Concerts forum/sub-forum?

[Mega248]

I've been toying with the idea of making a thread in The Lounge for discussing concerts for awhile now, but lately I've been wondering if this might warrant either a forum or sub-forum of its own. This would be a place to post reviews of concerts you've been to, including commentary, set lists, photos and more. It could include recent shows, as well as memorable ones that you may have attended many years ago. Before I create a forum (or sub-forum), I wanted to get a better idea of how much interest there would be. Answers to the following questions from as many of you as possible would be very helpful:

• How often do you go to concerts?
• Would you be interested in a forum/sub-forum for discussing concerts that you attend?
• What are your recommendations for how to organize the forum (a thread for each artist, a separate thread for each individual concert review, etc.)?
• Any other suggestions?

I'll start. I've been to four shows this year and have typed out commentary on three of them, so I would definitely use the forum. Organizing by artist (that is, each artist/band would get their own thread and everyone would post their reviews for that particular artist/band in the same thread) would make things the least cluttered. But on the other hand, many shows have multiple artists- for example, I saw The Gaslight Anthem, Jimmy Eat World and Against Me! at the same show last week- and choosing just one artist's thread to place the review in might be tough, so a separate thread for each individual concert review would work better in that sense.

[Green Baron]

Sept 19, 2014 20:34:51 GMT -5 Mega248 said:

for example, I saw The Gaslight Anthem, Jimmy Eat World and Against Me! at the same show last week

holy crap dude

i would die if i went to that

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

I never thought about this before and come to think of it, it's surprising we don't have a dedicated concert forum. You should make a poll to ask how many concerts one goes to on average every year.

This year I've seen Lady Gaga x2, Miley Cyrus, Alanis Morissette, and several smaller folk shows in Portland and Boston. I probably go to 6-8 major (for me) shows a year.

I would say if this went ahead, the threads could be organized by tour. So for example, a lot of us have seen the Artpop Ball, so that would have its own thread and whenever one of us saw it and wanted to chime in our own experience, we could do it in there.

Would it be limited only to concerts someone attended in person or would it be for tours as a whole? So like, if Adele or someone announced a tour for next year, would the thread get made now or only when someone actually saw it?

[Green Baron]

I saw Brand New and Modest Mouse.

[K.]

I usually see about 2-4 concerts a year, plus I go to many of the various music awards shows.

I think it would make the most sense to organize the board by tour or by festival? So Lady Gaga's latest tour would get a single thread, but so would a one-time event.

I wonder if it would make sense to expand the board to be "Tours, Award Shows & Live Performances" or something like that. GMA and SNL could have their own threads where people talk about the music acts that appear. We could move, for example, the discussions of the Billboard Music Awards there. This may or may not be appropriate depending on how much discussion there is of concerts alone.

Great idea, Mega!

[Albie]

YES!!!! Please make SOMETHING. I would definitely partake. I go to a ton of shows all year long, big and small, and haven't quite found the right place to share around here. I have tried the general artist discussion for some but I also attend a lot of festivals and smaller shows that don't quite have a home here. Great idea. Can't wait to see what is developed. :)

[Kurt]

I don't feel like my opinion should carry much weight in this discussion considering how infrequently I get to go to concerts (excluding band/orchestra concerts, I can count the number of concerts I've attended on two hands), but I do like K.'s idea of incorporating televised performances as well, especially because I was recently looking for somewhere to list SNL performers. I also like the idea of starting threads based on tours ("Lady Gaga - Born This Way Ball," "Mary Lambert - US Tour wsg Jillette Johnson," etc.), which could be created upon the tour announcement and replied to with media/fan hype and reviews from attendees.

[josh]

I like the forum idea. I never attend concerts though. But I would say one thread each for BTW Ball, artRAVE, Prismatic tour, etc. Then can also have threads for festivals and whatnot. And if one performance in a festival is really big/popular/talked about (like Gaga's SXSW performance) then that would warrant its own thread as well.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

I see the forum as being mostly firsthand experienced shows. It almost seems pointless and definitely redundant to have another place to talk about an artists' promo schedule and activity when we can do that in their individual threads. Personally for me, I go to concerts fairly regularly but never really talk about them on here because they never seem to fit in in the artist threads because everyone is talking about promo and singles performances and tv appearances. But to have a forum where people who have been to the shows can talk about the actual show is where I personally see this being the goal. I dunno if that's exactly what Mega had in mind. I can't imagine he's wanting to take discussion that's already happening in one part of the board and moving it somewhere else.
Basically, I imagine if this forum were just to discuss tours in general, most of the posts by people talking about a concert they just saw would get pushed down in favour of talk about how close to selling out a tour is, or what Billboard is saying about someone's budget, or whatever else.

[maine]

I've been to two concerts in my life, both being OneRepublic.

But this sounds like a great idea.

[Mega248]

Sept 21, 2014 19:28:54 GMT -5 Devil Marlena Nylund said:

I see the forum as being mostly firsthand experienced shows. It almost seems pointless and definitely redundant to have another place to talk about an artists' promo schedule and activity when we can do that in their individual threads. Personally for me, I go to concerts fairly regularly but never really talk about them on here because they never seem to fit in in the artist threads because everyone is talking about promo and singles performances and tv appearances. But to have a forum where people who have been to the shows can talk about the actual show is where I personally see this being the goal. I dunno if that's exactly what Mega had in mind. I can't imagine he's wanting to take discussion that's already happening in one part of the board and moving it somewhere else.
Basically, I imagine if this forum were just to discuss tours in general, most of the posts by people talking about a concert they just saw would get pushed down in favour of talk about how close to selling out a tour is, or what Billboard is saying about someone's budget, or whatever else.

