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Why have gigs become so expensive?

  • 05-04-2004 2:14pm
    #1
    Bannor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 815 ✭✭✭


    Powderfinger are playing in the Olympia on May 13th this year as part of a mini-European tour.

    Tour dates and prices:
    09.05.2004 - Berlin - €17.10 (incl. booking fee)
    10.05.2004 - Hamburg - €16.55 (incl. booking fee)
    11.05.2004 - Cologne - €16.55 (incl. booking fee)
    13.05.2003 - Dublin - €30.00-32.50 (plus 12.5% service/booking fee) : €33.75-36.55
    15.05.2004 - Glasgow - £13.50 (plus £2.25 booking fee) : €23-24

    There's a bit of a discrepency between the prices. :eek: When they played in Whelans a few years ago the price was in line with the other European venues.

    Having to pay twice the price to see a band in Ireland as opposed to on the continent is beyond a joke. :mad:


Comments

  • #2
    ferdi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,598 ✭✭✭ferdi


    irish business owners are the most greedy bastards in the world. thats the one and only reason.


  • #3
    Ro: maaan!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,592 ✭✭✭Ro: maaan!


    People are willing to pay these high prices. And MCD seem to have figured that out...


  • #4
    Lainey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,048 ✭✭✭Lainey


    it's just plain crap.. i never go to as many gigs as i used too..
    it's a big rip off like everything else in this country..
    emigration anyone?


  • #5
    Johnny Versace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Johnny Versace


    I also do not go to concerts anymore because I am unwilling to participate in the rip off prices.

    They only get away with it because we let them...


  • #6
    honru
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,585 ✭✭✭honru


    Originally posted by Johnny Versace
    They only get away with it because we let them...

    Are you thinking what I'm thinking?


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  • #7
    Johnny Versace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Johnny Versace


    Originally posted by f®eak s©enery
    Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

    Dana International was quite shaggable?


  • #8
    markomac316
    Closed Accounts Posts: 190 ✭✭markomac316


    them prices r ridicilious...Does anyone know how much MUSE tickets were when they played in Dublin cause in Belfast they were £25 Im guessing thats between €30 - €35 but i could be wrong.


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