I love the guy's stand up and thought it would be nice to get tickets for next years tour.
How the hell can you justify prices of between £110 and £200 for a stand up comedy show.
I know he hasn't done much for a while and maybe needs the money but isn't that just a bit greedy???
comedy for thick people. QED.
unless you are talking comedy store style venues then the concept of people like Peter Kay, Bill Bailey etc doing 'stand up' is pretty thin.
They put on massive productions with huge budgets in massively expensive arenas
even given the above £200 does seem a bit steep!
I'd rather spend a couple of hours in a comedy club with a handful of funny non-PC types, than watch a celebrity comic live (especially for £200). Just buy the DVD when it comes out in a few months.
They put on massive productions with huge budgets in massively expensive arenas
What's massively expensive about a bloke standing on a stage talking into a microphone, with maybe a video screen behind him and some music playing when he walks on and off stage???
Pete "all my jokes are the ones I have been using since the mid nineties" Kay no ta 😀
Didn't he do the 'Me Mam want s New bungalow' Tour ...?
Guess she's looking to up-size............. 😯
Bill Bailey is a slightly extreme example as he is a 'musical comedy' act but there was an awful lot of lighting, at least 8 hangs of (very expensive) Vdos line array and a large High Res LED screen on his last wembley show.
A lot of lighting is used as it 'enhances the experience' by creating interest in the audience. nothing looks quite so boring on a dvd as a crowd sat in the dark 😉
like i said though, £200 is an awful lot
Someone like Peter Kay will charge upwards of £20k for a corporate appearance for a couple of hours and an audience of a few hundred.
Bill Bailey has lots of stuff going on on stage
not sure Kay does
interesting that he is very unpopular with his fellow comics - seems to get accused of stealing material alot
- sour grapes or truth I wonder?
£200 to see him, a tenner for the DVD in time for next christmas, no brainer really
in relation to cost to put on a show, U2's latest tour cost a fortune what with the metal crab doo-hickey but i'm sure that was much less than £200 a ticket
Sounds a bit excessive.
I just looked and the tickets were 38 quid, maybe we're looking at different things.
That's still 60 quid more than I'd pay to see him though:)
After minimal research...
Prices start at £55 for the MEN Arena
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U2 don't need to subsidise smaller venues by upping the general ticket price, they guarantee to fill massive stadiums so the budget is huge.
and a ticket to see U2 on their 360 tour in the states will cost you $300
Peter Kay and his crazy observations...garlic bread...?!
The prices are set at a level that people are prepared to pay.
I tried to get tickets for almost an hour the minute they went on sale but gave up when the ticketmaster website was saying there were none left for the dates we could make. I noticed the other day that you can now buy tickets from a different website at hugely inflated prices from people who managed to get them but for whatever reason are now selling them. That annoys me!
Think of it as a comedy taste tax and it seems about right.
I just looked and the tickets were 38 quid, maybe we're looking at different things.
I got 5 for various people and they were all £38 each. I know they were some on ebay more or less straight away for £150-£200.
Hmm - maybe they did start a bit cheaper then and have been bumped up/the cheaper ones have sold out.
Even so, £1-200 for the priviledge of having a decent view of the stage seems excessive.
And as for the elaborate production costs, surely they're no where near your average high profile music concert. And unless PK has changed his act a lot I think his will consist of a seat, a few props and some lighting.
Ho hum - don't think I'll bother anyway - DVD it is.
When I looked they were all £100 to £200, that was a few days ago, went right off the idea.
Saw Bill Bailey in Cardiff doing his Guide to the Orchestra show. That was £55, seems pretty good value alongside Peter Kay. A full on orchestra has a pretty big price tag.
marsdenman...you beat me to it!
Reckon his mum's got delusions of grangeur and is now after a Wayne Rooney type chav-gaff!! 8)
Ah so that why the munter was on children in need to promote his tour, he is funny but not £110-£200 funny. He is having a laugh.
Loads of excellent comedians on at a tiny fraction of that price at local comedy clubs. Probably much better than Peter Kaye too. He's pretty much "comedy for the old age pensioner and the not-so-bright".
+ 1 for the comedy clubs !
hit snafu last night here in aberdeen - class night some good some bad - its always good watching up and comings try to hang them selves on stage. Has a good line up for the Xmas period too it does 😀
Its an odd situation for promoters - so they set a ticket price for Kay at £38, but the market, through the touts and the resellers says they'll pay up to £200. Whether the punter pays £38 or £200 the promoter still takes £38.
Given that the internetz has turned ticket sales into a flashmob scramble, its the practiced tout rather than the ticket buying punter who has the upperhand. (assuming that the ticket selling agencies and the ticket re-selling agencies aren't in some kind of circle jerk, oh but they couldn't be could they?)
Would it not be a universally more successful model to auction all the tickets in the first place, then nobody pays more than they want too and rewards for the promoter are linked wholly to demand?
What ? Peter Kay is a money grabbing twunt ? Who'd have thought it ?
Give me your £100 and I'll spend 2 hours telling you anecdotes about Spangles and low grade teatime TV.
his was the only autobiography I have read that has made me detest the author. He is a prick. A fat unfunny prick, laughing at the mugs who lap his 70's shit up.
The crazy performs and the fool watches.
I wanted tickets for the last Rush tour. It was impossible for me to get one before they "sold out" on Ticketmaster. But then as if by magic there appeared plenty on the net at x3/x4 original cost.
Strange that it's so hard for normal joes to get tickets from original source in ones and twoes yet touts seem to pick up hundreds/thousands within minutes of issue.
I'm sure there's no collusion!