#bet he goes somewhere southern and warm in Nov

[statementlou]

why do you reckon the fitf tour north american venues are so much smaller than the european ones? ive noticed louis is playing in a lot of non-major cities (what he called “secondary markets”) so that’s part of the reason but even in the major cities like la and nyc he’s playing much smaller venues than the europe ones. do you think this was a deliberate choice? or maybe he couldn’t book bigger ones bc promoters didn’t think he could sell them?

LTHQ are absolute masters of data mining;* all the pre-Walls promo was clever little things that required us to give our locations to access it and let them see where engagement was and in what numbers and plan accordingly. So while Louis has himself said, I want to go to secondary markets because they don't always get people coming there, and there is likely an element of trying to fill in gaps from last tour a bit, some of the reason for those locations could be that they know something we don't- IE that there are people there who want a show! I assume they're still using those metrics and gathering new ones and booking him in the right size venues for whichever locations (last time they ended up being a bit small for a lot of US shows but the delays caused by the pandemic changed things a lot I think, I'm guessing they did their best with all the weird shuffling); you'll also want to take into account the fact that they will almost certainly be announcing more dates after they sell the first round of tickets tomorrow- I bet we'll get those pretty soon, like second nights in various locations. And there are a lot of US shows that are closer together than a lot of places; like in LATAM (and Europe) he'll play one show per COUNTRY you know, and here in the US they're driving casually from one to the next because they're denser (like Cincinnati and Cleveland are just a few hours drive apart). So that's one reason for smaller venues. But also, it's an outdoor arena tour! (So fun!) So I'm thinking size is perhaps not the only factor in the choices. I bet one of these cool outdoor arenas is the mysterious US venue he already has his eye on for the year after next's AFHF.... Anyway I didn't look at capacity everywhere or anything though but at least near me he is playing venues 3 to 4 times bigger than he did on Walls tour, so while they may be smaller than Europe if you're right- they are not small. Anyway while we're on the topic, did everyone see how today on the Rolling Stone stream when they said he was touring until Nov Louis looked straight into the camera and smirked and said "if that is the end"? Lmao. Anyway we should be getting the rest of the world dates soon, maybe some for before the US dates, probably some in the empty month (August) between US and Europe, and I guess definitely more after the UK too! When he said that, I was wondering if he'd do the same thing as Walls tour and go from smallest to biggest shows, starting with the US and ending with LATAM, but I guess we will see soon enough...

(*real data mining that is not stalking or whatever some people seem to think data mining is)