By continuing to use the site, you agree to our use of cookies and to abide by our Terms and Conditions. We in turn value your personal details in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
Please log in or register. Registered visitors get fewer ads.
I usually attend 3 or 4 gigs a year but this year I've only done one. Has anyone else noticed the prices are so high now. Was looking at Muse tickets in London. The cheapest are £86. I saw them just before covid and paid £45 at the same venue. I'm just using them as an example as even the smaller venues which I prefer like Shepherds Bush empire and Hammersmith are charging silly prices. Any regular music goer feel the same.
0
People who like their live music on 09:34 - Jul 11 with 970 views
People who like their live music on 09:28 - Jul 11 by WeWereZombies
This is another feather in the cap for festivals, providing you don't mind camping and spending ten minutes throwing up a tent you have a cheap night's stay. And there is an ease to getting to a tent at a medium sized festival that you don't always find with a city hotel, I timed my walk back at Bearded Theory at just under ten minutes, about the right amount of time to let the exhilaration of the last performance die away, have a pee (at the urinals) and crawl into a sleeping bag.
WOMAD in a couple of weeks is going to be interesting for me, not been since 2018, some trepidation about how far the parking is going to be from the camping and how far the camping is going to be from the arena.
Plus 1 for festivals from me.
I've averaged probably 2 a year since 1996. I love them!
Green Man is the one I do every year without fail now.
I was born underwater, I dried out in the sun.
I started humping volcanoes baby, when I was too young.
People who like their live music on 08:11 - Jul 11 by Steve_M
It depends on the venue and the band I think, I saw Interpol last night at Somerset House which was really good but about £42 including fees which I think is reasonable.
I don't mind paying more for the right band, Pulp (plus Wet Leg and Baxter Dury) at Finsbury Park last weekend was definitely worth it , The Who for £100 at the O2 tomorrow is definitely too much.
There's still some much cheaper tickets for artists on the way up, Dry Cleaning and Billy No Mates were both around £25 earlier this year.
So, to your original point, prices are definitely creeping up but not completely across the board so maybe it's just some bands and venues pushing it because they can do.
Can confirm, Pulp at FP last weekend was excellent. Having not been into London for a gig in a long whilst I was pleasantly surprised at how little hassle it was getting to Finsbury Park tube and then on to Stevenage(where we were staying the night).
I'm one of the people who was blamed for getting Paul Cook sacked. PM for the full post.
People who like their live music on 09:34 - Jul 11 by Dubtractor
Plus 1 for festivals from me.
I've averaged probably 2 a year since 1996. I love them!
Green Man is the one I do every year without fail now.
Ever done Boomtown ? My son has enjoyed it in the past and going through the YouTubes of people playing WOMAD this year I came across this:
It looks such an interestingly set up festival but when I looked it up on Wikipedia I was shocked at how many drug related deaths there have been there over the years.
People who like their live music on 09:38 - Jul 11 by BlueBadger
Can confirm, Pulp at FP last weekend was excellent. Having not been into London for a gig in a long whilst I was pleasantly surprised at how little hassle it was getting to Finsbury Park tube and then on to Stevenage(where we were staying the night).
I'm at Four Tet in Finsbury Park in August, I've heard terrible things about it as a venue so reassuring to hear someone say it isn't a nightmare. How did you find queues to get in/for a beer?
0
People who like their live music on 09:51 - Jul 11 with 930 views
People who like their live music on 09:14 - Jul 11 by vilanovablue
Saw The Orb at a tiny venue in Brighton late last year, absolutely superb.
Got a ticket to see the Orb at The Baths in Ipswich in November
£30 which is fine, especially as its an investment in the local music scene. Hopefully that will become a fully functioning venue in the next couple of years. That and St Stephens church. Build it and they will come...
Gone are the days when I bought my first Glastonbury ticket from Andy's Records for £30
0
People who like their live music on 10:03 - Jul 11 with 907 views
People who like their live music on 09:51 - Jul 11 by Mookamoo
Got a ticket to see the Orb at The Baths in Ipswich in November
£30 which is fine, especially as its an investment in the local music scene. Hopefully that will become a fully functioning venue in the next couple of years. That and St Stephens church. Build it and they will come...
