To buy very expensive concert tickets for DD12?

[ReadyPayerOne]

My DD12 has been obsessed for the last six months with a US band which announced at the weekend that they'll be playing in London next summer. Tickets go on sale in the next few days and will most likely sell out immediately.

It's her birthday in the summer and she's a keen musician and singer herself, so I'm thinking of buying tickets for me and her and taking her best friend (who'll buy her own ticket). They're great live so it will be a good night for me too.

These tickets are going to cost me £200 plus though and my worry is that by next summer she's going to be "Who?"

Should I wait until she's older and knows her tastes a bit better before I fork out such a large some of money for an event so far in the future? Has anyone done similar and it all worked out?

Fab news ReadyPayerTwo; enjoy the concert!

@NeverPromisedYouARoseGarden and @megletthesecond I was on the O2 website earlier looking at the seating plan, and there was a link to best reviewed seats and they were nearly all starting with 4, which are the high up ones! Maybe it's more about the atmosphere than being up close to the band (which we're certainly not).

I'll no doubt be back on here too early July with a whole list of practical questions about actually getting there!

Forgot to add, I was lucky enough to get lower tier seating, but nearer the back.

@NeverPromisedYouARoseGarden and @megletthesecond, I've had an email from AXS, where I bought my tickets (O2's booking line) with a link to where you can sell your tickets or buy more, and there are a lot of Primary seats that haven't sold yet in really good seats!

They're over £100 but pretty close to the stage in Tier One. Have you thought of selling your current tickets and getting these? If you also went through AXS you can sell on here, if from another supplier then you'll need to sell on their dedicated resale site.

If this link doesn't work, go to the AXS site itself - they have really helpful live chat in their help centre.

www.axs.com/uk/series/9861/billie-eilish-at-the-o2-tickets?cpch=email&cpid=82116003&cpcn=20191008UKAORBillie%20Eilish%20all%20dates&cpdid=DM21087&cpdn=20191008UKAORBillie%20Eilish%20all%20dates&cpdate=20191008&cprid=81743541&cid=DM21087&bid=539643359

If you have to get seated tickets be well aware that the friend that you’re making get her own ticket doesn’t stand a single chance of getting to sit with you, so don’t agree with her parents to be a responsible adult for her.

Go! Get the tickets. I have spent £££ on gigs for my DC, spent hours and hours sitting (or standing on the edge of the mosh pit) listening to bands I'd neve rotherwise have heard. Most of them not to my ytaste but their energy is always amazing and the joy it gives your DC is also phenomenal. then there are those rare gigs where you both love the same music. They honestly stand out as some of the best days and nights of my entire life. You never regret spending money on brilliant experiences. One of my happiest memories of my mum is when she surprised my sister and me with tickets for a concert we were desperate to go to. It was unexpected and decades later I still remember the brilliant time we had.

@milliefiori my DD adores Billie Eilish and I was blown away by her at Glastonbury on TV, so I'm expecting it to be an incredible experience for us.

So much so that I'm now seriously considering upgrading our tickets. We're in the middle of Block 105 on the first tier, which I paid £180 for two. They're good seats but the O2 have just released a number of spare Primary seats in blocks nearer the stage.

They'd be about £220 for two and I'd have to put my tickets in O2 resale and hope they sell, but I'm thinking...once in a lifetime etc. Am I mad?

Do it.

I don’t care about the cost as long as it’s a good seat. I’ve never regretted it.