To ask if you've refused to pay ridiculous prices for concerts?

😂😂😂😂Don’t understand as much as you like. It happened and didn’t many Oasis tickets get cancelled due to being sold by third party sellers so clearly can’t be done. There will be an electronic trail. Don’t understand the sour grapes comments? In what way is sour grapes? Sour means being negative about something because you can’t have it yourself but I can.? I too could buy tickets at inflated prices but I morally don’t want to be part of the problem.

But you do you and hope that you aren’t turned away at the turnstile of a gig and forced in to a Daily Mail sad face 😉

I’ve done pop concerts seated (Justin Timberlake, Backstreet Boys, Disclosure) but they’re okay because 99% of people stand up in their seats and dance. But something like Morrissey or Radiohead, you can’t really dance to the music, so you sort of just sit there trying to enjoy it, unless those around you are singing over it, which is what happened at Morrissey.

I get bored, personally.

I want to leave a live music event both exhilarated and exhausted 😁

I don’t understand this.

For one Viagogo send the tickets via your Ticketmaster account so how would they (on the door) know whether the tickets were bought 1st or 3rd hand or whatever when all you do is scan a QR code at the door that’s been forwarded to you? (Or am I missing something?)

And if you’re a huge fan of a band but weren’t able to get the tickets when first released - which many people weren’t - then why the hell shouldn’t you go if you’re willing to pay the inflated price?

It’s simple supply and demand and “you should be ashamed of yourself” comments just smack of sour grapes to me! You do you and il do me thanks! ☺️

I think I may have been at that Morrissey gig lol.

We went to see the Stones on their last tour and could only get seated tickets and a row broke out when people (including us) got up dancing with the people behind. I was like “are you fucking joking? It’s a Rolling Stones concert!!”

Will never buy seated tickets if I can help it.

Agree with this - when we went to Isle of Wight festival it was about 70% 30’s-50’s age group I’d say with a smaller demographic of teens/20’s and some families with kids.

Not many young people can afford £300 for a ticket. It was great though - I loved the mixed demographic and dh and I (40’s) finished every night in the grime tent with the youngsters 😂

OMG I love Dom Dolla! I saw him in Las Vegas last May and at EDC Orlando in November. A couple of the festivals I’ve got tickets to this year haven’t released their lineup yet, so I’m hoping he’s going to be at one of them.

Is it the Old Royal Naval College show you’re going to? I’m actually in London the following week so will just miss him. But might catch Overmono who are playing the weekend after Dom Dolla (I’m on the ticket ‘waitlist’ 😒). Do you recommend I go for VIP at this venue?

You’re absolutely right that there’s probably a big difference between pop stars and DJs. Teenagers might go to see Carpenter and the like with their mum, but they’re not going to go to a rave with their parents, or at all - raves are usually 18+ or 21+.

I think this is a much bigger part of it than we realise. Noone really makes money selling music now that streaming has come along, so the touring really does have to bankroll everything.

It's absolutely the Mums., I'm a Mum of an adult DD but it's me buying the tickets for me, Dd wouldn't come!

Saw Maddix in Plymouth, he was fab. And just bought Dom Dolla VIP tickets 😃

I'm not sure about DJs but Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina Carpenter etc. are selling out so quick that you have to be really lucky to get them. I'm not sure who is buying the tickets but I think it is probably Mums.

Just saw a post on Instagram that was “Festival lineups from 2016” and almost all of the headliners at the major festivals are still headlining and touring today. I think it’s just the same handful of artists/bands filling stadiums and headlining festivals year on year. There’s no new Calvin Harris or David Guetta because they’re both still super active and super popular.

Brand new DJs who are popular among Gen Z / Gen Alpha but not so popular among Millennials and up simply won’t sell enough tickets to have a major tour or headline a major festival.

I think you're right and it's also why bands who haven't really been big names in decades are still able to fill arenas.

My SD16 has seen Linkin Park, Busted, McFly, Pink and whole lot of other bands which I was listening to in the early noughties with her Mum. My Mum wouldn't have dreamed of taking me to a pop concert and I wouldn't have dreamed of going with her. Going to see a band who peaked in fame 20 years earlier with a parent would have been considered mortifyingly sad.

Yes I do get the idea but it’s certainly more value for money. And for those people who don’t live near London, it involves travel and hotel stay for many artists who don’t do nationwide concerts.

Exactly. So why are you moaning?

Twickets don't hike up the prices, I buy and sell on there a lot.

True, but I was just comparing the cost of tickets as others were, not travel and sundries as well.

Very few festivals are on one’s doorstep though. I live in a major city and apart from a couple of day festivals which are in my city, all the festivals I’m going to this year require me to travel, pay for accommodation, etc. (two are overseas). The all-in price per day of festivals that have big names performing is not far off paying to see an artist for one night.

3-day festival @ $300 + $150 travel + $300 hotel = ~$250/day

You get the idea.

I love festivals, but I don’t think they’re cheaper when you consider the overall cost, depending on where you live. Train tickets, hotels, overpriced food & drink for 3 days - all adds up!

Compare that to: £150 ticket, tube fare and a couple of drinks.

I like to do both, but I don’t think one is cheaper than the other - for bigger artists / festivals anyway.

Why would we push back if we’re paying the prices, if you see what I mean? They can only charge what people are willing to pay and people are willing to pay these prices (and then some, it’s not at all uncommon to travel across the country or over to Europe to watch an artist, paying for travel, accommodation etc.).

I think what has happened is there’s now a real disposable income inequality. Some people can afford to spend a fortune and others can’t afford to spend at all. If organisers slashed prices from £250 to £150, the people willing to pay £150 overlap hugely with the group willing to pay £250, so companies would just be leaving profit on the table, so to speak.

Also, what incentive is there to lower prices? Some of these gigs and festivals sell out in minutes.

I’m not saying I agree with any of this btw, I would love for it to be more affordable, but I can’t see it changing any time soon.

Nobody HAS to buy merch.