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?

I'm not sure about DJs but Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina Carpenter etc. are selling out so quick that you have to be really lucky to get them. I'm not sure who is buying the tickets but I think it is probably Mums.

Saw Maddix in Plymouth, he was fab. And just bought Dom Dolla VIP tickets 😃

It's absolutely the Mums., I'm a Mum of an adult DD but it's me buying the tickets for me, Dd wouldn't come!

Because it's all a big rip off merchandise and all.

100 pound to wear Adele on your top lol.

They have to make their money while they can. Agreed. They have already made millions though and could afford never to work again.

When does one decide they've made enough?

I think this is a much bigger part of it than we realise. Noone really makes money selling music now that streaming has come along, so the touring really does have to bankroll everything.

You’re absolutely right that there’s probably a big difference between pop stars and DJs. Teenagers might go to see Carpenter and the like with their mum, but they’re not going to go to a rave with their parents, or at all - raves are usually 18+ or 21+.

OMG I love Dom Dolla! I saw him in Las Vegas last May and at EDC Orlando in November. A couple of the festivals I’ve got tickets to this year haven’t released their lineup yet, so I’m hoping he’s going to be at one of them.

Is it the Old Royal Naval College show you’re going to? I’m actually in London the following week so will just miss him. But might catch Overmono who are playing the weekend after Dom Dolla (I’m on the ticket ‘waitlist’ 😒). Do you recommend I go for VIP at this venue?

Agree with this - when we went to Isle of Wight festival it was about 70% 30’s-50’s age group I’d say with a smaller demographic of teens/20’s and some families with kids.

Not many young people can afford £300 for a ticket. It was great though - I loved the mixed demographic and dh and I (40’s) finished every night in the grime tent with the youngsters 😂

I think I may have been at that Morrissey gig lol.

We went to see the Stones on their last tour and could only get seated tickets and a row broke out when people (including us) got up dancing with the people behind. I was like “are you fucking joking? It’s a Rolling Stones concert!!”

Will never buy seated tickets if I can help it.

I don’t understand this.

For one Viagogo send the tickets via your Ticketmaster account so how would they (on the door) know whether the tickets were bought 1st or 3rd hand or whatever when all you do is scan a QR code at the door that’s been forwarded to you? (Or am I missing something?)

And if you’re a huge fan of a band but weren’t able to get the tickets when first released - which many people weren’t - then why the hell shouldn’t you go if you’re willing to pay the inflated price?

It’s simple supply and demand and “you should be ashamed of yourself” comments just smack of sour grapes to me! You do you and il do me thanks! ☺️

I’ve done pop concerts seated (Justin Timberlake, Backstreet Boys, Disclosure) but they’re okay because 99% of people stand up in their seats and dance. But something like Morrissey or Radiohead, you can’t really dance to the music, so you sort of just sit there trying to enjoy it, unless those around you are singing over it, which is what happened at Morrissey.

I get bored, personally.

I want to leave a live music event both exhilarated and exhausted 😁

😂😂😂😂Don’t understand as much as you like. It happened and didn’t many Oasis tickets get cancelled due to being sold by third party sellers so clearly can’t be done. There will be an electronic trail. Don’t understand the sour grapes comments? In what way is sour grapes? Sour means being negative about something because you can’t have it yourself but I can.? I too could buy tickets at inflated prices but I morally don’t want to be part of the problem.

But you do you and hope that you aren’t turned away at the turnstile of a gig and forced in to a Daily Mail sad face 😉

Aperture his single is crap. Very boring and instantly forgettable.

@OopsylazyFor the Doubting Thomas and as I said I was witness to it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-44402562

Stupid money. Regional theatre and £30 per ticket is the max I will pay.

Sour means being negative about something because you can’t have it yourself but I can.? I too could buy tickets at inflated prices but I morally don’t want to be part of the problem.

Hahahaa yeah right love!

But you do you and hope that you aren’t turned away at the turnstile of a gig and forced in to a Daily Mail sad face 😉

Aww no, not bitter at all are you? 😂😉

Are you OK? You seem determined to be upset/unhappy?
Focus on other things in your life, please.

When did you laat pay for recorded music OP?

As long as idiots keep paying it (often on credit) they will keep charging it. We've got some folk at work who don't earn loads but don't seem able to resist buying these sorts of "must have" stadium tour tickets, even when the pricing is clearly far in excess of what they can afford. They put it on credit cards or klarna.

Two things: Firstly, ticket prices are already inflated when they’re sold first hand. Let’s not pretend they’re only overpriced when they’re resold.

And secondly, big artists still make a fortune from streaming sites. Taylor Swift makes $100 million a year from Spotify sales alone, and the same again from other platforms. Even if other mainstream artists are making a quarter of this, it’s still a considerable sum and it’s disingenuous to say they make no money from recorded music.

’Small’, niche bands will be a different story, but they’re not part of this discussion because they’re not the ones selling stupidly priced gig tickets.

There's a few bands I'm willing to shell out for, but nothing over £40. My tastes are probably fairly niche. I go to a lot of gigs, but often local or touring bands who don't command big venues or prices - I see a lot of excellent music!
I had a freebie to a major artist recently at an arena gig - (friend couldn't use ticket, away for work, so I went to the gig with his wife.) Had a pleasant evening, but I've decided I'll never go to an arena gig again, it was just so soulless.

i won’t pay more than £80 for a ticket, we have seen bands like kings of Leon, high flying birds, stereophonics for that or less. Only time I went above was for Taylor Swift I paid £105 and it was worth it as the show was magnificent.
I wish they would change the ticketing system, when I went to Glastonbury twenty years ago you had to send photo ID and your ticket had your details on. Surely that would stop bots.

No it isn't. The artist wants X amount and the bigger the artist the more they can ask. Springsteen has one of the highest guarantees in the industry. If he walked out to an empty room he still gets paid the fee. Oasis got offered telephone numbers so in that case the promoter eg Live Nation wants it's money back and some. However the artists now know they can monetise everything. The thought is what won't they pay and price it below that. No shortage of people queuing up to fill Wembley it would seem. Simple answer? Don't pay the prices.

Should also say it's the music/concert industry. Artists know if they achieve a level of success they can charge more. Ticketmaster/Live nation monopolised the market buying into venues box offices and offering names more mone. Also the growth of the internet allowed artists to get fans data and understand the market. Data is worth a lot of money and we hand it over freely