Matchbox 20 Opt For Small Venue

14 November 2003

Since being on the road for the last three months on their arena tour, Matchbox 20 couldn't be happier about playing their upcoming gig in Las Vegas, in a small and intimate venue.

Guitarist Kyle Cook said: "You can equate it to acting to a certain degree, if you look at Broadway vs. movies. In arenas, other than the first two or three rows, people are fairly far away. There needs to be this heightened, accented sense of movement because you feel like you're playing for the people in the middle to the back who, unless they have binoculars, they're not seeing what's going on stage very well. They're not seeing the nuances; they're not seeing the facial expressions; they're not seeing the hands striking the guitar, the sticks hitting the drums."