Radiohead, 3Arena, 20th June 2017

Pickpocket wrote: »

Exactly. They should have made that clear. "The name of the credit card holder will appear on the ticket, not the name of the Ticketmaster account holder." One sentence. That's all it would have taken.

Exactly, I thought I could just be happy that I actually got tickets and now the stress of this is spoiling it. My friend got 4 tickets but used her fathers card too and shes married so her surname on her ID will be different to her dads name on the tickets, not that I'm sure that would help in any way. Shes stressing like mad too. How can they use the payment method name and not the ticketmaster account name? Or...ask for a name ffs

Cina wrote: »

Wait til you visit London, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, or one of the Scandinavian capitals and then say that

Oslo isn't too different to Dublin and London. Booze is a good bit more expensive but the rest is about on par. That's based on personal experience of visiting and not living in the three of them.


You don't have to go. I was just pointing out that you could spin it into a bit of a holiday for a small bit more than you'd spend on a Dublin gig.

thc4me wrote: »

Exactly, I thought I could just be happy that I actually got tickets and now the stress of this is spoiling it. My friend got 4 tickets but used her fathers card too and shes married so her surname on her ID will be different to her dads name on the tickets, not that I'm sure that would help in any way. Shes stressing like mad too. How can they use the payment method name and not the ticketmaster account name? Or...ask for a name ffs

In all likelihood ID wont be checked on the night as the venue is too large.
Even if it is ,if you explain your case the staff should let you in .

Adele had the same restrictions on her tickets for the UK tour and nobody was turned away ,likewise Kate Bush ,its primarily just scaremongering.

I think credit card entry is a better option.
Also the id required can be a bus pass or work id ,not that difficult to get a fake id if you want (not recommending btw).

The Tom Waits gigs in 2008 are the only gigs i've been to that had the same ticket restrictions, no entry without lead booker & Passport or Drivers licence for ID, and the checks were 100% enforced for that.

Gig was a lot smaller in numbers though and the Point with 14k people might be different, i can see them being more relaxed about it.

RasTa wrote: »

Tickets available for the Florence gig.

Milan as well .
Poland also available.

Day festivals ,tickets cheaper than Dublin too.

https://www.wasteheadquarters.com/schedule

Billy Mays wrote: »

Do the band set the ticket prices or the promoters?


I was at the first night in Amsterdam in May and tickets were €70 for a 5,000 capacity venue, now they're almost €100 for a venue that holds nearly 15,000.

Tickets in Florence going for €60 General Admission on the W.A.S.T.E site too

I thought the high price of gigs in Ireland was down to high venue insurance? Also perhaps being on a little island might mean higher transportation costs? Easier to lug those stages all over Europe on trucks than get it over here on boats.

Plus of course demand will drive ticket prices up :-)

Thought it was long established on here that the artist sets the prices

edit: sure look at the carry on on their own website, nearly €84 for a standing ticket and they lump a €13.85 charge on top for absolutely no reason given.

This has probably been posted already but in case anyone interested missed it... https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/apr/29/radiohead-corporate-structure-firms

Billy Mays wrote: »

Do the band set the ticket prices or the promoters?


I was at the first night in Amsterdam in May and tickets were €70 for a 5,000 capacity venue, now they're almost €100 for a venue that holds nearly 15,000.

I heard a really interesting podcast a while back about how and why ticket prices are the way they are but I can't find it now. It was US focussed, but I'd say there's a lot of crossover.

From what I remember, it's a combination of the band setting a price and then the venue having their overheads (which seems logical). However, the ticket sellers don't want to advertise >e100 tickets, so they hide part of the cost by selling through other businesses they own (e.g. seatwave) or selling packaged tickets (gig ticket + hotel, etc.). I wish I could find the podcast now as I'm probably butchering the explanation, but that's the general gist.

So to answer the question you actually asked, I'm fairly sure it's a combination of both. Other things like needing to bring a full set of gear and pyrotechnics would also affect it. Was the Amserdam gig a "intimate" one or full stage show?

hidinginthebush wrote: »

Not true, I got standing on ticketmaster.ie this morning.

Ghostdancer is talking about ticketmaster's ticket sales for the Manchester gig.

Missed out as with many others on here. Looking at best alternative options and Milan is looking good, knock a romantic getaway with the missus out of it too.
WASTE page says it's on at I-Days 2017. Does anyone have information on the I-Days event, sounds like a festival of sorts but can't find any information online about it, least not in English, so have no idea if its one day or what the story is.

Irish Times says second gig is unlikely because they're in Glastonbury just a few days after Dublin.
I really hope they're wrong, I'm heartbroken.

A second Dublin date is unlikely. Two days before their Dublin date, the band are due to play festival in the Netherlands, and three days after their Dublin date they are headlining the Friday night of the Glastonbury festival. A two-day break is likely given the scale of the Glastonbury show.