Stones Ticket Prices

Posted by: Rockingdoc on 09 December 2002

Have I got it wrong?

A quick search on ticketline seems to show that the cheapest tickets for the Rolling Stones next UK gigs will be 375GPB for a view of the band as ants at Wembley, or TWO THOUSAND POUNDS for a seat at the Astoria in London.
Are they taking the piss or what?

malcolm
Posted on: 11 December 2002 by Tarquin Maynard - Portly
quote:
Originally posted by Rockingdoc:

Are they taking the piss or what?

malcolm


malcolm

yes they are. Sadly, no doubt the Astoria will sell out. You could spend a week in Amsterdam and have a GREAT deal of fun, and then buy the Stones video/DVD for that kind of money......apparently....... wink

Mike
Posted on: 11 December 2002 by blythe
The most expensive tickets to see them in Sydney in Feb '03 are A$375 which is about £140.00

The venue is (I'm told) a relatively small 2000 seater.

Worth the trip?

I think so!

Computers are supposed to work on 1's and 0's - in other words "Yes" or "No" - why does mine frequently say "Maybe"?......
Posted on: 11 December 2002 by David Stewart
My judgment is the whole UK concert business is taking us for a ride. I was in Aus earlier this year and had a seat close to the stage for Elton John's Brisbane concert for the princely sum of £65. It's a nice venue too, sort of medium sized but cosy. Friends tried to get tickets for the Stones at Twickenham, but they all sold out within the hour at whatever price was asked for them - sad really!

David

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Posted on: 11 December 2002 by Cheese
But in commercial terms they are ... (I won't write it down because the following lawsuit against me would be another, though very thin, income source for them). In the end, we all got used to the purely commercial motivation of those cash-in-tours I always end up visiting, but the Stones are no more fun.

Before their last gig over here, the organizer of the concert did everything he could to convince them of a stop-over in tiny cheese country, increasing the ticket prices and letting them play outdoors during another open-air festival, and at the same location (thus saving the cost of the stadium rent and taking advantage of the existing festival infrastructure). In the press, the organizer said that the whole thing was calculated at the thinnest, leaving not one penny of benefit in the end.

Actually he went bankrupt shortly afterward. Jagger & Co, we love you !

Cheese