Joel Madden chases his fading popularity around the globe

 As global as the world has become, taste apparently still has a little lag time from one continent to another.

As of October 9^th, Maryland’s Good Charlotte started touring Australia, and according to their website they’ll carry on in The Land Down Under for a month, arriving there shortly after their widely touted acoustic appearance inside the Verizon L.A. Store in mid-September. Hopefully, they’ll see hotter venues between Sydney and Perth.

While it takes 1.4 tons of greenhouse gases to get each air passenger from LA to Australia, you can a carbon offset for your flight for about $14.50. No doubt the nice boys of the band could afford to buy them. No word yet on whether or not they have, yet their international dates bring to mind the grousing over pollution generated by flying bands around the world for Al Gore’s Live Earth concerts in June.

How much more pollution is generated, after all, when fading American bands head overseas on run-of-the-mill tours, simply in search of new audiences? In a truly global world, Austrialian kids would already have the heads-up: Good Charlotte is not cool anymore.

BradyDale 

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