Robert Levine

She performed with fantastic musicians, and the staging was really creative.

I thought it was an incredible show.

You know, I took the train four or five hours to go from Berlin.

I thought it was fantastic and well worth it.

Now, was I excited about the Ferris wheel?

I think it's less about the size of the artist and more about the implied specialness of it.

It's about FOMO.

These are the biggest concerts, but there's a lot of great concerts.

How do you sell this as a special thing?

Well, you play your marquee album.

You promise...

Two shows, two nights, no repeats.

Metallica did that.

The band will play two nights in each city with different set lists and different opening acts each night, all performed in the round.

You really have to create a sense of event.

you have to have a claim on people's souls.

You know, in the modern concert business, you have to say, it's not so much why do you want to see them, but why now and not next year or the year after?

So I have to admit that

A lot of people in the business and who write about the business have been very cautious about the boom in the industry.

Look at the price spike post-COVID, but what happens when that ends?