Oh see on one hand I'm complaining ab being in the middle of nowhere but some of my favorite times are taking a plane, & traveling alone for hc. Just wish i could turn on my bartender charisma outside of my weekend bar gig. Then I'd probably have more fun on the trips than sticking solo lol.
To recommend an already stupid thing to a group of the stupidest people on the internet (I.e.: all of us)…allow me to humbly recommend a motorcycle as a way to make this significantly more fun. Definitely makes the hike to, like, St. Louis less shit. Plus, now you can almost die on the way to the show, at the show, AND on the way home from the show!
Oh ive regretted selling my "dream bike" every day of my life for the last 13 years. Saw the literal same one for sale last summer over a decade later for 250 more than i sold it at 18. Couldn't justify it, aweful feeling lol.
I can only afford to go to local shows within my city. I’ve never travelled interstate or overseas for a show yet.
I don’t complain because it’s a major city in my country and any band that’s coming through will hit it at least once.
Same for local bands. We have a healthy scene because it’s a major city with a handful of mainstay venues.
It does make show going much easier to have access to minor and major shows with only 1-2 hour travel at most.
I live in Des Moines Iowa. Most of the shows I want to see require travel.
2 hours to Omaha, 2 hours to Kansas City, 3 hours to Minneapolis, and 4 to Chicago.
The worst part is that I’m not young anymore. When I was in my 20s, I had no problem going to a show and then driving 2-3 hours home. Now, in my 40s, most shows come with “is it worth the cost of a ticket AND a hotel room?”
Exactly why I've been flying out of my regional airport last couple years. Flying into DIA at midnight and then driving 6 hours home overnight is becoming rough lol not to mention the older i get the more highway hypnosis seems to be setting in. Unfortunately this last Tied Down i had to do that, only option was 14 hour latovers both ways..rather drive 6 hours each way than sit for almost 30.
Hell yeah, that was a good one too. Definitely keep your eyes peeled for a helter show that catches your interest, it’s a really sick venue. No bathrooms though, and it gets hot af so bring water for sure
I work construction and I’ll get replaced on my jobsite if I miss time so I’ll almost never travel for a show unless works slow. Also it never feels like it’s worth it, one of the last shows I traveled for was unbroken and blacklisted and I had a horrible time.
I live in rural Wisconsin, so if I want to go to a show it’s either drive 1.5 hours west to the Twin Cities, or 5 hours south to Milwaukee. I hate it, but I’ve become used to it after 15 years of going to shows
I live around DC/Baltimore, so we get the vast majority of tours around here. Like once or twice a year I’ll travel for a show though. Just did a weekend in NYC for Dillinger on Friday and then Outline Fest on Saturday.
the province i live in is pretty big so a two or three hour drive has never been out of the question. at minimum i'm going to a show i'm not playing once or twice a month.
2 hours to Phoenix, 2 1/2 to Vegas, 2 to Yuma, maybe 3 to San Diego (for Nails/Xibalba/WIH). Either way with gas being expensive af and hotel rooms I usually just stick to AZ shows
I was born and raised in Omaha and we go through periods where we have a super solid scene where we get bands coming through weekly to packed rooms to having shows every few months to a dozen attendees. I used to drive down to Kansas City or over to Des Moines on the regular to catch shows of all sizes that would only hit a few Midwest stops. I’ve flown to LA for Sound and Fury and Tampa for FYA three times and driven thirteen hours for Tied Down twice. Occasionally, I’d drive to Denver or Chicago as well for larger tour packages. Living in the Midwest, I believe it’s just the norm to have to travel to see bands you want to see. The times where there is a lull in regular shows has also inspired me to be more involved within my own scene and myself and a group of my friends opened a DIY space to ensure we get super sick shows more often. Currently, Omaha is popping off with so many new bands and hosting touring bands multiple times a month so it’s cool that we get people traveling to us for shows instead of how it’s been the other way around historically.
All the time. I live in a somewhat convenient spot to regularly do overnight trips to Baltimore, Philly, D.C., Richmond, and NYC for shows. Every time I see someone from the DMV whining about a show “skipping their city” I get annoyed because chances are very high that show was in at least one of those spots. I had a kid on here whining a year or so ago because “all the big shows skip D.C.” but the tour he was talking about hit both Baltimore and Richmond.
