Concert ticket pricing

[BFCmaj]

In the summer, I went to see one of my favourite bands, Fishbone, on tour in the UK at Brudenell Social club in Leeds. Fantastic venue, amazing atmosphere and met up with a load of my old Skipton mates. Great night out and the ticket was only £15 including booking fee. That's how live music should be.

[cricketfieldclarets]

The point is though, that people want to see the top / popular artists and not everyone appreciates the intimate gigs and up and coming bands. Just the way it is.

Its the price for said popular artists when there are thousands and thousands of people there that doesnt make sense.

[colne-claret]

The worst thing is the additional charges that you get stung with to buy them online.

I just bought two tickets to see Muse at the Etihad in June.

Tickets were £69.50 each.
Then a 10% service charge of £6.95 on each one.
Then a handling charge of £2.25 on the order to boot.

So £155.15 paid in total, of which £16.15 is pure profit for Ticketmaster. ****.

I stuck myself in god's for that muse gig. £40 each was enough for me to pay. Wasn't paying 80 for standing.

[Falcon]

I was in the seated bit for their Manchester Arena gig on the last tour. All I could think was how jealous I was of the people in the standing area. Everyone round me was just sat down watching politely and I wanted to jump about and sing along.

[cricketfieldclarets]

I was in the seated bit for their Manchester Arena gig on the last tour. All I could think was how jealous I was of the people in the standing area. Everyone round me was just sat down watching politely and I wanted to jump about and sing along.

Thats very true. Always feels awkward at the MEN Regardless of act

[CarlesTheClaretPuyol]

The point is though, that people want to see the top / popular artists and not everyone appreciates the intimate gigs and up and coming bands. Just the way it is.

Its the price for said popular artists when there are thousands and thousands of people there that doesnt make sense.

Is that the point? Or is that the people who don’t regularly go to gigs moan that a band or group that’s been out of action for years are clearly trying to cash in on previous success and the willing punters will pay stupid prices per ticket.

Like everything, music evolves. There’s no need to pay hundreds of pounds to see washed up bands in need of a pay day when the live music scene is as good as it’s ever been, just people would rather go to an ‘event’ for a band with extortionate fees and drink costs that hasn’t been at its peak for 10 plus years, in favour of supporting new music.

Guarantee that a vast majority of Spice Girls or even Rolling Stones gig goers only go to one of these obscene events per year. More fool them.

[jrgbfc]

Lots of people these days are that desperate to look cool or follow the social media crowd that they'll happily pay through the nose to see one of the big name bands, even if they don't particularly like their music or even know who they are!

[duncandisorderly]

Lots of people these days are that desperate to look cool or follow the social media crowd that they'll happily pay through the nose to see one of the big name bands, even if they don't particularly like their music or even know who they are!

That's mainly ********, tbh. There is nothing to be gained by showing off about going to gigs. It's a ballache. It's expensive, generally, the big venues have airport level security, it's £5.50 a pint of plastic delivered fosters, the sound is usually poor, the queue for the toilets lasts about three songs and they charge you around £15 to park. No one does all that for some status thing, they do it because they want to see the band.

People who say things like 'if Oasis were playing in my back yard I'd shut the curtains' because they're a popular band, or others who say things like 'yeah I know Metallica were playing and I could have gone but Fetid Abortion were playing in the cellar beneath the Spread Eagle so I went there instead' - they are the people to be avoided.

[Hipper]

In the 60s/70s bands often used to make a loss on touring, which was covered by the record companies. Touring was used to promote recorded music.

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[duncandisorderly]

In the 60s/70s bands often used to make a loss on touring, which was covered by the record companies. Touring was used to promote recorded music.

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Spot on, but I'd say that carried on to the early-mid 90's.

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Maybe not everyone's cup of tea, but he's a virtuoso drummer in the industry and this in particular;

[back in the day] you had thousands of bands selling millions of records. Now you have millions of bands selling thousands of records.

is why concert prices have been hiked.

[jrgbfc]

That's mainly ********, tbh. There is nothing to be gained by showing off about going to gigs. It's a ballache. It's expensive, generally, the big venues have airport level security, it's £5.50 a pint of plastic delivered fosters, the sound is usually poor, the queue for the toilets lasts about three songs and they charge you around £15 to park. No one does all that for some status thing, they do it because they want to see the band.

People who say things like 'if Oasis were playing in my back yard I'd shut the curtains' because they're a popular band, or others who say things like 'yeah I know Metallica were playing and I could have gone but Fetid Abortion were playing in the cellar beneath the Spread Eagle so I went there instead' - they are the people to be avoided.

So you think young people these days aren't interested in following the crowd or looking good on social media? Gonna have to massively disagree with you on that one. Those Stone Roses comeback gigs a few years ago spring to mind. I came across loads of folk who weren't particularly into the music but applied for tickets simply because it was what everyone on Facebook was doing!

[duncandisorderly]

So you think young people these days aren't interested in following the crowd or looking good on social media? Gonna have to massively disagree with you on that one. Those Stone Roses comeback gigs a few years ago spring to mind. I came across loads of folk who weren't particularly into the music but applied for tickets simply because it was what everyone on Facebook was doing!

Sorry, poorly worded. I didnt mean what you said was ********, I meant it's ******** that people are like that....if that makes sense!

[jrgbfc]

Sorry, poorly worded. I didnt mean what you said was ********, I meant it's ******** that people are like that....if that makes sense!

That's the way it seems to be these days unfortunately. Add to that people who go to nightclubs/gigs wherever and stand their filming the whole thing on their phone, drives me mad!

[Falcon]

So you think young people these days aren't interested in following the crowd or looking good on social media? Gonna have to massively disagree with you on that one. Those Stone Roses comeback gigs a few years ago spring to mind. I came across loads of folk who weren't particularly into the music but applied for tickets simply because it was what everyone on Facebook was doing!

There might be one or two people like that, but you'd be surprised how many 18/19 year olds are heavily into bands like the Stone Roses. My theory is given the prevalence of shitty manufactured pop music nowadays any young person who is into guitar based music is looking back to rock bands of the 90s/early 00s for their gig going fix.