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Eeeeeeek! I'm so excited, I just had to make sure y'all knew about it, too!
It's been over 17 years since Evanescence last came to Winnipeg, and I was too young and poor to go to that concert! I can't waiiiiit!
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Minor correction, Evanescence was here 13 years ago as one of the acts for Rock on the Range.
Ah, my bad! I didn't know about that show, but same thing back then!
And goddamn were they ever unbelievable then. Can't wait for this!
I'd go just for Halestorm. Seen them 4 or 5 times now, Absolutely killer show they put on
Saw them when they came with avenged sevenfold like a decade ago.
Great band live.
I was also at that show! Halestrom was also here last year with Volbeat. Another great show
Funny enough. I think I've seen Halestorm probably 3-4 times in Winnipeg now, basically on each of their album cycles without them ever being the headliner, or the one I intended to go to the concert for.
Volbeat last year. Stone Sour in 2018. Three Days Grace in 2015 and Uproar Festival 2010. Always a good show though!
TIL Evanescence is still an active band.
AND HALESTORM!!!!!!!
No less exciting but Lizzy must have a love for our city or Canada in general, she's here almost as often as Paul Mckenzie (Real Mckenzies)
They put on one hell of a good show always though despite it being mostly recorded non-live vocals.
I was at that show 17 years ago! Stone Sour was amazing, Evanescence was amazing.
Fuck that makes me feel old hearing it was 17 years ago. 😬
I was at that show too! I just got my tickets for this show. So excited!
Ahhhhhhh, I'm so jealous! I wish I was at that one, too! It was to hype up The Open Door, too, which is a fantastic album! ðŸ˜
I stood in line to buy tickets back when we'd buy at the MTS centre in person. I was one of the first people in line. 😂 I think I was in grade 11.
That sounds so fun! I would have been in grade 8, I think? Oh well, at least I've finally got a chance to see them, lol! Gonna have to make it a night to remember!
Me too!! Won the tickets on the radio in grade 8
Within Temptation needs to come to Winnipeg soon!!
Saw them most recently last June. It was....not great. Her voice nowadays is best left in studio.
Man, that's a band I haven't heard of in a loooong time! Would be a dope show for sure!
Check out some of their new albums if you haven't!
I wanted to see them with korn, that would have been epic
They were really good the last two times they were here.
Amy Lee sounds horrible live and anyone that says otherwise is tone deaf.
I’m still poor but yay
OH MY GODDDDDD
I'm jazzed! I saw Halestorm in 2015 or so when they opened for Three Days Grace in Edmonton. I've never seen Evanescence, but definitely grew up listening to them too. Gonna be a sick show!
Yahoo!!!!
It's an absolute tragedy that Halestorm is opening for them. Should be the headliners with evanescence opening...
How does Evanescence take the main act over Halestorm in 2024!? I think Evanescence should be opening for them, personally
It's a nostalgia tour. On these, the nostalgia act always gets top billing.
It's not a nostalgia tour. Evanescence is releasing music still and Halestorm does not qualify at all for a nostalgia tour - this is just a band touring. Not every band who has been around for a few years is doing a "nostalgia tour".
Evanescence hasn't released a new album in 6 years. There was a nice little stint there where they least one album in 2016, 2017 and 2018, but before that their releases were in 2011, 2006, 2004(this was a live album so I don't really think it counts as it's not a studio album) in 2003. I don't think this qualifies as still making music. The 2023 remastered version of Fallen is not new music.
In 2023 they re-released their first album. They are not touring a new album which is what artists generally do after or shortly after releasing one.
I'm a big fan and I will be going, but Evanescence in 2024 is 100% nostalgia tour. And that's not a bad thing.
Generally, a nostalgia tour will have newer bands open up for them to get the people who may have lapsed or might not be aware of who the headliner is, the idea being to attract multiple generations of fans. That said, Halestorm has been around since 1999, so I'm not sure what your point is there.
Halestorm has not been around since 1999 lmao, they were formed then but this is clearly you just like googling how long they've been "active". They formed the band when they were teenagers but didn't release an album until 2009, and didn't really see much success until their second album in 2012. Much different than some preteens practicing in their house in 1999.
Anyways I knew all the stuff you said in your comment I just don't agree that is what a nostalgia tour is. Releasing a moderately successful album 6 years ago is not that long, especially when covid was in that time frame.
A nostalgia tour is those like "I love the 90s" tours or tours packaging together like Poison, Ratt, and Motley Crue (not a real tour, just an example) that are specifically trying to utilize nostalgia from a certain era to get people to go. This is not that, it is Evanescence touring - which is appealing to Evanescence fans. It's different entirely.
I mean it doesn't really matter since you didn't mean it negatively but it's still not what the phrase means.
Time Man came out in 99. Do EP's not count? Because they released another before I Get Off came out.
Maybe it's not labeled a nostalgia tour but they are selling tickets based off of nostalgia, thus fitting the description of nostalgia tour.
You and I just disagree on what does and what does not fit the description for being called a nostalgia tour.
I love how you are googling to try to prove your point and not understanding how it is not relevant 🤣🤣
I've followed Halestorm since their first national tour. If you don't believe me that's fine but you are inherently incorrect about how long they've "been around" in any meaningful way that people use the term.
I'm not going to argue with you about how long either of us have been a fan because it's clear that we've both been listening to Halestorm for quite some time. You don't agree that it's a nostalgia tour, cool. I think you're wrong. Cool.
Evanescence did put an album out 3 years ago, just not as popular as their early stuff. They're still a festival headliner though off that old stuff though & do play the new stuff live and not just a greatest hits set.
So I wouldn't quite put them in the full nostalgia act like say Pantera or System of a Down who's newest song they play live in 2024 is 20+ years old. And aren't planning to write more music either
Evanescence Discography (excluding EPs and remixes)
Origin (2000)
Fallen (2003)
The Open Door (2006)
Evanescence (2011)
Synthesis (2017)
The Bitter Truth (2021)
Mmm not even close. Amy Lee has been one of the top performing women in metal for a lot longer than Lzzy Hale.
Maybe it's because one band has 7 million subscribers on youtube, and the other has 1 million?
Maybe it's because one band has over a billion views on their most popular video, and the other has collectively as many views on their top eight videos combined as the 3rd most popular of the other band.
Maybe it's because one band has a bunch of nostalgia from a generation that grew up watching Muchmusic, and the other is a band that no one has ever heard of.
Amy?
Lots of people have heard of Halestorm lol they are one of the most popular current day rock bands.
But they still shouldn't headline over Evanescence, who have tons of sales and name recognition.
Not sure why we need to disparage things we clearly don't know what we're talking about with in order to prove a point. Halestorm are quite popular, but the landscape for rock music has changed a lot since Evanescence was first around.
It doesn't even have to make sense by the numbers tbh.
Sometimes it's just how many songs they can or want to perform.
I went to a concert where the opening band was newer, had 1 album and a couple of EPs, but they were popular had had about 100x the monthly listens on Spotify vs the headlining act.
The main group was older, not as popular anymore, but still popular enough to tour and they had a decent back catalog of stuff.
Sometimes it's just as simple as they're both under the same lable or group, and that's what they decided.
Sometimes bands that could be headline performances don't want to do a full tour and a regional tour as the opener for a band doing a much larger tour, of which they just join for part of
I like Halestorm like a hundred times more than Evanescence but in no way is Halestorm a bigger draw than them.
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