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Just pondering one option about a possible 2020 tour...what if... 02-Aug-2019 13:24:35
| CorrsClub Time: 26-Apr-2024 07:08:32 |
- We all believe Sharon is working on album number 3.
- Sharon did a 2014 US tour of smaller venues in support of TSS, which had spare attendance (I was lucky enough to attend the Atlanta, GA show, where there were maybe 50-70 people in the seats...my only Corr show since I became a fan in 2006).
- The Corrs reunited (I hate to use that term because they never broke up...but...) in 2015 for the subsequent release of WL with a UK and Europe tour in 2016, but no world or US tour followed.
- The Corrs did not tour JC other than the 20 year RAH show in 2017...a big disappointment to many of us that hoped the lack of a WL US tour meant there was surely going to be a JC tour.
What if they are planning on a combo tour of moderate-sized venues...where Sharon and her band are the opening act to support her 3rd album, and The Corrs will be doing a GH + JC tour as the headliner?
This would give Sharon the chance to tour and promote album 3 with significantly higher attendance than just her solo tour generated (and much more exposure, as I'm sure many Corrs fans from the 90s/00s were mostly unaware of Sharon's solo efforts). It would give the band the chance to reconnect with US fans that have not seen them since the 2004 BH tour, but at a smaller scale (moderate sized amphitheaters and venues of less than 7000, as opposed to 20,000+ seat arenas).
I saw this format play out last year at the Matchbox 20 tour, where Kyle Cook (the lead guitarist of MB20) was the opening act with his new alt-country band Rivers and Rust. Kyle agreed to rejoin MB20 for the 20 year anniversary tour celebrating the release of "Yourself or Someone Like You", if his new band was on the bill.
I seriously doubt The Corrs could put together a tour of the type venue they used to fill, but we see this all the time now with aging bands touring the smaller venues. There are countless moderate sized venues (ok, maybe not countless, but I bet there are 10+ such venues within an hour drive from my house in western metro-Atlanta)...we have been to many in just the past few years where the venue was a sellout....Survivor, Starship, Peter Cetera, Air Supply, REO Speedwagon, Boston, Keane...and the monthly list of older bands performing at these venues is practically endless....The Corrs would fit right in to this demographic.
The question is....as always...does it make financial sense for them to do a US tour? I'm sure Sharon lost money on her US tour, given the sparse attendance, so I'm sure there would not be a repeat of that this time around...but with The Corrs as a headliner, with the right city/venue plan, it might just be a possibility.
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