Well the ticket prices are out and I’ve nearly fell off my seat. £145, cheapest is £80.
I don't think that is particularly out of kilter for big band concerts these days.
I have say that I go to 3 and 4 day festivals with a not too dissimilar price tag than those seat prices for a couple of hours event. Makes my Glastonbury ticket at £335 look an absolute bargain and I'm there for best part of a week with live music on 5 days.
I'm pretty sure they will go like hot cakes though and its a great bit of incremental income for the Saints so well done.
I'm standing outside to listen for free
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Last edited by hookman2007; 3rd February 2023 at 07:31.
The price looked high at first but you are getting the Who and UB40 and an orchestra for £108 (band 'C' ticket). Just saw that UB40 in June at Warwick Castle is minimum £64, and that is for a standing-only concert. So, them and the Who for £108, seated, doesn't look too bad in the end.
Plus we live in an age where (if we choose to) music is free, so whereas back in the day a gig was a tenner people would be forking out loads on albums or CDs as well. Now, all the money is in gigs because the bands make alot less in sales of their music.
That is the nail on the head and precise the reason so may old acts are having to work for a living so late on in their careers. There would not have been such a massive explosion in the number of festivas if the acts were still earning from physical music sales.
You only have to look at the events that the likes of Butlins are putting on to get the drift!
That's stating to drift back in the artists favour slightly though with apps like Spotify taking over and paying royalties to the artists.
That's stretching it, no? Perhaps 'having to work to keep themselves in the lifestyles to which they've become accustomed to without having to dip into their millions in assets' might be more accurate...
I mean, you don't see Pete Townshend or Simon le Bon in the food bank queue, do you?
He's not the Messiah, he's a naughty boy.
To be honest its really not those 'top-tier' acts I was talking about.I agree those who made millions in days gone by should be reasonably comfortable although lets face it some have expensive habits!
I was really talking about the lower rung bands and acts. Just as a simple example take the old punk bands like UK Subs. They have been constantly touring for years on end all over the world. I genuinely think its just to earn a living and Charlie is nearly 80! Im pretty sure they will not be living a fantastic lifestyle on the back of historical sales. There are lots that may have had the odd "hit" in decades past but that will no longer be paying the bills.
I went to the concert last summer and was brilliant although it was a joke trying to leave the stadium surroundings, hope they improve for this one.
Yeah unless the odd hit for lower tiered bands is a Christmas "earworm" then the life of an average paid worker is all that lies ahead.
Our own slick Rick does well from 80`s festivals in their various guises as do a some good long forgotten acts.
A few played the system and used their talent on other platforms Jeremy Healy, Norman Cook and Mr C spring to mind as making more out of spinning the discs than making them.