What is the most you did/would/have paid for a concert/theatre ticket ?

Uncle Spielberg

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I offered £ 500, for 2 Kate Bush tickets last year, Nowhere near enough. I think the hottest theatre ticket in Town this year is Bradley Cooper, London West End in the Elephant Man, every 3 month performance sold out months in advance, ebaying for £ 600 a ticket presently. Who/what would you really push the boat out for and what would be your limit ?

 

Tom Hark Preston Park

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http://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?319470-Concert-Ticket-Prices

 

Uncle Spielberg

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Tom Hark said:

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What an extraordinary coincidence

 

spence

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Tom Hark said:

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Kumquat

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My girlfriend once paid over 100 quid for a Take That ticket. She's a ****ing idiot.

 

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bognor gull

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Live once.

Kumquat said:

My girlfriend once paid over 100 quid for a Take That ticket. She's a ****ing idiot.

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Well if she's an idiot! What am I ? I've paid over £100 several times for theatre tics. Robbie Williams at the O2 = £195 each, Jersey boys in NYC at approx' £220 each & Rod Stewart in Vegas about £180 each.
You live once, enjoy it while u can. Comprede la blues. Eh

 

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Binney on acid

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I don't think concert tickets are overpriced. Some of the artists listed very rarely play. Wasn't Kate Bush's previous live gig in 1979? What I do resent is the secondary market, pushing the price up by about 400%. Don't they charge a 20% handling fee, £10 postage & then VAT @ 20%. It's outrageous that the parasites make more from ticket sales than the artist.

 

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willow147

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You could always pay £108.15 to watch Dynamo at the Brighton Centre. How that possibly be value for money?

 

Beach Hut

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In the 80s I paid £100 off a tout to watch Bowie at the Brixton Academy - dread to think what that is now days

 

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severnside gull

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I paid $500 for 2 tickets to a Willie Nelson concert in Milwaukee a few years back. Figured I'd never get the chance again and he was brilliant if mildly disappointingly sober.

 

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Machiavelli

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Tom Hark said:

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The title, at the very least, suggests that this is a valid thread.
My answer is £500, maybe £1k if things are going well, to see Tom Waits. Mind you, I might have to wait. His last European 'tour' constituted two nights in a small venue in Paris about a decade ago. Tom likes to say "gotta keep em keen".

 

vegster

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This thread puts my £45 + £7 booking fee for REM a few years ago in to perspective. I got a bargain !

 

vegster

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Machiavelli said:

The title, at the very least, suggests that this is a valid thread.
My answer is £500, maybe £1k if things are going well, to see Tom Waits. Mind you, I might have to wait. His last European 'tour' constituted two nights in a small venue in Paris about a decade ago. Tom likes to say "gotta keep em keen".

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With a name like " Waits " surely this is not a surprise ?

 

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Machiavelli

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vegster said:

This thread puts my £45 + £7 booking fee for REM a few years ago in to perspective. I got a bargain !

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I saw them for free in c1990, which allows me to break the bank for the one that I'm still waiting on

 

lawros left foot

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vegster said:

This thread puts my £45 + £7 booking fee for REM a few years ago in to perspective. I got a bargain !

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Didn't they play the Carioca in Worthing years ago?

 

Bevendean Hillbilly

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England v Columbia at lens in France 98. Spent some hours waking about randomly asking frogs "a vende un place pours le match?" Until I mey a rather shy lens STH who had one. Did some brisk business and paid £240 in euros for a seat in the gods with a load of old surrender monkeys. Fantastic day though. Realised a lot about how England fans get horribly mistreated by local OB and grasping bar owners as well as the UK press and TV.

The Germans came to lens a few days later and rioted causing a gendarme to die. Not a word said about that little mishap.

 

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Tiptop24

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Most I shelled out was to see the police reunion tour in Milwaukee a few years back. Was a top day out.

 

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NooBHA

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bognor gull said:

Well if she's an idiot! What am I ? I've paid over £100 several times for theatre tics. Robbie Williams at the O2 = £195 each, Jersey boys in NYC at approx' £220 each & Rod Stewart in Vegas about £180 each.
You live once, enjoy it while u can. Comprede la blues. Eh

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Seems like you are here to tell us how much money you have and how well travelled you are...... Smashing !

 

pasty

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Most I've ever paid was £65 for Green Day and Kaiser Chiefs at The Emirates 2 years ago. I don't think there is a single artist I would ever pay more than that to go and see. Unless Freddie came back from the dead that is.

 

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tinx

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Foo fighters at Wembley this summer. I went for the top priced tickets as got front row close to the stage. Cost £308 for three tickets after all the fees.