Ticket Prices

Been a while since I went to see someone I really like live in concert. So I was very interested to see that David Bowie has announced a world tour that will take place this November. I’ve seen him four times (Serious Moonlight 1983, Plastic Spider 1987, Sound+Vision 1990, Outside 1995) and whilst he can be… er… variable… his last few albums have been very good so I’d like to go and see him again.

The tickets went on sale this morning. The London date he’s playing is at Wembley Arena. Not one of my favourite venues. I was an hour late in remembering to look for tickets on the web so the first couple of sites I tried were sold out. I eventually found tickets still on sale at TicketMaster.

Then it started to turn nasty. The tickets were £36 or £46. Now I realise that it’s a while since I bought tickets like this but that seemed excessive to me. I can remember seeing people at Wembley for £15. Nevertheless I gritted my teeth and decided to buy 4 tickets at £46 each.

That’s when they started taking the piss. On top of the £184 for the tickets they wanted to charge a £17 booking fee and then a £2 “handling charge”.

I decided that it was all too expensive. Mr Bowie will have to perform without me in the audience this time round.

I’m sure that one of the shows will be broadcast on VH1 anyway.