As a species we have lost our way – slave to the phone and our rather sad need to be able to generate evidence that we were there for social media gratification and a dollop of dopamine. We’ve collectively turned ourselves into shallow fried turds.
Be honest, most of us were off our faces and have very little recall of the gigs we saw when we were younger. I don’t know if that’s better or worse than social media and permanently frozen memories on screens, but the kids are alright.
"my music tastes include oasis, stone roses, black crowes,"
Black Crowes released a new album a few weeks ago and have just played here. To compare them with TS, it's about £70 for their cheapest ticket and that got you 17 songs and less than 2 hours on stage. I've seen them a few times, last time was about 11 years ago and that ticket was about £30. Gigs are expensive now, not all gigs but bigger name acts seem to be. We're going to see Beth Gibbons this week at the Usher Hall, think tickets were about £35.
When I was a young 'un I saw Family, Third Ear Band, John Fayeh, Rolling Stones, Blind Faith, the Clash, and countless other bands FOR FREE! Can't imagine that happening nowadays. NB just back from a ride.
I really enjoyed it last night, I’m no swifty but my daughters are, we paid £100 per ticket which was a bargain for a 3.5 hr set. I admire her as she a good role model for my daughters and she (within reason) seems to be genuinely nice. The show was flawless and the crowd was amazing. Being mostly female and not drunk the atmosphere was overwhelmingly positive and friendly, which was great. The other thing was my ears not ringing afterwards which was surprising as I had 72000 fans all screaming around me!. The news claim that she will boost the economy in Edinburgh by around £77million in just 3 days which is extraordinary and I can see why, even the Uber driver was looking forward to the increase in fares!!. As a bonus we saw the riders going north on the M6 on the way back which was a sight to behold.
I was visiting a friend last night who lives two streets away from Murrayfield stadium, I couldn't hear anything 🙁 🙁
(I was poised and ready to buy tickets the second they released, but didn't get through the online queue)
I was considering going to UFC 304 in Manchester - tickets just gone on sale, from £530-odd quid. F*** that.
500 quid a pop for euros tickets for Scotland Germany according to my mate. I guess those spending that kind of money on Taylor swift will at least enjoy a decent performance..
Everything is expensive these days:
Cycling, concerts, football tournaments, other football matches, most sporting events, holidays, cars, houses, food, even a night out can easily be £100 - how I long for the days when I was at uni and there was price war on vodka & coke which got down to 19p….. (actually no, can’t touch the stuff since then lol). But I don’t go on about it, just the usual that poor people, as usual, get left behind and miss out on almost everything really good in life. And arrogant people.
I don’t know why people bother travelling all that way to see her live when you can sit in front of your computer & watch a virtual version which is just as good. Google ‘Taylor Zwift’. 😕
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Coldplay (so I’m told – wasn’t there) did a song on their last tour where they pleaded for everyone to put their phones away and just be in the moment.
I went to a Skepta gig a few years ago where everyone had to hand their phones over as they went in and they were placed in little locking sleeves, which blocked the phone signal. You got it unlocked when you left at the end of the night. It was ace! No annoying phones being held up in front of you
Can’t see you being able to do that with the size of Taylor Swifts audience though. Can you imagine the queues to get your phone unlocked at the end of the night. Plus they’d have to order in a few hundred thousand of them, at least 😂
When I was a young ‘un I saw Family, Third Ear Band, John Fayeh, Rolling Stones, Blind Faith, the Clash, and countless other bands FOR FREE! Can’t imagine that happening nowadays
Back then those bands would have been making money selling albums. Nowadays if you’re a band and you have 6 million streams on Spotify you get about 27p
Gigs are the only way bands can make money, hence the ticket prices. The rest of their recorded output is now essentially free, so swings and roundabouts and all that
Gigs are the only way bands can make money, hence the ticket prices. The rest of their recorded output is now essentially free, so swings and roundabouts and all that
Yeah, think Lewis Capaldi said the same, minute he hit fame he had a world tour and made a fortune through that, hence why he's a bit burnt out now, most bands/singers have to strike while they're hot, Swift is just a whole different class, i doubt money even comes into her head these days, she's been building bigger and better tours every time, pushing her music writing and so on, she's certainly not coasting along like most folk do, so you have to admire her, and she's also hit the forbes billionaire list as well, but again, i honestly think when they're at her level, do they even think money anymore, she'll have someone worry about that stuff for her i'd bet.
THat's darn good doing 3 1/2 hours - you are lucky to get 90 to 120 minutes with most artists. Not to my taste, but many tickets now are around £100
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To be fair, 50p in Chippenham is pretty much £100 anywhere else in the UK 🤣
Update..apparently it was the greatest night ever, and the best 1400 quid ever spent.
And whilst id personally prefer some new carbon wheels, I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many people in Edinburgh all looking so happy (when I picked them up afterwards)
sounds like it’s was an amazing weekend for all her fans.
edinburgh folk happy??? there'll be a backlash I fear, hope the women's refuges don't get overrun...
(disclaimer, Embra born and bred...)
As a species we have lost our way – slave to the phone and our rather sad need to be able to generate evidence that we were there for social media gratification and a dollop of dopamine. We’ve collectively turned ourselves into shallow fried turds.
I think you've wandered in from the Weekend Riding Pictures thread.
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She's playing a Gibson there rather than a Taylor... I always thought it quite amusing that her name is Taylor, and Taylor is one of the top 4 guitar manufactures in the world....it's not supprising she plays thier guitars a lot, it just kinda makes sense, and possibly says something about her integrity that shes not locked herself into an exclusive sponsership deal with Taylor guitars.
Daughter and friend just got back from the last Edinburgh show. To say they had the best weekend is an understatement. They flew up from Bristol and loved the whole experience. The whole city was filled with swiftie stuff and sounds pretty cool to be honest.
their tickets were £110 each ( admittedly up in the gods!)
interesting note, they met some girls from Toronto who had flown to Scotland, had 4 days of holiday and the gig and spent the same money as it would have cost them to go to the Toronto date!
