got my ticket for judas priest for the arena concert for the 28th march today 29.50 it cost but what shocked me is the price of tickets for concerts these days

any thoughts ?

Its all about money, its not about the music anymore..

I tend to avoid concerts unless it's one I really want to see :(

I would've liked to have booked the Meatloaf concert at Chatsworth in July but to buy 2 tickets for me and Dad to go would, including booking fee etc, cost me in excess of £90.. WTF?!

I've been to the NEC in Birmingham for less than that, and they want £90 for 2 tickets to a venue in Derbyshire?! Sod off.

thats reason im not going to judas priest.... and the reason i stopped going to football matches.

i cant afford to spend money on all that stuff and concert tickets are worst offenders. i recently saw a poster for a band i was interested in seeing (soul sirkus ...featuring Journey guitarist Neil Schon) tickets are £26 advance at the corporation!!! the band hasent even proved itself and is living off hype at the moment. and £26 for their first tour??? pah!

Originally posted by MTheo
thats reason im not going to judas priest.... and the reason i stopped going to football matches.

i cant afford to spend money on all that stuff and concert tickets are worst offenders. i recently saw a poster for a band i was interested in seeing (soul sirkus ...featuring Journey guitarist Neil Schon) tickets are £26 advance at the corporation!!! the band hasent even proved itself and is living off hype at the moment. and £26 for their first tour??? pah!




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that is way overpriced how can they justify charging that much it would be a a lot better to charge something like 13 quid im sure they would fill the place at that price

I remember seeing The Stranglers at Stafford Bingley Hall in 1979. The ticket cost was £5 which included a free return bus from Birmingham city centre.
:clap:
If that wasn't enough, the band played a full 2 hour set :thumbsup:
Can't see many bands doing that nowadays.

I went to see Muse on their Absolution tour for only £16. For a band that are that big I think that's really good...especially if you consider that my McFly ticket was £22 :rolleyes:

I paid £110 for 2 tickets to see Eric Clapton and I bought 2 Queen tickets for £100! When you consider I also bought 2 weekend camping tickets for V festival at £230 it seems flipping expensive (for the concerts) that I can get a whole weekend of music for the price of 2 concerts! But hopefully Queen will be worth every penny of it, and Eric certainly was. Can't put a price on a live music performance like that!

you can put a price on it....and it aint that much!!

maybe you can afford it but i cant...and however much id like to see (not) queen i refuse to be held for ransome.

any band that charges over 30 quid is ripping off fans.... how do they come to these prices anyway? any1 know how much control the venue has?

I think it's really dependant on how many people have to take a cut of the money.

You've got, the band itself, the manager, the arena/venue, the ticketsellers.

the arena/venue have to cover damages, cover staff wages for security, food sellers, the cost of actually hiring the place for the night, cleaners... etc

the band, have to cover costs for the intruments and amps they use if its ones they dont own, cost for electricians and music peeps to rig up all their stuff the PA systems, recording stuff... all sorts...

you have to think, the bigger the venue, the more costs there are!

theres a big difference between playing at Boardwalk and playing at the Arena ;)

but even still, some of them really take the ****... like U2, wasn't their tickets like nearly £60? :?

So whats bono going to do when all U2 fans are in poverty from trying to get to all there gigs!

And don't get me started on Ticket master. First of all there's a booking fee of a fiver or more, then a service charge as well. Grrrrr! It adds nearly a tenner to the cost of a ticket.

U2 tickets were £50, but £60 including ticket master's substantial chunk. I am going as a friend couldn't go, but I do agree that the ticket cost is extremely high. Having said that, it's rare that I go to any big concerts, so it a one off for me. I believe they're spending over a million on each show. Still a huge profit though.

most bands could play for nothing, the fans have bought there songs and made then rich its the least they could do

Originally posted by xafier
theres a big difference between playing at Boardwalk and playing at the Arena

yeah about £40 :)

starting this thread got me going through some of my old concert programmes with the tickets inside in 97 i paid 40 quid to see tina turner at the arena god knows why i paid that much

I wouldn't recommend anyone to go and watch any "Stadium Gigs"

The thing about gigs is actually seeing the band live, and that means getting up close enough to see more than you could do on the TV, and getting a real live experience.

