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I saw Father John Misty a couple or few years ago, his most recent tour has flashed on my pocket computer.
I'd like to see him again he was great I thought. £56.00 plus booking fee x 2 plus train tickets to Edinburgh as I can't make his appearance in Glasgow.
Ooft.
Yeah, i saw adverts for a couple of gigs I fancy attending
£42 for Fields Of The Nephilim
£56 for Steve Vai and Joe Satriani
Still tempted though
It's about the same price as a bag of shopping from Tesco. So in some strange world it sounds like a bargain
Could be worse, I live 90miles from Glasgow. A decent concert involves tickets, travel food , drink and accommodation... Last trip to see Toto was in the region of £350...
You could fly to Africa for that.
Last trip to see Toto was in the region of £350...
Shouldn’t it be free?, Click your heels together three times and say “there’s no place like home…….there’s no place like home……..there’s no place like home “
Edit : 50+ seconds to post that whilst the spinny green progress wheel did its thing in the top right corner of my iPad
£56 to see satriani sounds like a bargain to me tbh
You could fly to Africa for that
I see what you did there 😀
You could fly to Africa for that
On the 12.30 flight?
🤣👏👏👏
It's about the same price as a bag of shopping from Tesco. So in some strange world it sounds like a bargain
Blimey, if I look at it that way....eat for a week or spend an hour and half at some gig...the gig seems ridiculously expensive....
Dara O'Briain at Buxton the other night.
£34 ticket. Park at 6.01pm when free parking kicks in. Mediocre pub meal and an excellent pint £14. Interval ice cream £3.50. 90 miles of diesel.
It's all the extras that get me. I've paid a handsome sum to go the event, you don't need to charge me £7 for a can of beer.
There are still some well priced events out there. We have a great local comedy club that is £5 for up and comers night and £10 for headliners.
£90 for Ardmoors + £5 booking fee, +£20 camping
for a 35 km course
I got a free ticket to go and see Orbital on Friday night in Leeds. Over £8 a pint in the venue, so after a couple before hand 3 in there and one after, train fare in and £25 on a taxi home (I live about 7 miles out of Leeds centre) I reckon that free ticket cost me £75!
Pretty poor gig as well...
It's all the extras that get me. I've paid a handsome sum to go the event, you don't need to charge me £7 for a can of beer.
It’ll cost you a tenner a pint at the new Co-op arena. I had a look at the tickets for Pulp there in June and IIRC I think the cheapest were 120 quid.
That’s a pretty pricey night out! 😳
Peter Molloy & Sean Regan | Slí na mBeaglaoich | TG4
These guys play for free in a Westport pub, 5.60 euros for a Guinness.
Just paid £167 for two tickets to My Bloody Valentine in November. £70 a pop and £27 in Ticketmaster Special Rip Off Premium Service Charges
And it's 130 miles away in London. Fortunately we've got family we can use as a free hotel otherwise it'd get seriously pricey....
Does anybody remember when cinemas gave a discount for booking online? 😐
It's eye watering nowadays. I'm nearly 50, no kids, very well off, and even I wince at the price of food and drink on a night out. No wonder the kids don't drink.
Does anybody remember when cinemas gave a discount for booking online? 😐
I remember when Vue was £4.99 a ticket anytime which then changed to £4.99 at weeknights, £6.99 on Friday and Saturday, now it's £7.99 for the basic seats 6ft from the screen and anything half decent costs £10 and upward.
Although they do still give a discount for booking online. Or they charge more for buying in person, whichever way you want to look at it...
These are rookie numbers, all day pub crawl in Glasgow, token something to eat and train home is £200+ these days 😂
FJM sat next to us in a pizza restaurant. He's taller than I expected.
No wonder the kids don't drink.
Meanwhile, the price of drugs has remained stable and constant for decades now and the quality has gone up considerably
Ironic that it’s pretty much the only market where the market forces that we are told know the answer to everything have actually worked
These are rookie numbers, all day pub crawl in Glasgow, token something to eat and train home is £200+ these days 😂
all day pub crawl in Glasgow, token something to eat and train home is £200+ these days
Christ, where are you coming from, Cornwall?
A heavy night on the beers for me would be about thirty quid. If I paid a fiver for a pint I'd expect change and a "deluxe burger meal" - cheeseburger, chicken burger, portion of chips and a can of coke - is £7.
My first gig (in 1976) was 30p which was tbe price of a pint then.
Band tours used to be seen as promotions for selling records so usually.ran at a loss to be recouped from record sales. Since the collapse of record buying, tours are seen as the way for a band to make money hence the huge inflation in prices.
I got a free ticket to go and see Orbital on Friday night in Leeds.
They always had a ridiculously cheap ticket price at their gigs.
Loads of stuff getting cancelled here now - festivals, etc. They all blame it on insurance costs having skyrocketed since COVID.
There's an annual mtb 3-day stage race local to me that's run the past two years. They've just announced it's cancelled because of the recent storm damage. The race isn't until June. We'll be riding the tracks again within a week. They clearly just can't sell enough tickets.
I've paid a handsome sum to go the event, you don't need to charge me £7 for a can of beer.
Nobody’s forcing you to buy an overpriced can of beer.
Band tours used to be seen as promotions for selling records so usually.ran at a loss to be recouped from record sales. Since the collapse of record buying, tours are seen as the way for a band to make money hence the huge inflation in prices.
