They get in the acts that people have shown they're interested in buying tickets for in sufficient numbers.
OK music snobs might sneer at the quality of the performers and/or their songs but concert promotors don't necessarily go for what they and certainly what you might think might be a great gig.
You might prefer Boney M
for instance, but unless there's deemed to be a likely audience from the demograph that actually attend concerts you shouldn't be surprised if they don't get to do a gig in Cork.
I find a few of ES's songs aren't bad - couldn't name one off the top of my head but I know I've hummed along to a few. They're songs FFS, they're not mission statements about how we can actually solve world hunger or stop the war in Ukraine.
