Two hours is my maximum unless I’m going to stay the weekend. I went to a New Pornographers show where people had flown in from Chicago to. Toronto and driven four hours from Michigan to see them. This was right between Delta and Omicron so I think people were super eager to go to anything at all, but I was surprised.

100% depends on who’s performing. I’ve driven 500 miles for a festival, but probably wouldn’t for a single artist/one night show.

If I can’t walk there, I don’t go.

Approximately 135 minutes by train, 45 minutes by tram or rapid bus, 35 minutes by urban bus or 30 minutes by bike. Exceptions to the rule exist.

If I have to rent a car, it’s too far.

If I have to take an intercity bus, it’s too far.

An intercity train ride over three hours is also too far.

At a certain distance, the concert is less the event and more a reason to plan a vacation around going to the concert.

Depends heavily on the band

I travel from Portland, Oregon to Denver, Colorado and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania every year for the Decibel Metal and Beer Festivals. Not sure how far that is, but its definitely multiple hours in a plane.

Looking at flying out to France for Hellfest next year as well. That’s pretty far from home as well.

I live in rural Ohio and everything is far away, I’m about 2hrs from Cleveland, 2hrs from Columbus, and 2hrs from Pittsburgh, so about 2hrs drive is my limit because that’s about as far as I’d have to go in any case.

Depends on how much I like the band/artist.
I did travel to Belgium this spring to visit Ado.

Farthest i’ve gone is London to Berlin - but I had a few days in a few other cities on the way . . . so maybe that doesn’t count.

More normally 2-3 hours so I can go after work and be back in bed by say 1-2 a.m. Sometimes i’d stay over in a hostel and get the first train back - but same distance really.

I live in a city where most popular bands tour, but I definitely would travel internationally to see a show just to make a week out of it. I was considering going to RAtM when they were in Europe, because I couldn’t get good seats in the US. I definitely would have gone if I could have gotten better seats in Europe. Alas, couldn’t get good seats there either

Most concerts I’ve been to that have required travel outside of my home city have been 1000km away and I always fly. This has probably been about 10 times all up, 4 of which were festivals with multiple bands I wanted to see. I have yet to travel to another country for a concert but for a very few specific bands that’s not out of the question. There’s probably only a couple of bands that haven’t toured here yet that would actually be that tempting.

You are referring to leaving my home for a social engagement?

The concert? I dunno it’s pretty close. But the company to go to the show with, that I’ll fly across the country for.

When I was living in California, I had a friend text me he had an extra ticket to a Bad Religion concert in Chicago. So I booked a flight and went to see the show with him. Flight was a few hundred bucks, the “free” ticket was worth like $35.

Honestly, it was totally worth it. One of the best concerts I’ve been to, probably because of who I got to see it with.