Something like £70 a ticket. Only got them because it was the ex's birthday, and Bowie's one of his favourites. Ex then spent the gig harrumphing that it wasn't as good as previous gigs, so probably not money well spent.

Other than that, I think I spent £60 a ticket on Randy Newman tix (got them off ebay so paid double the face value) as I was absolutely desperate to see him live. Worth every penny.

I flew to Sydney (from the UK) to see 2 Wilco concerts last year.

OK, family visits as well but it sounds much more impressive to say we went just for the gigs.

Twickers, a few years back. More than £90 a pop.

And not very good either.

I'm still bitter.

I wouldn't pay anything like that to see a band, especially as it almost certainly comes with enormodome misery too. My pal johna_online paid a fortune to see Van Morrison do Astral Weeks and I thought he was mad too. He may comment but I recall that was a bit of a disappointment too. Possibly a reincarnated Lowell George. Otherwise, no way!

...if you just mean the price of the ticket. I've travelled to Europe and the US specifically to see gigs - usually Kraftwerk - but have almost always managed to blag my way in to the gig in some way rather than buy a ticket (several agent/promoter/management friends)

Coachella 2008 worked out pretty pricey - flights, Winnebago rental etc. - but so worth it. What a week that was.

I'm lucky enough to be able to see pretty much any gig for free (thus far). Have been to Glastonbury about a dozen times and have yet to pay for a ticket.

Edinburgh Playhouse July 2008.

Can't remember the exact price, but worked out about £100 a ticket once Ticketb@stard added on a whopping booking fee.

Worth every penny though.

£150 ... but it went to charity. And probably would have paid more.

Prior to that, McCartney at Earl's Court and Brian Wilson at the RFH - around the £60 mark.

I will admit, though, my days of expensive gigs are long past me, but have some great memories of those shows.

Stockholm a few years ago.

Paid 800 Swedish kronor (£75).

A good gig. I'd say it was just about worth it.

I went to see Neil about 7 years ago for 130 euros(converting Canadian to Euros) and I thought at the time, I've never seen him and what if something happens and I never get to see him.The next year he went into the hospital for a brain tumor removal and almost died. So he came back a few years later and I paid 183 euros. The first show was the Greendale album with a scond act of greatest hits in a 3000 person venue. The second show was a greatest hits show which was in a 20,000 person venue. I didn't have the money to spend both times but I did anyways and thoroughly enjoyed both shows.No regrets!

And I have to say that if anyone was worth it he was.

He started that tour in 2008 to see if he could earn any money to make up for his losses. He found he could. That's why he kept on adding dates all over the world until he was touring for two years and playing bigger and bigger places.

Acts nowadays want bigger and bigger guarantees but they don't like to see ticket prices get too high. Booking fees are often a way of paying the promoter who isn't actually getting much out of the basic ticket price. Acts are quite happy to have the promoter appear to be a money grabber.

I paid £1 once to see Van Der Graaf Generator, followed by Genesis who were then followed by headliners Lindisfarne. It was a Lyceum Sunday night thing from memory, sometime in the early 70's. I paid a similar amount to see the Harvestmobile tour which was supposed to have 7 bands however, only Babe Ruth and the Edgar Broughton Band turned up, and the Broughton brothers decided to have an on stage fight which was worth the ticket price alone.

but I went to the Royal Opera House last year to see Carmen.

One Hundred and Ninety of your English pounds.

(Was really good though)

At Chicago United Center $250

Plus flights, hotels etc (shudder). Had a great time though.

The reunion gig at the O2 was best part of 100 pounds and worth every penny! I was thrilled to get tickets at all just like I was when aged 13 I got tickets to see them In Aberdeen. Mind you a pound was lot of money in those days the success of Led Zep Four had clearly gone to their heads.

Me and Roo of this parish paid through the nose on eBay to get a second set of tickets for Pixies' 2004 reunion shows at Brixton Academy. We went two nights in a row. Was it worth it? Yes. It was.

£65 + £3.3 booking - so £68.30

Upcomng Dylan £65 + £9.6 booking.

...and I recall my older brother on the phone to a friend saying no, $5 for a ticket was just too much.

in a couple of weeks

Can't imagine I won't enjoy it.

Did get front row for Sheffield Arena though and they did put on a fabulous show, do the whole of Moving Pictures and played for best part of 3 hours. So - bargain :-)

I decided that £75 (plus booking fee) for the cheapest seats at their upcoming Albert Hall show was just too much.

...somewhat unfair, I think, to cite it as an example of 'expensive' (yes, I know you've included the travelling) when £31.21 is an absolute bargain price for someone of his standing. And when you said that your gig was considered to be the worst, does that mean you didn't personally enjoy it at the time, or are you just retrospectively disappointed in respect of reports/reviews of the other concerts?

In context, I saw him twice on that tour (plus one amazing after-show), travelled twice from East Yorkshire and stayed overnight in Greenwich on both occasions. Money very well spent.
Around the same time, the Stones played a couple of nights at the O2 at £100 a pop (for the cheap seats). You pays your money, etc...

from a tout at the station.

The days of extortionate gig prices are beyond me now with two pups but the savings bank remains intact for The Stone Roses reunion show at Spike Island in the Summer of 2012! (he writes, hopefully).

Rod Stewart, about 6 or 7 years ago at the Manchester Evening News Arena. Can't remember how much the tickets were, probably about £50 each, not a lot compared to some of the earlier posts. But the thought went through my mind that night that it just wasn't value for money. Oh yes, he rattled through his hits very professionally, with a very slick, anonymous, and competent band. He looked good on the giant screens and his voice was still okay. But the whole show lacked soul. In the middle of Maggie May out came the obligatory footballs to be kicked into the crowd....and my mind went back to the Liverpool Boxing Stadium in 1972.....The Faces (still with Ronnie Lane) raucous, laddish, probably pissed, spontaneous...everything a live gig should be. I was with my mates, we tried to get our hair into an approximation of Rod's, we had tartan scarves round our wrists, we were raucous, we were 18, a bit pissed as well, it was hot, sweaty and crowded, and it was one of the most wonderful shows I had ever seen at that point.
I came away from the MEN feeling robbed somehow, and made a decision that I would never pay a fortune to go to see old heroes live in arenas ever again. It's not the money...it's the value for money.

Hammersmith Odeon, around 1988, about £18 per ticket.

The lady who was to become my ex decided that this choice of night out epitomised the irreconcilable differences in our tastes, preferences etc and divorced me. That was a very, very expensive gig.

Whenever I have to pay over a tenner I grumble.

I don't like anyone enough to pay more than the £60 I got stung for Rush at the O2.

When His Bobness played the Portsmouth Guildhall back in 2002 I seem to remember the tickets were getting on for £200.

125 euros per ticket to see him in Barcelona about 3 years ago. Brilliant but 250 euros for a night out was a bit steep. On a brighter note,just got two freebies for Wilco next month.

85 quid plus the fees. Plus travel from Devon to Manchester and back, plus overnight hotel. All X2 to include Mrs Fred. All adds up.