That's a lot of Canada colored in for Toronto and maybe Vancouver
this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2023
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For the US section .... I think they skip coloring Alaska too.
Yo what about Banff
Smaller metal bands don't often have the means to tour off the beaten path. Just the logistics of organising tours in e.g. South America or Africa are likely prohibitively expensive.
Some bigger rock and metal bands have actually been pretty good in touring places that aren't just the standard tour countries.
Smaller bands? Fucking Mastodon are losing money when they go on an international tour nowadays... Times are fucking hard for anyone who isn't a superstar, support the bands you like in any way you can!
Rage Against The Machine went to play for guerillas in the jungle once, does that count?
You forgot the part where the US is only CA and NY.
And australia is only Sydney and Melbourne (this coming from a Perth lad)
For musical tours it's usually something more like: Seattle, LA, a big city in Texas, Minneapolis OR Chicago, Atlanta, NYC and sometimes Boston. But I take your point lol
The odd thing to me is the Minneapolis or Chicago. In pure numbers, it should be Chicago every time, but Minneapolis seems to draw a strangely outsized amount of musical acts. I think it's because MSP is a big airline hub. Or something? I honestly don't know.
Why the fuck would a global tour go to places that can't afford tickets?
Yeah let me go to Ukraine real quick 💀
I hear they have some killer pyrotechnics.
The absence of Scandinavia checks out. Generous of them to leave Poland in, though.
As a resident of Ohio, that might as well be a grey spot too.
I do alright. I live pretty much smack dab between Detroit, Cleveland, and Columbus so an artist is likely to hit at least one of those. The hour and a half drive before and after a show sucks, but even Chicago and Pittsburgh are close enough for a weekend trip for a show.
"I'm going to the places where people can afford to see somebody who goes on a world tour."
Unless you’re Horse the Band, which did their best to hit up every country on their world tour.
Really? Well I managed to miss this one :'(
Fuck Portugal I guess.
The average American is unaware of Portugals existence
X --> Doubt
I went to SonicBlast this summer, it was awesome! And Brutus came to Porto twice in, like, 3 months so it's not all bad :)
Assuming that guy is American, he is roughly 13 foreign countries over the US average.
I mean, do you expect them to go to every country in the world?
The other parts aren't worth visiting
The map of asian groups "international" tours is also funny.
Korea, Japan, and maaaayyyyyee Hawaii if they're adventurous
How about the baseball world series?
That would be around the world so it’s fine
Here's a mindblower: OP didn't create this map. It's just a map of something unrelated entirely.
looks like only the important places
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A lot of artists don't have the bandwidth to go to every single country. So they have to choose.
Portugal cyka blat
Cut out most of California, since they tend to figure if they go LA, it’s good enough
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