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Old 20-12-2008, 02:08
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Yep I must live in a time warp.

But I thought that I would go online today and buy a batch of tickets for a girlie night out in the summer at £20 a go.

Imagine my shock when I seen that Girls Aloud were going for £70+

FGS....they are entertaining....but are still shite at singing IMO, therefore my thinking that they would be the cheapest tickets.

Anyway....it got progressively worse as I seived through all the other acts

So when did these acts deserve more than £20 quid a go to see them?
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Old 20-12-2008, 02:27
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check coldplay or kaiser chiefs ticket prices, i think they reduced them because of the credit crunch.
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Old 20-12-2008, 02:47
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check coldplay or kaiser chiefs ticket prices, i think they reduced them because of the credit crunch.
If they are under £20 quid, I might still buy them as a 'treat'

I have to admit to trying to take care of all my Xmas pressies all at once
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Old 20-12-2008, 06:57
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Yep I must live in a time warp.

But I thought that I would go online today and buy a batch of tickets for a girlie night out in the summer at £20 a go.

Imagine my shock when I seen that Girls Aloud were going for £70+

FGS....they are entertaining....but are still shite at singing IMO, therefore my thinking that they would be the cheapest tickets.

Anyway....it got progressively worse as I seived through all the other acts

So when did these acts deserve more than £20 quid a go to see them?
Are you for real? entertaining?........
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Old 20-12-2008, 09:30
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Yeh...bring back the good old days when a "top whack" seat at the Apollo cost £35.

Ticket prices have gone through the roof...stadium gigs easilt selling for £70 and £80..a trend that has developed is not advertising ticket prices in the newspaper and mag ads...also the ripoff "booking and postal fees" that can easily inflate face value price by a tenner...and don't even get me started on the practice of selling tickets a year in advance !

I have my Coldplay tickets for next September...I don't even know my plans for January yet and resent having to schedule my life around pre-booked tickets.
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Old 20-12-2008, 10:19
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The price of tickets for gigs these days is completely out of hand imo.
Booking fees , booking tickets a year in advance ..what's that all about ?.

The prices are truly rediculous but i think it's poosibly the only way that artist can make big money these days.

I also rememeber the good old days when you could buy tickets without any booking fees , often via postal application using postal orders ! Remember those ?

I used to go to loads of gigs and i can't remember not ever getting tickets for a show , even by postal applications.
Saw Pink Floyd at Earls Court 1980 and the tickets were £8 each ...and that was considered expensive then .

Led Zeppelin at Knebworth was £7-50 , dont know what that would be adjusted for inflation but i doubt it would be £70 - £80 .

£70 for Girls Aloud is clearly rediculous,but if people are prepared to pay that then ticket prices will remain high .
Same as tickets for football matches.
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Old 20-12-2008, 10:23
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£3.50 for Tom Robinson at Wembley in 1978 according to Grange Hill!
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Old 20-12-2008, 10:25
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I am lucky (I think) in the fact that I don't like many huge acts so I always get concert tickets for under £20.

The most I have paid for a ticket so far was for Björk which came to over £50 because they were sold out and I had to use one of those re-seller sites (I think the actual price was £37). Most gigs I go to are cheaper (CSS, Bat For Lashes, Skin etc were all under £20 and the venues were perfect because they weren't huge arenas so no matter where you stood you got a good view).

Supply and demand, though. More people are interested in Girls Aloud, so they can get away with selling for a pretty extortionate price. You could argue it's creating a divide in people who can and can't afford to buy tickets, because Girls Aloud are one of those bands that will appeal to young people who will be relying on their parents.
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Old 20-12-2008, 10:32
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£70 for Girls Aloud is completely ridiculous. I was going to see Queen + Paul Rodgers earlier in the year but the tickets were about £50 so didn't bother (If it was still Freddie then it would have been a different story ).

When U2 toured in 2005 I think the tickets were £48, which is about the top end that I'll pay to see any band. I just hope that their next tour either next year or the year after are still around the same price, theres no way I can afford £70+ to see them.
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Old 20-12-2008, 10:37
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I rarely pay over £20 to see bands/artists I like. In fact, one of the best gigs I've ever been to was around £8.50 a ticket. One of the advantages of liking obscure bands I guess.
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Old 20-12-2008, 10:45
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I remember seeing Coldplay for a fiver in Newcastle back in 1997.

Then they had to go and get successful didn't they!

Ditto The Futureheads and 4 other bands for a quid back in 1999!
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Old 20-12-2008, 10:52
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In the old days .... god i sound old !

There was no such thing as ebay , people just didn,t buy up tickets for gigs they had no intention of seeing , just to flog tickets off at inflated prices.

Yes there were touts but it didn't seem to be such a problem then .
I consider my self luckly to have seen some wonderful bands for a fraction of the price you would expect to pay now.
I've seen U2 about 5 times over the years but i wouldn't pay the kind of money they would be expecting now.
Joshua Tree tour 1987, 1 night at Wembly Arena , in-between the Wembley Stadium shows, tickets were reasonable, about £10 i think, and i got them via a postal application. It would be a nightmare now to get a ticket for that kind of event , so i wouldn't even bother .

