christianatl wrote:Ain't THAT the truth.
Chicago is on the itinerary as well. We're just not big enough to draw a decent crowd on a weeknight in Grand rapids. Sorry buddy.
It's all good. Grand Rapids is a tough place for mid-level(??) or whatever bands that are headlining tours. Full of Hell & Weedeater brought in about 150. I've seen Young Widows bring in like 75. Baroness and Coliseum sold the place out. Torche played to 80. It can be weird. But the weeknight thing is generally more true than not.
Grand Rapids is a cool city but is much further from all of the other "bigger-isn" cities in Michigan. Detroit gets all of Metro Detroit, Flint, Saginaw, Bay City and Midland plus Lansing and then pulls from Toledo, OH and Windsor, Ontario. Definitely more stable when it comes to making sure you get some money off of merch sales, etc.
On top of that... Grand Rapids in the winter time can be the fucking pits.