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The world's most expensive gig ticket?
Earlier this morning, I decided that perhaps I wouldn't be bothering with Madonna's second leg of her European tour, given that prices ranged up to £175, which recession or not has the distinct odour of the piss being taken.
I later realised that she was a mere amateur when it comes to urine extracting ticket prices when I came across a date for Beyonce in Sheffield...
£1,265.00. Let me take a moment to repeat that. One Thousand, Two Hundred and Sixty Five of your earth pounds. Now granted, for this you get a front row ticket and an encounter with the lady herself (insert your own joke here about the kind of encounter with Beyonce you'd be wanting for over a grand) but is anyone else amazed that someone is even attempting to charge this for ONE evening's entertainment?
This price is per person, so an eye-watering £2,530 for the two of you. Presumably plus fees - I didn't dare look at the check out screen.
http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/event/1F00423CE8A15B34?artistid=945147&maj... in case anyone fancies it.
Anyone seen anything more ridiculous?
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I saw this the other day
Holding Back the beers: Simply Red VIP shed update
I get like may people gig notifications via email and this one came in this morning .This isn’t really anything against Simply Red per se (I’m fairly indifferent to them) . I’m not sure whether Mick and the Boys count as the “background music”
“SIMPLY RED HOSPITALITY
See Simply Red in style, this April at the O2! This package includes: A pre show party in private facility at the venue, Buffet menu, Unlimited beer, wine and soft drinks, T-shirt (or tour programme - dependant on availability), Souvenir Laminate, Premium seats, Background music, Room decor and DJ in hospitality facility for 1 hour post show (drinks on cash basis).”
I liked the last penny pinching caveat about not outstaying your welcome and paying for your drinks post gig!
Room decor?
WTF do regular punters get?
well not a "souvenir laminate"
that's for sure!
How much for all that?
..
It wasn't as much as Beyonce
it just seemed too much when you can hang out boozing and eating canapes in a much nicer place than the dome, if that's your bag why bother with a concert if you just want to party
Simply Red?
I thought Hucknall (as we are supposed to refer to him) had discontinued the brand. A bit pointless I thought as it was just him. Who knew the names of anyone else playing behind him? It is surely too soon for the comeback tour.
"BEYONCE "I AM...BEYONCE" -
"BEYONCE "I AM...BEYONCE" - Meet and greet package includes:
Front Row Ticket (or VIP Barricade ticket in GA markets)
Meet & Greet with Beyoncé
Photo with Beyoncé
Special entrance for VIP's
Pre-show party in exclusive VIP room
Specially selected luxury dinner buffet
Complimentary bar providing a selection of quality wines, beers and soft drinks
Limited Edition Deréon bag (including autographed tour book and more)
Collectible laminate and/or wristband
One year membership to the official BEYONCÉ fan club "
So essentially Beyonce stands next to you for a second while somebody takes a picture and then you get whisked off to a private room with a mini bar. And then you get to be a member of the official fan club.
Nice.
Christ
You'd have to hit that complimentary bar with a vengence
and I bet the "quality
beer" doesn't mean taylors land lord or a well kept pint of pride.... oh seem to be at the wrong gig...
How much...
How much would you have to eat and drink to get your money's worth, I wonder...
I remember when a VIP package was announced for the New Order gig at Liverpool Pops a few years ago, someone on their forum commented that for the asking price they could get drunk, obtain some chemical refreshment, get a regular ticket and engage the services of a young lady of questionable virtue from the local area and still have change.
This is far more ridiculous....
it took you fifteen minutes
to come up with your, by now, traditional 'oasis bashing' post; you're losing your touch, my old foxy chum...
An Oasis Bashing Post?
Do they do those at Robert Dyas?
I'll have to get one.
Aisle 3
beside garden hoses. We might be out of stock. More due on Tuesday...
Definitely?
Or Maybe?
Can't they be here now?
Ivan, please ignore my puerile comments, my friend. Just couldn't resist
it's friday afternoon, mate
you think i'm taking *anything* seriously?
You need counselling
Let it go.... you're clearly fighting some deep seated urge to (possibly physically) love the Oasis boys
Just give in and buy the ticket, have a couple of scoops and lighten up. Throw your arms round your mates and bellow nonsensical lyrics at deafening volume
It's fun. You'll enjoy it
Oh, that's a given
But more than that I think I'm just a slightly bored man who likes crap puns.
I like throwing arms around mates after having scooped. But no, I wouldn't enjoy Oasis. Honest.
Wasn't someone here...
