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The Music Thread Strikes Back

Film is absolute gubbins by all accounts (not seen it either, reviews are woeful)
 
My daughter bagged tickets to see My Chenical Romance for their tour next year at Nissan Stadium in Nashville. She's a huge fan!
Week after next we are off to see 21 Pilots just east of Atlanta in an amphitheater in a town called Alpharetta
 
What did you think of Oasis on Sunday night @Jinky ?
I managed to bag a few late sale tickets for Saturday night and although I enjoyed it, being up in the gods meant that the sound bounced around a bit for the rockier numbers. Richard Ashcroft was also very good whilst I purposely avoided Cast after the complaints from @Tyrannosaurus Dan about his attitude a few years back.
 
Sniffer said:
What did you think of Oasis on Sunday night @Jinky ?
I managed to bag a few late sale tickets for Saturday night and although I enjoyed it, being up in the gods meant that the sound bounced around a bit for the rockier numbers. Richard Ashcroft was also very good whilst I purposely avoided Cast after the complaints from @Tyrannosaurus Dan about his attitude a few years back.
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Banger after banger after banger. We were down on the pitch and the atmosphere was amazing. Richard Ashcroft was superb and we’re thinking of getting tickets to see him in Reading next year (support from Shed Seven & Tom, ex Kasabian). Only just started to feel relatively normal again today 😂
 
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https://www.theguardian.com/comment...lling-concert-prices-arena-grassroots-tickets

such a bang on article imo.
my first gig was £8.50 - when I started going to gigs, tickets for the civic were approx £6 or £6.50, my first gig at the NEC was £12.80. The fucking fees the scalping bastards charge are now way above this!
Found it astounding that in the 90's you worked for 3 hours for the price of an oasis ticket, and now it's a minimum of a full days work.
Also, all the best gigs I have attended have been in smaller venues, not in stadiums or mega-monoliths.
 
lemonjelly said:
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...lling-concert-prices-arena-grassroots-tickets

such a bang on article imo.
my first gig was £8.50 - when I started going to gigs, tickets for the civic were approx £6 or £6.50, my first gig at the NEC was £12.80. The fucking fees the scalping bastards charge are now way above this!
Found it astounding that in the 90's you worked for 3 hours for the price of an oasis ticket, and now it's a minimum of a full days work.
Also, all the best gigs I have attended have been in smaller venues, not in stadiums or mega-monoliths.
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Yep I agree with all this, was just talking about this with my lad this morning. I was looking at tickets for Robert Plants current project, 'Saving Grace', it's pretty much sold out anyway but prices are around 78 quid which I find extraordinary. I pretty much stick to local pub acts these days but like to go to a,show when I can but it's really becoming out of my budget.
I'm guessing it's a combination of promoter greed and the fact artists make virtually no money from 'record/download' sales and have to earn a living from live shows.
 
lemonjelly said:
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...lling-concert-prices-arena-grassroots-tickets

such a bang on article imo.
my first gig was £8.50 - when I started going to gigs, tickets for the civic were approx £6 or £6.50, my first gig at the NEC was £12.80. The fucking fees the scalping bastards charge are now way above this!
Found it astounding that in the 90's you worked for 3 hours for the price of an oasis ticket, and now it's a minimum of a full days work.
Also, all the best gigs I have attended have been in smaller venues, not in stadiums or mega-monoliths.
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Concerts and football matches. In the 90s I could pay for both from my pocket money and paper round money (and Saturday job once I turned 16).

My kids have never been to a concert (and aren’t likely to anytime soon) and we take my son to watch Walsall rather than Wolves due to the prices.
 
couple more anniversaries:

this nation's saving grace 40 years old - the brilliant Paintwork

 
lemonjelly said:
my first gig was £8.50 - when I started going to gigs, tickets for the civic were approx £6 or £6.50, my first gig at the NEC was £12.80. The fucking fees the scalping bastards charge are now way above this!
Found it astounding that in the 90's you worked for 3 hours for the price of an oasis ticket, and now it's a minimum of a full days work.
Also, all the best gigs I have attended have been in smaller venues, not in stadiums or mega-monoliths.
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I went to 3 or 4 gigs a week in the 90s. Like you say they were affordable. Especially if many of them were at the likes of the Little Civic, Barfly and smaller rooms at the 02 academies.
 
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