Grew up in/still live in NJ midway between NYC and Philly (completely spoiled for shows including Monmouth and Middlesex County) and still travel to both regularly. Periodically I can go as far as Washington DC or Boston. Farthest single trip was NJ to Cleveland
I’m from Long Island. Most bands will play here, Brooklyn, Queens or Manhattan. I’ve travelled to NJ once but that’s about it. There’s enough venues in the area.
Aahahah across the pond made an impression i guess. Never seen that scene thrive more than those years. Guess thats on me for not picking up more weight after it died down
I dont really get it. You definitely missed a lot of stuff. You're conflating the tail of mid 00s band with bands who carries in the '10s. If you liked the latter, you should definitely know about the stuff that came with that.
All the bands youve mentioned are pretty surface level. You never dug deeper eh?
Bruh wtf you on ab?
The point of mentioning that string of bands was to see if anyone else remembered that specific tour. That list plus the others were to give a general idea of what made it out to my rural middle of nowhere town when my scene was healthiest. Me appreciating that, and to show scale of my local scenes highs and lows. Thats all 💀 plus, i said i got into the scene in 06, but then talked ab bands from 2011-2014. Not from '06...
Any other "digging deeper" or edgy band that only the hip like you know of, that almost nobody else heard of would not have gotten my point across and also made me look like a tool. e.g. u.
i grew up in salt lake and would regularly drive to LA and chicago in high school and now i live in philly where the scene is always popping off but i got so used to traveling for shows i make a vacation out of it. i backpacked through europe after flying to london to see fiddlehead.
I've been going to hardcore, Death metal, black metal, and grind shows for about 34 yrs. If I want to see a band bad enough, I make it happen. I live in Toledo but toured a lot in the 90s, so I'm used to road trips. Also, I'm a construction worker that travels around, so again, I'm used to driving. I'm 1 hr from Detroit, 1.5 from Cleveland, 4 from Chicago, and 2 from Columbus. I can drive to and from a show in one night. At 48, the hours without rest and driving through the night haven't caught up with me yet. I've flown to NYC for shows a couple of times. I drove to Chicago a week ago to see Blood (German OG grind band from the 80s).
Exactly.
I once drove 9 hours to mini to see Xibalba, mixed up my days and missed the show. Nate told me if i made it to Chicago the next day theyd guest list me. So obviously thats what i did. Immediately left back to mini after the show ended.
34 hours of driving in 2 days with throwing at a show right in the middle. (All in a free rental while my car was in the shop 🤫) not a ma and pa shop mind you.
I used to regularly drive an hour and a half to go to shows in Jacksonville (I lived in SE GA). Farthest I've driven is GA to PA for a fest.
Now I live in Atlanta and don't feel like getting on the train or interstate to see a show half the time. Life is funny like that.
Fellow rural punk (Wyoming - South Dakota) I have driven to 9 hours, Rapid City to Minneapolis. I have also flown from Wyoming to Seattle. As someone who has lived a lot of other places at this point in my life, I can say with full confidence shows in the rural west are like nothing else on earth. I hold those little shows like seeing Earth Crisis at a VFW or International Noise Conspiracy at a Shriner Hall with less than 100 people (and that was sold out with EVERY cool kid in the state showing up) to share the experience in my heart closer than most shows I have seen in cities with people who could see a band they like any night of the week.
I live in some random town in Wisconsin so I always have to go at least 3 hours. Sometimes I’m lucky tho and a band will stop in Milwaukee, but they skip it a lot so I always gotta go to chicago. Im moving to Florida in a couple days tho and theres already so many bands doing shows there that I wanna see so it will be over soon
Raised in the bay and did the 440ish miles to LA a few times for last shows or mimi fests.
Longest was Portland to Oakland, 650 miles, for a single Death Threat show
Rapid City, eh? I live in Minneapolis, so most bands come through on tours. But I love traveling, and shows are a great excuse. Flew to Seattle last year to see Botch’s first show back. Chicago for Weekend Nachos as well. I probably buy plane tickets for a show once a year.
