Amy Lawn Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 Sufjan TONIGHT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero000 Posted September 2, 2015 Report Share Posted September 2, 2015 Ought tomorrow and Saint Etienne on Friday. Really looking forward to both, as I've never seen either of them before! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy Lawn Posted September 2, 2015 Report Share Posted September 2, 2015 Ought tomorrow and Saint Etienne on Friday. Really looking forward to both, as I've never seen either of them before! Just got back from Ought, very good. Strange but good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Leach Posted September 2, 2015 Report Share Posted September 2, 2015 Chvrches album launch 22nd September, then Four Tet all nighter October 16th. Using my period of unemployment to squander money on gigs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHRLY Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 Just got back from Ought, very good. Strange but good. Was great wasn't it! Having never seen any footage of them I was pleasantly surprised at the lead singers energy and charisma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightcrawler13 Posted September 16, 2015 Report Share Posted September 16, 2015 I bought my girlfriend Alt-J tickets as a surprise for our anniversary I've seen 100's of bands over the last few years at festivals, but it's been a long time since I've been to a gig! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russycarps Posted September 16, 2015 Report Share Posted September 16, 2015 I've got naff all coming up. Cant remember ever having a barren spell like this in years and years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomDom1984 Posted September 16, 2015 Report Share Posted September 16, 2015 Got Muse at the O2 and Funeral for a Friend doing Hours in Brisbane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5co77ie Posted September 16, 2015 Report Share Posted September 16, 2015 what happened with Muse pre-sale tickets? Anyone know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jump Posted September 16, 2015 Report Share Posted September 16, 2015 what happened with Muse pre-sale tickets? Anyone know I decided it's not worth going to when I saw tixs were £80 a piece. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nal Posted September 16, 2015 Report Share Posted September 16, 2015 (edited) Songhoy Blues in a few weeks but not a lot else. I'll keep an eye out for smaller gigs. Most of the gigs I've seen this year have been in smaller venues. Mark Lanegan, Gaz Coombes, Booker T. Am completely over spending 80 and 90 quid on tickets to see "greats" roll out the old hits. Seen most of them already anyway. U2 for example. 100 euro a ticket. Booked flights for me and the missus to Lake Como instead for the same price. Not that Ive any interest in actually seeing U2 these days - they're dogshit - but when you way up what you could get for this sort of cash....... Edited September 16, 2015 by The Nal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul ™ Posted September 16, 2015 Report Share Posted September 16, 2015 I decided it's not worth going to when I saw tixs were £80 a piece. Yup £75 standing in Glasgow, some seats were just over £80! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nal Posted September 16, 2015 Report Share Posted September 16, 2015 (edited) Anyone think that promoters will eventually price themselves out? Or do we reckon enough people will always be idiotic enough to pay it? U2 sold out 4 nights in Dublin this week in 20 minutes. A lot of the seated tickets were £155. So maybe this is the future. Belfast not sold out but a lot of the same seated tickets are £175. But for bands like U2, people will pay it as typically they're not big music fans. Appealing to the one gig every few years sort of fanbase. So it would cost £350 to go see them in Belfast with the missus. Not including transport, drinks, food etc. A minimum of £400. 400 fucking quid! Even if I wanted to, I'd feel a right dickhead going to see a band who think its ok to charge their fans that sort of cash. Fuck right off. Back to opportunity cost, my Dublin to Chicago, New Orleans to Dublin flights a couple of years ago cost £400. I also bought a car for not much more. Which I had for a few years and ran perfectly. Also, U2 and the like are pulling the ladder up big style. How many kids and students can affords these ticket prices?! The gigs will be full of big event whore one gig a decade stiffs. I see Muse are now following U2s lead. 80 quid for a fucking ticket to Muse? Christ. Edited September 16, 2015 by The Nal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegremlin_1999 Posted September 16, 2015 Report Share Posted September 16, 2015 Off to see Dog Fashion Disco this evening! I'm ridiculously looking forward to it. Also The Wildhearts doing P.H.U.Q. tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlastoSimon Posted September 16, 2015 Report Share Posted September 16, 2015 (edited) U2 sold out 4 nights in Dublin this week in 20 minutes. A lot of the seated tickets were £155. So maybe this is the future. Belfast not sold out but a lot of the same seated tickets are £175. But for bands like U2, people will pay it as typically they're not big music fans. Appealing to the one gig every few years sort of fanbase. So it would cost £350 to go see them in Belfast with the missus. Not including transport, drinks, food etc. A minimum of £400. 400 fucking quid! Even if I wanted to, I'd feel a right dickhead going to see a band who think its ok to charge their fans that sort of cash. Fuck right off. Back to opportunity cost, my Dublin to Chicago, New Orleans to Dublin flights a couple of years ago cost £400. I also bought a car for not much more. Which I had for a few years and ran perfectly. Also, U2 and the like are pulling the ladder up big style. How many kids and students can affords these ticket prices?! The gigs will be full of big event whore one gig a decade stiffs. I see Muse are now following U2s lead. 80 quid for a fucking ticket to Muse? Christ. To be fair Nal, I'm seeing U2 in Nov and its £50(? 