Making it "Big Time"

Everyone has a band that is their favorite. I know I do; my favorite band is Paramore. For my eighteenth birthday my dad bought me tickets to go see them in concert. Lucky for me my dad was kind enough to drive my best friend and me to Chicago to see Paramore at The House of Blues. This made for a great birthday weekend, but it made me think, why do bands play small venues until they get known? To me it would’ve been much easier to see them in Peoria at the Civic Center, but I traveled the 3 hours to Chicago. As anyone knows or could find out, most bands when they’re independent or just getting started will play small venues. Playing these smaller places allows them to get closer to their fans. But when they make it “big time” they’ll only stick to the larger places to play. Personally if I was in a band, I would play the big venues, but also play my music at smaller ones too, in order to get that feeling of being close to and relating to my fans. Don’t get me wrong, the concert at The House of Blues was amazing, and it wasn’t that huge a place, but the fact I had to travel to a big city to see Paramore made me think of this topic. Could there be a way to convince bands to play smaller venues from time to time? Only time will tell if this is possible.