Crazy money for concerts/festivals

anniehoo · 10-09-2010 02:31PM #1

Anyone else think the price of tickets is astronomical for concerts/festivals lately. I cant afford to go to any of them this year. Just seen a friends Facebook status looking to sell 2 Michael Bublé tickets for €185 each. I read it first of all as the 2 for €185...but nope...€370 for the 2 :eek::eek: This is Michael Bublé FFS...he'd want to be in my sitting room giving me a lap dance aswell for that money.

Electric Picnic was also crazy moolah aswell..€240 with no option of a one day pass.

I think €70 at the MAX is reasonabe to pay to see anyone in concert. Opinions? Or am i just bein a stingy fecker?

GLaDOS · 10-09-2010 02:33PM

Supply and demand, that's how it works. If people are willing to pay it, that's the right price

easyeason3 · 10-09-2010 02:33PM

You're being a stingy fecker for suggesting €70 as an appropriate price.

mikom · 10-09-2010 02:35PM

anniehoo wrote: »

I think €70 at the MAX is reasonabe to pay to see anyone in concert. Opinions?

You are dead right.
Add in a drink or two at the gig and you'll have little change from 100.

WindSock · 10-09-2010 02:35PM

easyeason3 wrote: »

You're being a stingy fecker for suggesting €70 as an appropriate price.

For a concert? It should be much less.

Pookah · 10-09-2010 02:36PM

€70??

I paid €22.50 to see reggae legends 'Toots and the Maytals' at the Tripod recently.

bullpost · 10-09-2010 02:37PM

Limit yourself to up-and-coming bands. They're cheaper to see and your street-cred goes up

easyeason3 · 10-09-2010 02:38PM

WindSock wrote: »

For a concert? It should be much less.

She mentioned Electric Picinic just before it so I assumed this is what she was getting at.

€70 to see one band is ripping the piss.

_feedback_ · 10-09-2010 02:38PM

anniehoo wrote: »

Electric Picnic was also crazy moolah aswell..€240 with no option of a one day pass.

What is the story with that? The sales must not have been the best. They were giving away tickets on every show (literally) on Today FM during the week leading up to it.

Cuddlesworth · 10-09-2010 02:38PM

Why don't you take a seat and tell me all about it?

bonerm · 10-09-2010 02:38PM

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Supply and demand, that's how it works. If people are willing to pay it, that's the right price

Exactly. The Irish are renowned event-junkies and that's why you'll see we get charged more for sporting and music events than neighbouring countries. You know something is wrong when in some cases you can hop on a plane go to a neighbouring city in the UK or Europe and see a band for less than it might cost to see them in Dublin etc.

People need to start refusing events at these prices before anything will get done about it.

anniehoo · 10-09-2010 02:39PM

€70 seems more than fair to me. I honestly cannot get over the fact Michael Bublé is €185....i wouldnt even pay that for U2 or the likes and they have a serious amount of stage set up goin with it.

Nozebleed · 10-09-2010 02:41PM

I wouldn't pay more than €30 to see anyone. festivals in this country are ****e..second rate acts. kids music. as for michael buble..****ing joke karoke singer who thinks he's italian.

easyeason3 · 10-09-2010 02:41PM

anniehoo wrote: »

€70 seems more than fair to me. I honestly cannot get over the fact Michael Bublé is €185....i wouldnt even pay that for U2 or the likes and they have a serious amount of stage set up goin with it.

No offence but I wouldn't pay €0.85 for a U2 ticket.

WindSock · 10-09-2010 02:41PM

anniehoo wrote: »

€70 seems more than fair to me. I honestly cannot get over the fact Michael Bublé is €185....i wouldnt even pay that for U2 or the likes and they have a serious amount of stage set up goin with it.

He needs to get his Bublé burst by the sounds of things.

super_furry · 10-09-2010 02:42PM

People are starting to vote with their feet. Electric Picnic was far from sold out this year.

bonerm · 10-09-2010 02:43PM

easyeason3 wrote: »

No offence but I wouldn't pay €0.85 for a U2 ticket.

