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This is a very interesting article - well done for posting.
This kind of stuff is in the pipeline when your government start selling off utility and transport companies - effectively abdicating responsibility to 'market forces' aka Dick Turpin and co. The best advice I've seen on this thread is to vote with your feet, or;
Buy the dvd of the show and have it delivered to a mate - preferably in London or somewhere more than 100 miles away. Make the 3 hour journey. Ring his doorbell - he'll answer but ask you to wait an hour. Then when you're let in queue outside his kitchen (he's asked a few neighbours around just to make a queue) for 15 minutes to pay his missus around £14 for a warm beer in a plastic tumbler and the greasiest burger you ever saw. Go for a pre-gig tinkle (queue of course) in a toilet that your mate, his missus and two children have prepared for you by weeing on the floor for a week. Find a good spot in his lounge (standing) 20 mins before gig time. Your mate will load the dvd at 7.30 - but the tv ain't goin' on 'til 8! Your good spot is now a bad spot - Mr Doeverythingatthelastminute, who's 5" taller than you has just barged in front of you. And now you need the toilet again. You guys know the rest...
I've attached an old ticket stub to remind everyone that there was value for money once.