Most Expensive Concert in a Venue

but1er · 04-04-2012 01:09PM #1

Just after seen what Nicki Minaj is charging for the olympia 55 euro

is that the most expensive in that venue? surely has to be

id put my house on paul simon in vicar street at 80 euro to be the most expensive there

what about the o2 dearest concert there to date?

AdMMM · 04-04-2012 01:27PM

Tickets on the secondary market for Adele in the Olympia were some of the highest I have ever seen (over €1000!)

ghostdancer · 04-04-2012 01:27PM

but1er wrote: »

Just after seen what Nicki Minaj is charging for the olympia 55 euro

is that the most expensive in that venue? surely has to be

id put my house on paul simon in vicar street at 80 euro to be the most expensive there

what about the o2 dearest concert there to date?

i'll take that bet! pretty sure Neil Young in Vicar St. a few years ago was around €110.

Thundercats Ho · 04-04-2012 01:42PM

Wasn't at it but i remember the Paul McCartney gig at the O2 a few years ago being from €85 to €155 or thereabouts.

NIBBS · 04-04-2012 02:12PM

but1er wrote: »

Just after seen what Nicki Minaj is charging for the olympia 55 euro

is that the most expensive in that venue? surely has to be

id put my house on paul simon in vicar street at 80 euro to be the most expensive there

what about the o2 dearest concert there to date?

you'd be loosing your house but1er

definitely been stuff over €60 in Olympia (just can't remember which gigs off the top of my head)

there's been a few in Vicar St over €100, Neil Young was one - was €105 I think and there was 2 nights if I'm not mistaken.....

plenty of stuff in the O2 with the stupid price ranges of €70 - €155 wether or not they'd still be able to get those prices is a question now though...

ConcertKing · 04-04-2012 02:30PM

Andrea Bocelli at the O2 Arena,Dublin,Monday November 22nd.

Paid €155 a ticket and that's not includin' the €6.35 booking charge.

What a voice though and was in the Front Row so was just amazin'.

The Nal · 04-04-2012 03:18PM

Van Morrison is 125 quid in the O2.

Barbra Streisands tickets a few years ago were priced between £100 and £1500.

Yep you read that right. One thousand five hundred Euro.

And people paid it!!

StaticAge11 · 04-04-2012 03:25PM

Wasnt Witney Heuston pretty expensive for the last show she did here, remember people fuming about ticket prices at the time

The Nal · 04-04-2012 03:28PM

StaticAge11 wrote: »

Wasnt Witney Heuston pretty expensive for the last show she did here

Is that some Whitney Houston tribute act?

delbertgrady · 04-04-2012 03:58PM

I'd need to check my tickets, but my recollection is that seats on the flat in front of the stage at Simon and Garfunkel in the RDS were around €135. Neil Young in Vicar Street was about €113 (over the counter price). Paul McCartney in the RDS in 2003 was about €135, as I recall.

Elton John: The Red Piano, O2, 2009, €162.60 (but the whole tour ended up being cancelled due to illness)

Tom Waits, Ratcellar, 2008, €137.60
Fleetwood Mac, O2, 2009, €132.60
Leonard Cohen, O2, 2009, €131.35
Elton John and Ray Cooper, O2, 2010, €112.60

Mickolution · 04-04-2012 04:14PM

Isn't €50odd standard for an international act in The Olympia? I think I remember Massive Attack being around that a few years back.

CiaranK · 04-04-2012 04:29PM

Barbra Streisand Fiasco in Castletown House was €500 a ticket

The Nal · 04-04-2012 04:51PM

delbertgrady wrote: »

Tom Waits, Ratcellar, 2008, €137.60

Thats the only gig Ive really wanted to go to that I passed on due to price.

Ry Cooder in the Olympia a few years ago too I suppose. €125

Al Green in Vicar St too actually. That was 80 quid and I knew he only did 55 minutes so gave that the flipside too.

CiaranK wrote: »

Barbra Streisand Fiasco in Castletown House was €500 a ticket

We should've done what the Romans did and protested and got that gig cancelled.ticket prices reduced.

Shocking.

but1er · 04-04-2012 04:56PM

i am shock when i hear these prices

113 euro to see neill young :O

and your only talking to last 3 4 years prices have gotten so high

bring back the 80s prices (wasnt even born) but stubs looked pretty cheap

Dermo · 04-04-2012 05:02PM

but1er wrote: »

bring back the 80s prices (wasnt even born) but stubs looked pretty cheap

It was £15 to see Springsteen at Slane in '85

westmeathband · 04-04-2012 05:02PM

don´t forget the Tom Waits gig a few years ago. the stub expense was one thing, (€120 per ticket plus €17.60 in booking fees, CC fees etc) but the fact the tickets were non transferrable, had to be issued with name printed on them and had to be shown with ID was ridiculous.

and this was in the RATCELLAR!!!!!!!!

10 years ago i saw him in the Gaiety for 10% of that, and that was a ticket from a tout!

The Nal · 04-04-2012 05:06PM

but1er wrote: »

i am shock when i hear these prices

113 euro to see neill young :O

and your only talking to last 3 4 years prices have gotten so high

bring back the 80s prices (wasnt even born) but stubs looked pretty cheap

Neil Young was nearly 10 years ago now.

