Rants n Raves

I didn’t know I would start this campaign!

I didn’t know I would start a campaign to try and get John Mayer to stop off at Perth for the Battle Studies tour. It was something that just happened a few days ago. I did know that Perth being left off the list of cities for the Battle Studies ”Australian” tour irked me. But I didn’t know I’d actually do something about it (how ever successful or feeble this attempt may end up being!).

I didn’t know a day after starting this campaign that more tour dates would be added!

I also didn’t know that the day after I posted my Get John Mayer to Perth Campaign blog that the JM Team would announce additional tour dates in JAPAN! Only THREE days after the Sydney show – which would have been the PERFECT time to slot in a PERTH show! No matter, there are still two days between the Sydney and Tokyo shows that Perth can have a show. I don’t know much about the logistics of concerts but if a show in Tokyo can be added three days after a Sydney show, I don’t see why there would be an issue in having a Perth show a day after the Sydney show. THERE IS STILL TIME!!

I didn’t know John Mayer hadn’t toured Japan in over 3 years

So, these new tour dates are BRILLIANT news for Japan!

But I do know that the last time John Mayer was here in Perth was in 2007 (that is 3 years by my calculations) for the Blues & Roots Festival in Freo. I remember also being irked about this because ALL the other states in Australia got FULL concert shows that year while Perth got a tiny set of John Mayer at the Blues & Roots Festival.

Lastly, I didn’t know I had it in me to do this:

CHUGG ENTERTAINMENT PLEASE BRING JOHN MAYER AND ORIANTHI TO PERTH IN 2010!

What does a huge John Mayer fan do to get him to add another Battle Studies tour date in Perth, Western Australia?

She starts a blog.

What She did not anticipate is that blogging and building a blogosphere is not as simple as it sounds.

The smallest thing like adding a widget for my twitter feed to drum up some publicity and support for this online campaign took three hours. Why? I don’t know!!!!

One thing I do know is that  technophile musicians (such as the likes of John Mayer) who always endeavour to take us to new heights of musical enjoyment with their technical prowess would NOT be impressed.

So what is the point of this post?!?

The point is that I want to see John Mayer and Orianthi in concert in Perth so much that I am willing to spend THREE hours of my Labour Day Public Holiday figuring out the complexities of widgets. :)

John Mayer Rocks!

Like many a Perthian John Mayer fan, I was sadly disappointed to learn that Perth would NOT be a stop on his Battle Studies “Australian” tour. The second blow came when I learned that the extremely talented and gorgeously kick-ass Orianthi was to be his support act! Correct me if my maths is out but that’s not one but TWO great acts Perth is going to miss out on. And I just can’t stand for it ANY LONGER!

I’m not sure why Perth always misses out on the big-name acts. Though Pink certainly hasn’t forgotten us (GO PINK!!). I refuse to believe the whole: “its too hard to transport sets and equipment to Western Australia’s isolated city” – as far as I’m concerned if Pink can do it with her elaborate set up then so can every single other big-name act!! I’m talking to you John Mayer and I’m not giving up without a huge online protest (I hope).

So. This is my online campaign to get John Mayer to stop over at Perth on his Battle Studies tour.

What have I done so far?
I’ve emailed Sunrise’s ROS wall to ask WHY Perth always misses out on great shows and then conveniently added the example of John Mayer NOT coming to Perth. (Subtle, I know.)

And I went to this website: http://www.chuggentertainment.com/contact and asked Chugg Entertainment very politely (its always important to be polite!) to please consider adding Perth to the list of cities on the Battle Studies Australian tour.

What’s next?
I’m going to do what any self-respecting Perthian would do – I’m going to Twitter like crazy and hope I attract the attention of enough people to get this thing going. If you’re from Perth (or not) and are just as outraged as I am in missing out yet again on another John Mayer tour, please join my online campaign. Let’s do this thing respectfully.

It was just a couple of days ago that a fan on Twitter said that 20,000 people fell in love with John Mayer at the Garden. Don’t the people of Perth deserve the chance to fall in love with John Mayer too?!?!

I sincerely hope so.

Ranter out.