Soul Asylum in Peru?

Soul Asylum, the 1980′s alternative rock band out of Minnesota, is about to do a concert in Lima, Peru. Soul Asylum had a Grammy Award-winning single in the 1990′s – Runaway Train. Since the 90′s, there has not been a lot of activity from the band. And in 2005, Soul Asylum tragically lost their bassist, Karl Mueller to cancer.

And for a band that only had 5 live shows in all of 2008, all in the USA, Soul Asylum is headed to South America for one of their 2 scheduled shows for 2009. The reason for this is that Peru has a huge group of people who are avid fans of 80′s & 90′s rock & roll music from the USA.

Last year, Collective Soul sold more than 10,000 tickets to die-hard fans in Lima, Peru. Average ticket prices were around US$50.00 in a country where a decent salary would be pulling in $300/month.

I will be interested to see how many tickets Soul Asylum sells. The concert is set for tonight, January 15th, at the Parque de la Exposición. The band actually had the concert schedules for early December of last year, but had to postpone due to problems with their visas.

This just shows that there are ample opportunities for bands to tour around the world. There are pockets of fans in different countries. I would guess that Soul Asylum will be able to pull a better crowd at this Lima concert tonight than they would if they came to Atlanta or Dallas.

Stay tuned,
Erik
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