What if you had some life-threating disease and Bono promised to personally come down from the stage and cure you?

ejmaztec · 10-09-2010 02:44PM

Anything more than €10 is far too much to pay to see any of the greedy bastards.

easyeason3 · 10-09-2010 02:46PM

bonerm wrote: »

What if you had some life-threating disease and Bono promised to personally come down from the stage and cure you?

I'd ask him to take off his man booties first because he looks like a proper d!ck when he wears them.

And he would probably be too busy lecturing everyone else on world poverty to notice little old me dying in the corner.

ejmaztec · 10-09-2010 02:51PM

easyeason3 wrote: »

And he would probably be too busy lecturing everyone else on world poverty to notice little old me dying in the corner.

He'd probably come down and throttle you to death for stealing his air.

MCMLXXXIII · 10-09-2010 03:13PM

Previous posters are right - get 'em early!

I paid $25 to see Lady Gaga in a small theatre (maybe 700 people - all general admission), and then two years later paid $75 to sit half way back in an arena with 22,000 seats.

...I also paid $400 to see Madonna from the 11th row (in a football stadium) that same summer. :rolleyes: Yes, it was an expensive year!

Cuddlesworth · 10-09-2010 03:14PM

MCMLXXXIII wrote: »

Previous posters are right - get 'em early!

I paid $25 to see Lady Gaga in a small theatre (maybe 700 people - all general admission), and then two years later paid $75 to sit half way back in an arena with 22,000 seats.

...I also paid $400 to see Madonna from the 11th row (in a football stadium) that same summer. :rolleyes: Yes, it was an expensive year!

Lets play a game of spot the homosexual.

rossie1977 · 10-09-2010 03:28PM

it was £150 for a 3 day pass for download this year, which i thought wasn't too bad, still expensive but better than anything in this country

saw limp bizkit in the olympia a few weeks ago for €45

rossie1977 · 10-09-2010 03:30PM

easyeason3 wrote: »

No offence but I wouldn't pay €0.85 for a U2 ticket.

too bad, they put on a great live show, one of the performances of last year for me in croke park and i ain't a u2 fan

sensibleken · 10-09-2010 03:31PM

€60 for a weekend at vantastival a few months ago. great bands, byo booze, that was a propper festival for a propper price

Mr. Incognito · 10-09-2010 03:47PM

It says 50+ on ticketmaster for Michael Bubbles.

Your mate is obviously a greedy C^nt and this has nothing to do with mainstream prices.

super_furry · 10-09-2010 03:49PM

Still though anything over a tenner to see that Frank Sinatra cover act, Mickey Bubbles, is a rip-off.

aDeener · 10-09-2010 03:54PM

MCMLXXXIII wrote: »

Previous posters are right - get 'em early!

I paid $25 to see Lady Gaga in a small theatre (maybe 700 people - all general admission), and then two years later paid $75 to sit half way back in an arena with 22,000 seats.

...I also paid $400 to see Madonna from the 11th row (in a football stadium) that same summer. :rolleyes: Yes, it was an expensive year!

they sure saw you coming

Devil08 · 10-09-2010 03:55PM

Sure forget about tickets, the price of turnips is unbelievable nowadays

MCMLXXXIII · 10-09-2010 03:56PM

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Lets play a game of spot the homosexual.

Aahhh...you caught me! Your location reminds me of a saying (based on the Las Vegas adverts): "What happens over the rainbow, stays over the rainbow."

...does it matter that I also saw the Eminem and Jay-Z concert last weekend? :rolleyes:

starbelgrade · 10-09-2010 03:59PM

I'm off to a 3 day festival in Sligo in a few minutes... the car's packed with booze & a tent and the tickets were €60 for the whole weekend.

And the good news... the sun is beating down - happy days!!

Crazy money for concerts/festivals

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