What's a band or artist you wish you could see, but they never make it to your area?

Most of them, really. I live in the sticks, even by scandinavian standards. My closest concert venue that books big artists is a 6 hour drive away.

So whenever I'm down there for work at the head office, I see who are performing around the same time so I get the travel expense covered. And when Dream Theater and Devin Townsend performed on the same stage on the same night, I made sure to find some reason to travel to the office.

And I've invited some coworkers to a meeting in April next year. Agenda: "doesn't matter. We'll find something". The reason: Probably my last chance to see Rush perform.

Penn and Teller! They aren't going to be around forever, so I'd really like to see them live sometime soon. But there's no way I would ever travel anywhere close to the USA :/

I did manage to see Propagandhi back in 2009ish, and it was maybe the best damn show I've ever been to.

Then they didn't come back for over a decade. And that show got canceled because the frontman got covid the night before.

Then they were supposed to pay a festival near here, but they announced right before that they were never going to tour America again because of all the fascist bullshit.

Jimi Hendrix

I wanted to see Ghost one of the few times they were coming to my city, but it just didn't work out. I was going to buy tickets to Rammstein, but then covid happened, the singer caught covid, and they cancelled the tour. I was going to go to RATM at all costs for their reunion, and then Zach broke his leg.

David Bowie cause you know he's dead.

Rammstein, Scooter, Magdalena Bay, Poppy, Red Vox are what immediately come to mind.

Some bucket list artists have shown up here. I did get to see Doug Stanhope, Days N' Daze, In This Moment, and Jinjer. Edit: Slipknot too!

Alberta does get some attention but there's a lot of big gaps in certain genres. Rammstein did play here, I just fucking found out after the fact of course 😢. Back in 2011.

In Australia, we're lucky to get anyone foreign visiting our shores. Pearl Jam did come out last year, but nosebleed tickets were >$360 each, so that was a hard "nope".

But there's almost any price that my wife and I would pay to see Angels and Airwaves.

there's a Mongolian black death metal band out there that I thought would be really cool to see; they actually went on a world tour and played about 10 miles from me (in the US) but I didn't go.

I should have gone. :(

Glenn Miller

Literally any of them. In the southeast it feels like there’s D.C. and Atlanta, but nobody really stops in between. Can’t blame them though.

I've always wished I could see S3RL live but there's no chance of a niche rave dj from Australia doing a show in the UK, even less of a chance doing one anywhere I could make it to too.

Der Weg Einer Freiheit.

They haven't had an opportunity to tour North America yet. I saw them in France about 3 years ago though. Absolutely killer show and band. Underrated as hell.

I was really hyped to see Teenage Wrist last year, but the “headliner” of their tour - a far less notable act, in my opinion - got sick or something and the whole tour got cancelled. Shame. I’d have paid double to just see a longer set of Teenage Wrist without the headliner.

Riverside. Truckfighters. Witchcraft. Porcupine tree.

They dont come to the US because we have awful music taste.

I'm lucky in that I've seen a majority of bands I want to see live (feasibly). There are a few exceptions, but they aren't bands that I feel like I am incomplete without having witnessed.

Consider the Source would be one https://considerthesourcemusic.bandcamp.com/track/you-won-a-goat

I had behold the arctopus as a white whale since I found out about them around 2007 and they were visiting london while I was away from there. "Yankee bands come by all the time, I'll see them next tour" I said. Next tour was in 2013, they were only touring the US. I JUST got out of my overdraft. "I can't afford to at this time I said". Next tour was 2018, and 4 dates in Northeast USA.

I saw them. In case you aren't aware, BTA is an instrumental power trio playing heavily counterpoint based tech death.* The guitar player was sick. (he was unable to attend because he was ill, as well as being sick as in impressive)

I am considering it a win that I got to see Colin Marston at least.

I would have liked to have seen Estradasphere, but the band split up. I saw some of their members as part of Secret Chiefs 3, that's good enough for me.

I found out about Zu by seeing them live, so that worked out pretty good.

* I mean, all tech death is based, but this is based on counterpoint

Wintergatan would probably be among the only ones I'd be interested in going to see.

Motorhead :(

I'm from south america, so my chances are already slim, but I've been lucky to have watched The Living Tombstone and My Chemical Romace live, which are some of my favorite bands.

Most of the solo artists I like are very niche, or not big enough for a worldwide tour, so I know it's gona take years for me to be able to see Ren, Rio Romeo, Will Wood or Femtanyl live.

The Springbok Nude Girls

Luckily I live not too far from both Houston and Dallas, so that rarely happens. I think the only show I've wanted to go to that I would have to travel more than 4 hours for is Ron White, because he's usually in Vegas.

Most of them never come to my part of the country. But to be honest I probably won’t go anyways. Most bands are not that good live in concert anyways. I’ve seen videos even professionally done videos of certain bands, and certain singers videos where they were live on stage and I’m just thinking, I don’t know if I’d pay to ever see this.

That and you have way too many people who think it’s OK to put a massive sign in front of you. Hey look now I can’t see anything. Or everybody having their arms up holding their phone and to be honest I just don’t see the benefit of that. Put the phones away enjoy the moment. To me it just detracts from it. I’m tall, but when everybody’s got their arms up, guess what they’re blocking my view of the stage. It’s a sea of arms and phones. Like I said, I just don’t enjoy it.

I wouldn't mind if Lordi came to the US again. I got to see them once, but some drunk guy kept bumping into me the whole time so it was pretty distracting.

Imperial Circus Dead Decadence

Rammstein

Smashing Pumpkins

My beloved