Feels like the right time to start a new thread for next year's gigs.
John Mayer playing the 3Arena on 29 March 2024.
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Nick Lowe, National Concert Hall, Saturday 28th September.
And if people stopped paying this type of money, I reckon the true value in the artist's eye would be reduced accordingly.
In my opinion, all this is simply supply and demand.
Life Festival not happening this year.
Going to Enter Shikari tonight.
Didn't have time to listen to the 2 opening acts, Cherym and Meryl Streek. Would anyone have an opinion on them?
Cian Ducrot doing St. Anne's Park 7th June
Saw Cherym at the Salty Dog, a few years ago admittedly. Good fun, all girl punk outfit from Derry. Not sure if that's what they still are. Meryl Streek should be worth a look alright, getting a bit of press, angrier semi political punk if the couple of songs I've heard are representative. That's a decent bill. Enjoy.
3Arena capacity is 13000.
Discussion on the prices
But the supply is artificially controlled by Ticketmaster, and as a result the demand is also partly controlled.
For the craic I looked up how much a Stevie Nicks tribute act was charging and I am lost for words. - €31
Pretty expensive for a tribute act. Would have thought €20 would be plenty.
Oxn, Junior Brother, Pretty Happy and Mohammad Syfhan doing a gig for Gaza on 4th April in Vicar Street. Good line up. Tickets on sale now
More or less the same thing
I was only aware of Girl In Red as someone my older Swiftie daughter had mentioned as an Eras Tour support act. Now it turns out our younger daughter is a fan and wants this to be her first gig. Standing tickets and lower seated blocks on either side still available. No tickets on offer for central blocks so presumably they're sold out. Upper tier not on sale seemingly, which I guess is to be expected. Seated tickets a very reasonable €43 including fees.
Perfect!
In fact far more of what a large proportion of the audience actually want. Let these guys play a **** load of gigs around the country for 15 yoyos a pop, give the masses the nostalgia hit they want at an affordable price and let Stevie do a couple of intimate nights in Vicar Street for the hard-core at 50 odd euro a seat. Everyone happy. Bar maybe Ticketmaster. And Stevie. But you know, omelette, eggs etc.
Just noticed the service charge on those dynamic priced tickets is 15.95 euro.
Its gone from 7.75 to 10.75 to 15.95 now.
The gouging never ends.
Even so, the point stands: if people wouldn't give in to this, the practice would possibly be abandoned. Wishful thinking, I know: didn't happen before with touts, won't happen now with Ticketmaster's dynamic pricing.
And I won’t be unfair to people paying this money: It's easier said than done. There was a time that I would pay big money for a gig. But after being to hundreds of concerts in my life, there are very few (if any) artists that I would pay big to see live. The last 2 that I have never seen and would splash cash were David Bowie and Prince. And from the ones I have seen maybe Bjork, because her show is art.
I'm very lucky (and old enough!) to have seen all 3 of your icons. And they were all, as you allude to, 'art'.
Iveagh Gardens announcement Monday at 9
I read shift 20 euros and thought that is expensive 🙈
Depends on the shift, JP.
Finally an international worldwide act but he has been quite besides The Masked Singer
Insanity - there’s not one artist out there today that I’d pay that much money to see- not one- TG I’ve seen most bands I’ve ever wanted to see in concert over the last 30+ years -if someone wants to pay that fine but it’s not for me
The music with the announcement is Phoenix, they're touring in the summer and haven't played here in years. Could just be a coincidence though.
Fact is, you'll always fill that place, even at those stupid prices. And we all have a band or two we'd pay it for.
This is on a whole other level though. Inflation for food, alcohol, transport, sport, clothing, etc is nowhere near that level. €345 for a good seat is roughly quadrupling what you’d have paid in 2019. It’s an absurd price. It’s more than €100 above what people pay for an Electric Picnic early bird ticket. That’s three entire days of entertainment that includes several acts who could fill the 3Arena.
For another comparison my partner is from Slovakia so I often attend the Pohoda festival there. Ticket is €119, return flight €95, return bus and train to the site €12, Pink Moon equivalent tent set up with mattress €60, food and beer for three days €90. That’s €374 in total for a decent fest that always has a smattering of decent young indie acts and a few major ones. Even with much greater wealth I’d feel guilty for paying €690 for two SN tickets while we have people struggling to pay heating bills and many hundreds living on the street. That’s a whole other debate and as others have pointed out whilst we pay these over-inflated prices will continue. Another option is to persuade your TDs (pre-election they’re paying great attention) to refer Live Nation Entertainment (who own Ticketmaster) to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission. Legalised touting and dynamic pricing can be overturned when there’s nobody else effectively competing in the marketplace.
Another option is to persuade your TDs (pre-election they’re paying great attention) to refer Live Nation Entertainment (who own Ticketmaster) to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission. Legalised touting and dynamic pricing can be overturned when there’s nobody else effectively competing in the marketplace.
TD's were warned by the Department of Trade and Enterprise of what would happen if they introduced the legislation on ticket resale.
Their own department advised against the introduction of the legislation as it would lead to a monopoly by Ticketmaster and much higher fraud on the black market.
They forced the legislation through anyway.
Labour in the Uk are proposing similar legislation despite the Waterson report saying a ban is unwise due to similar concerns.
Prices are going to keep increasing in Ireland, there will be more platinum and more dynamic pricing employed, Live Nation have stated this in their quarterly reports, its there for anyone to see.
Wonder could Bon Jovi do an Autumn/Winter indoor tour with maybe 2/3 dates in the 3Arena
Be different I suppose but could very well be not far behind 'Stevie Nicks prices'
Hunch tells me it will be an outdoor tour for the summer of 2025. RDS be closed so maybe Aviva or Marlay Park. Croke Park prob too big for them atm unless Richie rejoins
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