You've got to be kidding me

[karohemd]

Concert ticket prices have been a joke for quite some time but this takes the biscuit. Tickets for Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck at the O2 start at a face value of 60 (+fees and shipping). Any reasonable seat would at least be 100, with top seats being 125. WHAT THE FUCK?
For the upcoming Eric Clapton/Stevie Winwood gig, tickets are between 60 and 90.

Comments

[sea-of-flame.livejournal.com]

This.

We have the following quote pinned up at work...

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
- Hunter S Thompson"

Those ticket prices actually sound about normal for the O2 (although the top priced ones may be VIP packages rather than merely being for seat location) - it's not a cheap venue. Even just hiring it runs into several ten of thousands, from memory, and that's before you pay all the staff etc, let alone tha artist! (Who, I can assure you, won't do at all badly out of it)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Nope, that's just face value. The VIP/Hospitality packages are 350odd.

[sea-of-flame.livejournal.com]

That is more than a little silly!

I guess their thinking is that a significant proportion of Clapton fans are in the 'paid off the mortgage, packed off the kids = disposable income' bracket... :/