DzM wrote:Then his agents are clearly morons. Tom has had a devoted following for at least two decades and will fill any reasonably sized venue with only minor promotion.philipchevron wrote:Tom's wilfulness aside, his agents clearly have decided to Test The Water here a little, to gain some indication of how Waits will sell in "major centres". All nonsense of course. The world is finally ready for Tom, though he Waited for no one.
Oh Tom - Please to come somewhere I can be ...
Yes well, all agents....................
All the same, the unprecedented response to Waits tickets in the UK last year set a new standard. It was clear that he had moved from major artist to Stratospheric Box Office star. The speed at which the low-key US dates sell will indicate whether he is likely to repeat this response back home which will, in turn, affect the pricing and venue capacity of his next "proper" US tour. As Waits dislikes large venues, it is more likely to affect the former than the latter.
The music industry (all hail The Man!!) has never really understood why, for some acts (The Pogues would be another) conspicuous record sales and significant box office seem comparatively unconnected. It's not a sum their computers can do