Gone are the days when I bought my first Glastonbury ticket from Andy's Records for £30
Nice to see some small venues getting some traction in town. Still think it's criminal how underused the Regent and Corn Exchange are. Both great venues but top bands are few and far between. Everybody use to play Ipswich in the 70's and 80's. Think they're both run by the council who are only interested in staging pantos and the like.
BlueBlood
0
People who like their live music on 10:29 - Jul 11 with 876 views
People who like their live music on 09:47 - Jul 11 by JakeITFC
I'm at Four Tet in Finsbury Park in August, I've heard terrible things about it as a venue so reassuring to hear someone say it isn't a nightmare. How did you find queues to get in/for a beer?
Getting in OK, but we arrived fairly late, so the queues had settled but even at four when the queue was stretching back to Finsbury Park tube, it was moving well.
I would say though, try and smuggle in your own booze - the beer queues were nudging an hour long. There was only 2-3 beer tents plus some crappy vans selling 'cocktails'(for 'cocktail' read 'alcoholic soda stream').
I'm one of the people who was blamed for getting Paul Cook sacked. PM for the full post.
People who like their live music on 08:56 - Jul 11 by WeWereZombies
Interesting that you don't mind paying forty quid to see Interpol, they were the band I walked away from on the main stage after a couple of numbers so that I could catch all of Echo and the Bunnymen in a tent. I am glad I did but I was getting sucked into Interpol despite not finding anything unique about them from watching a few YouTube videos. Bit intense live, aren't they ?
Trying to figure out what you are paying to see a band at a festival is something of an artform, what with the cost of camping and showers usually thrown in to the basic price. Parking often extra, a Thursday night having much less on than the rest of the weekend. But my back of an envelope calculation reckons that a headline act i.e. Interpol, Gogol Bordello and Primal Scream were there for me at twenty quid each but in the case of the first two I chose to spend my twenty notes on Viagra Boys as well as Echo and the Bunnymen (and slightly regretted not breaking away from Primal Scream mid-set when I could have gotten a much better viewpoint and all of Public Service Broadcasting.) Drawing the calculation down I guess that means I saw Gary Numan, Pretenders, Billy Bragg, Anna Calvi, The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Hot Eight Brass Band and The Beths for a tenner each, The Undertones, Opus Kink, Dea Matrona and about seven other acts in whole or in part for a fiver. And paid a tenner a night for accommodation. It's a great life if you can keep your attention span up...
I think they are a band that grow on people, they certainly did with me. First saw them 20 years ago when a mate suggested it and quite liked them but eventually, after listening to them more, I realised I really liked them.
Definitely intense live, especially in a venue that got better as it got dark.
And yes, festivals are all about judgement calls I think.
People who like their live music on 10:29 - Jul 11 by BlueBadger
Getting in OK, but we arrived fairly late, so the queues had settled but even at four when the queue was stretching back to Finsbury Park tube, it was moving well.
I would say though, try and smuggle in your own booze - the beer queues were nudging an hour long. There was only 2-3 beer tents plus some crappy vans selling 'cocktails'(for 'cocktail' read 'alcoholic soda stream').
To add to which.
I think it depends on timing, we got to FP about 4 and it was easy to get in. Beer queues were fine then and only got bad at around 6 as the latecomers arrived, it was still more like 30 minutes for the beer tent at the back.
Going to the bar mid-gig was very quick fortunately and still with a decent view of proceedings.
I think the tube was ok for those who got out promptly but then more like 45 minutes later on according to friends. I walked home instead and it was far easier, and less time than that.
I've given up with Arena gigs. It's partly an age thing because I don't want to pay upwards of £80 to watch the artist on a big screen in an acoustically useless cave, but it's also because a lot of the artists I like are now at the smaller venue stage anyway.
So I won't be paying to see Depeche Mode at the NIA Birmingham in January, but I will be watching Dadi Freyr at The Halls Wolverhampton in November and Howard Jones/ Blancmange at Symphony Hall Birmingham in October.
0
People who like their live music on 11:32 - Jul 11 with 793 views
By continuing to use the site, you agree to our use of cookies and to abide by our Terms and Conditions.
