I have every sympathy for the OP. And given the utterly eye watering amounts of money sloshing around in the PL there shouldn't be any reason at all to charge the prices clubs do. Maybe if significant funds were going into grass roots etc there might be a case but sadly the only winners in this...
I disagree. I know a number of regular gig goers. Maybe not 30-40 but certainly around the 20 mark. It's what a lot of music lovers do......and why they're called music lovers.