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No Time To Die sounds better and better with every listen.
What's not to like? The only gigs I've seen this level of audience sing-a-long is New Model Army gigs when they play Green And Grey.
Let the sky-FAAAAAAW
When it cu-BBAAAAW
We will sta-TAAAW*puts foot through TV*
Cougar wins thread.
LOL'd
It is a shame because gigs now are a special treat (we have taken our girls to a couple and are going to see Camilla Cabello) but they are too expensive to go regularly. When I was a student I would be going to 2 or 3 a week sometimes.
My first gig was in 1982 and cost £2.75 (Iron Maiden on the Beast on the Road tour). That would be around £11 today allowing for inflation.
I paid £2.50 to see Led Zeppelin play Earle’s Court! And I’ve got a poster upstairs for Supertramp, playing Chippenham Technical College, 50p, NUS members 45p!
That was just before ’Crime Of The Century’ came out, they played Bristol Colston Hall six months later.
There was a time a gig at a smallish venue like The Fleece would cost around £8, now it’s closer to £20; I saw Smoke Fairies at Rough Trade Bristol a week or so ago, that’s a pretty intimate venue, tickets were £25. I still balk at spending more than £45 on a ticket, though, although I did spend a bit more for King Crimson last year, but I’d waited fifty years to see them...
The most I’ve ever paid was £145 for Kate Bush, but that was pretty much a once in a lifetime experience, and I had front row centre seats as well.
It’s a bit foxed, but here’s my Supertramp poster, just to show the tickets really were that cheap.
And it was 46 years ago... 😁
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The most I’ve ever paid was £145 for Kate Bush, but that was pretty much a once in a lifetime experience
Led Zepplin to Kate Bush.... is that an allegory for the demise of the hippy generation?
Extortionate gig tickets?
MCJnr just had a 3 day residential with the county orchestra = £90
They finish with a concert and you bring them home after - still another £10 per ticket for the concert, and of course grandparents want to go along to see him perform
FML
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The most I’ve ever paid was £145 for Kate Bush
The only band I would pay really big money to see would be a reformed Pink Floyd - I'd happily sell a testicle to see that.
What’s not to like? The only gigs I’ve seen this level of audience sing-a-long is New Model Army gigs when they play Green And Grey.
That really is just a ****ing racket, though!
I paid £2.50 to see Led Zeppelin play Earle’s Court!
That's nothing - I saw The Stones for FREE in 2016 🙂
That’s nothing – I saw The Stones for FREE in 2016
That's nothing - I saw Queen free in 1976. I don't know what that is at today's prices...
The price of gigs is a little bit random, I've noticed. Locally, I can go to see Whitesnake and Foreigner on the same bill for £64, Stormzy for £50 or Barry Manilow for £64. Simply Red, however, are £75 and Crowded House are the same!
And I did wonder who would book tickets for the Billy Ocean/Heather Small thing at Burghley last year. £50, with £10 to park. Different tastes...