£250 for a regular standing ticket for the Sabbath gig at Villa Park !!! £400 for “gold circle standing” !!!
Granted it’s a decent lineup but what’s going on with the price of gig tickets lately…and this is before the dynamic pricing kicks in on official sale day (Friday).
Supply & demand?
Significant range of associated costs have gone through the roof allied to the recognition that they’re offering something with scarcity attached. Not nice but also explainable.
I was toying with the idea.
Chance to see Ozzy (never have) v he’s clearly not at his peak. Big stadium (I prefer small venues). See Metallica ( I saw them with Cliff Burton and doubt they’ll beat that).
So £250 for a standing ticket makes the decision for me.
Seriously. For the same money (including cost of travel and a hotel for night) you could have a weekend in Belgium and see Nova Twins when they play there in September (tickets 20 euros!).
I think it’s more the price of big venues than bands (though there’s a lot of bands playing at Villa Park that day - and they all need paying). So plenty of value if you stick to the smaller sweaty venues. Which I love !
Definitely agree that prices for smaller names at smaller gigs have increased significantly due to inflation etc. Big acts at big stadia? I think they’re doing it because they can and the market will support it - that’s capitalism folks!
Sabs gig - it’s a one off final show and all profits shared between Cure Parkinson’s, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Acorns Children’s Hospice. They are still ok in my book
With inflation and the greed of promoters and famous bands pushing up ticket prices, the big established bands and acts are becoming richer when they tour. At the other end of the music world, the new and many reasonably successful bands often make a loss on tours and get ripped off by the big streamers.
I’m going to see Guns’n’Roses at Wembley £126 seated
My condolences 
Them or you?
Probably them,
come on stage in wheel chairs 
Whilst tempting in a way, I seriously dislike huge venues, where all you see is a televised performance or have to watch through binoculars, with sound out of sync because of the distance. I have my (fortunate) memories of Sabbath gigs in the early 1970s, so will be content with that. But as for the thread question, they’ve gone stupid and I’m surprised anyone goes! To my mind the bigger the venue the cheaper tickets should be, but strangely not. If tickets were £20-30 I might consider going. More than that and it would have to be a smaller venue, certainly less than 9000 people like Wembley Empire Pool as was, but better still no bigger than 4-5000 seats like Royal Albert Hall, and even better 3000 like a large cinema/theatre. Perfect would be a sub 500 capacity club, when I might pay up to £100 for a band I really loved and had never seen, or possibly even £120 or so for something really exceptional in a very small venue…
I feel fortunate to have been a teenager in the late sixties, early seventies when I saw many concerts of legendary artists in small venues, including Black Sabbath, for very little money. For example I saw David Bowie at the Pavilion in Torquay in 1972 on the Ziggy Stardust tour for £1. The following year tickets for Bowie on the Aladdin Sane tour were £1.50.
£1.50 that would have taken me a month to earn that in 1973 on my paper round.
I would say you are barely going to see Sabbath at all; 3 or 4 tracks at most given the poor health of the Ozzy, Bill and Geezer. This was only hinted AFTER the sale of the tickets. Other bands will only get 3 tracks at best. I smell a cash grab here. Just think of it as one long tribute to BS rather than a band reunion.
