I saw Father John Misty a couple or few years ago, his most recent tour has flashed on my pocket computer.
I'd like to see him again he was great I thought. £56.00 plus booking fee x 2 plus train tickets to Edinburgh as I can't make his appearance in Glasgow.
Ooft.
Yeah, i saw adverts for a couple of gigs I fancy attending
£42 for Fields Of The Nephilim
£56 for Steve Vai and Joe Satriani
Still tempted though
It's about the same price as a bag of shopping from Tesco. So in some strange world it sounds like a bargain
Could be worse, I live 90miles from Glasgow. A decent concert involves tickets, travel food , drink and accommodation... Last trip to see Toto was in the region of £350...
You could fly to Africa for that.
Last trip to see Toto was in the region of £350...
Shouldn’t it be free?, Click your heels together three times and say “there’s no place like home…….there’s no place like home……..there’s no place like home “
Edit : 50+ seconds to post that whilst the spinny green progress wheel did its thing in the top right corner of my iPad
£56 to see satriani sounds like a bargain to me tbh
You could fly to Africa for that
I see what you did there 😀
You could fly to Africa for that
On the 12.30 flight?
🤣👏👏👏
It's about the same price as a bag of shopping from Tesco. So in some strange world it sounds like a bargain
Blimey, if I look at it that way....eat for a week or spend an hour and half at some gig...the gig seems ridiculously expensive....
Dara O'Briain at Buxton the other night.
£34 ticket. Park at 6.01pm when free parking kicks in. Mediocre pub meal and an excellent pint £14. Interval ice cream £3.50. 90 miles of diesel.
It's all the extras that get me. I've paid a handsome sum to go the event, you don't need to charge me £7 for a can of beer.
There are still some well priced events out there. We have a great local comedy club that is £5 for up and comers night and £10 for headliners.
£90 for Ardmoors + £5 booking fee, +£20 camping
for a 35 km course
I got a free ticket to go and see Orbital on Friday night in Leeds. Over £8 a pint in the venue, so after a couple before hand 3 in there and one after, train fare in and £25 on a taxi home (I live about 7 miles out of Leeds centre) I reckon that free ticket cost me £75!
Pretty poor gig as well...
It's all the extras that get me. I've paid a handsome sum to go the event, you don't need to charge me £7 for a can of beer.
It’ll cost you a tenner a pint at the new Co-op arena. I had a look at the tickets for Pulp there in June and IIRC I think the cheapest were 120 quid.
That’s a pretty pricey night out! 😳
Peter Molloy & Sean Regan | Slí na mBeaglaoich | TG4
These guys play for free in a Westport pub, 5.60 euros for a Guinness.
Just paid £167 for two tickets to My Bloody Valentine in November. £70 a pop and £27 in Ticketmaster Special Rip Off Premium Service Charges
And it's 130 miles away in London. Fortunately we've got family we can use as a free hotel otherwise it'd get seriously pricey....
Does anybody remember when cinemas gave a discount for booking online? 😐
It's eye watering nowadays. I'm nearly 50, no kids, very well off, and even I wince at the price of food and drink on a night out. No wonder the kids don't drink.
Does anybody remember when cinemas gave a discount for booking online? 😐
I remember when Vue was £4.99 a ticket anytime which then changed to £4.99 at weeknights, £6.99 on Friday and Saturday, now it's £7.99 for the basic seats 6ft from the screen and anything half decent costs £10 and upward.
Although they do still give a discount for booking online. Or they charge more for buying in person, whichever way you want to look at it...
These are rookie numbers, all day pub crawl in Glasgow, token something to eat and train home is £200+ these days 😂
FJM sat next to us in a pizza restaurant. He's taller than I expected.
No wonder the kids don't drink.
Meanwhile, the price of drugs has remained stable and constant for decades now and the quality has gone up considerably
Ironic that it’s pretty much the only market where the market forces that we are told know the answer to everything have actually worked
These are rookie numbers, all day pub crawl in Glasgow, token something to eat and train home is £200+ these days 😂
all day pub crawl in Glasgow, token something to eat and train home is £200+ these days
Christ, where are you coming from, Cornwall?
A heavy night on the beers for me would be about thirty quid. If I paid a fiver for a pint I'd expect change and a "deluxe burger meal" - cheeseburger, chicken burger, portion of chips and a can of coke - is £7.
