I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Going out to play a game in front of 100,000 spectators doesn't worry me. Nothing to it.
My preference is 3,000, maybe 5,000-seat venues.
I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.
Today, you're either very big or you're playing stadiums or you're not playing anymore. You're either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won't go to see you at all.
With 1,000-seater venues, rather than 5,000-seaters, there are richer opportunities for sucking the audience in.
I headline concert halls for 20,000 people, but I still play smaller venues.
I watched R.E.M. connect with the back row of a 50,000-seat venue.
Well, you know, I've bonded with a lot of people over the years, you know. We played the same tournaments year after year and we go back to the same place and many times the seats have been full and that has meant the world to me for sure.
Our stadium seats over 80,000, and we sell all of our tickets.
We're doing 3,000 seaters before that we never played anything more than 1,000.