WHY YOUR FAVORITE BAND ISN’T COMING TO YOUR CITY

Your favorite band announces a tour. San Francisco. Portland. Seattle. Reno. Sacramento? Nothing. I’ve spent years looking at schedules like that and thinking, “You’re literally driving right past us. What the fuck?” Now that I’m actually booking bands myself, I’m finally learning what’s happening behind those tour posters. Episode 3 of Mikey in the Pit gets into tour routing, venue availability, holds, ticket history, radius clauses, oversaturation and all the other things that can decide whether your city gets the show. I also talk about the weirdest part of this job so far: the concerts that almost happen. Dates get discussed. Offers get considered. Venues get checked. Everything gets close. Then one piece doesn’t fit and the entire thing disappears before anybody outside the email chain knew it existed. Sometimes there’s no drama. Sometimes nobody screwed anything up. Sometimes its just a fucking Wednesday A few months ago I thought booking a concert meant finding a band and asking them to play. Apparently that was the easy part.