I think going to a big stadium gig is just so you can say "I was there" but I don't think you'll ever have an amazing live experience.

Originally posted by panda79
starting this thread got me going through some of my old concert programmes with the tickets inside in 97 i paid 40 quid to see tina turner at the arena god knows why i paid that much

You poor, poor chap!

Originally posted by Yodameister
I wouldn't recommend anyone to go and watch any "Stadium Gigs"

The thing about gigs is actually seeing the band live, and that means getting up close enough to see more than you could do on the TV, and getting a real live experience.

I think going to a big stadium gig is just so you can say "I was there" but I don't think you'll ever have an amazing live experience.

I would disagree with the above statement. Some of the best gigs I've been too have been stadium gigs and I wasn't there just to say I was! I was there as a fan to see them live. The atmosphere has been electric, the show that has been put on outdid any other small gig i.e the stage set, the lighting etc. Big stadium gigs can be absolutely amazing.

Do you really think people go, to say they were there?!!! Some bands are that big now that playing small venues wouldn't be fair as no-one would be able to get tickets. At least a bigger venue give more people a chance.

God, the bands can't do anything right can they!

I have to say though, that smaller venues e.g. leadmill, rock city etc have been fab, but most the bands I've seen in those venues haven't been really big or it was before they got really big.

Have you seen the Downlad festival tickets and prices - they are extortionate £127.50 for ticket & camping & car park pass per person (if you don't want the hassle of bringing your own tent you can buy a camping kit for just an extra 80 quid per person!!)

If camping ain't your thing they also do hotel packages starting at £466 (based on two people sharing):o

Fairly safe to say commercialism (and all the inflated prices that come with it) has finally arrived in the Rock/Metal world!:(

But the thing with festivals is, if you count up the number of bands you see and multiply that by the price of all the tickets to see them on their own, you'll see that festivals are really good value for money.

Good god, moan moan moan, if you don't like the price, don't buy the tickets and if everyone has that attitude, don't expect the bands to continue to write and release music!

i really wanted to go and see the eagles next year but the price of tickets is a whopping 75 quid each:o

Originally posted by Foxxx

Do you really think people go, to say they were there?!!!

Yes.

Thats why I said it, funnily enough.

Originally posted by panda79
i really wanted to go and see the eagles next year but the price of tickets is a whopping 75 quid each:o

We saw them at the Wembley on their first final tour and then at the Arena in Sheffield they were great, if you can afford a ticket go and see them, they are worth every penny. If not, try their new dvd it's excellent.

Paid £30 to see Dylan. Poor gig but I never thought I'd actually get to see him live, so the price did'nt bother me. Plus I think it's safe to say the bloke has more than proved himself over the years...

Not like your fly by night pop 'acts' that do one album and still have the cheek to charge the same price.

Going back to that Dylan gig: I reckon if he had played somewhere like the city hall (more intimate) it would have been
a fantastic gig. His voice and stage pressence are not strong enough for a huge arena.

i really wanted to go and see the eagles next year but the price of tickets is a whopping 75 quid each

£75??? That is unbelievable! For that price I'd wanna sit on a box next to the bloody drummer! :loopy:

This is one of the very few things that I regret after splitting up with hubby. He works for one of the major rock tour hauliers and I've kind of got used to getting the best seats in the house for whoever I want to see with a complimentary VIP pass.

Since splitting up I'm totally shocked by the prices of tickets, and I don't understand how (or why) people commit so much money to going to gigs. I simply can't afford to do it routinely now, and when I do go it's because I really want to go, and it's not usually a 'big' band, because of the ludicrous costs.