With 1,000-seater venues, rather than 5,000-seaters, there are richer opportunities for sucking the audience in.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My preference is 3,000, maybe 5,000-seat venues.
We like playing smaller venues, but we know how many people want to come and see us so we don't ever want to stop anyone who wants to come to a show from coming.
As much as we love playing the small clubs, we'd really like to get ourselves in front of a larger audience. I'm not talking about arenas or anything, but nice theaters and larger clubs.
I headline concert halls for 20,000 people, but I still play smaller venues.
The large venue gives me the thrill that comes from the power in numbers.
I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.
I've sat in the theater for thousands and thousands of shows.
Touring has been a major part of my career. I've done a lot of huge shows, including a 13-night sell-out stint at the Indoor Arena in Birmingham, playing to a total audience of 65,000.
We're doing 3,000 seaters before that we never played anything more than 1,000.
I cultivated this fan base that I really didn't really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren't an underplay for me at the time. I'd never done a tour before!