The impact of influence on music. Are we going to have fewer international concerts? “If it was already more expensive to get to Portugal, now…” – Observer
[Este é o primeiro de dois especiais sobre o momento atual da indústria da música ao vivo — e a forma como está ou não a ser afetada pela inflação e pela crise energética. O segundo incidirá nos efeitos sobre as digressões de artistas portugueses:]
Signals continued to arrive from outside. Over the last few months, especially in the post-summer period, the bad news kept coming: cancellations of tours, postponements of shows and, perhaps a bigger novelty, musicians and bands announcing that they would not play concerts in Europe or the world because financially they made up for leaving their country to play.
In October, for example, the American band Animal Collective canceled the European tour to present the new album temporal coffins, scheduled for November, stating: “In preparing for this tour, we were confronted with an economic reality that simply does not work and is not sustainable. From consideration to currency devaluation, to galloping increases in transportation and cargo costs, and much more, just don’t go make a budget for this tour where we don’t lose money — even if everything went as smoothly as it could.”
It wasn’t the only alarm bell. In the same month of October, the British band Urial Heep announced that they would also not go on the tour they had planned — which included a concert at Aula Magna, in Lisbon, but also shows in Madrid, Barcelona, Zagreb and Belgrade, among others. cities — due to “issues related to logistics and negotiation routes”, also citing “costs inherent to tours that do not stop increasing”.
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