For anyone hoping for tickets tomorrow for November’s Hammy Odeon gig, if you download the Eventim app and create an account, their presale is running now.
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Ticketmaster just quoted me £149 per ticket for two seats! I love the Isbellster but that’s having a laugh. I’ll pass.
Saw him and the 400 Unit at Brighton a couple of years ago. Tickets around £30 IIRC.
Incidentally, I just passed on Nick Lowe at Nell’s in West London because the tickets are £48. Someone’s going though as he added a second date.
Yes I saw him in Camden with @carl and he was brilliant but nothing like that. price
I saw that plugged on the Nick Lowe fan FB page. It’s a tiny venue, but even so …
Likewise Richard Thompson solo in summer. The tickets for the London show are £50-60. I’ll pass as I’ll see him at Folk by the Oak, albeit with a shortened festival set, where tickets are £35 and Seasick Steve, Kate Rusby and others are on the bill too.
I like Nell’s but noise from people who are on the raised section where the bar is can be pretty intrusive. One reason I passed on Lowe was that I want to be able to hear him for that sort of money.
The tickets for the fantasy were twelve and six a time……
Is that the Ally Pally show? Thought about going as I can walk to it from my brother-in-law’s.
@Gatz
That’s the one https://www.alexandrapalace.com/whats-on/richard-thompson/
Tix have to be expensive: not cheap these later life divorces.
Ticket bought for Manchester ( yesterday ) …. £30 from See Tickets
Similar for me with Jeff Beck at the local City Hall – £70!!
Purchased 2 tickets to Isbell’s Stockholm show today.
SEK 545 each (around £45). That’s not too bad by Stockholm standards.
Has to be done
https://youtu.be/fugK72tmaUM
Yes, Isbell in that song describes Stockholm as “this frozen old city of silver and stone”.
I’ve never really understood the “silver” bit. I mean … I wouldn’t say that Stockholm is any more ‘silvery’ than any other city that I’ve come across…
I’m sure I read that it was about his addiction and referred to Stockholm Syndrome, his love of whatever substance he had problems with keeping him prisoner.
Just got my London ticket for £ 35.00 no issue at all.
Huh just got a couple for me and the boy. Don’t know what the fuck was going on at Ticketmaster. Operator error probably.
So, what’s your upper limit? I’ve yet to see a ticket price I couldn’t afford but I’ve passed on many that i wouldn’t pay. I won’t be seeing Nick Lowe or Elvis Costello this year for that reason.
Art the moment I think my limit is around £50 but what I’d pay to see Talking Heads or Rockpile again, I couldn’t say!
The most I’ve paid for a single act is £50, Elvis Costello at Southend on his last Big Wheel tour.
Actually my Costello tickets for this year’s your came through post today. I ordered a few months ago and so can’t believe I have paid around £75 per ticket. Not sure it will be worth it but he and Springsteen are there I artists where do would pay that kind of money.
Putting into perspective we are taking my daughter and he boyfriend to see the stage performance of Pretty Woman next weekend. 4 tickets for just shy of £400 – scandalous even if it was a Christmas present.
I usually hope to pay £20 – £30 but we did splurge on Elton at The O2 for this December. My wife has always wanted to see him and we got in at the end of a pre sale for an extra night, possibly the last night of the tour. Embarrassingly expensive.
We also went through a ridiculous ordeal getting tickets for my daughter to see My Chemical Romance in the summer. Also a must see apparently. A terrible on line experience with no choice of seats, just like it or lump it. Half as embarrassingly expensive as Elton.
I paid 80 quid to see Steely Dan but there’s no one else I’d pay that much for. 50 quid is a good ceiling.
Add on 25 quid for train and tube fares and whoever it is had better be good. I’d rather pay 20ish and drive to The Stables.
Actually we watched Steven Wilson’s “Home Invasion” live DVD last night and it occurred to me that I’ve paid top dollar to see him twice and would again.
I paid $450 (x2) in 2009 to see “The Beatles” in New York, actually just the remaining ones, Macca and Ringo. It was a benefit for David Lynch’s TM foundation. There were lots of other acts though including Jerry Seinfeld, Moby, Eddie Vedder and (yes!) Donovan.
Was nice to see Macca in a relatively small, historic venue (Radio City Music Hall) and to watch them doing With A Little Help From My Friends and I Saw Her Standing There together.
That’s the most I ever paid, but front of stage pit tickets for The Stones are at least $500 right now.
PS I saw The Stones in Shepherd’s Bush Empire in 1999 for a tenner.
That’s a woodpecker right there!
My gig ticket ceiling is £30 and that only once in a blue moon. Free and cheap gigs are what suit my current budget best.
So far this year: jazz singer Shireen Francis + band £8, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Experience Ensemble £5, Jazz:Refreshed Sounds of 2020 triple bill £25, The Stan Bland Band (’60s-’80s covers) free entry, Stanley Dee £10, Tomorrows Warriors Jazz Jam £5, jazz saxophonist Simon Spillett + band £8, Jah Wobble & the Invaders of the Heart £25, The Stan Bland Band free entry, Comedy Club free entry, Matt Calvert & band + Olcay Bayir + Maya Youssef £5, Stan Bland Band free entry, jazz pianist Steve Lodder + band £8, Shida Shahadi + Mandel + Sam Brookes £5, Dex & Mercy’s Funk & Soul £5, Colindale Folk Club free entry, Tomorrows Warriors Soon Come Orchestra free entry a few hours ago.
Upcoming: Mystery Gig £5 at Union Chapel tomorrow lunchtime, Tomorrows Warriors Jazz Jam £5 Sunday afternoon and saxophonist Glen Manby + pianist Leon Greening & band £8 Sunday evening, Stanley Dee free entry on Thursday, London Dream Time presents “The Snow Queen” £5 Saturday lunchtime, Tomorrows Warriors present The Rezidents free entry on Friday 28th. Another 9 in the diary so far for March, total cost £41.
You lot are spoiled.
Down here we either
– never see an artist
– they play solo
– play with a local band
– play with a stripped-down version of their usual touring band
– play with a stripped-down version of their usual staging
And still get charged top dollar.