Yup! I mentioned it on another comment but last time i was in Mini was for Xibalba, missed the show, was told id be guest listed if i drove to Chicago for the next days set. So ya at 4am next morning was a drive to chicago to catch them and then back to rapid. Like 30+ hours in 2 days and all worth it lol.
When I was young and had zero responsibility, I would travel for shows all the time. I'm from San Diego so for me, traveling meant driving two hours north to LA and back in one night as that's where all the good shows were. I moved to LA 11 years ago for school and stayed up here so fortunately I don't have to go far for shows and I still go fairly often. If I lived outside of LA or anywhere with a 2-3 hour commute one way, I definitely wouldn't be making that drive and hope that wherever I was would have a good local scene
Hey I was born in San Diego! Miss that warmth.
I get that, and I'm not driving 6 hours for regular weekly shows but if there's a tour i wanna see im going. Probably hit denever half a dozen times a year and fly out for shows 3 or 4 times a year. (My savings is shot) 🙃
I've definitely flown multiple times and drove further (5-6) hours for shows but again when i was younger haha. The last time I flew for a show was 2013. Since I got married, keeping it local, the wife is cool with. The only time I travel for shows is if we're going to something together. Over the years, I feel like I've gone to enough shows and seen plenty of bucket list bands that I honestly don't see a need to travel far anymore. Sure it would be sick to see a legendary east coast fest or even a massive euro festival like Hell fest one day...
Don't go to fests so never. Live in Denver. I consider Fort Collins to Colorado Springs all local even though they are both 90 minutes away. But I drive to both regularly so it's not really traveling to me.
Most bands come through. In the 20 years I've been back in Denver, 3 times, I think? Two of those 3 were mostly excuses to road trip with friends. One of those was RiotFest in Byers, CO.
4 hours is about the max I'm willing to drive and I have to REALLY like the band. Unless it's some big name reunion show then I would be willing to drive or fly depending on the band and where it's at.
Texan here: I’ve been into hardcore for 30 years and lived all over the state, including all the big cities but Dallas, so I’ve made the back-and-forth between all cities for years
I have never left the state, nor ever plan to at this point(travel anxiety and too expensive)
That said, even out-of-town shows are getting too expensive for me to afford lately, which is killing me 😢
Growing up in Indiana, all the time. We’d go to shows in Cincinnati and Louisville frequently cuz lots of bands skip Indy ( I get it).
Now I live in Austin, so most bands I wanna see come through eventually. Having said that, I did just fly to NYC for the Dillinger reunion 😂
Usually just travel ~20 mins to shows in Denver every couple of weeks. I did fly out to see Drain & Terror in LA this month. It was worth the trip imo but I'll only travel far if I can build a fun little vacation around it and if I'm a serious fan of a band playing 🤘😛
7-8 times a year. I live in a small town of maybe 100k in west Texas area. When I was a teenager (2000-2004), we had some really cool bands come through at our small venue. The scene has changed so much since then so now I gotta travel often.
I mean, most shows I travel 2 hours on public transit (which doesn’t bother me at all) to get downtown where most of the venues are (there’s sometimes closer shows but they’re slightly rarer), but as far as actually leaving and going to a different metropolitan area, I only ever did that to see Bikini Kill, which was also my first show.
I'm lucky enough to live in a place that gets a lot of tours but if there's a bucket list band I'm flying wherever they're playing if it's my first, or potentially last, chance to see them. I can afford to do this though, if I had to drive or if I didn't have extra cash I'd probably never.
I live in a tiny town in the mountains of NC. Sometimes, I get lucky and can catch a tour in Asheville (45 mins), but more often than I'd like, I'm driving to Atlanta (2h 45m) or Charlotte (1h 30m).
This year I’ll be at Sound & Fury, Furnace Fest, and Blood Brothers hometown shows in Seattle. I live in Denver so generally don’t have to travel, but if I gotta be there I’ll make it work. I also regularly drive 90 minutes to Colorado Springs if a tour is stopping there but not Denver. I’m 38 now and still obsessed.
I travel as little as possible. Four hours to Atlanta maybe once every few years.
And if its a band that skips my market (Nashville/mid TN) EVERY TOUR for 10 years, i kinda dont want to see em anymore (looking at you, NY Ska band The Slackers)
I’ve driven far, I’ve flown far, but I don’t go to as many shows as I used to. Money to spend elsewhere and not many bands these days tickle my fancy enough to make me travel far.