My first gig (in 1976) was 30p which was tbe price of a pint then.
Band tours used to be seen as promotions for selling records so usually.ran at a loss to be recouped from record sales. Since the collapse of record buying, tours are seen as the way for a band to make money hence the huge inflation in prices.
I got a free ticket to go and see Orbital on Friday night in Leeds.
They always had a ridiculously cheap ticket price at their gigs.
Loads of stuff getting cancelled here now - festivals, etc. They all blame it on insurance costs having skyrocketed since COVID.
There's an annual mtb 3-day stage race local to me that's run the past two years. They've just announced it's cancelled because of the recent storm damage. The race isn't until June. We'll be riding the tracks again within a week. They clearly just can't sell enough tickets.
I've paid a handsome sum to go the event, you don't need to charge me £7 for a can of beer.
Nobody’s forcing you to buy an overpriced can of beer.
Band tours used to be seen as promotions for selling records so usually.ran at a loss to be recouped from record sales. Since the collapse of record buying, tours are seen as the way for a band to make money hence the huge inflation in prices.
Sadly true. Although it’s possible to find cheap promotional gigs - I saw the Miki Berenyi Three last night at Rough Trade in Bristol, £12/ticket, including a free copy of their new CD. Which got 8/10 from Uncut. Miki used to be in Lush, saw them 3 times across three years in the 90’s, then they reformed a few years ago, saw them three times over a year. Lush finally folded, so Miki and Moose, her husband, formed Piroshka along with the drummer from Lush, formerly the drummer with Elastica, and recorded an album, saw them a couple of times, now their drummer is in constant demand so they’re using electronic percussion.
saw them a month or so ago in Bristol, tickets were £28 for me and my mate, and they’re playing The Exchange in Bristol next month, tix for that will be £31 for the two of us. Almost beer money!
The most I’ve paid was £350 for Peter Gabriel at the O2 several years ago - that might be his last tour, seeing as he only tours about once every ten years, and he’s well into his 70’s now!
Makes the £145 I paid for a front row centre seat for Kate Bush in 2014 look cheap! I can’t remember what I paid for my ticket for Tool at the O2, but it wasn’t cheap!
“My first gig (in 1976) was 30p which was tbe price of a pint then.”
My first gig was Steeleye Span, when they played the Lacock Folk Festival, but I can’t remember the cost, but I saw Supertramp play Chippenham Technical College on a warmup tour prior to the release of ‘Crime Of The Century’, a ticket was 50p, 45p if you had a Student Union card!
Led Zeppelin at Earls Court on the ‘Physical Grafitti’ tour cost me £2.50.
Just to put these costs in some context, average price for a new vinyl album is around £24, with some going for £30-50…
Blimey, if I look at it that way....eat for a week or spend an hour and half at some gig...the gig seems ridiculously expensive....
Eat for a week?
What's in your bag, bread & beans...
Took my (now young adult) children down to see Frank Turner in Newcastle last week. I didn't think the £45 ticket price was too bad as he puts on a great show, but I though £32 for three drinks at the venue was taking the piss a bit. Add in the train tickets from Aberdeen, hotel rooms and dinner before the gig and it worked out to be a fairly expensive trip. But to mis-quote that advert; moshing with your kids at a punk gig - priceless 🙂
FJM sat next to us in a pizza restaurant
Female Jenital Mutilation? Catchy... 🙃
I've stopped going to so many 'big' gigs now – I need a very good reason to be paying around £100 for a ticket and I struggle to justify that even for bands I really like. Instead, we've started going to smaller gigs and tribute acts and my favourite venue is The Crescent in York – a short walk from the station and pub prices for beer so I can have a night out costing about £50-£60.
the gig seems ridiculously expensive....
It is. Depends what you like for your night out though doesn't it... I'd rather see an up and coming band in a small venue for £15-20 than some old has-been going through the motions in the distance for 3 times that any day. My nights out are still pretty reasonable.
My first gig (in 1976) was 30p which was tbe price of a pint then.
Band tours used to be seen as promotions for selling records so usually.ran at a loss to be recouped from record sales. Since the collapse of record buying, tours are seen as the way for [s]a band[/s] [i]the label[/i] to make money hence the huge inflation in prices.
So close, but I fixed that for you!
