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

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Just a joke. The latest prices for Harry Styles after Oasis.
They are laughing all the way to the bank while most people are struggling with their everyday bills.
Always managed to go and see the latest acts back in the day without being fleeced.

How much money do these pop acts need to live on?

Yes, the prices for Paddington are nothing but greed. Was that one ticket as you mention a front row circle “ticket” so £700 if you were taking her. In the run up to, and post Christmas, you were looking at more than £1K for a family of four seats in the stalls.

West end theatre and pop concerts are beyond what most people can afford and indeed want to even pay for what is a 2-3 hour experience. Where is the money going? I’m sure, in the case of Paddington, not all of it to the actors. Concerts, I imagine a good chunk to the headliner plus their crew and agents plus the venue. Most ordinary people would be looking at this being the only thing they can do this year - or not at all!

Absolutely not, DH has a season ticket for football which goes up and up each year along with the players’ wages. I paid a fortune to take DS to see Ed Sheeran and sent most of the concert trying to actually see round the woman in front who stood up for the entirety while holding her big screen phone up to record it. I might as well have sat at home on my comfy sofa and listened to the CD.

Yes, that was the price per ticket, so for my husband and I to take her as her birthday treat with her grandparents it would have been £1150 for the 3 of us

I'm a tribute band convert!

Nirvana UK are AMAZING and we paid £15 a ticket

This is the second thread today on this subject from the same OP - why the duplication? As pointed out on the first one, when these events are sell outs then clearly they are not overpriced - people are willing to pay, and the market decides. That's how capitalism works.

And I bought great tickets for "Paddington", in the dress circle, at £80 each.... which is excellent VFM for the West End. Only a handful of premium seats are at high prices.

Part of it think also is you've been in the queue for so.long half time when get let in to get tickets theres so few available you just click and see what price comes up and can be either pay that or miss out and you dont have long to decide really.

To be fair Paddington when first tickets came out were reasonably priced and if book far enough in advance still reasonable. £60/70 odd compared to whatever it is if book for the next few months.

I got two good seated tickets for Harry today for 158 with booking fees . Daugter was over the moon and it will be a great memory.
we went to the Eras to see Taylor for more but that was 3.5 hours long so well worth it and we love her so a great memory.
im going to see Mgk in march and tickets for the 02 were cheaper , yungbluds were too but i think its all the extras that come from the prices , the crew , the set , the venue etc and some artists are just more popular and have bigger hype around them dont they.
i always think its always worth what you feel is worth paying , il getting older now and like to make these memories with my teenager but I do also save some of my wages each month for “things “ like this .. not a lot but a bit lol

This year I’m (we) are going to lots of different things in this country instead of a holiday.

I’m taking my son to see a comedian next week at out local theatre (£45 a ticket) and then next month to see Franz Ferdinand (about £40 a ticket) both of those not too bad. But then later this year we enter the eye watering ticket prices of £169 per ticket for Metallica and £115 for MCR.

Local is definitely cheaper and some of the tribute bands (as someone else said) are really quite good!! We’re also going to see a Queen tribute locally and then to Australian Pink Floyd at the Royal Albert Hall (£115 for the two of us - I thought that was actually pretty good).

It’s a busy year!! And it all adds to the life experiences - I’m sure we will have a lot of fun. But, it won’t be something we will/can do again next year! It most definitely hasn’t been cheap!

In response to the ticket prices at the Royal Opera House - I was genuinely shocked at the prices there as I looked a few days ago. I have a “theatre buddy” friend and we were considering going but, goodness!! Not at those prices! It was £115 for a seat that would have required those little binoculars…. I’ll stick to a lesser experience and go local for opera I think.

I refuse to pay more than £100 a ticket. But dd, DM and I are going to see BTS in July and mum got so excited by the hype of the 'waiting room' and thousands in the queue and build up before hand, she got the best tickets she could for nearly £200 each. The last gig she went to was in the 70s so completely different ballgame. I really resent paying so much but it's as much a treat for DM as it is DD.

I have only paid disgusting amounts on my utter fave, and I’ve had zero regrets , but anyone else I wouldn’t . I only go to concerts I really care for

Agree with you OP the prices are crazy & then when you add in dynamic pricing & people buying to sell at a profit.