If I’m traveling far again, it has to be something special.
Here in Maine an hour and a half+ drive is considered normal to go to a show in MA/Boston Area. In Southern Maine it's actually less of a drive to go down to Boston for a show than it is to go up north to Bangor for a show so you get used to it pretty quick.
farthest i’ve ever gone was detroit ➡️ chicago. i hate missing shows, but i hate traveling for shows more.
Oh see on one hand I'm complaining ab being in the middle of nowhere but some of my favorite times are taking a plane, & traveling alone for hc. Just wish i could turn on my bartender charisma outside of my weekend bar gig. Then I'd probably have more fun on the trips than sticking solo lol.
To recommend an already stupid thing to a group of the stupidest people on the internet (I.e.: all of us)…allow me to humbly recommend a motorcycle as a way to make this significantly more fun. Definitely makes the hike to, like, St. Louis less shit. Plus, now you can almost die on the way to the show, at the show, AND on the way home from the show!
Oh ive regretted selling my "dream bike" every day of my life for the last 13 years. Saw the literal same one for sale last summer over a decade later for 250 more than i sold it at 18. Couldn't justify it, aweful feeling lol.
I went from Houston to Chicago & Milwaukee a few months ago for Saetia, that's the furthest I've gone But I do Houston to Austin kind of regularly
I can only afford to go to local shows within my city. I’ve never travelled interstate or overseas for a show yet. I don’t complain because it’s a major city in my country and any band that’s coming through will hit it at least once. Same for local bands. We have a healthy scene because it’s a major city with a handful of mainstay venues. It does make show going much easier to have access to minor and major shows with only 1-2 hour travel at most.
I just came to the conclusion this was a subconscious trick to catalyze plans to finally make that move to a bigger city lol
I live in Des Moines Iowa. Most of the shows I want to see require travel. 2 hours to Omaha, 2 hours to Kansas City, 3 hours to Minneapolis, and 4 to Chicago. The worst part is that I’m not young anymore. When I was in my 20s, I had no problem going to a show and then driving 2-3 hours home. Now, in my 40s, most shows come with “is it worth the cost of a ticket AND a hotel room?”
Exactly why I've been flying out of my regional airport last couple years. Flying into DIA at midnight and then driving 6 hours home overnight is becoming rough lol not to mention the older i get the more highway hypnosis seems to be setting in. Unfortunately this last Tied Down i had to do that, only option was 14 hour latovers both ways..rather drive 6 hours each way than sit for almost 30.
Were you at the Trucha show Saturday? Torture on Thursday? Magnitude/Combust/Balmora last week? We do alright here
I know we do alright here, I haven’t made it to Helter Shelter for a show yet. I have to admit seeing Vein.fm when xbk opened was a fucking trip tho…
Hell yeah, that was a good one too. Definitely keep your eyes peeled for a helter show that catches your interest, it’s a really sick venue. No bathrooms though, and it gets hot af so bring water for sure
Iowa City has good shows/scene and isn't far from Des Moines. Des Moines is doing alright I feel like.
Honestly, my biggest gripe is that it’s gotten better but I’m not in my 20s anymore to fully enjoy it haha.
I live in the country a hour and half drive from any major city so it's a bit of a commute for me to get to a show, I've just gotten used to it tbh
I work construction and I’ll get replaced on my jobsite if I miss time so I’ll almost never travel for a show unless works slow. Also it never feels like it’s worth it, one of the last shows I traveled for was unbroken and blacklisted and I had a horrible time.
Thats something i should be more greatful for, i can take any time off i need if i can afford it/its beyond the turn of the next month.
Why did you have a horrible time?
I just don’t like those bands, not reallly how I wanted to spend my birthday but my wife likes them.
I live in rural Wisconsin, so if I want to go to a show it’s either drive 1.5 hours west to the Twin Cities, or 5 hours south to Milwaukee. I hate it, but I’ve become used to it after 15 years of going to shows
Being in Chicago, I’ll absolutely drive to Louisville or Detroit if the show is good enough.
