Originally posted by S?astien Boisvert
Heather, I'm curious, are there many New Order dans in South Korea? If New Order would come and do a gig in your country, do you think they could sell enough tickets to pay for the trip and even make profits?Are there any other well-known bands who are performing in Korea?Seb.
In Korea, Rock & pop is 'mania' thing. Generally, korean people like national domestic pop or dance music. I don't mind about it. Why should I care people's taste? It's not my business.
Most of korean people don't know New Order. There's a bad case about how New Order is unrecognized in Korea. Early in this year, a dancing boy group (like Five or N sync) named 'New Order' newly came. Hell.... :headoff:
I have 4 friends who really love New Order. But even among people called music manias, New Order is not popular. So, there are not many New order fans in Korea.
In 1997, Blur had a gig at Seoul. It was not sold out. Under 1500 poeple saw the gig. Seoul gig is first and ONLY not-sold-out of Blur's world tour.
There's a bad joke that the Why U2 would not perform in Korea is they don't want to have a not-sold-out case in their career.
The smashing pumpkins and Rage against the mashine performed at Seoul last year. But I think they could not make enough profit. Bernard Bulter and Mark Kozelek had a gig at a small club. I think the most well-known musicians who performed in Korea is John Digweed and The Smashing Pumpkins. In case of Digweed, a big mobil communication company supported the rave party as a marketting event.
I can't sure that tickets would sell well if New Order come here. But I think they would not be able to make enough money. Surely, no profit.