I booked tickets for Backstreet Boys in Vegas last year, as soon as I had a ticket in my basket & went to check out it was gone, so you look at seats again & find out the one you were looking at a minute before is now on resale at an extortionate price.

I did look at some tickets for other acts just before Xmas & couldn’t justify the cost of tickey, travel & hotels

As a family of 4, I’d rather go for a week in the son than pay concert tickets. I have great memories of gigs in the late 90’s and early 2000’s but I won’t pay the current prices.

Paid £490 each for Premium Oasis tickets at Murrayfield. (Not resale either)
I would pay it again in a heartbeat. That night was and always will be the best night of my life.
Nothing can explain the feels it gave me seeing them live after missing out on the 90s.
nobody else I would want to see and pay that much ever.
It was the concert of my lifetime and I have seen Taylor Swift, Foos, Bon Jovi all live. But Oasis was on another level!
summer 25 indeed.

I was absolutely gutted at how expensive the bon jovi tickets were. I’ve been to see them every time they’ve toured since I was 14 and I was desperate to take my son as I’ve brought him up listening to their music.

It would have cost me over £1000 with travel and hotel and I just couldn’t justify it.

I refuse to pay over £100, and the limit is lower if it's someone I've seen before even if I really like them. Some of the prices are ridiculous.

I'm also not a fan of smaller venues being £50+ even when there's very little stage show to go with them.

I have found myself turning down more live acts on the basis of cost now, there's at least a couple this year alone where I wouldn't have thought twice if they were cheaper which is a shame.

There are still some great bands in the small venues where you can get tickets for around £20 or cheaper if you look.

I also love Bon Jovi, and did get in the queue for tickets. I decided not to pay £300 for the seats nearest to the stage, it's a ridiculous amount of money, and in a stadium they aren't actually that close to the stage. Also, Jon's voice isn't in great shape.
In contrast, I paid £80 to be in the 4th row at the London Palladium for Richard Marx (obviously he is somewhat less popular than Bon Jovi so not quite a direct comparison) . Further back and on the balcony are cheaper, and you're still closer than you would be in a stadium.

I wanted to see Robbie Williams last year. The concert closest to me involved standing on a field all day, and was quite expensive. It was cheaper to buy a train ticket to London, spend the day doing nice things, and see him at the Emirates stadium. I got a seat and there was a roof over it. And the support acts were better.

I hadn’t realised there would be so much variation in ticket prices between shows.

(it was a brilliant concert)

I tried to get oasis tickets. It would have been too much at advertised price as I was buying for 4 people. Once the price went up I gave up.

I got invited to Kylie which I think I found £60 too much for a Tuesday night too much.

I earn well but when you get in these places its a fortune for a drink.

They obviously can get people to pay up so keep the price high

I prefer smaller gigs

I'm the same. I've seen oasis tour definitely maybe, radiohead tour the bends, blur tour Parklife, pulp multiple time, Robbie Williams at Knebworth, stone roses second coming, red hot chilli's by the way era. I'm not being ripped off to see a less good concert at an inflated price.

I only tried to book oasis for ds1.

we paid a lot of money to see Kate Bush in concert in 2014, I’ve loved her music from the start and it was worth every penny.

The artist doesn’t set the price, the label and promoters do. Live Nation has the monopoly on shows and events here now and ticketmaster also set dynamic pricing. So it’s unfair to blame the artist directly even if they do benefit financially.

I love live music and have seen some big stadium shows last year for around £80-£100 which I think is ok.

We paid similar each for all 4 of us to see Oasis at Wembley and I agree with everything you have said.
It was hands down the best gig I have ever been to, for so many reasons. Me and DH taking our kids to see Oasis and all of us having the best time was priceless and Im so pleased we did it, and would pay the same to see them again. It was the greatest atmosphere I have ever experienced. I think about it most days 😄

Go to small and medium sized venues. Loads of great new bands around. We go to see live music all the time for around £10-£15 each. Lots of 14+ gigs to take your teens to. My tip is to look what's coming up in the next few months at your local venue. There is usually links to the bands songs or videos. It's a great way to find new artists.

I'm not a music fan but I've stopped going to the Royal Opera House because their prices have got ridiculous. I go to live streamings that they do instead. Plus the Birmingham Royal Ballet which is much cheaper and still excellent.