddy/Saves the day could sell out.

Air will sell out (waiting for night #2)

The Furs usually have a good crowd, but its on a Monday so you should have no problem getting tickets closer to the show.

The only one of those I'm prebuying is Decemberists, but I'm usually a pretty bad judge, hence me missing the Shins. But I called the DCFC show right this time, thank god.

The Furs are turning into Andrew WK…weren't they only here last week??? ;)

The Black Cat was at least 3/4 capacity if not more for the last BSP show, so I expect it will sell out. Decemberists sold out the backstage last time, which means there will be breathing room upstairs this time.

Bottom line is if you really want to see a show, buy the tickets in advance. Why do we even have to have threads like this?

At first I thought this thread was going to be about bands that would sell out… you know, like Modest Mouse and "Gravity Rides Everything" in that Mazda commercial? Or like the riff from Ted Leo's "Where have all the rude boys gone" being used as an intro to MTV's TRL? That would have been a far better thread.

Originally posted by Rutherford J. Balls:
Bottom line is if you really want to see a show, buy the tickets in advance. Why do we even have to have threads like this?

I will never buy a ticket in advance for a 930 show again after the Belle & Sebastian fiasco.

With that in mind, this thread makes perfect sense to me.

Personally, I think the topic of selling out (not tickets) has been beating into the ground. At least discussing which shows could potentially selling out would 1) be useful to some, and 2) interesting, just in the fact that new shows are announced all the time.

Has anything new ever been said about a band selling out (again, not tickets) in the past 10 years?

Originally posted by chimblysweep:
At first I thought this thread was going to be about bands that would sell out… you know, like Modest Mouse and "Gravity Rides Everything" in that Mazda commercial? Or like the riff from Ted Leo's "Where have all the rude boys gone" being used as an intro to MTV's TRL? That would have been a far better thread.

Originally posted by nkotbie:
Personally, I think the topic of selling out (not tickets) has been beating into the ground. At least discussing which shows could potentially selling out would 1) be useful to some, and 2) interesting, just in the fact that new shows are announced all the time.

Has anything new ever been said about a band selling out (again, not tickets) in the past 10 years?

Originally posted by chimblysweep:
At first I thought this thread was going to be about bands that would sell out… you know, like Modest Mouse and "Gravity Rides Everything" in that Mazda commercial? Or like the riff from Ted Leo's "Where have all the rude boys gone" being used as an intro to MTV's TRL? That would have been a far better thread.

What about bands that "unsellout". You know cash in, then try to regain their independence and street cred. That is what I find interesting, getting their cake and eating it too.

Can't think of any great examples off hand.

Originally posted by nkotbie:
Personally, I think the topic of selling out (not tickets) has been beating into the ground. At least discussing which shows could potentially selling out would 1) be useful to some, and 2) interesting, just in the fact that new shows are announced all the time.

Has anything new ever been said about a band selling out (again, not tickets) in the past 10 years?

Originally posted by chimblysweep:
At first I thought this thread was going to be about bands that would sell out… you know, like Modest Mouse and "Gravity Rides Everything" in that Mazda commercial? Or like the riff from Ted Leo's "Where have all the rude boys gone" being used as an intro to MTV's TRL? That would have been a far better thread.

What about bands that "unsellout". You know cash in, then try to regain their independence and street cred. That is what I find interesting, getting their cake and eating it too.

Can't think of any great examples off hand.

That is a little more interesting, to see how a band can get back any lost cred (which, as I can't state enough, I find to be ridiculous). I'd say, if you're a hard ass and considering going to a major label as selling out, then the Dismemberment Plan are a one example. True, their signing to Interscope only produced one EP before they were booted back to DeSoto.

Originally posted by Sir HC:
What about bands that "unsellout". You know cash in, then try to regain their independence and street cred. That is what I find interesting, getting their cake and eating it too.

Can't think of any great examples off hand.