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Originally Posted by Mr Scarrott
Apologies if this has been brought up sometime before but I was at the second night at London and couldn't help noticing just how Caucasian the audience was. For a city as ethnically diverse as London it was extraordinary just how overwhelmingly white the audience was. I wasn't disturbed by it, just interested.
Does anyone, particulary any Black British or African American Ledgies have any thoughts/ experience regarding this and why this might be?
I'll be posting more thoughts about the gig itself when I've been to my second night later in June.
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I am not sure how to answer this and still be politically correct/polite....so I will try....forgive me if I say anything offensive.
I have been attending FM shows since 1975 in many different cities worldwide, but I can honestly say in all those years I have seen less than 5 black people (and that is a stretch) all total as attendees at FM concerts. (I am not referring to free NBC morning shows etc). Yes, the Mac does root itself in the blues, but the sound overall just appeals more to whites than blacks. It is a very "white" band.
The same reason when a black person goes to see the comedian Kevin Hart, they look around and there are less than 5% whites in the audience. He is a very black oriented artist. Chris Rock on the otherhand has a much higher white following...maybe 40% white in his audience.
Some artists just appeal/connect more to one race than another.
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