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Not Easy Being Green: How Climate-Friendly Touring Can Be Especially Tough For Indie Acts

Not Easy Being Green: How Climate-Friendly Touring Can Be Especially Tough For Indie Acts

While selling out stadiums allows bands like Coldplay plenty of capital to lower the carbon footprint of big gigs, smaller groups such as Pond have limited options.

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Nov 17, 2023
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“It's awful to think that just filling the landfill with more shitty t-shirts is the only way that indie bands can make any coin,” says Nicholas Allbrook, the frontman of Australian psychedelic rock band Pond. “It's kind of something that people should be thinking about.”

Clearly, Allbrook is one of those people. Ahead of a recent U.S. club tour, he look…

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