What's the farthest you would go to see a concert?

[ghostdancer@mastodon.sdf.org]

@evan For now it's been own country but I'd would not discard going to another depending on the concert. And as someone has already said the obstacle is money not distance.

[spraoi@tooting.ch]

@jamesmarshall @evan

For the record this win is quantifiable. Kate Bush has performed live a handful of times outside of her first tour in 1977 or around then.

Billy Childish has basically owned Thursday nights at one or the other tiny venue in London since around that same time. So he's performed live tens of thousands of times.

So @jamesmarshall experienced something rare and precious. Whereas I took part in a nitch cultural ritual. He absolutely wins and I am jealous.

[jamesmarshall@sfba.social]

@spraoi @evan yeah, these were her first shows in 35 years, other than occasionally showing up to join others on stage. I heard ticket sales set a record, with 70,000 sold in 15 minutes. I was lucky to be on her old email list, where the shows were announced and we got access to tickets a day early. People came from all over the world. It was a peak life experience for me.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

This is a really interesting result. The choices weren't great -- for people in small countries or near a border, going to another country an hour away counts as "the whole planet".

Regardless, this was a neat discussion. For me, I go to Toronto, Upstate New York or New England for shows all the time, but if something's farther away than that, it's a miss for me. I'm also pretty interested in lesser-known local bands. So I'd say "region".

Thanks everyone for the responses!