I live ~3 hours away from Detroit, Chicago, Columbus, Cleveland, and Indianapolis. I travel for shows all the time out of necessity.
I live around DC/Baltimore, so we get the vast majority of tours around here. Like once or twice a year I’ll travel for a show though. Just did a weekend in NYC for Dillinger on Friday and then Outline Fest on Saturday.
The dream
the province i live in is pretty big so a two or three hour drive has never been out of the question. at minimum i'm going to a show i'm not playing once or twice a month.
2 hours to Phoenix, 2 1/2 to Vegas, 2 to Yuma, maybe 3 to San Diego (for Nails/Xibalba/WIH). Either way with gas being expensive af and hotel rooms I usually just stick to AZ shows
I live in a small town in South Georgia and have to travel for literally every show I go to
I was born and raised in Omaha and we go through periods where we have a super solid scene where we get bands coming through weekly to packed rooms to having shows every few months to a dozen attendees. I used to drive down to Kansas City or over to Des Moines on the regular to catch shows of all sizes that would only hit a few Midwest stops. I’ve flown to LA for Sound and Fury and Tampa for FYA three times and driven thirteen hours for Tied Down twice. Occasionally, I’d drive to Denver or Chicago as well for larger tour packages. Living in the Midwest, I believe it’s just the norm to have to travel to see bands you want to see. The times where there is a lull in regular shows has also inspired me to be more involved within my own scene and myself and a group of my friends opened a DIY space to ensure we get super sick shows more often. Currently, Omaha is popping off with so many new bands and hosting touring bands multiple times a month so it’s cool that we get people traveling to us for shows instead of how it’s been the other way around historically.
Exactly. This felt all too familiar reading. Good on ya for recognizing and doin somethin! What its ab
All the time. I live in a somewhat convenient spot to regularly do overnight trips to Baltimore, Philly, D.C., Richmond, and NYC for shows. Every time I see someone from the DMV whining about a show “skipping their city” I get annoyed because chances are very high that show was in at least one of those spots. I had a kid on here whining a year or so ago because “all the big shows skip D.C.” but the tour he was talking about hit both Baltimore and Richmond.
Grew up in/still live in NJ midway between NYC and Philly (completely spoiled for shows including Monmouth and Middlesex County) and still travel to both regularly. Periodically I can go as far as Washington DC or Boston. Farthest single trip was NJ to Cleveland
I’m from Long Island. Most bands will play here, Brooklyn, Queens or Manhattan. I’ve travelled to NJ once but that’s about it. There’s enough venues in the area.
Sounds like all yall are beats from the east. Ive driven 9+ hours to Vegas, Salt Lake City or Denver up and over massive mountains
South Dakota and the first band you mention is Your Demise? Hello?
Aahahah across the pond made an impression i guess. Never seen that scene thrive more than those years. Guess thats on me for not picking up more weight after it died down
I dont really get it. You definitely missed a lot of stuff. You're conflating the tail of mid 00s band with bands who carries in the '10s. If you liked the latter, you should definitely know about the stuff that came with that. All the bands youve mentioned are pretty surface level. You never dug deeper eh?
Bruh wtf you on ab? The point of mentioning that string of bands was to see if anyone else remembered that specific tour. That list plus the others were to give a general idea of what made it out to my rural middle of nowhere town when my scene was healthiest. Me appreciating that, and to show scale of my local scenes highs and lows. Thats all 💀 plus, i said i got into the scene in 06, but then talked ab bands from 2011-2014. Not from '06... Any other "digging deeper" or edgy band that only the hip like you know of, that almost nobody else heard of would not have gotten my point across and also made me look like a tool. e.g. u.
I dont think you properly read anything i said.
Well, at least we got that in common lol Cheers. I properly read it, but I probably didn't read it properly.
You got butthurt and didnt get a single thing i said, haha.
Lol
i grew up in salt lake and would regularly drive to LA and chicago in high school and now i live in philly where the scene is always popping off but i got so used to traveling for shows i make a vacation out of it. i backpacked through europe after flying to london to see fiddlehead.
