Average UK gig ticket to top £100: 'People treating concerts like mini-holidays'
Average UK gig ticket to top £100: 'People treating concerts like mini-holidays'
The UK is experiencing a live music boom in with a string of hi-tech new arenas set to open and a spike in the number of major stars on tour
£100+ for a concert ticket is a real shame. I used to be an avid concert goer but that was when I could see some great acts at around £25 a go and that would be expensive 🫰.
You can still see many acts at that price. You can't see Taylor Swift at that price.
I think a lot of the issue is that people aren't seeing as much music.
My fiancée saw Taylor Swift in London years ago when she was a country act and yeah it wasn't cheap but she could afford to go as a teenager with a weekend job who happens to enjoy country music.
The acts people want to see are all huge by the time a lot of people would bother going to see them and they know they can charge insane prices for tickets because people will pay. It's the same for theatre. There's tonnes of awesome stuff you can see for peanuts (relatively, depending on your location) but people will still pay through the nose to see The Cursed Child™.
If you want to see live music (of any genre) you can - it's cheap and easy. But you might have to go to a small cramped venue or see someone you've not heard of. Or seek out smaller acts before they become huge industry behemoths.
In other news: "people who can't afford holidays go to a gig instead, now also struggle to afford to go to a gig"
I wonder what's next. We won't be able to afford to go to the cinema!
Weirdly cinema prices are cheaper than I ever remember them being before
I was interested in seeing the Smashing Pumpkins when they come to town next year. But not £158 interested.
His wrestling promotion isn't going to fund itself, at least not after that coke sniffing segment.
I'm questioning the term 'average'. There's a club in Newcastle that does a couple of free gigs a week, I'd suggest that's not an isolated case. Of course there's some big tours with £500 tickets but aren't they still pretty rare?
Yeah I'm guessing the fancy seats at a big stadium are swaying this? It's rare for me to pay over a tenner to be honest though up to £35 is the norm I'd say. But then I'm not watching Taylor Swift in a stadium.
You could buy a week's worth of food for that money.
Keep paying. And they will keep them rising.