Orlando Music News
ROAD TRIP: Shows that aren’t coming to Orlando [Suuns, Residents, Wanda Jackson, Wye Oak, Twilight Singers, Decemberists, more]
Club owners and show promoters here in Orlando are a hard-working and often unthanked bunch. Although they do a fine job getting national touring bands into our clubs and venues on a regular basis, they are often fighting against a prejudice that bands’ booking agents have about bringing bands into Florida. Although Orlando is a day-drive from Atlanta and New Orleans, and although one show in Orlando could “service” the entire state of Florida, all too often the people in charge of routing tours for bands feel that it’s not worth it to bring their artists here. To, you know, the fourth most populous state in the Union.
And that means that, sometimes, there are shows that we want to go to, but in order to see ‘em, we’re gonna have to pile in the car, split some gas money, and hit the road. So, with that in mind, here’s a new, semi-regular feature running down the tours that aren’t coming here. SHOTGUN!
- Black Angels/Suuns (closest show: Atlanta, April 1)
- Decemberists (closest show: Atlanta, May 2)
- Dom (closest show: Atlanta, March 13)
- Wanda Jackson (closest show: Wanee, April 14)
- Off! (closest show: Atlanta, March 22)
- Papercuts (closest show: Tallahassee, April 2)
- Phosphorescent (closest show: Atlanta, May 8 )
- PS I Love You (closest show: Atlanta, Feb. 25)
- The Residents (closest show: Atlanta, April 4)
- Rotting Christ/Abigail Williams (closest show: Tampa, April 7)
- The Rural Alberta Advantage (closest show: Atlanta, March 15)
- Rusko (closest show: Atlanta, May 2)
- Sic Alps (closest show: Atlanta, March 6)
- Submarines (closest show: Atlanta, April 30)
- Sun Airway, Asobi Seksu, Cults (closest show: Atlanta, March 11)
- Trashcan Sinatras (closest show: Atlanta, March 7)
- Twilight Singers (closest show: Atlanta, May 5)
- Wye Oak (closest show: Atlanta, March 13)
- Xray Eyeballs (closest show: Atlanta, March 11)
