Billy Eilish concert tickets

[Itsnoteasy]

My daughter has just got 2 tix for this concert. 290 £3ck3n pounds 🙄

[Sylar]

The general price of gig tickets has spiralled lately. I'm at the point where (as a regular gig-goer, even solo) I'm seriously cutting back the number I attend in a given year.

Looked at prices to see Yellowcard and Story of the Year (most of you would say "who", which sort of emphasises my point) at the O2 Academy in Glasgow later this year...£49...even in our 'scene', these aren't absolutely massive bands. Safe to say I never bothered.

But of course the world's most popular artists in Swifty and Eilish will really cash in on their fame.

At least she's taking the time to come to Scotland at all - the other current trend alongside expensive tickets is the explosion in bands doing a 'UK' tour, and never leaving England...

[hibee_girl]

Was the same in our house this morning, my teen has paid £145 for a standing ticket!

[Jay]

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Was the same in our house this morning, my teen has paid £145 for a standing ticket!

.My boy paid £165 each for 2 tickets down the front seating

[patch1875]

Got 2 as well for my daughter. No queue straight in which was a surprise.

[Pretty Boy]

I suppose part of the increase in costs of live gigs is how the way we consume music has changed.

The first album I bought was (What's The Story) Morning Glory?. I was 9 and had to have it because Oasis were the coolest thing in the world at that time to my mind. It cost me about £10 which is the equivalent of about £20 today adjusted for inflation. When was the last time any of us regularly dropped £20 on an album? Between the age of about 12 and 25 I bought albums weekly and spent thousands, possibly tens of thousands of pounds on them. I think I bought 2 albums the whole of last year. For comparison purposes the above album sold 350K copies in it's first week, all physical, in the UK alone. Worldwide it was selling 200K copies a week well into 1996. By contrast Noel Gallagher released Council Skies last year, it sold about 35K copies all in.

The days of regularly buying full albums are gone, we chuck a few quid at Spotify every month, or put up with adverts to use it for free, and cherry pick the songs we want. One of the outcomes of that is artists have to make money in other ways and live shows play a big part in filling the void.

I feel the pain. I was about crying dropping £450 on a pair of Beyonce tickets for my wife and sister last year but I can see at least part of the reason as to how we have got here.