I'll tell you what though - nothing in this thread is dispelling the stereotype of this forum being full of middle-aged moaners! A pint might cost £7 a gig now, but that means the motivation is there to staff the bar properly, put fast serving equipment in etc. A meal on the way there might cost £30, but then there's a good chance its actually been cooked on the premises by someone who takes pride in what they do and tastes the food.
You all have (mostly massively overpriced) bikes and can go ride up a mountain if you need a "free" way to pass the time.
I'm.going to see Bokassa and Mother Vulture at Sheffield Corp in a couple of weeks. Two great bands for a £15 ticket. A few pints of neepsend or abbeydale cask beforehand at £4 a pint and my night out will cost me around £30.
The sky rocket prices of other cities doesn't seem to have reached Sheffield yet.
Proabably a bit OT, but me and my wife went for a walk on Saturday, and stopped in a local Neighbourhood pub, in the north east of England. I had a pint of 0% lager, and she had a single G&T.
13 quid....
A heavy night on the beers for me would be about thirty quid. If I paid a fiver for a pint I'd expect change and a "deluxe burger meal" - cheeseburger, chicken burger, portion of chips and a can of coke - is £7.
And where are you going out - the 1970s?!
Night out, 6 pints or less, plus a pub burger: €60 feels quite cost-efficient, €80 more typical
Certain 'comeback bands' gigs and big sporting events are crazy nowadays.
A pal went to the Arena in Newcastle a few weeks ago and its £8.95 for a pint of gassy lager in a plastic glass.
I was at the Grand National on Saturday, a surprise meet-up for a mates retirement. £9.50 for a can of wine (don't say anything about the can, the full bottle was an aluminium tin £37) £85 to get in, I would say for that however I had 6 hours of 'entertainment'.
I took my dad to a test match at Durham in 2013 and it was £80 to get in, again a good days worth of entertainment.
Whilst working in Cambridge last Wednesday I went for a pint, £7.90, average price on the board was about £7.40.
'Cheap' theater and dinner in London for two.
Petrol to drive into Z4 ~£10
Parking £6
TFL £28
Street food at Southbank £25
2 Beers £15
2 Mr Whippy ice creams £15 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (knew that would be an utter rip-off when there wasn't a price on the window)
Theater £90 (Plied And Prejudice at The Vaults, I'd thoroughly recommend it )
3 rounds in the theater £45
Snacks for the return home £6
£240
I'm always torn between driving in which feels like a wasted opportunity sometimes and "making a night of it". A hotel, dinner and a few more rounds of drinks turns some cheap tickets into an astronomically expensive few hours!
And where are you going out - the 1970s?!
The North. You should try it. OK, "heavy" might have been an exaggeration though. 😁
I can beat CountZero.
I went to see Supertramp in 1979 in Cannock. We were queuing outside when they rolled up in their van and asked for a hand inside with their gear, in exchange for free entry.
Bloody well right!
And while we're at it, I've been offered tickets to the Tangerine Dream gig in Birmingham for a discount. I used to be a fan 50 years ago. Anybody know if it'll be any good?
I've been offered tickets to the Tangerine Dream gig in Birmingham for a discount. I used to be a fan 50 years ago. Anybody know if it'll be any good?
Depends whether they're going to play the Street Hawk theme tune or not. 😁
Bloody well right!
Some old folk noticed what you did there 😉 🙃
Some old folk noticed what you did there 😉 🙃
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When they played Bristol Colston Hall after the release of “Crime…”, during the station announcement part-way through ‘Rudy’, there was a cheer from the contingent from Chippenham, quite probably the only time our town got a shout-out from any live band performing anywhere! 😎
And while we're at it, I've been offered tickets to the Tangerine Dream gig in Birmingham for a discount. I used to be a fan 50 years ago. Anybody know if it'll be any good?
No reason why not - let’s face it, it’s all electronic, the band are about as anonymous as it’s possible to be in a live situation.
Although, when I saw Pink Floyd play Bristol Hippodrome on the 1974 ‘Wish You Were Here’ tour, it might as well have been shop window mannequins on stage, for all the interaction between them and the audience! Nick Mason’s ‘Saucerful Of Secrets’ are a much more engaging experience, you get two hours of early Floyd performed by a band clearly having an enormous amount of fun! Apart from Nick, there’s Guy Pratt on bass, who worked with Nick and Dave Gilmore both in Floyd, (because Waters couldn’t play bass worth a damn, and didn’t care about it), and Gary Kemp, who’s finally being allowed to let his love of prog let loose - he’s an outstanding guitarist!
