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

[Netcurtainnelly]

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?

Watched the Take That documentary last night and said to DP how on the comeback tour everyone had to queue up for tickets! No one pushing in front buying up thousands of tickets and then selling them to the people in the queue for double, triple the price.

Them were the days!

For the first time in many years, we are going to a 'big' gig at a local venue. We bought on 'presales' day as we knew tickets would sell out on general release day in a couple of hours and we'd both be at work. Well, I was a bit baffled by the ticketing structure. The only available standing tickets on presale were 'superfan VIP' jobs, lowest price £350! I don't know what you get for that apart from guaranteed front row (I don't know what happened to just getting there early).

We ended up getting seated tickets at the back, off to the side for £75. I don't mind, hearing is more important than seeing for me, and you can still see the stage, plus there's big screens. We're on the back row so if we do want to stand, we won't piss anyone off, but I still can't get over the pricing structure, and the fact that people will pay that much for one evening's entertainment. If the highest price tickets were all that was available, we wouldn't have bothered.

Still, if you have the money and it's that important to you to be able to see up your favourite band's nostrils...

Concerts would still go ahead of the prices were cheaper.
Everyone is out for maximum money.prople don't stand up to it en masse.

Harry Styles will walk away with 2 million each night at Wembley.

Yep.
I just hope he puts on a phenomenal show, which he will because he's Harry.

Actually though, we'll see next year if his management care since he's touring properly.

I’d go to see him and I’m almost 70. In fact I’ve never found the amount of birthdays I’ve had as a barrier to trying anything. You’re going to lead a very boring and blinkered life if you let your age hamper you from trying, or enjoying things you don’t deem age appropriate.

I’d pay anything to go to the Eras Tour one more time 💕

CDS in the younger generation are defo making a come back .. along side records. My 12 year old and her friends all have a lot of them.

I've been to every single tour for 1D and all of them solo and their one time support band 5SOS since the beginning, and I'm 48.
I know plenty of older fans than me too.

2 million?? Prob more. It holds 90,000. Assuming 100 a ticket that's 9 million minimum plus any cut of food/drink and booking fees. Would expect him to take 50% but obv costs for band and tour crew come out of that. More shows he does the cheaper the tour becomes. The staging only has to go in/out once on a residency, no trucks going anywhere.

Nobody is saying age prevents me from going, I'm mid 30s, there are very few things if anything that age prevents me from doing. The fact that he is mass produced garbage and I have better taste than a 10 year old girl is what prevents me from going. :)

Hope that clears it up for you.

One of my favourite artists came out of hiding a few years ago and I chose not to go because a decent seat would have cost at least $400 (£200). I just didn’t feel for a 90 minute show it was worth it. They are not a big international artist anymore so charging that seemed unreasonable. It annoyed me quite honestly. Funny thing is, I’d pay for my kids to see their favs because I want them to have those experiences that I enjoyed when I was growing up. I do think concert prices are out of control now.

If it's someone we really want to see then me and DH are prepared to go to around £100 a ticket - we paid £110 each the last time we saw the Foo Fighters and around the same figure for Fleetwood Mac when they had the full original lineup (2017 I think) - but no more.

Now though, with the prices being charged, I think big gigs are a thing of the past for us (with the above caveat). We'd sooner see local bands or do a local festival (can highly recommend the Hastings Beer and Music Festival in July) for a fraction of the cost of going to the 02 or Wembley.

No, it wasn’t the same back in the 80s at all!!

The music industry - and the whole economy - has changed vastly since then. In the 80s artists could make a lot of money from record sales alone and that was the vast majority of their income. Touring was an optional extra and tickets didn’t need to be super expensive because touring was only a supplement to the artist’s income. A lot of the bigger pop acts in the 80s barely ever toured at all because touring was tiring and they could make a lot more money by spending the time recording instead.

Now, touring is often the primary source of income for an act and it needs to make them more money than it did back then, because streaming means they make very little money from selling records.

Some of the bands I watch, who tour small venues because they have a smaller, indie audience, freely admit that they make more money from t-shirts than music.