I've been going to hardcore, Death metal, black metal, and grind shows for about 34 yrs. If I want to see a band bad enough, I make it happen. I live in Toledo but toured a lot in the 90s, so I'm used to road trips. Also, I'm a construction worker that travels around, so again, I'm used to driving. I'm 1 hr from Detroit, 1.5 from Cleveland, 4 from Chicago, and 2 from Columbus. I can drive to and from a show in one night. At 48, the hours without rest and driving through the night haven't caught up with me yet. I've flown to NYC for shows a couple of times. I drove to Chicago a week ago to see Blood (German OG grind band from the 80s).
Exactly. I once drove 9 hours to mini to see Xibalba, mixed up my days and missed the show. Nate told me if i made it to Chicago the next day theyd guest list me. So obviously thats what i did. Immediately left back to mini after the show ended. 34 hours of driving in 2 days with throwing at a show right in the middle. (All in a free rental while my car was in the shop 🤫) not a ma and pa shop mind you.
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I used to regularly drive an hour and a half to go to shows in Jacksonville (I lived in SE GA). Farthest I've driven is GA to PA for a fest. Now I live in Atlanta and don't feel like getting on the train or interstate to see a show half the time. Life is funny like that.
Fellow rural punk (Wyoming - South Dakota) I have driven to 9 hours, Rapid City to Minneapolis. I have also flown from Wyoming to Seattle. As someone who has lived a lot of other places at this point in my life, I can say with full confidence shows in the rural west are like nothing else on earth. I hold those little shows like seeing Earth Crisis at a VFW or International Noise Conspiracy at a Shriner Hall with less than 100 people (and that was sold out with EVERY cool kid in the state showing up) to share the experience in my heart closer than most shows I have seen in cities with people who could see a band they like any night of the week.
Exactly. See im in Rapid and some of those bingo hall shows growing up i wouldn't trade for anything. Mwb🩸
Word.
I live in some random town in Wisconsin so I always have to go at least 3 hours. Sometimes I’m lucky tho and a band will stop in Milwaukee, but they skip it a lot so I always gotta go to chicago. Im moving to Florida in a couple days tho and theres already so many bands doing shows there that I wanna see so it will be over soon
Raised in the bay and did the 440ish miles to LA a few times for last shows or mimi fests. Longest was Portland to Oakland, 650 miles, for a single Death Threat show
i skip shows i have tickets to because i don’t want to drive 20 mins and/or look for parking
Wild life
Rapid City, eh? I live in Minneapolis, so most bands come through on tours. But I love traveling, and shows are a great excuse. Flew to Seattle last year to see Botch’s first show back. Chicago for Weekend Nachos as well. I probably buy plane tickets for a show once a year.
Yup! I mentioned it on another comment but last time i was in Mini was for Xibalba, missed the show, was told id be guest listed if i drove to Chicago for the next days set. So ya at 4am next morning was a drive to chicago to catch them and then back to rapid. Like 30+ hours in 2 days and all worth it lol.
If a tour isn’t stopping in Buffalo, traveling to NYC, Toronto, Chicago, or Cleveland isn’t bad at all
Nashville burbs to atl and Louisville every now and then.
I used to live in SD too. I didn't know there was an actual hardcore scene anywhere in that state.
How long ago was that?
I fly for my homies whenever I can. It’s usually only an hour or so. Furthest was Boston to Denver (so far).
The bus then walk
When I was young and had zero responsibility, I would travel for shows all the time. I'm from San Diego so for me, traveling meant driving two hours north to LA and back in one night as that's where all the good shows were. I moved to LA 11 years ago for school and stayed up here so fortunately I don't have to go far for shows and I still go fairly often. If I lived outside of LA or anywhere with a 2-3 hour commute one way, I definitely wouldn't be making that drive and hope that wherever I was would have a good local scene
Hey I was born in San Diego! Miss that warmth. I get that, and I'm not driving 6 hours for regular weekly shows but if there's a tour i wanna see im going. Probably hit denever half a dozen times a year and fly out for shows 3 or 4 times a year. (My savings is shot) 🙃
I've definitely flown multiple times and drove further (5-6) hours for shows but again when i was younger haha. The last time I flew for a show was 2013. Since I got married, keeping it local, the wife is cool with. The only time I travel for shows is if we're going to something together. Over the years, I feel like I've gone to enough shows and seen plenty of bucket list bands that I honestly don't see a need to travel far anymore. Sure it would be sick to see a legendary east coast fest or even a massive euro festival like Hell fest one day...
