Originally posted by Mobius:
If they really want to make a difference, they could play 2 nights at 9:30 (assuming I could get tickets) or hell, Constitution Hall. How can Radiohead consider themselves a legitimate band when they continue to dick around the world avoiding DC?
2 points:
1) i think there is too much of a demand for tickets for them to play either the 930 club OR constitution hall. 930 is like 1k and constitution hall is like 3k? they played club shows and such in 97 and ever since then they've played places that cold hold around 10k or more.
2001 tour they even did MSG. i think there would be even more pissed off people if they did choose one of those two venues.. because a lot less people would be able to get tickets... plus the whole 2001 thing.
2) i don't know that it's necessarily that they don't like dc. they don't seem to like the US, especially not the southeast. they DID schedule 2 shows for 2001 in the dc area, it's just that it seems to have been a bad choice of venue with the way the weather went. if it had been an actual amphitheatre or something (not that i would have wanted them to play nissan or anything), at least one of the shows would probably have happened. radiohead simply hasn't done a major tour of the us since 1997. 98 datese were sporadic and were mostly canada. only 3 north american shows in 2000. the 2001 dates were really sporadic and only hit the major cities. 2002 was just spain/portugal. if you really look at it, they haven't played a full show in dc since 1997 (not including the "secret" 930 club show after the TFC got cancelled in 98 -- that show was pretty short anyway).. if you call anything south of dc and east of the mississippi the "southeast" and just make a big rectangular box of it, the _ONLY_ city they have played in that entire region is atlanta since 1995. you have to go back 8 years to find somewhere in the southeast they played besides atlanta.
it's definitely not about them just avoiding dc.
