When the hell will Shpongle finally do a live set in the US?
*sigh* when someone is willing to bankroll the show, and is ready to potentially lose money on it. it's an expensive production to put on, corporate sponsors would be limited to non-existent, the label has no money to put in to this, they're not managed by a big-time management company, they are not known in the mainstream = the whole thing would be financially risky. maybe someday the seths of this country will get together and share the cost & risk. hey seth? (actually, seth has previously mentioned here that he likes shpongle and would love to see them perform... maybe he's already inquired?)
shpongle has played at least twice in japan because an individual put up the money to get the people and the equipment over there. they ended up selling enough tickets to cover costs, there is a pretty healthy psytrance/psybient scene. over here, i'm not positive there is enough interest to make a show feasible.
another potential issue is the scene they come from, and where a lot of support would be needed: people going to trance and/or psybient parties expect to pay at most $20 for a full night of entertainment, not $50 for 2 hours. i'm fairly certain you can't put on a shpongle show for $20, and at $50 you lose a lot of people (with the usual claims of "corporate sell-outs"
). there is a weird sense of entitlement in the scene, wherein the faithful "deserve" to see great artists at low prices, 'cause that's how it was back in the day... oh, wait. that's not an uncommon perception, come to think of it.
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