If the opportunity presents itself, go and see them, I’ve seen them twice, and met Nick a couple of times, because he opens his gardens for charity, and has a bunch of his cars on display, well worth the price of admission! 😎
And while we're at it, I've been offered tickets to the Tangerine Dream gig in Birmingham for a discount. I used to be a fan 50 years ago. Anybody know if it'll be any good?
No reason why not - let’s face it, it’s all electronic, the band are about as anonymous as it’s possible to be in a live situation.
When Ultravox reformed, in 2008/9, one of the problems they faced was that they couldn't get the same synths etc as on the original records, so had to invest quite an effort into recreating the sounds.
it might as well have been shop window mannequins on stage,
And when they played Mr X, all 4 of them unmoving on keyboards, underlit in neon blue light, it was so gloriously 80s synth-pop that my wife couldn't understand my joy. 😀
Local cinema had fancy seats fitted & feel it necessary to charge £45 for me & mrs to see a film. Or we can go to the local film society for just £16 which includes a glass of wine each but no fancy seats...
Local cinema had fancy seats fitted & feel it necessary to charge £45 for me & mrs to see a film.
Daphuq? 😱 I stopped going to the cinema a few years ago, mainly because my work hours made it impractical, and I just lost interest, but there’s no way I’d be paying that!
Anyway, I’ve got a 55” Sony Bravia now, and I’m more than happy to wait for any give film to turn up on one of the multitude of channels available now.
Live music is a different thing altogether.
Local cinema had fancy seats fitted & feel it necessary to charge £45 for me & mrs to see a film. Or we can go to the local film society for just £16 which includes a glass of wine each but no fancy seats...
We're lucky to have the Regent Cinema here in Marple. Last time I went it was £5.50 for the prole seats downstairs, or £6 for the balcony seats, plus they have a half-time intermission where for £2 or so a young person wil sell you ice cream from a tray on a string round their neck.
With the length of many films these days, I really miss intermissions.
One of the bands I used to see live at free festivals is touring, Id love to see them again, but Its £50, plus diesel, and im out of work, probably forever.
Were supertramp at reading in 1975? That was £30 for the 3days iirc
We went to the darts at the Arena in Manchester last week for 40 quid a ticket. I drove as i wasn't bothered about paying 9 quid a pop for a wobbly plastic glass of lukewarm Carling. Being probably the only sober person amongsy 13,000 people, most of whom were absolutely leathered and dressed up as Super Mario or Ali G was quite the experience
The bars were all absolutely mobbed, literally 20 deep, and everyone was drinking the 2 pint glasses of fizzy lager at 18 quid a go. More of it seemed to be being thrown in the air than being actually drunk though. When someone got a 180 there must have been about 100,000 quids worth in the air. When Price did the mythical 9 dart finish we ended up literally soaked as about 13,000 2-pint glasses flying skyward. Then they all went to queue at the bar for a refill, to chuck in the air again 10 minutes later.
Absolutely nuts (but rather good fun!) 😀
A rare trip to a pub last night cost me £55 for two cheeseburgers, a pint of beer and a medium glass of Chardonnay.
A rare trip to a pub last night cost me £55 for two cheeseburgers, a pint of beer and a medium glass of Chardonnay.
Jesus 😳 , in my last job (2018) that would have been 6hrs wages, how the **** can folk afford to drink in pubs/eat out these days
A rare trip to a pub last night cost me £55 for two cheeseburgers, a pint of beer and a medium glass of Chardonnay.
Jesus 😳 , in my last job (2018) that would have been 6hrs wages, how the **** can folk afford to drink in pubs/eat out these days
3 Pints of 'non crap' beer in my local is almost £18.... so a sunday 'day drinking session' is now really just a couple of beers rather than sitting in the beer garden getting slowly pickled.
Good for my liver, but devestating to the pub trade when you think about it.
On the plus side...all the riff-raff go to 'Spoons in my town, as its a fair bit cheaper, so the pub I go to, is nice and serene! 😆
Every town needs a nobhead-magnet pub to keep them from infecting everywhere else, and spoons normally provides that service 😃
Our local, which is a fantastic boozer, does an old school happy hour after work where they always have various drinks offers on, so it’s never too pricey.
