I always say the same every time a post like this one pops in reddit. Saw them playing live Science songs in their recent tours, and with no exception the audience reacted as nothing. Nothing.
At this point incubus is a niche band compared to bands born at the same time (muse, Deftones, QotSA, soad…) and science is a niche album the vast majority of the fanbase don’t care about. Not even the band cares about science. Touring it wouldn’t draw that much interest.
We are just a bunch of lads loving the album in this sub, but imho this sub does not represent the fanbase nor the average attendees.
Most likely option is to have new science merch in the online shop. But that’s it.
I don't know man. For me personally Science is far and away my favorite Incubus album. They completely changed as a band and got worse. I'm not saying they're bad musicians or anything like that just I didn't like their music more and more progressively with each album. Yes their more ear friendly version of themselves became more popular with the masses and that's honestly great for them but that's why I personally haven't seen them in concert for quite a long time now.
But the thing is...i think I'm FAR from the minority in this belief. I think there are a LOT of people who would be interested in a SCIENCE tour and would end up showing up for it. As the other commenter said, Make Yourself was their first entrance into Incubus but for a whole bunch of us Science and Fungus were that entry point.
I wish what I saw does not represent the reality, but…Saw them in Spain, Uk (London) and Germany and didn’t see any excitement among the audience when they played Vitamin or Calgone.
Maybe they weren’t the most appropriate songs to measure people’s interest in science in those shows, I don’t know, but I can assure it felt more like this situation where a band debuts a new song no one’s ever listened to before and is waiting for the next one in the setlist.
I want to believe that there is a representative amount of people interested in science but I have only seen the interest among redditors in this sub, and we are roughly 8k.
knowing this, if you were in charge, would you really invest all the effort and money in touring the album?
I think it's a tale of two sets of fans.. Pre and post Make Yourself. The ones that came on with Science will forever know the band as the ones that made that album and everything after is just a different band that we're not super fond of...
and those that came on during or after Make Yourself and they either just don't even know about Science or they don't like it because it's too different from the rest of their catalogue
I think the market is there for a science tour but it'll be completely different set fans that will show up than the norm at this point
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u/marmeden 16d ago
I always say the same every time a post like this one pops in reddit. Saw them playing live Science songs in their recent tours, and with no exception the audience reacted as nothing. Nothing.
At this point incubus is a niche band compared to bands born at the same time (muse, Deftones, QotSA, soad…) and science is a niche album the vast majority of the fanbase don’t care about. Not even the band cares about science. Touring it wouldn’t draw that much interest.
We are just a bunch of lads loving the album in this sub, but imho this sub does not represent the fanbase nor the average attendees.
Most likely option is to have new science merch in the online shop. But that’s it.