Concert Ticket Prices

[newmodarmy]

I've seen most of my favorite bands live, but never seen the Eagles. I was just looking at their UK tour and looked at ticket prices. There's some right at the back at around £90 but anything with a better view start at £120.

Bit pricey for 2 of us- we can afford it but it just seems a lot.

Is that the going rate for concerts now? 

 

[newmodarmy]

I'm just getting old I think- £87 just sounds a lot, but I suppose it's just 3 hours earnings for 3 hours of entertainment. I've been a big fan for 50 years so it's time I saw them.  

[construct1245]

If it makes you feel any better I once paid over £200 for one ticket for a group called twice

[Prudie]

I know someone who paid £600 for a ticket to see BTS at Wembley in 2019 (although I think it was from tout/seller after the regular tickets were sold out). Apparently worth every penny and I'm very jealous.

[anneasquith]

DO IT .

[Buenchico]

If you don't like paying high prices, it might be best not to think about booking to see Adele when she plays a gig in the UK later this year (as she's widely expected to do).  She was making $2m per show in Las Vegas last year, with last minute tickets averaging just over $1000 each
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2023/12/13/this-artist-had-the-most-expensive-last-minute-concert-tickets-this-year-its-not-taylor-swift/?sh=6e9d0c1d3b45
but it's anticipated that she might make £10m for a show here in the UK through playing a larger venue:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12987967/Adele-UK-gig-London-las-vegas-residency.html

The only live show I've seen recently was Facscinating Aida's 40th Anniversary Tour in Ipswich a fewmonth's back.  All seats were priced at £27.50, which didn't seem too bad to me.  (I was less pleased though at getting charged £6 to park for the evening!)

[piggynose]

16.20 Sorry who are BTS? 

[Canary42]

I'm afraid that I can't see the attraction in watching ageing pensioners trying to capture the heady days of their youth.

[Buenchico]

I've just checked out some ticket prices on Ticketmaster:

Bruce Springsteen, Principality Stadium, Cardiff, May:
Side view: £151.75
Others: From £254.20 up to £475.20

Pink, Principality Stadium, Cardiff, June:
Standing: £212.10
Others: From £280.50 up to £464.70

That makes your Eagles tickets seem cheap!

[Buenchico]

^^^ "Sorry who are BTS? "

They're probably the biggest K-pop group in the world, Piggy!

[Toorak]

We have paid around £60 a ticket for the Squeeze 50th anniversary tour.

[Prudie]

Thankyou Chris, huge, worldwide famous except for possibly in the UK. I'm obsessed with them.

[Prudie]

And this is a good example of why they are so massive

[royfromaus]

JTT ^

[royfromaus]

ooops

SKTT

[melv16]

I can remember paying 6 shillings (30p) to see Free.

[sp1814]

newmodarmy 

One of the reasons why tickets for live shows have increased in price so much recently is because traditional money-making avenues have changed so much.

For many big bands, a single is an advert for the album and the album exists to promote the live show - and that's where they really make money - in tickets and (especially) merchandise.

It's gotten to the point where I see (good) seats advertised for under £200 and I think "bargain!"

[237SJ]

I always reckoned that prices went up with the advent of Ebay.  When the promotors saw that people were prepared to pay £100 on Ebay for a ticket with face value of £50 they thought "Why charge £50 when people will pay twice that"

[jno]

I just came across the receipt for seeing Roxy Music way back in 2011 and that was £70 each, so the Eagles price 13 years later seems comparatively cheap.

We did get seats directly above Bryan Ferry's bald spot, but we had to take our own crampons.

[sp1814]

Elle Fitzerald at the Royal Albert Hall in 1990. Tickets were £45 each and I thought that was *hideously* expensive at the time.

Madonna in 2023...tickets were so furiously expensive that the following month when I opened my credit card statement I heard a little drum roll.

[maggiebee]

Best tickets I could get for Les Mis in Aberdeen later in the year were £110 each which included booking fee.