Disappointed about Billy joel tickets

Concert tickets are so expensive nowadays.
I saw Billy Joel back in the early 90s in London. I think I just went to the box office and got a ticket.

It was a great concert.

I really want to go to McCartney. Ot could be the the last chance. Last time we saw him at the O2 he brought Ringo on for the encore to do Get Back. It was glorious.

I know, I'm sad about it. If i had the money I would definitely spend it on Macca.

I got Anfield for £190 but I'm pretty local so don't need a hotel or anything. Can't wait but yes it is expensive.

Same - I would love to see Macca but can't justify spending that kind of money

There were plenty of tickets on Twickets for Billy Joel at Cardiff last year. Keep your Airbnb booking and just pick up tickets on there the week before.

There are always tickets

I also have a limit on how much I will spend.

As far as I'm concerned, the artists charging less need my money more and they're more likely to be playing in a small venue where I can actually see properly.

I saw The Pretenders last year in a small venue. They were great, and CH dealt with great aplomb with the drunk heckler who shouted 'Play "Back On the Chain Gang!" between every single song.

Was it Subterranea? If so, we went to that.

Stadium gigs are largely horrible experiences anyway, arenas are bad enough.
I still average 30-40 gigs a year but luckily I like smaller bands/places so I rarely pay more than £50. Paid £50 for Elbow this year.

I’m amazed at people spending £100+ to see an artist soon after paying it to see them somewhere else. When tickets are this expensive there’s no way I’d do repeats. Luckily the artist I mostly want to repeat is Frank Turner, tickets in the £40ish range. I went to Billy Joel in Cardiff this year and it was fab, but I won’t go and see him again. I tend to prefer smaller venues anyway 🤷‍♀️

I feel your pain, I got to the front of the queue for Paul Mccartney, but they had sold out....and now they are about £400. I cried.

I was in the queue this morning for tickets for both Edinburgh and Liverpool (different logins, different computers, differnt people going apart from me) Got Edinburgh tickets no problem after 10 mins in the queue, 5 mins in the queue for Liverpool and there was already nothing left but single seats with hotel packages attached. Very disappointed as I was going with different people to the two gigs and had to let one of those people down. I'm hoping he might put on another date considering how well the ticket sales have gone?

I did go to the Cardiff gig and it was amazing, I think I'm still buzzing months later!

I got to the front of the queue and they’d sold out. I was really disappointed because I’m a huge fan and we live close by. But we saw him in Cardiff recently and on a couple of occasions before that. I’d already made my mind up that I wouldn’t go over £200 anyway.

The cost of concert tickets is insane these days. We used to go to a couple of gigs a month, but now it’s more like twice a year. There’s no way I’m paying £90 to see some band that had three top ten hits in 1986!

I've just had a look, are they extortionate?

Front row standing is £250 a ticket. Seated starting around £145.

It's a one off thing and he's awesome live

Oh he's amazing though. Best concert ever (followed by Bon Jovi in the 90s and Paul Heaton more recently) awesome

I'm lucky the people I like aren't so popular 😂 so I never go over about £30 for a gig ticket. Often much less. That said, I was big into formula 1 back in the 90s and tickets for that were over £100 then. God knows how much they are now.

All these things are just becoming so unaffordable for the average person. But then there are always people who will pay it so it's only going to continue.

Nothing against Kylie but I can't think of anybody still touring I'd pay £180 for. They're taking the piss now.
If Paul Heaton cam do it for £35 and make a profit they all can.

Normal tickets are selling at £180 each, last time I saw her just before Covid I paid £60! Concert prices have got ridiculous

I've decided at an upper level of pricing for tickets, and even for Billy Joel (luckily have seen him before) will not break it.

I did just fork a few Euros over my limit for a gig, but it is for next summer in a place i have ALWAYS wanted to go to, for a band i love. So that is it. Otherwise I'm pretty good at sticking to that.

Agree that the recent TRIE about ticket pricing was good.

The Rest is Entertainment podcast did a section on ticket pricing (it’s probably got Oasis in the episode title). It was really interesting about why prices have risen so much. Can’t remember the details, but it was to do with reduction 8n other streams of income for artists. It’s worth listening to (as are all the other episodes - fascinating podcast. Richard Osman and Marina Hyde).

It's all getting out of hand isn't it? I've set my concert ticket limit at £100, but almost everything is well over that now. When you've got to buy two tickets, plus travel plus a hotel it makes it unaffordable.
A friend of ours is in Kylie's band and I've just looked at the O2. VIP ticket packages are £600-odd, and they're sold out! So somebody is buying them.

Got two tickets (trying hard not to look at the price... but £181 looks about right). Luckily, I live walking distance to Murrayfield though!