...is that it's the only income stream where bands make any money anymore.

Wished I'd kept it, but I remember reading an article in Future Music magazine in about 1998 that talked about the ease of downloading would reinvent live music as it would be the only way artist would truly be able to charge for their work in the future.

Eels in Manchester = £20
Bingley Festival (headlined by James) = £30 for the weekend.

(Annoyingly on the same weekend...)

that these ridiculously expensive tickets won't sell and so far I've always been wrong, but this time, surely, Ticketmaster will end up selling them 2 for the price of 1.

And I think the tickets then were about £30. I agree it's a lot of money but not unusual for bands of that calibre who play that rarely. How much was Mott The Hoople when they gigged?

another 2 nights at the O2 and tickets as about the same as Roxy Music. That's about another 40000 tickets! So he's selling alright.

How much money do you waste without question or thought? You'll either go or you won't.

but a night out anywhere (apart from in a field with only a torch and a copy of Word for company) can be a bit pricey.
Dinner for two? Trip to the movies? Theatre tickets? They all cost a fair wedge these days.

http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/roxy-music-are-touring

was thinkimg of going saw their Jonathan Ross performance I'm guessing Ebay will be awash with "spares".

I have loved the music of Jackson Browne for almost my whole life but the tickes for his recent show with any sort of view were £98, add in £20 per head for train fare = £236. Sorry Jackson, I don't like even you that much.

Depends how much you are prepared to pay, and how often, and where (in a nice venue with a bar / in a muddy field in Dorset ?)

I used to take a slagging for paying £40 twice a year to watch opera. Then, as for live music, the price of golf green fees and football season tickets went through the roof. Strangely, no-one slags me about the opera any more, at least not about the cost of it, which has stayed pretty constant in comparison.

The price of everything goes up. £50 won't fill up my car with fuel, but I have to do that, every week.

Depends whether you think that seeing Roxy Music once in a blue moon is worth the expense. You won't get a chance every week. Could be worse. Barbra Striesand charged £260 at Wembley. In 1994.

Eels are inconsiderate for doing a UK tour when I am on bloody holiday. Great live performer and £20.00 is under priced for a great night out in his company.

Price of petrol is a strange one - yes it is expensive because we need so much of it but as a liquid it is less than a quarter of the price of a pint. Considering the expense of getting it out of the ground, transported halfway round the world and refined it is bloody cheap. Take out the tax that our government keeps from every gallon and no wonder extremism is rife in the countries we pillage.

Sorry, gone off track a bit there.