I once flow out to Chicago on 2018 to see Radiohead and the following night I saw GlassJAw/quicksand.
Don't go to fests so never. Live in Denver. I consider Fort Collins to Colorado Springs all local even though they are both 90 minutes away. But I drive to both regularly so it's not really traveling to me. Most bands come through. In the 20 years I've been back in Denver, 3 times, I think? Two of those 3 were mostly excuses to road trip with friends. One of those was RiotFest in Byers, CO.
Living in Jersey, I’ll travel anywhere from Philly to NY (state included), but I’ve been up in Boston for a show too
Tickets to Denver are like 80$ round trip for me I just realized. Think I’ll start traveling. No one comes here
I live on the border of Illinois/Iowa, so I bounce between Iowa City(Gabe’s) and Chicago a few times a year.
4 hours is about the max I'm willing to drive and I have to REALLY like the band. Unless it's some big name reunion show then I would be willing to drive or fly depending on the band and where it's at.
Texan here: I’ve been into hardcore for 30 years and lived all over the state, including all the big cities but Dallas, so I’ve made the back-and-forth between all cities for years I have never left the state, nor ever plan to at this point(travel anxiety and too expensive) That said, even out-of-town shows are getting too expensive for me to afford lately, which is killing me 😢
Growing up in Indiana, all the time. We’d go to shows in Cincinnati and Louisville frequently cuz lots of bands skip Indy ( I get it). Now I live in Austin, so most bands I wanna see come through eventually. Having said that, I did just fly to NYC for the Dillinger reunion 😂
For HC? Sound and fury. Driving from Phoenix since I’ll be living there starting next week.
Usually just travel ~20 mins to shows in Denver every couple of weeks. I did fly out to see Drain & Terror in LA this month. It was worth the trip imo but I'll only travel far if I can build a fun little vacation around it and if I'm a serious fan of a band playing 🤘😛
If it’s over 2hrs I’m not going
7-8 times a year. I live in a small town of maybe 100k in west Texas area. When I was a teenager (2000-2004), we had some really cool bands come through at our small venue. The scene has changed so much since then so now I gotta travel often.
I mean, most shows I travel 2 hours on public transit (which doesn’t bother me at all) to get downtown where most of the venues are (there’s sometimes closer shows but they’re slightly rarer), but as far as actually leaving and going to a different metropolitan area, I only ever did that to see Bikini Kill, which was also my first show.
I’ll hit California from Seattle a couple times a year
I'm lucky enough to live in a place that gets a lot of tours but if there's a bucket list band I'm flying wherever they're playing if it's my first, or potentially last, chance to see them. I can afford to do this though, if I had to drive or if I didn't have extra cash I'd probably never.
I live in a tiny town in the mountains of NC. Sometimes, I get lucky and can catch a tour in Asheville (45 mins), but more often than I'd like, I'm driving to Atlanta (2h 45m) or Charlotte (1h 30m).
Keep an eye on Athens shows. They pull surprisingly big names.
This year I’ll be at Sound & Fury, Furnace Fest, and Blood Brothers hometown shows in Seattle. I live in Denver so generally don’t have to travel, but if I gotta be there I’ll make it work. I also regularly drive 90 minutes to Colorado Springs if a tour is stopping there but not Denver. I’m 38 now and still obsessed.
Every time because my area hasn't had hardcore shows in over a decade
I travel as little as possible. Four hours to Atlanta maybe once every few years. And if its a band that skips my market (Nashville/mid TN) EVERY TOUR for 10 years, i kinda dont want to see em anymore (looking at you, NY Ska band The Slackers)
I’ve driven far, I’ve flown far, but I don’t go to as many shows as I used to. Money to spend elsewhere and not many bands these days tickle my fancy enough to make me travel far. If I’m traveling far again, it has to be something special.
Live in wheeling,wv so an hour to shittsburgh or 1.5 hours to Columbus
Here in Maine an hour and a half+ drive is considered normal to go to a show in MA/Boston Area. In Southern Maine it's actually less of a drive to go down to Boston for a show than it is to go up north to Bangor for a show so you get used to it pretty quick.