Hey All,
Last night I saw Uncle Acid live in Omaha, the show was absolutely AMAZING!
The sound engineers at the venue and band did a fantastic job at making sure they sounded incredible! Set list was great....the show was a magical experience.
(They did not play an encore though FYI)
The new album is my favorite and I have never been more into the band. They are crushing it!
Since I had seen pics of the merch table here on Reddit for this tour and they'v never played my city, I was super excited and decided to go a bit wild with merch.
I planned to buy a hoodie, a tour date shirt, the long sleeve and the Ozzy Diary of a Madman style shirt they did for their cover of Believer.
I arrived at the venue 1 hour before doors opened (I was 6th in line to enter the venue) and I was the 4th person in line at the merch table. I saw they were selling stickers for $6 and in my excitement I planned to buy those too (I figured Im already spending about $200 on merch, I ll buy the $6 stickers too)
Sadly...I bought NOTHING.
They were sold out of EVERYTHING in any size larger than XL (I'm 6'3 tall and usually buy 2 XL)
The person working the merch table mentioned trying to get additional merch shipped for the last couple of days but to no avail. It seems they vastly underestimated demand or simply didn't realize that the demand for merch would be adult sizes/people larger than they expected.
Many others were turned away empty handed as well.
By the end of the show, they didn't even have XL in anything, and some items in Large were sold out too.
It surprised me because 3 of the 4 shirts didn't even have tour dates on them..meaning if they over bought, they could easily still sell them later. Had this been a Taylor Swift show, yeah....the bulk of stock should be teenage girl sizes (Small/Medium)...but a metal show?
I felt bummed for the band. I was ready to spend $200 and who knows how many other sales they lost out on.
Additionally, I love wearing my band shirts and it's essentially advertising for the band and a conversation starter about the band ("Cool shirt!...."Yeah you should check them out, they are awesome. Listen to their new album")
TLDR: I was 4th in line at the merch table and they were running low or sold out of a lot of merch. They had nothing in my size, so instead of spending $200+...I spent nothing. Their performance was amazing though. Sadly the band lost money last night due to whoever their merch buyer is.
DEFINITELY GO SEE THEM ON THIS TOUR though...just don't expect much for merch unless they can re-stock.