Platforms in preparation for Showtime/bands?

Yup. Thought of this as well. I need bands in my game.
As in...next year ASAP.

This crossed my mind as well !

Me too. And did you notice the little situation of quietness and facial reactions when in the stream one SimGuru said exaltedly 'we can have staaages'(!); and the reaction it got from the SimGuru on the screen! (He could have misheard as well, but I like these speculations as well).

Waiting for bands I am going to fix my concert hall for classical music, with a real stage for an audience that can actually listen to my pianists and violin players.
I hope any added band features would be as varied as real life's musical performances.

I also thought about this as well!

I don't know if we're getting bands, but since before Journey to Batuu my sims have been occasionally and randomly climbing on tables and counters and were able to talk to people below. Hope they fix this bug before release.

I hope that Showtime will be in game and it will fill the gap of Get Famous. I really hope that the world will be better than Del Sol Valley and the music from TS Superstar will be back.

I love thinking that this could be true! If so, I hope we get drums, saxophones, and cellos with the pack!

that would be nice

I don't think that was the main intention, considering platforms are really important for creating the kind of architecture they were looking for in this pack and not having sims interact between platforms would have greatly slowed the game. Still, I do hope they take this as an occasion for creating stages. (And yeah, I did think about that and perk up when it was mentioned during the stream.) I'd love to see a band focused pack with sims actually singing and playing music together.

This would be so cool!! But i'm building some stages anyway, ones with pianos, others with guitars or microphones... sims can play concerts individually already. But it would be so rad to be able to have a band and pursue real band career goals.