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10 minutes ago, northernangel said:

Anyone paying £350 for a single show is part of the problem of why we have to pay that. 

Yep. I'm a hypocrite as I paid through the nose for my chemical romance, with the justification of it was an extra £25 to guarantee being at the front, touring one of my favourite albums.

 

But, £350 for a gig is not something I want to be part of. I paid half that for Paul McCartney, thinking logically...he won't be touring forever.

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58 minutes ago, Sparticus said:

Yep. I'm a hypocrite as I paid through the nose for my chemical romance, with the justification of it was an extra £25 to guarantee being at the front, touring one of my favourite albums.

 

But, £350 for a gig is not something I want to be part of. I paid half that for Paul McCartney, thinking logically...he won't be touring forever.

We just need to remember how much £350 actually is!

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18 minutes ago, stuie said:

 

It's almost a G ticket isn't it? 🙂 

Probably currently about £50 off. I wouldn't compare it to Glastonbury though as a lot of their acts do it for exposure.

 

But if Reading pull in Foos on a £350 bill. Their tickets on as much but that's the comparison. I still think to myself getting a LP ticket that sold for £317 originally for £95 was probably my bargain of the century.

 

I get people are split with really wanting to go and some acts just aren't going to twicket cheap but if people don't pay then tickets will have to reduce.

 

But for that you need tickets to go on sale and no one buys

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3 hours ago, northernangel said:

but if people don't pay then tickets will have to reduce.

 

But for that you need tickets to go on sale and no one buys


This is what needs to happen, but it won’t. 
 

There’s been plenty of protests, including walkouts among football fans, usually having some effect, e.g. freezing of prices.

 

 The customer is “king” and we need to start saying enough is enough 

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19 hours ago, northernangel said:

Anyone paying £350 for a single show is part of the problem of why we have to pay that. 

That's how much some Gaga tickets were? And not even the VIP ones? Crikey. 

 

US economics at play alright, given there seem to be so many acts who play out there charging in excess of 200-300 dollars for tickets. And I know average earnings in America are more than in the UK but it's still pretty f**king extreme there

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