Motorhead is about £40
The Stooges is (I think) nearer to £50
Honourable hippies Gong about £20

Since the advent of illegal downloads it's tickets and swag that actually pay the bands now, not record sales. Whilst this is a good thing, making bands get out there and play for a living, the downside is the outrageous ticket prices.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 20 Apr 2010, 10:34, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

I blame AC/DC
they've been charging loads for decades.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 20 Apr 2010, 10:38, Reply)

*Spang*

(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Tue 20 Apr 2010, 10:39, Reply)

Is that some kind of electricty pun?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 20 Apr 2010, 10:39, Reply)

That depends, did you find it funny?

(PsychoChomp, Tue 20 Apr 2010, 10:40, Reply)

Not hugely although I'm pretty wired from too much coffee

I'm trying to wash it out with a black currant drink, but I just keep alternating between charged and feeling a little flat.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 20 Apr 2010, 10:42, Reply)

I expect there'll be a battery of puns now.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 20 Apr 2010, 10:44, Reply)

I'll resist it.

( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Tue 20 Apr 2010, 12:53, Reply)

Shocking!

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 20 Apr 2010, 10:40, Reply)

I think the Rolling Stones also have a lot to answer for.
They realised long before the download 'crisis' that no-one bought their shitty new albums anyway, and thus ticket sales were going to be their primary source of income (alongside reissues and 'greatest hits' albums).
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 20 Apr 2010, 10:44, Reply)

I blame the rolling stones for the London congestion charge, global warming
the sexualisation of children and the setbacks at the large hadron collider. They should be summarily excuted on stage.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 20 Apr 2010, 10:48, Reply)

I blame them for 9/11, 7/7 and 7/11

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 20 Apr 2010, 10:50, Reply)

I blame them for 1/8, 1/2 and 3 oz as well

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 20 Apr 2010, 10:52, Reply)

IS THERE NOTHING THOSE SUPERANNUATED SWINE WILL NOT DO?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 20 Apr 2010, 10:52, Reply)

Kerry Katona

(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 20 Apr 2010, 11:04, Reply)

Ticket prices would be high for that.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 20 Apr 2010, 10:50, Reply)

Couldn't agree more about the limp output from the Rolling Stones
They should have jacked it in about 30 years ago. I see more able bodied geriatrics when I go and visit my Gran in her nursing home.

As for tickets, I bought 3 on E-Gay for the Premier League of Darts at the SECC the other. Paid £30 each, the face value was £20, so it wasn't so bad considering it had sold out in one day.

It was a VERY strange evening. Necked a pill and ended up pretty fried. The atmosphere was incredible, like a mix between a festival, a football match, a Bank Holiday and a Roman orgy. Easily the most electric and 'on the verge of descending into chaos' atmosphere I have ever experienced. And for what, a few blokes throwing darts....this made it all the more surreal.

Canny wait for next year, floor seats FTW.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Tue 20 Apr 2010, 10:59, Reply)

You dropped e for darts?
what would one take for snooker?
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 20 Apr 2010, 11:07, Reply)

Mate
you have to experience it to believe it, easily more intense than a lot of clubbing nights i've had. The x merely amplified what was kicking off around me.

I went last year and woke up in A&E having my head stitched, totally the fault of the free bar, ended up completely hammered. No pills, no smoke, just the demon drink. I wasn't making that mistake again.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Tue 20 Apr 2010, 11:11, Reply)

I agree, darts looks like a lot of fun to watch (a good party atmosphere)
my dad is a fan of darts and I have some mates who love watching it.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 20 Apr 2010, 11:16, Reply)