I was walking past the Royal Concert Hall here in Glasgow tonight and 
spotted posters advertising forthcoming gigs for 3 tribute acts - Elvis 
Presley, Meat Loaf and Queen. This is a beautiful venue with fantastic sound 
and great line of sight wherever you're sitting and it boggles my mind that 
these acts are playing such a cool place. Why can't they play elsewhere and 
let some new bands play the hall? Unfortunately tribute acts are big 
business over here and regularly sell out venues. The Complete Stone Roses 
are absolutely massive and even had original Roses bassist Mani DJ for them 
on some tours. Scarily their website says they play to 60000 - 75000 paying 
punters every year!

   In the Concert Hall poster the tribute Meat Loaf singer looks like 
Michael Chiklis AND it says he'll be singing songs from all 3 Bat Out Of 
Hell albums. Mmmm, maybe I WILL go along after all...

Are tribute bands big business Stateside too??  Just wondered....

Bryzo

PS. My wee brother went along to see the REAL Mr Loaf recently and people 
were walking out after about 3 or 4 songs as his voice was completely gone. 
Maybe that's why there's a tribute act doing the rounds...