To think that £72.00 is too much to go see Prince concert!

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Just heard Prince is playing 4 gigs in the UK IM May. Am a huge Prince fan so checked price of tickets. CHEAPEST is £72.00! ( highest is £135.00)

Is this ridiculous or is this normal these days?

So disappointed.

When he did a residency at the O2 a few years ago he only charged £32.00, so really wasn't expecting it to be so much. :(

I'm going to see him in Manchester, I love him but have never seen him live. I'm sure it will be worth every penny. I am soooo excited!

I've paid 99 for my Birmingham ticket plus train fare and hotel. He is worth it.

Fans will understand my NN!

I think it is expensive for a concert but Prince is worth it.

LOL at too fighters being better than prince.

Spell check on phone, meant Foo Fighters

I don't like him £72, so I won't go. Ultimately Prince is running a business so it makes sense for him to charge as much as the market will tolerate.

I buy all my tickets from/through www.ents24.com
If there are face value tickets available then they will sell/link to them, but when they've run out they send you to a secondary site where tickets can be over face value but aren't necessarily. They list gigs and events where they're not selling tickets (eg in pubs where you pay on the door) so I want to support them providing that info for free.

I don't actually think booking fees are a rip off, but they feel like it because of the unusual way ticket prices work. The ticket sellers are usually paying face value for the tickets they sell you. The booking fee represents their costs + profit. It'd be like Tesco pricing milk at 20p + 80p buying fee, because the farmer's price is 20p. I agree though that it can be annoying to see an expensive ticket price that you're just about willing to stretch to only to find that it's not the total price.

fairy are you sure that is Foo Fighters and not a tribute band? I can't find any dates for the real band. Foo Fighters would be a bit more than £13.

Also for those of you who can't get to see the real thing, this Prince tribute band is actually pretty good!

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