Communication with fans

Powderfinger is one of the biggest band in Australia and often come to Newcastle. I went to their live couple of times. They manage fans really good I felt.

In this June they started a new movement; they let audience to choose their set list.

When I go to concert I feel it’s like obvious business; the vocalist tries to communicate from on the stage to talk to audience sometimes but it is just a shout. they play songs on the stage and done…

The voting for the set list selection is done on the internet and the audience can expect to listen to what they want at the concert.

Powderfinger themselves says “that was one of the dumbest thing we’ve ever done…” (Rolling Stone issue 679 2008 ) but what audience want is maybe different. Feeling getting closer to the band and having same time with their music is the most important thing to the audience.

The voting for the set list selection is done on the internet and the audience can expect to listen to what they want at the live concert. Releasing CDs is the main way of providing songs however the live on the stage should be the ‘total coordinated performance’ I think. Place, set list, stage direction, or anything, they all are the components of the whole performance.

Music is amorphous art and every live performance can give different experience to audience even playing same song on the stage.