Well, this is it see. I like them too, but CBA with all the faff and expense and utter ludicrousness of it all... If they were about 5 or 10 miles from where I live and it was about £25 return in a taxi - and I could just start out about 6:00 in the evening and be back for 11.00 or something (and the tickets were like, £30 to £40 then great ...)
But I can't be bothered with the hassle and the expense. Same with Taylor Swift. As much as I like her, there's no way in hell that I would have gone to all the expense and the hassle of going to one of her concerts.
It was like logistically, an absolute nightmare going to one of the concerts and you have to be incredibly dedicated and obsessed with her. Same with Oasis. I do like them and have quite a few albums, and there are lots of great songs ... And I loved them in the 1990s... But I just couldn't be bothered with going to see them. Waaaaay too much like hard work!
As I said earlier - I do feel like when I went to take my daughters to concerts in the noughties and early 2010s, it was just a lot easier to do it. AND cheaper... Tickets ranged from £25 to £43. I know time has moved on but that translates to about £42 to £77 now ... Yet the cheapest price of a concert ticket for Oasis and Taylor Swift appears to be £150 or more.
And they soar as time goes on - to multiple 100s, even 1000s. And it seems like VERY few people get them for the 'original price.' I know a number of Taylor Swift fans who paid £250-£300 for their ticket for her concert. This never happened 10+ years ago. Concert tickets starting out at a certain price, and doubling and tripling almost instantly...
When I used to take my 2 daughters, (noughties and early 2010s,) I would ring up Birmingham NEC or NIA, and order and pay for the tickets over the phone (probably waited for 10 minutes in the queue on the phone,) and they would send them out at 3 to 4 weeks before the concert.
We'd then get the train about 4:00pm, and get there to the venue for maybe 5.15pm to 5:30pm. Go and get some merchandise, and a concert programme, and maybe go and get a slush puppy or a coke and a hot dog or something. and then go into the venue. Watch the tribute band - and then the act would come on around 7.30pm.
We'd leave about 10:30pm to get the last train. Sometimes we'd stop in a Travelodge and we could stop out as late as we like and then just go and get some fish and chips on the way back to the Travelodge - and then come back the next day about midday. (The room was about £35-40.)
It just. seems like such hard work now. It's like weddings. They have gone from being very simple - and cheap and cheerful events close to home, that everybody quite enjoyed - to being an absolute marathon. Often 12 hours long, and sometimes even longer than that (two or three days when people have them hundreds of miles away.)
They are often not close to where the couple and their families live, and you still need accommodation even if it's 'only' 40-50 miles away, as it's too far and expensive to get a taxi, so you have to get a hotel. Some are abroad, and they often cost people 4 figures to attend. Possibly several thousand pounds.