RaikuFA said:
elvor0 said:
RaikuFA said:
elvor0 said:
El Luck said:
I've seen Maiden twice, once at Download 2007 and again at Sonisphere 2010, and holy shit both times were just...god damn there aren't any words.
Amaror said:
For example Rammstein always has a hell of a fireshow during their concerts. I am talking constant fire from the ground and the singer playing around with a frikkin flamethrower.
Not to mention the penis foam cannon, and the keyboard dude going crowd surfing in a rubber dinghy. That's one I wont be forgetting any time soon.
Sonisphere 2010 was a fucking ace festival, Rammstein still sit at the top of my list for best stage show. EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE!
RaikuFA said:
Could I ask what is the point of them? You're paying a minimum of $50 to $500 for one night of music that you can hear at home for $10. That seems like a rip off to me.
Um. Seriously, $500? Can I interest you in the brooklyn bridge? £50 is the most I've ever paid for a single concert and that was Metallica at Wembley Stadium, otherwise, £25 absolute tops. Furthermore, you're basically asking "why do people do things that they enjoy?" it makes you look like you're incapable of understanding other human beings.
As far as I'm conerned the "I can't possibly understand why people do things they enjoy" questsions, are not in fact questions; they're statements disguised as questions, in this case, calling people who like to go to concerts stupid.
https://m.stubhub.com/heavy-montreal-tickets/heavy-montreal-saturday-only-montreal-parc-jean-drapeau-8-9-2014-9058753/
An average of $200 to see Metallica now. If I wanted to see them with someone, it'll be around 4 to $500.
That is a day ticket for a festival;
Heavy Montreal, it isn't just to see Metallica. This is what that ticket buys you:
http://heavymontreal.com/lineup/#!programmation=grid$
The entirety of the left hand side of that line up, 22 bands in total. Heck for some reason the weekend ticket is cheaper on that site, $180 dollars to see well over 60 bands is /really/ good value for money.
http://www.stubhub.com/metallica-tickets/
If I wanted to see them with someone, they could pay for their own damn ticket at that price. So your example price isn't $500, you've just bought more tickets than necessary. And buying the ticket to a festival. That's like me buying 2 tickets for all the movies in a movie theater, only seeing one movie then complaining that it costs £100 to see a movie.
Certain stadiums will screw you over, but my £50 ticket at wembley was only 2007, so it's not like I'm on about "ye olden days", and it is Metallica, the biggest name in metal, tickets for them are going to be on the pricier side. But most bands you can see for <£50.
Like who? Every band I've tried to see was a minimum of $100 in just grass seats.
Black Sabbath, even bigger than Metallica, reunion tour had tickets of £45 and under, which is damn good and surprising, I would've been happy to pay more than that, Motorhead, again quite big, who I see with my family every year, cost £20-£30, seen Iron Maiden a couple of times, not more than £50, though can't remmeber the exact price. Judas Priest are doing a tour right now where the tickets are $70, which translates to about £40, but again they're big names and that isn't /that/ much. Pink Floyd reunion tickets were about £35 last year. Iggy Pop, under £50, my mum saw P!nk at the O2 arena a few years ago for about £35 a ticket, I even found tickets for Elton John going for under $100:
https://tickets.axs.com/eventShopperV3.html?wr=3b4738dc-cb99-487c-b5d3-316061042158&preFill=1&lang=en&locale=en_us&eventid=251206&ec=STC141004&src=AEGAXS1_WMAIN&skin=staples&fbShareURL=www.axs.com%2Fevents%2F251206%2Felton-john-tickets%3F%26ref%3Devs_fb
If you're buying from scalpers, then yeah it's gonna be expensive, so don't. But otherwise, aside from a few bands(Rolling Stones I'm looking at you, £100 a ticket! *grumble*), or certain individuals(Paul Mcartney *cough*), <£60 is about the norm for even the biggest groups, outside of pop sensations. $500 would be a luxury ticket with a meet and greet or special perks. I've /personally/ never paid more than £50 for a ticket, with the exception of festival tickets for £190, which were 3 day festivals, with camping and more bands than you could shake a stick at, with many, many big names.
Some groups or venues will charge you through the nose, I certainly had difficulty just now finding Fleetwood Mac tickets for under $100, but they were all resale with the excpetion of the tickets for the luxury boxes and whatnot. Even then it still doesn't come close to your original estimate of $500 or the $180 Festival Ticket, which was actually good value. There was a recent Hoo-hah about AC/DC charging $160 for a gig in Australia, where things are all manner of expensive, so it's certainly not the norm.
Crummy pop sensations are the ones who alway charge stupid amounts for their tickets mostly, One Direction or Justin Beiber were $120 minimum, basically because the record label needs to squeeze money out of them before they stop being popular. Or Rap artists who seriously over value themselves. I don't even like Elton John, but he's far more deserving of an expensive ticket than fucking Jay-Z.
Even stuff like Paul Mcartney or Elton John where tickets are at the higher end, can be seen on the cheap if you sit in the seats. Not like there's going to be much dancing or moshing going on if you're in the standing section anyway. In fact I'd say those are the ones you /want/ to be sitting down for.
The link is broken, but it's a day ticket for Heavy Montreal.
