A Pay Per View Relayer Concert

[TerryTT]

Thinking about the postponed or cancelled Relayer tour I had an idea. How about if YES did a single UK show in the fall and had it as pay per view. Could that help get back some of their losses? Also as an incentive have a survey asking the fans what songs they want to see performed along with all of Relayer for this special event. Any thoughts?

[yamishogun]

Thinking about the postponed or cancelled Relayer tour I had an idea. How about if YES did a single UK show in the fall and had it as pay per view. Could that help get back some of their losses? Also as an incentive have a survey asking the fans what songs they want to see performed along with all of Relayer for this special event. Any thoughts?

Good idea,

For intermission, Howe and Sherwood can duke it out in a three round boxing match with the winner taking on Anderson in the fall.

[True]

I actually like that idea. I don't know how many people would buy the PPV, but I probably would. Another twist on that would be to do two or three dates at one venue, stream the last date as a PPV, but record the whole thing and edit the best performances of those nights into one "show" to be released on Blu-ray and audio. They might still need some insurance for the limited engagement but if the gig were in London that minimizes certain international risks etc.

A challenge is that it's expensive to get even a few shows staged. You have to hire a road crew, tech guys, equipment etc so those costs tend to be better spread out over a tour as opposed to hiring everyone for just a couple of gigs.

But Yes did that for the SLO shows and it worked out pretty well, I think.

[Kenny]

Thinking about the postponed or cancelled Relayer tour I had an idea. How about if YES did a single UK show in the fall and had it as pay per view. Could that help get back some of their losses? Also as an incentive have a survey asking the fans what songs they want to see performed along with all of Relayer for this special event. Any thoughts?

That thought crossed my mind too. As True proposes, it could also be sold as a live DVD/BluRay/CD/vinyl album.

If Geoff is on tour with The Buggles, Patrick Moraz could do it as a guest keyboard player. The band could do a live Yes version of The Story of I too.

[alex peters]

Lol.

[Gilly Goodness]

Another reason to get up in the middle of the night.

Wonder if band and management are that nimble nowadays?

Marillion have built their business model along such lines. Does Steve think all that is below YES? Patreons.
Weekend fan events? Signed set lists? One off shows.

Would love to see this band deliver on the Relayer promise + add 3 or 4 songs from MttS.

This just all feels like dejavu/ the ongoin' situation/covid/European war zone...

[TerryTT]

Another reason to get up in the middle of the night.

Wonder if band and management are that nimble nowadays?

Marillion have built their business model along such lines. Does Steve think all that is below YES? Patreons.
Weekend fan events? Signed set lists? One off shows.

Would love to see this band deliver on the Relayer promise + add 3 or 4 songs from MttS.

This just all feels like dejavu/ the ongoin' situation/covid/European war zone...

I had suggested that YES use the Marillion business model years ago. Boy have they missed out on the real power of YES fandom!

[Kenny]

Another reason to get up in the middle of the night.

Wonder if band and management are that nimble nowadays?

Marillion have built their business model along such lines. Does Steve think all that is below YES? Patreons.
Weekend fan events? Signed set lists? One off shows.

Would love to see this band deliver on the Relayer promise + add 3 or 4 songs from MttS.

This just all feels like dejavu/ the ongoin' situation/covid/European war zone...

It looks like Rick Wakeman has adopted a similar model for his ERE band. Touring seems to limited to his one-man shows with just a grand piano or a few keyboards.

[Gilly Goodness]

Also I like the Big Big Train fans, The Passengers, they seem really collegiate and history buffs hahahahaa.

Good natured. Inventive. Supportive of other current neo-prog bands. Magenta. Cyan. All seem supportive of eachother.

Didn't the 50th gig and events around it in London go over well? They should try somethin' similar. When the trains are runnin'. Try and tour the States, Japan and Oz.

They have shown in the past they can be nimble and humble. SLO was in an old, small theatre in a regional Cali town. 3 days.

Maybe YES could go back to Devon. Play at that spot close to Steve's farmhouse. Tavistock? The one on the docks they opened the last tour at?

Or somethin' at Tradin' Boundaries in Sussex?

For DVD release. With a guided tour of Roger's collection held there. Make it into an Apple+ doco.
Presented by National Treasure. Bill Bailey.

[josuev80]

This may have been viable for Yes in the last millennium like the King Biscuit radio broadcast and pay-per-view of an ABWH show. Not sure how the band did financially on that one although they have milked to death that show in various releases including box sets and that was filmed as a show on part of full tour. The cost to put this together with their current theater set up versus what it would bring in minus all the fees and promotion unless they charge some exorbitant fee per view would be a financially losing proposition.

How much does the band bring in on these near annual live releases pre-COVID of partial shows? I wonder how the Yes Acoustic show did in movie theaters but that was with the classic lineup.

[josuev80]

Watch on any device that streams for free. Even with the poor sound quality in the first half, it will sound better than any version played in the future.

[Mr. Holland]

I actually like that idea. I don't know how many people would buy the PPV, but I probably would. Another twist on that would be to do two or three dates at one venue, stream the last date as a PPV, but record the whole thing and edit the best performances of those nights into one "show" to be released on Blu-ray and audio. They might still need some insurance for the limited engagement but if the gig were in London that minimizes certain international risks etc.

A challenge is that it's expensive to get even a few shows staged. You have to hire a road crew, tech guys, equipment etc so those costs tend to be better spread out over a tour as opposed to hiring everyone for just a couple of gigs.

But Yes did that for the SLO shows and it worked out pretty well, I think.

What Toto (or Steve Lukather and Joseph Williams with a bunch of musicians and David Paich guesting on the last 2 or 3 songs) did in November 2021 was play a live show in a studio, no audience, and broadcast it for pay per view. Three months later the show was released on DVD/CD.

I think the costs of such an event are relatively low.