Comments on: £125 a ticket?? http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/music/125-a-ticket/ The blogs of Tim Hall Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.41 By: Chrissie Caulfield http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/music/125-a-ticket/comment-page-1/#comment-68047 Sun, 16 Nov 2014 08:55:55 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=11838#comment-68047 I slight resent that remark. I tried to get tickets for Fleetwood Mac – and failed, then shrugged it off – but I also listen to (and make) lots of new music and go to gigs. Just because something is old does not make it worthless – I still listen to Bach and Mozart a great deal and go to concerts of their music too. Fleetwood Mac are a good band and not everything new is automatically better. There are plenty of of newer acts playing similar venes at similar prices that I am studiously avoiding.

Yes, £125 is expensive and they know that people my age can afford those sorts of prices and will pay that to see a band from their youth, and I suspect that there ARE many people who will only go to ‘old’ concerts. But I would have been happy to see them and pay for the privilege. Depite the fact that it cost 10 times what I paid to see a gig of new music last night.

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