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What I find bewildering is that people pay the price. As mentioned earlier by @BigRedX the time to see bands (particularly rock and roll, punk,metal etc) is in their prime when they are young and hungry and mean what they say. People paying £300 plus for tickets are likely to be middle aged accountants and other professionals. Nothing wrong with this but it’s hardly rock and roll.

If we were to stick with this model then ticket touts should be both legal and legitimate. They are merely middlemen in the supply and demand chain. They are not legal or legitimate but Ticketmaster are able to become their own touts. It’s a funny old world.

It’s certainly where you would expect to see a mirage … which is fairly apt

Enjoyed this. Bristol band too. Will keep an eye out for live shows.

If anyone pays this they should be sectioned.

Cheers will check them out. Pretty much all the music I listen to these days is located outside of the UK shores.

I agree with you about this. Technology has made life so much more convenient but there definitely seems to be a trade off with this. It might just be nostalgia but the process of ‘consuming’ culture does feel more isolated and less ‘human’ I used to enjoy discovering new music and seeing loads of bands I had never heard of and trawling music shops for some obscure vinyl. It was time consuming but very engaging and an incredibly social experience. To some extent the likes of Spotify, Ticketmaster and Instagram have eroded this. I may be over romanticising but I don’t think I would have swapped for today’s experience of unlimited digital content and instagramable experiences.

I’ve only ever been to one stadium gig. U2 at wembley. First and last. Brixton Academy is about the maximum size venue I can deal with. Ticket purchase was fine even though it was a pretty hyped gig. Early start and a largish queue at HMV but far more fun than staring at a mobile screen on and off for several hours only to be mugged off at the last minute. Who would think that there would be nostalgia for queues for paper tickets bought with paper?

Yeah tried all morning to get tickets for my son only to find standing tickets were £356 each. Personally I would not pay £3.56 but he was prepared to pay the supposed £135 (which is still exorbitant for a teenager) but not over £700 for 2 tickets. Oh for the days of dodgy ticket touts outside of venues. At least they weren’t corporate sponsored thieves.

Which is probably why he’s a happy, grounded individual who still gets a kick out of life. Living in a gilded cage surrounded by people blowing smoke up your rectum seems to be the fastest way to shuffle off this mortal coil, particularly in LA.

As long as it doesn’t turn out like Mike Tyson during his last few appearances then fine. Otherwise it’s just sad. Sometimes a legacy should just be left behind.

Personally I don’t understand why fans want to see bands that were really important and relevant in their time reforming and creating some pale middle aged interpretation of their youth. I can get it with blues, reggae, pink Floyd even (like a decent red wine they age well) but personally I don’t think music written by angry young guys translates well when rehashed by comfortably off middle aged guys to an audience of comfortably off middle aged guys, largely because of the payday. Plus Morrisey has always been a tw@t, he is now just a cantankerous, dissatisfied caricature of a tw@t (on stilts).

i like them, but i like alice in chains, the pixies, sonic youth and mudhoney contemporaries and predecessors, none of whom became household names (as in your average bloke on the street could hum their tunes and know the latest gossip about the lead singer etc). the route to becoming incredibly popular in music is a mystery to me.

Yep. Oasis like Nirvana are one of those bands I just don’t get. They were a reasonable indie band. The kind that I would have expected to enjoy a few years headlining at the Brixton Academy and getting towards headlining Reading. Global megastardom I just don’t get it. I don’t hate either Nirvana nor Oasis but just think they were not as good as a lot of their contemporaries and for whatever reasons the stars aligned and they went stratospheric.

I wasn’t putting them down but kind of hinting timing is important. The UK economy was on the rise, lad mags were everywhere, it was fairly hedonistic, there was a fair amount of swaggering machismo. If Oasis launched in 2023 I doubt if they would have gone stratospheric.

I would argue timing and good fortune are part of the recipe for success. Noel has penned some reasonably catchy tunes (first 2 records). Oasis were the right band in the right time in a similar vein to the Arctic Monkeys or Nirvana.

Is there a lot of hate or is there just a lot of apathy and indifference? People on BC genuinely seem to hate rap but for me NWA, Public enemy, Snoop, Tupac etc did something new and exciting. All the bands you mention are inoffensive and pretty decent at what they do but are just a bit vanilla and insipid. I’m not surprised guitar based music is in decline. It needs something radical and different to give it a boost.

My son is very excited. Me less so. I don’t hate Oasis. I just don’t understand the UKs Beatles fixation. Pulp were an interesting band. The rest of Britpop was a massive yawn.

TBH I wouldn’t buy one new. There are so many decent used bases available (even just on BC) that I doubt that I will buy a new bass ever again.

Well they are either lying and the whole thing is a big conspiracy, or they are telling the truth and import duties plus economies of scale make the instruments more expensive in the UK.

yeah i don’t think the recent trend of dev-ops helps either. in my experience developers and infrastructure staff have very different skill sets and personality traits. Getting two for the price of one is a long shot imo.

I guess it’s all a matter of perspective but if I was opening a market stall I would make sure I had all the necessary equipment including change, a card reader, weather protection, a suitable vehicle for carrying stock etc just pay a company a few quid to set up shopify properly would be my advice. probably cheaper than the initial outlay for a market stall.

I guess it depends whether they want to communicate with their customers effectively and not have their domain spoofed. There is no major change to tech required. Just adding a couple of DNS records. It would take about 15 minutes. I work in tech and am permanently mystified about how many UK companies have inefficient labour intensive workflows, archaic technology and staff that don’t take technology seriously but wonder why the far east is taking over as the industrial and economic powerhouse. This is excusable for mom and pop type stores but plenty of big name private businesses and public sector companies are shockingly inefficient. Perhaps not paying the CEOs millions and investing in training and getting some staff that are suitable might be a smart move?

They have a physical store but their online presence is surely the most important way of getting customers?