Barry Gibb Mythology Tour Thread (Bee Gees)

Yes.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythology_Tour

you can see how the previous tour dates were all 4 days apart.

The US dates look fairly final to me. Maybe a slight chance of adding another Hollywood Bowl if it sells crazy.

 

Well, here's a case where I hope you are wrong! I'm betting this is his last time out so I hope he expands venues if it's succesful.

 

Folks, the US tour schedule is final.

The Barry Gibb Mythology Tour:

 

I can't believe he is coming to Boston!

I can't believe I'm going!!!

 

I wish there was more dates, no Canadian ones

 

I'm very surprised Toronto has been skipped since 1979.

I think they did a cross Canadian theater tour in 1974.

 

Most band don't give a frak about Canada, we are always low on the totem pole.

 

Maybe 10-20 years ago. Canada's economy is much stronger post 2009 and the dollar is closer to par.

To me it's quite surprising that even Toronto was omitted, 5th biggest city in North America.

 

I was hoping for Vancouver but the closest to here is the one near SF.

 

Hey, Weird Al likes Canada!

....Despite the song.

 

Bee Gees’ Barry Gibb chats with WGN Radio's Bob Sirott and Marianne Murciano about his career and upcoming show at United Center
http://wgnradio.com/2014/02/06/barry-gibb/#XKJOCzAYiLsGY70Z.01

 

Some friends saw Barry's performance at the Love and Hope Ball on Saturday night and here is the setlist. It's a shortened show compared to his full-length arena concerts, but there's a couple surprises on the list from previous shows:

Jive Talkin’
Lonely Days
You Should Be Dancing
To Love Somebody
Our Love
How Deep Is Your Love
Stayin’ Alive
How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?
On Time
Gotta Get A Message To You
In The Morning (of my life)
New York Mining Disaster
Run To Me
Spicks and Specks/Chain Reaction
Emotion
Guilty
Woman In Love
Night Fever/More Than A Woman
Immortality
Words

Tragedy

 

Something tells me that Barry Gibb doesn't sit around, crunching numbers and 'testing the waters' regarding these shows. I don't believe he is doing it for the money. He wants and needs to do this Mythology tour ~as a tribute to the long lasting legacy of the Bee Gees.

 

Thanks to this forum, I have my Boston tickets. I was surprised that it's far from sold out.

 

Mounting a tour like this is a major business proposition involving over a hundred people that need to be paid, fed, and put up in hotels and rentals of buses and trucks and pa that need to be paid every day whether or not there is a show. Somebody is crunching the numbers on behalf of Barry and the promoter, and I really doubt Barry gave these people marching orders to book the tour however you like and if it winds up losing a few million dollars I will just pay it out of my pocket because I like to sing for people so much that I don't care about money.

Touring at this scale involves accountants, budgets, and financial planning.

 

In which case the number crunchers will tell the promoter not to add more dates but will hopefully have done their job well enough to pay Barry his guarantee without taking a loss even with the existing schedule.

 

I'm a little surprised he is playing the size of arenas given this is his first solo tour, so I'm not surprised that the Boston show is not a sellout. If you had asked me where in Boston area a Barry concert would be held, my first guess would have been Agannis Arena (at BU) or the Orpheum, or a summer date down at the waterfront Pavillion. I hope that by the time the tour starts, this "hub" approach gets people to travel to the limited number of dates and fills the seats.

 

I think all the dates will be sold out or near sold out by showtime.

I doubt it will be a financial disaster as others seem to suggest. Also, the world tour should already be profitable and capable of covering if any losses over here.

With that being said, I agree with you that considering his last show here a few years ago was in a casino going to giant arenas may have been too big a step up. I wish Barry had considered about a dozen shows in smaller venues going to every region of the country. I would be happy to see him in Atlanta or Nashville near where I live. I cannot afford to go to Chicago or Philadelphia.

 

Distraught - I have seen him on the Australian and UK leg of this tour and he waits till the US to sing Emotion!! Oh well, at least I got Kilburn Towers!

 

Amazing.

I've got two very nice tickets to Jones Beach and none of my friends (so far) are interested in going. WTF?

 

I dunno - it looks like there are a LOT of unsold seats for these shows. Or at least some of them - I only checked Philly, Chicago and Boston. Philly looks like it's really struggling - I can pull 8 tickets together halfway back on the floor, which is a bad sign for sales.

Last year the Stones struggled to sell the most expensive tickets but had little/no trouble moving cheaper ones. That's not the case here. For Chicago, I can pull up 8 together at every price level EXCEPT the most expensive one - the $250 tickets are gone, but every other price level remains and has tons of seats available.

I think it's a bad sign when people aren't even buying the cheap tickets.

I think Barry should've played medium venues at most - playing 20,000 seat arenas is just too much, IMO. If this was a Bee Gees tour, I could see it in arenas maybe, but Barry on his own? That's gonna be a tough sell for the general public. (Not suggesting Barry should have called it "Bee Gees", of course - just saying that the name has a lot more "sale value".)

If these shows are gonna move tickets, I think they'll need to be heavily discounted. There's still a lot of time before the shows, but I find it hard to imagine they'll suddenly sell a ton of tickets unless something changes...

 

One Night Only in Las Vegas '97 didn't sell out. Managed to piss off a whole bunch of fans who had paid lots of money for their seats to see people being offered to see the concert for free just to fill those seats.

For the Mythology shows in the UK they offered 2 tickets for the price of 1 as the concert dates edged closer and people could still get tickets up close as late as the day of the concert. I should add that the cost for a ticket was humane compared to the ticket prices reported for the US leg!

 

Well, three of the shows are outside. I doubt those will look empty no matter what. I guess if things get so bad in the inside shows they can put a curtain up and move people down. I still think if no other shows are added that there will be some who make last minute plans to travel.

 

My friend said in reference to the Concord CA. show. Are you going to pay over $200 a seat to see one Bee Gee. ??? Feel the same way.