the price of gig tickets

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The current Mrs 148 is out tonight at a gig.... Wet Wet Wet..... Don't ask, not sure why she's never shown any liking for their music before, but i digress.

£42!!!! its only in the local sports hall, no bar as far as i'm aware or support.

TBH, they would have to pay me to see them, but even so, way to expensive.

gigs I've been to recently have all been in the £20, even Johnny Marr.

whats reasonable for a gig now days?
 
I gues the answer is what people are prepared to pay. I paid £65 to see Leonard Cohen, but mostly pay £25 or under.
What I hate about gig ticket prices are the booking fees and other add ons.
 
Depends who you are seeing. Decent tickets for Fleetwood Mac were £140 earlier this year, Bryan Adams will cost you about £55 at the O2 later this year. We normally reckon the average for a "name" band these days is £70 - 80, Bryan Adams is one of a few who always offer good value for money compared to his peers.

If you want rip off prices, see Hyde Park for the Carole King Tapestry concert. A decent spot in the field is £125 + booking fee and if it hacks down you're absolutely stuffed.
 
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Think you could easily have doubled that for a ticket to their Glasgow gig. You could pay a lot more than that on a resale site.
 
DCB said:
Think you could easily have doubled that for a ticket to their Glasgow gig. You could pay a lot more than that on a resale site.
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the wife tried to offload hers today and there were no takers a half price on FB, quite a few others on offer as well
 
Blue in Munich said:
Depends who you are seeing. Decent tickets for Fleetwood Mac were £140 earlier this year, Bryan Adams will cost you about £55 at the O2 later this year. We normally reckon the average for a "name" band these days is £70 - 80, Bryan Adams is one of a few who always offer good value for money compared to his peers.

If you want rip off prices, see Hyde Park for the Carole King Tapestry concert. A decent spot in the field is £125 + booking fee and if it hacks down you're absolutely stuffed.
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We've seen him about 4-5 times and every gig has been superb, definitely worth the money.

We went to see Clapton a few years ago and his tickets were £70 and although his set was great musically, he had very little crowd interaction which was a little bit of a let down.
 
Unless thengig is fairly local, adding in the cost of getting there and any refreshments required can make it a pretty expensive, albeit good, night out.
£70-90 each plus parking + a drink can nudge it over a couple of hundred quid - for a lot of people that a lot of cash.
Most bigger bands go to Birmingham or London - each is miles from here..
First gig I went to was at the Hammy Odeon and cost about £3.75 in 1980/81.....
 
To me it's not the price of the gig that is an issue. The price is the price. It's the reseller sits that mean for a big ish band, the chances of you getting a ticket at face value are very slim. It is legalised ticket touting and how it is legal and also how the major ticket companies are allowed to own these reseller sites as well is beyond me.

It is pure profiteering, nothing else. As if it was not, why not put the tickets back on the web site that sells them at face value (well plus the obligatory charges for buying a ticket, posting it, using your credit card etc etc) instead of the reseller site? They are owned by the same companies.

It's bad enough when they rip of fans of say Fleetwood Mac who one the whole can kind of afford it more. But when they specifically target kids for gigs to bands like One Direction and 5SOS then that is to me despicable.
 
Ticket prices definitely seem to be disproportionate compared to how they were (I've kept many stubs to compare) but that's how artists make their money now.

Paid £27 recently to see Richard Hawley and that's as much as I'd want to part with - great performance so came away very happy. Not interested in seeing the dinosaurs who charge the big money but good luck to you if that's your thing.
 
Wanted to see ACDC this time around but decent tickets near the front were very expensive.

Also considered Human League this coming December in Sheffield but all sold out and the tickets we wanted were £90 which I thought was a bit much!
 
Last gig I went to was the libertines at the 02 cost me about £45 which wasn't too bad I thought. The bit that annoyed me was the fact best part of a tenner of that was admin fees.
 
I agree with the comments about top comedians being overpriced. At least with a band you have truckloads of equipment, loads of sound and lighting guys, roadies and several members in the band itself. Comedians are 1 guy, a sound guy and another to move the spotlight around the stage :mad:
 
Snelly said:
Wanted to see ACDC this time around but decent tickets near the front were very expensive.

Also considered Human League this coming December in Sheffield but all sold out and the tickets we wanted were £90 which I thought was a bit much!
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I'm going to AC-DC at the Olympic stadium in June, £80 odd, just to stand up. Silly money really, especially if Brian Johnson doesn't get fit.

How many members of a band can not be there before it becomes a different band? £80 to see Angus Young seems a bit expensive.
 
I used to do loads of gigs but the things you've all highlighted has meant that I rarely go now. HID wanted to see Simply Red at the Canterbury cricket ground and we've paid £60 each for a band I'd probably not go down the pub for!

I dispair of the touting, add on costs et etc, and also that most of the gigs I'd want to go to have most of the band members pegging out!!
 
Snelly said:
Wanted to see ACDC this time around but decent tickets near the front were very expensive.

Also considered Human League this coming December in Sheffield but all sold out and the tickets we wanted were £90 which I thought was a bit much!
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90 quid for the Human League!! They are playing The Splendour festival in Nottingham in the summer and the tickets for the whole festival are only something like 50 quid, even cheaper if you live in the fair city of Nottingham. I usually go as it is a great day out, but the lineup is pretty awful this year so I am giving it a miss.
 
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