The Tribute-Band Economy

Sat, 05 Nov 2022 12:17:00 +0000

There is a mid-sized venue in every European city that, on a wet Tuesday when nothing else is touring, fills eight hundred seats for a band who will never write a single original song. The poster says something like “The Australian Pink Floyd Show” or “Bjorn Again” or “No Way Sis”, the crowd knows every word before the first chord, and the musicians on stage are, in every technical sense that matters, extremely good at their jobs. Nobody in the room is confused about what they are watching, and nobody feels short-changed either. That is the tribute-band economy, and it is a far bigger and more serious business than the raised eyebrow it usually gets.

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The Tribute-Band Economy