I can't remember if you like Europe Kade but outside of Melbourne and Sydney the tour obviously isn't selling great. You can now get tix for the Brisbane show (23rd may) at 60 bucks (originally $97)
Perth is even more heavily discounted. And all the WA people constantly bitch about why nobody plays there - finally Europe include WA and it gets no support.
Casual fan mate, not enough to go and see them though. If it were a Saturday me and my partner would probably pay that.
This type of music just seems dead overall here. I mean, I don't really know what I'm talking about as I don't go out like never though haha. Maiden and the like always get good turnouts though but smaller bands even of the caliber of Europe and down just doesn't seem to get people interested. I never come across anyone that likes this music. Work is my main social network cause I'm there 12 hours a day 350 odd days of the year, but I've worked with a LOT of people over the last ten years and just never come across anyone that hasn't heard of any of the bands I listen to let alone be a fan of them.
I've been thinking lately of getting back into the guitar and look at getting into a band again or something to see if I can meet anyone with my interests or be able to match it to do something worthwhile, even covers, but just not sure if there is much out there for what I like around the area. Perhaps I've just got my head in the sand though.
We're pretty similar mate. I rarely get out aside from the odd gig - going to a club and listening to dance music is akin to waterboarding me 
I am only semi-regularly in touch with 3 or 4 guys I went to school with and in all cases they are into hard rock or metal. Subconsciously I may have culled all those who were into shit music. Actually they were all assholes so maybe all the good guys listen to metal 
Come to think of it pretty much everyone in my life likes metal except my missus . Believe it or not my 77yo dad (another one of my converts) came over for dinner the other night and he pulls out his "list" of topics for discussion as usual and he says " That new single from Angra is pretty good." 
As far as metal being dead , not here - but I think Melbourne is a special case. Out here in the deep outer suburbs you will still get 100+ people paying $25 to see a KISS covers band. And I can tell you that on the day Def Leppard/Scoprions went on general sale that they'd pretty much sold out Rod Laver Arena (10,000-12000) within 15 minutes.
I would love nothing more than to have the time to get back into guitar but then actually finding other decent musos and a singer that want to play metal covers and then getting gigs etc.............that whole process would be nigh on impossible. I still regret not doing that many years ago but unfortunately I was at my peak on the guitar in the early 90's and we know what that was like. I had a choice out of quitting or playing fucking Nutbush and Jessie's Girl in a wedding band. I quit 
Absolutely on those two bolded sections. I'm a pretty cunning person and cut everyone that does me wrong or doesn't have interests that interest me, guess that's why I'm a bit of a lone wolf, really, but I don't have time for most people. But you're right, most of them are or were assholes.
I remember still to this day my best mate in last year of high school. I was well into metal and the guitar and he also was taking a liking to the Maidens, Priest, Gamma Ray, Hammerfall etc. whatever I was into. All of a sudden he changed his music tastes to mainstream pop and starting looking at me like I was a freak listening to that music. Like out of the fucking blue he changed. I had I think Halford's Resurrection as I was super excited when I heard that and picked it up, and went over and played it for him, but his tastes had well changed. He actually said to me "How are you going to meet girls listening to that? What do you think they are going to think when they don't know any of the bands you listen to. No one will ever take you seriously etc."
Needless to say I was stunned and slowy cut ties with him, don't need that shit. Anyway, that's slightly off topic, but after all that, I agree haha. And yeah, even from where I am I can tell in Syndey and Melbourne it would be a more lively vibrant scene, and the second bolded part getting a metal covers band would most definitely be impossible, especially up here. A shame. I'd actually love to move down Sydney or Melbourne for a year or so and see what's out there. I'd still love to get back into something seriously. One day if my job situation changed we might do that, me and my partner have talked about that.
One day mate, if I ever move down or you and the family move up here, we're starting a band, no arguments!
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