Sadly true. Although it’s possible to find cheap promotional gigs - I saw the Miki Berenyi Three last night at Rough Trade in Bristol, £12/ticket, including a free copy of their new CD. Which got 8/10 from Uncut. Miki used to be in Lush, saw them 3 times across three years in the 90’s, then they reformed a few years ago, saw them three times over a year. Lush finally folded, so Miki and Moose, her husband, formed Piroshka along with the drummer from Lush, formerly the drummer with Elastica, and recorded an album, saw them a couple of times, now their drummer is in constant demand so they’re using electronic percussion.
saw them a month or so ago in Bristol, tickets were £28 for me and my mate, and they’re playing The Exchange in Bristol next month, tix for that will be £31 for the two of us. Almost beer money!
The most I’ve paid was £350 for Peter Gabriel at the O2 several years ago - that might be his last tour, seeing as he only tours about once every ten years, and he’s well into his 70’s now!
Makes the £145 I paid for a front row centre seat for Kate Bush in 2014 look cheap! I can’t remember what I paid for my ticket for Tool at the O2, but it wasn’t cheap!
“My first gig (in 1976) was 30p which was tbe price of a pint then.”
My first gig was Steeleye Span, when they played the Lacock Folk Festival, but I can’t remember the cost, but I saw Supertramp play Chippenham Technical College on a warmup tour prior to the release of ‘Crime Of The Century’, a ticket was 50p, 45p if you had a Student Union card!
Led Zeppelin at Earls Court on the ‘Physical Grafitti’ tour cost me £2.50.
Just to put these costs in some context, average price for a new vinyl album is around £24, with some going for £30-50…
Blimey, if I look at it that way....eat for a week or spend an hour and half at some gig...the gig seems ridiculously expensive....
Eat for a week?
What's in your bag, bread & beans...
Took my (now young adult) children down to see Frank Turner in Newcastle last week. I didn't think the £45 ticket price was too bad as he puts on a great show, but I though £32 for three drinks at the venue was taking the piss a bit. Add in the train tickets from Aberdeen, hotel rooms and dinner before the gig and it worked out to be a fairly expensive trip. But to mis-quote that advert; moshing with your kids at a punk gig - priceless 🙂
FJM sat next to us in a pizza restaurant
Female Jenital Mutilation? Catchy... 🙃
I've stopped going to so many 'big' gigs now – I need a very good reason to be paying around £100 for a ticket and I struggle to justify that even for bands I really like. Instead, we've started going to smaller gigs and tribute acts and my favourite venue is The Crescent in York – a short walk from the station and pub prices for beer so I can have a night out costing about £50-£60.
the gig seems ridiculously expensive....
It is. Depends what you like for your night out though doesn't it... I'd rather see an up and coming band in a small venue for £15-20 than some old has-been going through the motions in the distance for 3 times that any day. My nights out are still pretty reasonable.
My first gig (in 1976) was 30p which was tbe price of a pint then.
Band tours used to be seen as promotions for selling records so usually.ran at a loss to be recouped from record sales. Since the collapse of record buying, tours are seen as the way for [s]a band[/s] [i]the label[/i] to make money hence the huge inflation in prices.
So close, but I fixed that for you!
I'll tell you what though - nothing in this thread is dispelling the stereotype of this forum being full of middle-aged moaners! A pint might cost £7 a gig now, but that means the motivation is there to staff the bar properly, put fast serving equipment in etc. A meal on the way there might cost £30, but then there's a good chance its actually been cooked on the premises by someone who takes pride in what they do and tastes the food.
You all have (mostly massively overpriced) bikes and can go ride up a mountain if you need a "free" way to pass the time.
I'm.going to see Bokassa and Mother Vulture at Sheffield Corp in a couple of weeks. Two great bands for a £15 ticket. A few pints of neepsend or abbeydale cask beforehand at £4 a pint and my night out will cost me around £30.
The sky rocket prices of other cities doesn't seem to have reached Sheffield yet.
Proabably a bit OT, but me and my wife went for a walk on Saturday, and stopped in a local Neighbourhood pub, in the north east of England. I had a pint of 0% lager, and she had a single G&T.
13 quid....
A heavy night on the beers for me would be about thirty quid. If I paid a fiver for a pint I'd expect change and a "deluxe burger meal" - cheeseburger, chicken burger, portion of chips and a can of coke - is £7.
And where are you going out - the 1970s?!
Night out, 6 pints or less, plus a pub burger: €60 feels quite cost-efficient, €80 more typical
Certain 'comeback bands' gigs and big sporting events are crazy nowadays.
A pal went to the Arena in Newcastle a few weeks ago and its £8.95 for a pint of gassy lager in a plastic glass.
I was at the Grand National on Saturday, a surprise meet-up for a mates retirement. £9.50 for a can of wine (don't say anything about the can, the full bottle was an aluminium tin £37) £85 to get in, I would say for that however I had 6 hours of 'entertainment'.
I took my dad to a test match at Durham in 2013 and it was £80 to get in, again a good days worth of entertainment.
Whilst working in Cambridge last Wednesday I went for a pint, £7.90, average price on the board was about £7.40.
'Cheap' theater and dinner in London for two.
Petrol to drive into Z4 ~£10
Parking £6
TFL £28
Street food at Southbank £25
2 Beers £15
2 Mr Whippy ice creams £15 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (knew that would be an utter rip-off when there wasn't a price on the window)
Theater £90 (Plied And Prejudice at The Vaults, I'd thoroughly recommend it )
3 rounds in the theater £45
Snacks for the return home £6
£240
I'm always torn between driving in which feels like a wasted opportunity sometimes and "making a night of it". A hotel, dinner and a few more rounds of drinks turns some cheap tickets into an astronomically expensive few hours!