Low Selling MPP Show -- Lucinda and Drive-Bys -- Any Thoughts About Why?

[rich_WDC]

W.Post review stressed the low turnout for last week's show.   My non-attendance contributing to the issue notwithstanding, I wonder the reason for the low turnout since it seems to me to be a great match  (even if we know Justin Jones prob wasn't adding much to the numbers....) and wonderful for a good-weather Saturday night even if early in the season.   
Any thoughts on why a great-on-paper concept didn't translate well in reality?
Any worries that other similar great pairings won't be done due to this disappointing event?

[hutch]

I think Lucinda has a core audience many of whom would prefer to see her in more intimate venues. I've seen her a few times at the Birchmere and the 930 Club. The idea of driving up to Columbia to see her- while probably paying more for the ticket- is just not very appealing.

Also, Lucinda's last few albums really haven't broadened her audience at all.

[Relaxer]

I don't know about LW, but it feels like the Truckers play here a lot. I could be wrong about this but it might be a matter of over-saturation. Was it priced high? Maybe people are just deciding that the drive to MPP wasn't worth seeing these guys again.

[hutch]

I don't know about LW, but it feels like the Truckers play here a lot. I could be wrong about this but it might be a matter of over-saturation. Was it priced high? Maybe people are just deciding that the drive to MPP wasn't worth seeing these guys again.

I think this is very similar to the Lucinda situation...

[gaaaaaaaaah]

I don't know about LW, but it feels like the Truckers play here a lot. I could be wrong about this but it might be a matter of over-saturation. Was it priced high? Maybe people are just deciding that the drive to MPP wasn't worth seeing these guys again.

This. Huge Truckers fan right here, and I'd like to see Lucinda, but I've seen DBT enough lately (three New Years shows and a few weeks back in Charlottesville) that the trip to Columbia for a short set wasnt doing it for me.

[Yada]

It's already been said, but why go see a band at a huge ampitheatre when you're gauranteed to see them at a 1,000 person small club at some point in the near future?

[atomicfront]

Never heard of Lucinda Williams and don't care for Drive by truckers.  Perhaps that is the general opinion of the world at large.

But I saw a Ramones/Deborah Harry/Tom Tom Club/Jerry Hariston show at MPP that was so lightly attended I was able to walk up to the front row with lawn seats. 

[James Ford]

I too would rather see Lucinda and DBT at a club, and that contributed to me not going.

Never heard of any of those other bands you mentioned.

Never heard of Lucinda Williams and don't care for Drive by truckers.  Perhaps that is the general opinion of the world at large.

But I saw a Ramones/Deborah Harry/Tom Tom Club/Jerry Hariston show at MPP that was so lightly attended I was able to walk up to the front row with lawn seats. 

[ggw]

DBT should always be booked in venues where beer is no more than 20 feet away.

[notme]

i think she sells out wolf trap

[Vas Deferens]

from what i remember, tickets went on sale late....like a month before the show

[HoyaSaxa03]

DBT should always be booked in venues where beer is no more than 20 feet away.

and where you can buy a whiskey and a beer at the same time.

[atomicfront]

It's already been said, but why go see a band at a huge ampitheatre when you're gauranteed to see them at a 1,000 person small club at some point in the near future?

I would rather see an act at merriweather than at the 930 club or Rams head.  I much prefer being outside than stuffed into to some club with over 1000 other people.   

[PigIron]

What a weird show.  I'm been to plenty of club shows in which the turnout is ridiculously low but being at an amphitheater with only 300 people gives you an uncomfortable feeling.  I just think the whole thing wasn't promoted well.  I have no idea what "Route 29 Revue" is and I almost missed it when it was listed here on this site.  Furthermore - as someone pointed out here - it went on sale only weeks before the show, which probably didn't help with sales. Making things even more confusingly worse, lawn tickets were apparently made free to attendees of a wine festival that day.  Therefore, not only was the horribly low turnout a bit odd to me, but it seemed that many in the small crowd had no idea who the performers were.  Besides a group of roughly 25 people in the front who were big DBT fans (I backed off for LW after the Truckers set), most in the seats were dressed-too-well-for-a-concert, older, wine-sipping folks who seemed a bit confused when the DBT fans stood as they came onstage.  The whole thing seemed like one of those soundchecks in which some special group of fans are allowed in.  Or that scene at the end of "Spinal Tap" when they are opening for the puppet show at that theme park.  To conclude....whatever.....both put on awesome sets and played like they always do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMTPQVOWCiU

[Seth Hurwitz]

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