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Stones tickets

Basically AMEX card holders had first crack & then O2 customers were next up (when my mate bought his) then the riff raff were allowed to battle it out for the scraps.
 
Strongly rumoured for Glastonbury headline slot. I've got my ticket for that, not a chance I'd pay the prices talked of for one gig, even if I could afford it
 
Leeds Spur said:
The Beatles
The Kinks
Pink Floyd
The Who
Jimi Hendrix
Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Kings of Leon
Oasis
The Verve
Hip Hop 1985-2000
Motown
Morcheeba
Massive Attack
Drum and Bass 1994-2000

I could go on.......just not these guys, they should have the good grace to fudge off......it's like your grandad doinga porn film. Not appropriate.
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Didn't know you had such good taste......:lol: Except in football, of course!

The Strolling Bones may be getting a bit long in the tooth now, but are still meant to be good live. I saw them twice in 1982 (!), at Saudi Sportswashing Machine St james Park, and then at Roundhay Park in your manor. Awesome! Opened with Under My Thumb. The studio version was limp, I always thought, but live..... wow! Jagger was a real showman live. Takes a Kent boy to cut the mustard!

Top flight football and concerts are both becoming too corporate now. Money rules.
 
Leeds Spur said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19987630
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Top football and top concerts have shifted over the last few decades. They were largely a working class leisure pastime, and affordable by nearly all. Now they have shifted to be affordable by the middle classes, and in many cases the prawn sandwich phalanx.

In the 1970's, going to football, concerts or the cinema cost roughly the same. Just looked at some old ticket stubs. Thin Lizzy Sheffield City Hall 1977. 60p! Lynyrd Skynyrd same year and place...splashed out on this one. 90p! Standing on the kop at a match, paying on matchday, or going to the flicks was about the same at that time.

The common man is slowly being priced out of this type of entertainment. How can a bloke or woman afford to take three kids to top flight Premiership football now, unless you are minted. Both sad, and a disgrace. Then Sky money. The long term impact can be seen on England.
 
Sheffield Spur said:
Top football and top concerts have shifted over the last few decades. They were largely a working class leisure pastime, and affordable by nearly all. Now they have shifted to be affordable by the middle classes, and in many cases the prawn sandwich phalanx.

In the 1970's, going to football, concerts or the cinema cost roughly the same. Just looked at some old ticket stubs. Thin Lizzy Sheffield City Hall 1977. 60p! Lynyrd Skynyrd same year and place...splashed out on this one. 90p! Standing on the kop at a match, paying on matchday, or going to the flicks was about the same at that time.

The common man is slowly being priced out of this type of entertainment. How can a bloke or woman afford to take three kids to top flight Premiership football now, unless you are minted. Both sad, and a disgrace. Then Sky money. The long term impact can be seen on England.
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Work out what it should be based on inflation here then work out the actual % is, frighting that's what!
 
Boonie said:
Work out what it should be based on inflation here then work out the actual % is, frighting that's what!
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Jeez..... 60p in 1977 should now be £3.40.

Perhaps a fairer comparison. Led Zep at Knebworth 1979 was about ten quid IIRC, and that would now be £45.20. Lets take a example: 4x tickets at £45.20 = £180.80. An out and out luxury, if you are not paid much and paying for multiple tickets. And thats just the basic rate of interest. The actual cost now..... much higher.

I saw details of the gig at Port Meirion in North Wales, last month. New Order and Primal Scream headlining. Bet that was brilliant. Great venue for it (where 'The Prisoner' was filmed), but the cost. In packages. The top one was £700-£800 IIRC. Santa Maria!

In 1977 we had ticket touts....now illegal, apparently. Seems that Ebay has become the new 'centralised' ticket tout.
 
Ebay, viagogo, getmein etc are basically the touts legal outlet. It is a fudging disgrace, imagine the uproar if football went the same way.
 
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