...flying in from Melbourne for the Mott reunion? That's an expensive ticket
Mott!
Added a third date at the "HMV" Apollo.
When I bought my tickets I was given an option of three box office links from the Mott The Hoople website. Took a look at Ticketmaster first. All they had were premium tickets left, ie front row, at over £100 each. They are just taking the piss. The other agencies had normal priced tickets in the circle, which I wanted.
On the VIP packages, both Bowie and Macca have done these in the past through their own websites. Well they do need the money...
Concernintg the third date
its following an increasingly annoying trend on adding dates BEFORE the original 1st night. Mott announced dates on the 2nd n 3rd October and have added this 3rd date on 1st October. So if you hoped you'd got tickets for their triumphant return on the 2nd Oct, you haven't its the third date that the first on the 1st instead of the 1st night being on the 2nd.
This could confuse a stupid person. Its that bloody star Wars episode business all over again. Blur have done the same with their Hyde Park shows
Listen here, added dates go AFTER the original announcement, not before. In Motts case its not as if they have anywhere else to be rushing off to!
Melbourne, Schmelbourne!
I'm flying in from Adelaide with the first stop in Melbourne on my way to Hammersmith...does that mean I win? I bought two tickets for each of two nights (1st & 4th)to see Mott live (at last!) and am flying in with my dear wife who has put up with my Mott fanaticism for three and a half decades. If you factor in the cost of accomodation and food whilst staying in London for a week before flying home again, I reckon we're paying about $6500 Aussie dollars to see the band. But you only live once!
Paying For It
I'm sure getting to meet someone you are a fan of (regardless of who) can be a nice experience, but it must take the edge off a bit if you have to pay for it.
Meeting someone you admire unexpectedly
I agree. Paying for the privilege can never beat the accidental meeting. I started up a brief conversation once with the diminutive Welshman, Mr John Cale, at a bus stop in Adelaide, Australia, on one sunny afternoon. Very memorable. Ditto helping Henry Rollins to find a copy of "that Juke magazine with Bros on the cover" at a local newsagents when he was in town many years ago. Having Australian songwriting supremo, Paul Kelly, come and sit down opposite me on Parent-Teacher night at school was a surreal event too. Wayne County once tried to make me buy him a drink at Dingwalls. I was an intimidated 17 year old at the time, with no money and no idea, but luckily escaped his lascivious grasp! More to my orientation, the following week, at Dingwalls once again, during the evening of Blondie's memorable punch-up on stage, the divine Miss Harry held my hand for a period that grows longer with each passing year...
I remember some time ago
that Beyonce ran a competition to have dinner with her. She thought it would be a good wheeze to generate some publicity. Unfortunately for her, the winner of the comp was a member of PETA who entered the competition specifically to win the chance to grill the singer on her use of imported fur (mostly from dogs and cats skinned alive in China) in her clothing range.
Beyonce was bundled out the back door and the competition winner decked by her minders before any photos could be taken, sadly.
Mind you, if there are any fellow PETA members with a grand or so to spare reading this...
A night with Eric
I had an e-mail which was trying to persuade me to spend £425 (plus VAT) to see Eric Clapton at the Albert Hall.
Not in the Beyonce league of over-pricing maybe, but still a lot. It included such unattractive extras as VIP seats, use of an 'exclusive' hospitality lounge with canapes and "hot bowl food" and a collectible laminate pass.
The word 'exclusive' cropped up a lot. It was like the ad was written by Basil Fawlty - I half expected to see the phrase "no riff-raff".
My favourite detail was that you buy the tickets in pairs and get one souvenir programme per pair of tickets. Nearly £1000 for a pair of tickets and they can't even give you a programme each!
'I got Diana Ross for your birthday!'
This was the heading in the Manchester Evening News on January 26th.
It is understood she flew over from America in a private jet to perform an intimate show at the Staffordshire home of billionaire John Caudwell, 56, whose partner Claire Johnson was celebrating her 40th birthday.
A guest at the swanky fancy dress bash said the former front-woman of the Supremes sang old and new hits during a 40-minute show for the 250 guests.
Caudwell, founder of Phones 4U, once paid £50,000 to duet with Brian Adams and last year paid Whitney Houston a reputed £1.7m to perform a one-hour gig at a London charity event.
Now that's expensive
Why does age come into it?
It always perplexes me when papers report that Fred Bloggs, aged 47, did such and such... But 99 times out of 100, I can't see any need or point in knowing how old the person is. Maybe in this case they're having a sly dig at the age difference in which case it's even worse!