It’s always busy, with a really nice atmosphere about the place. Everyone in the vicinity seems to take their dog out for a walk, or just head out for a stroll around that time and ends up there.
A rare trip to a pub last night cost me £55 for two cheeseburgers, a pint of beer and a medium glass of Chardonnay.
Are you in Dublin? That's the only place in the British Isles I found that was dearer than London.
A burger in a pub will set you back £15-£20. You aren't having a pint and a single course cheap, other than in Wetherspoons. I have a gourmet card that makes one of our local pubs slightly more affordable for a meal for two, but you are still looking at around £40-£50 with the 25% discount on food and drink - and that's just two courses and non alcoholic drinks as it's not really walkable (unless you make it a hike).
Worse; the Cotswolds, but not the posh part.
Well, considering just how big an area of the country the Cotswolds covers, there’s a huge number of places that could potentially be “not the posh part”. From just below Bath, paralleling the Severn Valley to above Tewksbury and almost across to Oxford, back down through Cirencester, and considering how much is a desirable place to live, enquiring minds might ask, which bit isn’t posh! Where I live is just outside the official boundary, but I could walk to a village that is inside, and most people would think it’s posh. It featured in the Agatha Raisin tv series for exactly that reason.
I'm lucky enough to have Banquet Records not far away in Kingston who put on regular shows at very reasonable prices. Have seen James, Crowded House, Bastille, London Grammar and Lauren Mayberry (CHVRCHES) in the last year and think I haven't spent more than £20 a ticket. They put on an impressive range of artists usually playing Album/pre tour shows for a small audience. Have to be on the ball to get the tickets though. A lift in and back from one of my kids, if they're not coming with and a couple of pints at the 'Spoons across the road. Doesn't get much cheaper.
Can't be arsed with the faff of going to see many bands these days, especially big stadium events. Went to see a celebration of 30yrs since release of The Bends in mid march, costs were helped by being friends with the album producers daughter 😁
Was less than impressed paying £23.50 for a mediocre vegan burger & pint of ipa after today's ride 😕
A burger in a pub will set you back £15-£20. You aren't having a pint and a single course cheap, other than in Wetherspoons. I have a gourmet card that makes one of our local pubs slightly more affordable for a meal for two, but you are still looking at around £40-£50 with the 25% discount on food and drink - and that's just two courses and non alcoholic drinks as it's not really walkable (unless you make it a hike).
We went to a fancy-ish Italian in Halifax last night. A garlic bread & tomato, two generous plates of pasta, a pint and a gin & tonic came in at about £45. And it was delicious.
2 Ramen bowls, a pint of house IPA and 2 diet cokes in the centre of Leeds.
£52 inc tip
In London a couple of weeks ago - 2 pints of IPA, half a lager and a G&T was £30.
Many moons ago, when I was a student in Cardiff there was a boycott of the Student Union bar as they put lager up to £1 a pint. The grabbing barstewards soon put the price back down to 85p.
A burger in a pub will set you back £15-£20. You aren't having a pint and a single course cheap, other than in Wetherspoons. I have a gourmet card that makes one of our local pubs slightly more affordable for a meal for two, but you are still looking at around £40-£50 with the 25% discount on food and drink - and that's just two courses and non alcoholic drinks as it's not really walkable (unless you make it a hike).
We went to a fancy-ish Italian in Halifax last night. A garlic bread & tomato, two generous plates of pasta, a pint and a gin & tonic came in at about £45. And it was delicious.
A local Chinese, the sort with a Chinese menu and a Western menu, 2 weeks ago. 4 of us, a sharing starter course, main meal each, 3 beers and some soft drinks, £64. There was enough left that we took it home and my wife and I ate it the next day for our evening meal and had plenty.
I think the trick is never to eat overpriced burgers in pubs. Regardless of what they claim, a burger is just a burger, made of cheap meat and breadcrumbs, with a load of random filler to bulk the plate up. You know you're being conned when a burger, posh or not, is the same price as fish.
That's an astonishing price.
I think the trick is never to eat overpriced burgers in pubs.
I think the trick is not to frequent places that see you coming. You think you're getting great value with a tikka masala for £6 or balk at £10+ for a plate of spaghetti, but will cheerfully down three pints of lager at nine quid a throw.
Then there's the surprise pre-added service charge of anywhere from 10% to 25% on the bill. This isn't America, if you need to apply a service charge then increase the prices on your menu. Keep it honest.