The more we buy tickets at this price the more they will charge.

Simple solution. Dont buy them.

RangeR · 04-04-2012 05:17PM

I saw a-ha in RDS back in 1988 for £12.50
I saw George Michael in O2 a few months ago for €130~ a pop. Was in 3rd or 4th row. Awsome experience. He cancelled the rest of his tour two days later, I think. Fooker nearly died.

The Nal · 04-04-2012 05:21PM

RangeR wrote: »

He cancelled the rest of his tour two days later, I think. Fooker nearly died.

Probably with the guilt when he saw his bank balance after the gig.

RangeR · 04-04-2012 05:35PM

The Nal wrote: »

Probably with the guilt when he saw his bank balance after the gig.

He actually had very bad case of pneumonia, was rushed to a Vienna hospital [his gig that night] where he was there for a month. He was on the brink.

AaronPunk · 04-04-2012 10:06PM

Mickolution wrote: »

Isn't €50odd standard for an international act in The Olympia? I think I remember Massive Attack being around that a few years back.

Nah, it's normally closer to the €30 mark.
Out of the seven gigs I went to in the Olympia (which, admittedly, two I didn't pay for or have tickets with the prices for) the dearest was Ocean Colour Scene at €35.

scudzilla · 04-04-2012 10:08PM

I think Korn in The Olympia last weekend was 60Euro

CiaranK · 04-04-2012 10:37PM

Dearest gig I was at in the Olympia was €60 for Robert Plant last time he was here with the Band Of Joy

dixiefly · 04-04-2012 10:51PM

westmeathband wrote: »

don´t forget the Tom Waits gig a few years ago. the stub expense was one thing, (€120 per ticket plus €17.60 in booking fees, CC fees etc) but the fact the tickets were non transferrable, had to be issued with name printed on them and had to be shown with ID was ridiculous.

and this was in the RATCELLAR!!!!!!!!

10 years ago i saw him in the Gaiety for 10% of that, and that was a ticket from a tout!

And, in my humble opinion, the concert was crap. I was so disappointed as I am a big fan of his ballady stuff but didnt like most of the songs he played on the night I went - looking at the setlists I would have probably preferred the other 2 night but c'est la vie.

delbertgrady · 04-04-2012 11:07PM

Rolling Stones in Slane 2007: €131.50 seated
The Police in Croke Park, 2007: €106.50 Gold Circle
U2, Croke Park 2009, €131.50 seated

Some Olympia prices from the higher end of the spectrum:

Jackson Browne, 2004, €69
PJ Harvey, 2007, €64.80 (and worth every cent)
Yazoo, 2008, €65.70
Jackson Browne, 2009, €71.25

delbertgrady · 04-04-2012 11:08PM

dixiefly wrote: »

And, in my humble opinion, the concert was crap. I was so disappointed as I am a big fan of his ballady stuff but didnt like most of the songs he played on the night I went - looking at the setlists I would have probably preferred the other 2 night but c'est la vie.

My favourite was the middle one. Loads from Rain Dogs.

poundhound · 05-04-2012 09:42AM

Those Neil Young tickets were €105.
I went to the 2nd of the 3 shows he played.

I seen him in Madison Square Garden (with Crazy Horse) a month later for $35!

Motley Crue · 05-04-2012 11:36AM

I remember doing security at a gig in the old Point, it was Luciano Pavarotti and he was charging an incredible amount at the time. I know they had to bring a special company in to redesign him an entire dressing room just for that performance.

He'd also cancelled the year before, but when he did perform in 2006, he was really sick and he was dead within six months.

blastman · 05-04-2012 11:45AM

westmeathband wrote: »

don´t forget the Tom Waits gig a few years ago. the stub expense was one thing, (€120 per ticket plus €17.60 in booking fees, CC fees etc) but the fact the tickets were non transferrable, had to be issued with name printed on them and had to be shown with ID was ridiculous.

and this was in the RATCELLAR!!!!!!!!

10 years ago i saw him in the Gaiety for 10% of that, and that was a ticket from a tout!

There were more sh!te seats in that venue than any other venue I've ever been in, for the price they were charging it was criminal.

Mickolution · 05-04-2012 12:22PM

AaronPunk wrote: »

Nah, it's normally closer to the €30 mark.
Out of the seven gigs I went to in the Olympia (which, admittedly, two I didn't pay for or have tickets with the prices for) the dearest was Ocean Colour Scene at €35.

Well I meant big acts, not dross like Ocean Colour Scene who'd play the opening of a fridge. They'd never get away with charging that amount.

delbertgrady wrote: »

Some Olympia prices from the higher end of the spectrum:

Jackson Browne, 2004, €69
PJ Harvey, 2007, €64.80 (and worth every cent)
Yazoo, 2008, €65.70
Jackson Browne, 2009, €71.25

Exactly, anyone who can will charge €50+ for the Olympia. I haven't been there in a good while though, thankfully. Not a good venue at all.

Savman · 05-04-2012 01:28PM

Barbara Streisand ftw.

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