Live Album?

[James1]

So the TSO Facebook and X pages have been active lately with a requiem and Beethoven clip from that tour and asking people to follow them on Spotify and Apple Music “for more” something coming down the pipeline? Seems more teasing than anything, but still interesting.

[danfromnj]

I don’t think a live album is on the offing.  But being down in attendance by 6% last year sure seems to have gotten them to be aggressive on socials.  They hired an ad agency that is running ads on YouTube and elsewhere that encourage people to sign up for their mailing list with the promise of possible ticket giveaways.  And now they are trying to get people to follow their Apple Music account.  Seems to be an effort to build up a bigger fanbase online.  IMHO.

If you’re a Wizards of Winter fan, they DO have a live album coming out this year - a 2 CD set recorded on the 2023 tour. It will include their original music along with the narration.  They say “We are doing this " Old School" style...no backing tracks or tricks. Just the band recorded live.”

[SammyGIII]

I don’t think a live album is on the offing.  But being down in attendance by 6% last year sure seems to have gotten them to be aggressive on socials.  They hired an ad agency that is running ads on YouTube and elsewhere that encourage people to sign up for their mailing list with the promise of possible ticket giveaways.  And now they are trying to get people to follow their Apple Music account.  Seems to be an effort to build up a bigger fanbase online.  IMHO.

If you’re a Wizards of Winter fan, they DO have a live album coming out this year - a 2 CD set recorded on the 2023 tour. It will include their original music along with the narration.  They say “We are doing this " Old School" style...no backing tracks or tricks. Just the band recorded live.”

What they need to do is release new music, and then push that in their advertising. Yearly tours are cool, and all, but it’s almost been almost 10 years since any new music has been released.

[James1]

I don’t think a live album is on the offing.  But being down in attendance by 6% last year sure seems to have gotten them to be aggressive on socials.  They hired an ad agency that is running ads on YouTube and elsewhere that encourage people to sign up for their mailing list with the promise of possible ticket giveaways.  And now they are trying to get people to follow their Apple Music account.  Seems to be an effort to build up a bigger fanbase online.  IMHO.

If you’re a Wizards of Winter fan, they DO have a live album coming out this year - a 2 CD set recorded on the 2023 tour. It will include their original music along with the narration.  They say “We are doing this " Old School" style...no backing tracks or tricks. Just the band recorded live.”

What they need to do is release new music, and then push that in their advertising. Yearly tours are cool, and all, but it’s almost been almost 10 years since any new music has been released.

Agreed. But I don’t think that’ll happen. We were lucky to Carousels of Christmas Lights two years ago and it seems that was thrown together last minute. It’ll be interesting to see what happens as the core band member get older.