There is nobody in the world i would pay £70 or more to see
these days .
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Old 20-12-2008, 11:02
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Where the hell were you looking for £70 tickets for Girls Aloud? Unless you mean £70 for a pair which would be correct. They were £26 in recent years but have sneaked up to about £32.50 this year, however. Worth every penny, though.
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Old 20-12-2008, 11:14
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I am lucky (I think) in the fact that I don't like many huge acts so I always get concert tickets for under £20.
I was amazed that tickets for Ben Folds at Shepherds Bush Empire were the best part of forty quid. Yet Fleet Foxes - arguably a much "huger" act nowadays - were less than half that at the same venue. Ben Folds sold out anyway, but why not just play a bigger venue (eg the Hammersmith Apollo) and charge a sensible price for tickets?
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Old 20-12-2008, 11:39
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Big acts that are at the 02 are normally about 35 - 50 a ticket but then if they huge they add an extra 2 per ticket for the booking fee so it 7 each for the booking + postage.

i think it funny that people blab on and on and on etc about credit crunch but o2 gigs sell out so fast

i dont mind paying for the tickets at that price in all honesty BUT what makes me so angry i want to punch someone is that when you go to buy a ticket the day BEFORE they have even gone on sale there is front row seats on ebay from sellers who already have tckets

the tickets say NOT FOR RESALE! it should be made illegal to tout so obviously if you want to get rid of tickets then i think a cap of 10 - 20% of face value
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Old 20-12-2008, 12:38
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So when did these acts deserve more than £20 quid a go to see them?
When people showed they were willing to pay more than £20! I would have thought that much was obvious...

If you don't think they are worth the money then don't pay it.

Plenty of people will, so what exactly is your problem with that?

If you had a car to sell that was worth £1000 I don't suppose you would sell it for £200 would you?
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Old 20-12-2008, 13:23
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I paid £100 for two Britney tickets on the first tier - I thought that was good!!
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Old 20-12-2008, 13:36
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It's no dearer than a west end show or the opera...

Given that there are always a finite number of tickets available they can charge what they like so long as people are willing to pay.

Even at the prices they do charge you still have to be quick to get the best seats...
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Old 20-12-2008, 15:59
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In the old days .... god i sound old !

Joshua Tree tour 1987, 1 night at Wembly Arena , in-between the Wembley Stadium shows, tickets were reasonable, about £10 i think, and i got them via a postal application.
I still have the ticket stub from Wembley stadium - just under a tenner for entry and a return bus fare from the Midlands!

I did pay silly money to see Muse at Wembley stadium but that really was worth it

I hope that one day in the future all these bands 'of today' (I sound like my dad!) will be doing the equivalent of Here and Now tours - just imagine seeing possibly Muse, U2 and Oasis at your local students union
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Old 20-12-2008, 16:09
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yeh remembering seeing ocean colour scene for £4.50! as they were starting out and blur for £12! just dont know whats happened to ticket prices these days, just wouldnt pay the money, was for getting some take that tickets but then seen the prices and it was a case of just forget it!

Think its down to downloading etc, in the good old days of the 90s and before, bands were generally cheaper to see as they made there money from cd sales etc! which looking back albums were at £15 - £20, remember paying that for blur-parklife! ouch, nowadays with downloads at next to nothing and cd's at £8! i reckon theve all came to the conclusion lets make money from ticket sales!
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Old 20-12-2008, 16:22
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Most gigs I go to are at universities.. nowadays these cost around £15, booking fees and the like are just adding to the costs.
Least I've paid was £8 to see Frank Turner in an auditorium, some gigs are still cheap but then it just depends on what music you're into.
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Old 20-12-2008, 17:02
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I saw Led Zeppelin at the empire pool wembly in 1971.
Cost 75p
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Old 20-12-2008, 17:19
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I dont begrudge paying 60-70 to see an artist live, i do begrudge paying £7-£10 for a c.d though. The record companies have been coining it in for ages. With so many people downloaded and sharing music nowadays the artists have found another way to make money. Live concerts are big business nowadays.
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Old 20-12-2008, 17:36
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What really annoys me is paying an extortionate price for tickets in which the seating is really bad, sixth months in advance so I have to book now as they are selling out to quickly...only for extra dates to be added!

I'm also talking about Girls Aloud tickets...due to demand I suppose, but my one's were £30 each, bit the booking fees and postage meant I was paying just over £70 for two!

It is ridiculous, but I am proof they can get away with it as I really do want to seem them...

Luckily for me I am mainly into electro and house so only have to play mildly high club entry club fees to see my faves
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Old 21-12-2008, 12:51
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Coldplay are charging £45 a ticket for their upcoming UK Stadium tour - but for this you are getting a top-class support act of Jay-Z or Girls Aloud, depending on what date you are going.

For me, Coldplay & Jay-Z are worth the £45, if it was just Coldplay - it would not be worth it.
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