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The Music Thread Strikes Back

I saw Blur in an audience of about 20 at the Princess Charlotte in Leicester just before there’s no other way charted. They were quite psychadelic then but you could tell they really had it live.
 
Just discovered a band called Gunshine. Absolutely screams Slave to the Grind era Skid Row and the guitarist is knock it out of the park good.
 
was told I could have the blur ticket for £60. @Tyrannosaurus Dan I thought that was cheap, as the James tickets were £70 including fees. My first Civic gig was £6 in either 1991 or 1992.
Someone at work was saying they & their hubby want to see the Foo Fighters, but they equally don't want to have to re-mortgage the house!
 
I went on the Hard wired tour. Special tickets for me and micro with a meal and access to the special room where I sat behind a large oil rig drum kit and had a bash and we used genuine Hetfield and Hammett guitars. Then very very good seats. Think those were £250 each
 
lemonjelly said:
was told I could have the blur ticket for £60. @Tyrannosaurus Dan I thought that was cheap, as the James tickets were £70 including fees. My first Civic gig was £6 in either 1991 or 1992.
Someone at work was saying they & their hubby want to see the Foo Fighters, but they equally don't want to have to re-mortgage the house!
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Do you not find it depressing that a £60 gig at the Civic is considered cheap?

When I was 14/15 I used to go to a gig pretty much every month, funded by my paper round. In fact, I could afford to go to concerts AND football matches no problem. If my kids want to do either of these things it will cost them a fucking fortune. It really annoys me.
 
4 november 1992, wherever we may roam tour was my first metallica experience. standing, in the snakepit at the nec. sadly, I don't have my ticket stub, so no idea what it cost.
 
lemonjelly said:
fucking jealous (even though I was only 4 at the time...)
A mate of mine went to that tour, and used it as a badge of honour when I used to say how much I wished I'd seen Bon era AC/DC.
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It was my first 'proper' gig i.e. not a local band pub gig. I simply wasn't prepared for what followed, absolutely blew my mind. The volume, the stage presence of Angus and Bon, felt like I was floating.
 
Tyrannosaurus Dan said:
Do you not find it depressing that a £60 gig at the Civic is considered cheap?

When I was 14/15 I used to go to a gig pretty much every month, funded by my paper round. In fact, I could afford to go to concerts AND football matches no problem. If my kids want to do either of these things it will cost them a fucking fortune. It really annoys me.
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A little, yes. I mean, I struggle to see how people start going to football/gigs nowadays. And I suspect I can only afford it because I don't have kids and the commitments some other people have. I did have quite a long time where I had to be very careful what tickets I was buying, because of other financial pressures.

Thing is though, everything goes up. When you & I went to see therapy?, or bodycount, or terrorvision etc, tshirts inside would be a tenner, with the expensive ones being £15. Now, tour tshirts are a minimum of £25 (again, that's cheap) and it isn't unusual to see merch at £50 or £60. A mug can cost over a tenner. and the tshirts outside nowadays are £15.

Post covid, I think experiences are highly valued. Look at the growth in VIP packages and stuff and they are increasing, not decreasing.

And as is referenced elsewhere, these things are valued at what people are willing to pay. and look at how things are selling out.
 
If you thought the music prices were horrid The Civic have just announced The Undertaker in July. That's going to be a starting price of £100 easy, hate to think what prices the meet and greet and pics are going to be.
 
Quirkafleeg said:
If you thought the music prices were horrid The Civic have just announced The Undertaker in July. That's going to be a starting price of £100 easy, hate to think what prices the meet and greet and pics are going to be.
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£331 if you go by the Manchester date the next night.
 
Celine dion has cancelled her tour owing to her health. Originally due for 2020, it's been postponed several times. My brother asked me to get tickets for him & his wife. Just had the email with the refund info & those tickets were £150 each. Plus fees.
 
I was watching a documentary on Tina Turner yesterday and one of the contributors was Skin from Skunk Anansie.

She looks identical to how she looked in the 90s. If anything, she looks younger. I double checked to see when the programme was made, and it was only last year.

I googled Skin and she's 55! She looks incredible - she's more than a decade older than me and easily looks a decade younger!!
 
Langers said:
I was watching a documentary on Tina Turner yesterday and one of the contributors was Skin from Skunk Anansie.

She looks identical to how she looked in the 90s. If anything, she looks younger. I double checked to see when the programme was made, and it was only last year.

I googled Skin and she's 55! She looks incredible - she's more than a decade older than me and easily looks a decade younger!!
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Your paper round must have been on a punishing Yorkshire moor.
 
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