What I had in mind was a place where people could post reviews of concerts that they'd attended. I like what others have said about a place for award shows though; it'd definitely make sense to have all such threads in one place where they're easy to locate. Maybe it could be divided into two sub-forums, 'Concerts' and 'Award Shows'? I'd prefer for discussion of tour news to remain in the artists' A-J/K-Z threads both for the reason you mentioned and because there would probably be too much of a grey area as far as whether that stuff should go in the A-J/K-Z threads or the Concerts forum (and the result would probably be some of the tour news going in one and some in the other).

Ideally, it would be cool to try and encourage some of the posters who tend to not leave their 'home' forums (Alternative, Country, Urban, etc.) to post in the Concerts forum too. For that reason, my vote would be one thread per artist (which could contain concert reviews for all of their tours, old and new), as I feel like having multiple Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, etc. tour threads consistently near the top of the page would discourage posters from Alternative/Country/Urban from participating. Maybe getting those posters to step outside their usual forums would be a lost cause either way, but I figure it's worth a try.

[Clauss]

I've seen BEP, Paramore, David Guetta, Alicia Keys, Beyoncé, JLO, Lorde, Ellie Goulding (these in lollapalooza and tons of other)
I really like the idea of the forum, it'd be fun!

[Caviar]

This sounds like an awesome idea. I go to shows quite often and would love a place where I can provide an in depth review to people that don't frequent that artist's thread. It would also be beneficial to people (like myself) to read reviews for artists they're not familiar with.

[Linnethia Monique]

I like the idea since I frequent both concerts and festivals every year:
Fall Out Boy and Paramore :The Monumentour Tour
Justin Timberlake: The 20/20 Experience Tour
SxSW (Saw basically everybody except for Lady Gaga)
Kings of Leon
Disclosure
X Games Festival (Kanye, Mac Miller, Mayer Hawthorne, The Flaming Lips)
Free Press Festival (Classixx, Lauryn Hill, Zedd, Vampire Weekend, Jack White)
etc. All this year so far.

[#LisaRinna]

I think it would be a cool addition.

[Zeebz]

I don't go to many concerts but I do think this forum could be a nice addition to the board. It could help people (like myself) to see reviews of concerts, which could in turn encourage us to go. Regardless, it would make for interesting reads.

[Kishi KCM]

How often do you go to concerts?
I go to several concerts a year. So far in 2014, I've seen Lana Del Rey, The Wanted, Lady Gaga, Eminem & Rihanna. I saw The Go Gos at AIDS Walk Fort Lauderdale. Tiffany, Lisa Lisa, and Sheena Easton were at Pride Fort Lauderdale. Sheila E. and Lillie McCloud were at Stonewall Pride.

Would you be interested in a forum/sub-forum for discussing concerts that you attend?
Of course. I love taking pictures and doing reviews of the shows I attend.

What are your recommendations for how to organize the forum (a thread for each artist, a separate thread for each individual concert review, etc.)?
I say individual threads for artists, tours, festivals, and special events. Some artists continue to tour while others have tours for different eras.

Any other suggestions?
Make it happen! ;)

[Agent Yoncé]

When F+TM, No Doubt & Daft Punk announces some tour dates, gotta do everything in my power to go to see 'em!

[Mega248]

Thanks for answering the questions guys! The Concerts forum will be coming soon. :)

[someguy]

•How often do you go to concerts?

Maybe 4 or 5 times a year? Depends on who's coming, where they're playing, who I can get to go with me, and how much extra cash I have, lol.

•Would you be interested in a forum/sub-forum for discussing concerts that you attend?

Definitely. There's a thread in the country forum that I usually post in (since most of the concerts I go to these days are country), but a forum/subforum would be nice, too.

•What are your recommendations for how to organize the forum (a thread for each artist, a separate thread for each individual concert review, etc.)?

I'd suggest a thread for each tour (not individual stops along the tour), as well as threads for concert DVD releases, and awards shows (maybe separate from the original Music News threads about nominations, etc. Possibly just open it the day of the awards show).

[Mega248]

Based on feedback in here, I divided the new forum into two sub-forums; 'Award Shows' and 'Concert Reviews'. Here's what I'm thinking for the Concert Reviews sub-forum:

• one thread per artist tour or music festival (for example, Austin City Limits, Lollapalooza, SXSW, etc.)
• threads in the concerts forum should be used primarily to post reviews of concerts that you attended, or to reply to another poster's concert review
• news about tours should continue to be posted in the artists' threads in the A-J and K-Z forums

Thoughts? Also, I spent about 20 or so minutes moving over as many award show threads as I could find, but I'm sure I missed at least a handful, so feel free to post links to any that I missed.

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

Mega248 for Admin of the year

[ILLUSION]

I know I'm late to this boat but I think the Concert Reviews forum should be changed to just a Concert forum in general. There can be 1 topic for each tour (IE: Nicki Minaj - The Pinkprint World Tour) and people could post in that. I think people would post their tour reviews in there anyway and the forum would be utilized more. Right now, it's not really seeing much activity...