Concert tickets. How much would you pay?

I definitely would not pay £174 for a concert ticket. I could have a weekend in Amsterdam or Paris for that. Ridiculous.

Ohh,I may get shot down on here but just paid over £250 to see Adele next year at Hyde Park in July.
I’ve always wanted to see her ,it will mean a London hotel stay for one night and train fare but already booked and looking forward to it with a few girlfriends.
I still work and it’s my treat to myself.

I would sell my body to see Sir Rod.

Just as well the sell by date has passed.

I paid £25 each for 3 tickets to see Michael Jackson at Wembley in the early 90s. We had to travel from the NW and stay over so it was an expensive trip for a single Mum but my girls loved it. We paid a lot more, years later, to see Travis but they were well worth it.

It seems to me that concerts, plays etc are becoming more and more available to only the better off who have the excess income to pay the high prices charged these days! Fine for artists who represent popular culture, I suppose, and those prices have always been relatively high. However I am concerned that there is going to be a whole generation of children (and adults!) who will never know the delights of seeing live drama or classical music or dance because of the cost. While I appreciate such productions are expensive to stage, although I do wonder just how much it actually DOES cost, it is a crying shame that the much vaunted ‘levelling up’ of society does not include the arts, in whatever shape or form. We will all be the poorer because of it.

I love rod and saw him last time he was at the arena in Newcastle the tickets were way over what I would of paid and I could hardly see him. However loved the fact I went and enjoyed it.

You're welcome Kate, hope they get there in the end. Rod's a great showman and I saw him in concert a couple of years ago. Such a good night!

I must really be in the minority here - there's no way I would (or even could) pay those kind of prices for a concert ticket! There's a comedian I really like who is coming to Edinburgh and I looked at tickets to see her, but they're more than £50 and even that I balk at paying. I remember when Leonard Cohen was playing at Edinburgh Castle a few years back and I just couldn't pay the price they were asking for tickets then - if I'd known then I'd never get the chance to see him again, I might have.

I'm a self- confessed crazy Elton John fan and was looking yesterday to see whether I could get a ticket for one of his farewell concerts.
I've always been seated no further than 3 or 4 rows from the front and my last tickets cost about £180 each and those were a few years ago. Imagine my horror when I saw the cheapest ticket anywhere near where I would want to be being £483 and one in row 4 at £1,275!
I REALLY want to go but there's absolutely no way I can afford or be able to justify that for a couple of hours' entertainment regardless of how fantastic it would be.

Thank you mrsjonesy that's very kind. I think they have been using The Ticket Factory. They were definitely not going due to the cost. They are now wavering They won't get tickets for this show as there are no decent seats left. He usually puts another night on. We'll see.

The price seems about right it's just a matter of if you can afford them. In June 2019 my husband won tickets to see The Eagles in Liverpool in a radio competition. The show they put on was fantastic and lasted over 3 hours with 2 encores (no support group). We had fairly good seats but the ticket price for each was £250! I doubt we would have considered going if we'd had to buy the tickets ourselves so I'm grateful my husband entered the competition

I wonder what ticket sellers your sisters are looking at? I'm presuming that they are looking at going to the Utilita Arena Birmingham in which case do try theticketfactory.com. This is the official box office for UAB
Heres a link to the arena page (Hope this is ok to put on here) www.utilitaarenabham.co.uk/whats-on/rod-stewart/

Just trying to be helpful, I love live music and I'd love it if your sisters can get to see Rod for a better price.

We saw Michael Buble in 2019. It was the best show we've seen and we've seen a lot, including Elton John, Tony Bennett, Beatles, Stones and many more. My husband wasn't keen but is now converted!

I gather I'm in the minority here! Used to have the same conversations at work.
Personally I'm just glad that I seem to enjoy the things I go to as much, if not more, than those who want to see big shows.

My (premiership) rugby team have seats under £20 (free parking)
You can also go to see the Autumn Women's Internationals for £15 at some venues.
Children's shows touring the small venues can be great fun and we pay under £15 a seat.

To each their own!

If I was mad on Rod (which I'm not) and had lots of cash to spare (which I don't) then yes I would

Well they don't start at £86 here for Rod. The £174 tickets are just basic tickets on the floor. The cheapest, which are high up and at the back are £133. He's almost sold out now so someone thinks he's worth it.

Paid over £100 to see Coldplay, best concert ever! My limit now is £100 for an artist I really want to see but only if seated. My standing days are over. Adele is in Hyde Park next year but it is £90+ to stand!
I would always pay to see Bowie or Freddie if I could !
I just dislike people’s disrespect at gigs these days. We went to see Billy Ocean recently and the show was totally wrecked by a group of 20 who were extremely drunk , loud, rude. Nobody had the courage to challenge them as they were if a certain culture ☹️

Oh I checked the tickets for Rod The Mod this morning and balked too !

Most odd though. I am a member of See Film First, and am
currently being offered all sorts of live music tickets for £3.50... including Jason Donovan supported by a full orchestra. Not to my taste... but £3.50 !!

The implication of this is, they can't sell tickets. Is it because they are too expensive to begin with ??

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They are £80 or £192 missadventure.

You’d need to pay ME to watch Buble…..and if he sang Cry me a river I would riot….??

Try buying direct from the arena rather than ticket master etc. Also maybe consider buying seats further back, it’s usually still a good experience. There’s some for £109

We paid £125 each to see Bruce Springsteen at Hampden Park five years ago, was def worth it but heaven knows what it would cost now! We take dgc to the panto each year and pay around £200 for tickets. By the time we’ve taken them for something to eat, bought the plastic sword/light up spinner thing and the obligatory ice cream we’ve probably spent around £300. It’s so worth it though to have such a good time with them and make those memories.

The first concert that I went to was T.Rex at the Odeon in Birmingham and the tickets were 75p despite the fact that the group were regularly topping the charts. Concert tickets are so expensive now and it’s a shame because I don’t think you can beat live music. But to be fair to Rod Stewart and other artists, they are not in complete control of the prices, promoters, venues and lots of other organisations have a large input too. I have seen Bruce Springsteen every time he has visited the u.k. since the late 1970s and although the tickets have gone up to over £100 in recent years, I’m still prepared to pay to see him. I sacrifice something else!

To be fair though, the ticket prices for Rod start at £86.00 and the £180 tickets are for the "Premier Lounge" where you have a private balcony seat. I'd pay the £86 and polish my specs although they usually have big monitors at the side of the stage so everyone can get a good view of Rod

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Ouch! We have tickets for Abba next June in London for £97 each ?

"War of the Worlds" is spectacular, I thoroughly recommend that.

And my husband agrees that the rugby is worth it!

Nearly £100 each to see holograms/avatars is a lot of money!

Kate1949 I would and did pay a similar amount to see The Rolling Stones a couple years back, worth every penny.