55 tops) for standing, which isn't amazing but isn't awful for that size of act. Willing to give them another chance after Glastonbury but its more my friends' doing, they've never seen 'em before. Getting flights etc. is something I'd never really do though, as you say that elevates the cost so much more. The only acts I'd ever pay above that £50 threshold for, is Cohen and Waits. I can perhaps think of a few others, but not off the top of my head. Neil Young maybe. Unfortunately, the ££££ isn't there at the moment - and that was the problem for the last Leonard Cohen tour - but I hope it will be when they tour again (if they tour again in the case of Waits). You're absolutely right re: affordability, but the most worrying thing for me is how that trickles down. £50 for arena size acts, whatever, most of 'em are shit anyway BUT this high pricing also influences academy prices for example, and now I can't even afford many academy gigs because the bastards have increased standing tix from say £20 a few years ago to £30+. I'm sure I heard somebody say on here the other day that Limp Bizkit of all groups were charging £40+ for a gig at the Brixton academy Its mental. Its not a case of missing out on the mega gigs I'm worried by (U2 the only one I've been to in the last 5? years, since Springsteen maybe). Its a case of missing out on smaller, medium size gigs which a few years ago I'd have done all the time. I suppose the upside is that it means I spend more money and time supporting smaller venues. Edited September 16, 2015 by GlastoSimon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nal Posted September 16, 2015 Report Share Posted September 16, 2015 (edited) Agree with most of that yeah (especially Limp Bizkit! FFS!) However, some of U2s tickets were 35 quid, some were 70 - which appear to be the same type of seats. A lot were well over 100 and a lot were 170 odd. Thats fucking ridiculous. People are still trying to work out what tickets they bought! U2 aren't a band in the traditional sense anymore and haven't been for a long time. They're a business with interests in the music market. Their last few wet farts of albums have proved that. Keane have more balls. Id stretch for Waits, purely because thats his only means of making money really. He doesn't sell many records! And his anti commercial stance is superb. Edited September 16, 2015 by The Nal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlastoSimon Posted September 16, 2015 Report Share Posted September 16, 2015 Agree with most of that yeah (especially Limp Bizkit! FFS!) However, some of U2s tickets were 35 quid, some were 70 - which appear to be the same type of seats. A lot were well over 100 and a lot were 170 odd. Thats fucking ridiculous. People are still trying to work out what tickets they bought! U2 aren't a band in the traditional sense anymore and haven't been for a long time. They're a business with interests in the music market. Their last few wet farts of albums have proved that. Keane have more balls. Id stretch for Waits, purely because thats his only means of making money really. He doesn't sell many records! And his anti commercial stance is superb. Oh yeah, I had to be pretty sure I didn't go and buy tickets over £35/50, the other prices were mental. Haven't read that stuff on Waits before, admirable. Amazing how these people can sit around boardroom tables and pick out a Tom Waits song to use though, of all people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nal Posted September 16, 2015 Report Share Posted September 16, 2015 Haven't read that stuff on Waits before, admirable. Amazing how these people can sit around boardroom tables and pick out a Tom Waits song to use though, of all people. "Im glad to be out of the car sales business once and for all" haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomised Posted September 18, 2015 Report Share Posted September 18, 2015 Im stunned at the muse prices. Sadly it seems people pay it so the market would appear to be there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justanothername Posted September 19, 2015 Report Share Posted September 19, 2015 (edited) Brand New tonight and I can't wait for it! Edited September 19, 2015 by justanothername Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetime Posted September 19, 2015 Report Share Posted September 19, 2015 Old mozza tomorrow night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomised Posted September 19, 2015 Report Share Posted September 19, 2015 I see mozza has been talking about these being his last ever UK shows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetime Posted September 19, 2015 Report Share Posted September 19, 2015 I see mozza has been talking about these being his last ever UK shows Would take that with a big pinch of salt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomised Posted September 19, 2015 Report Share Posted September 19, 2015 Kind of what I figured. Seemed like part of a rant against the music industry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdm22 Posted September 20, 2015 Report Share Posted September 20, 2015 (edited) For me... Sept - Kid Wave, Chvrches Oct - John Grant (Rough Trade instore gig), Gaz Coombes, Rockaway Beach weekend (with Johnny Marr, Spiritualized, Public Service Broadcasting), Editors Nov - Garbage, Mik Artistik, Maccabees, Chvrches (again!) Dec - Mew Edited September 20, 2015 by cdm22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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