skyscraper101
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Indeed. I went to a gig just last week at the Strongroom Bar in Shoreditch for £9 to see ÄTNA - probably my best gig of the year too.
Did it all through the DICE app. No Ticketmaster involved.
The cost of gigs and festivals
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Indeed. I went to a gig just last week at the Strongroom Bar in Shoreditch for £9 to see ÄTNA - probably my best gig of the year too.
Did it all through the DICE app. No Ticketmaster involved.
My best so far was probably the goldborns at the Paddington railway club. Don't think they put many gigs on. Its tiny probably 50 people max. Pub prices and Paul Weller was in the audience.
hash tag
Books, not bombs
Would these be the same bands that are coining it in from endless merch, screwing the punter with VIP experiences, meet n greet stuff, not to mention selling their back catalogues for hundreds of millions.
skyscraper101
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Actually going to a gig on Wednesday, I think it's a small-ish venue , seeing The Long Ryders, supported by Morton Valance , all for £35 . It's at a place called 229, London. Bit of a vague addressapparently it's near Great Portland St.
It's opposite the tube station, where International Student House is. I haven't been there myself but I saw photos from the Frank & Walters gig the other day and it looked decent.
The Albany accross the road is a nice pub too - used to be a nice good gig venue too downstairs. I managed the gig nights there for a while. Pop fact.
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Really good from Robert Smith. It’s telling that so many other bands, despite often possessing performative liberal politics, don’t do the same at The Cure.
Smith is right that the fact that they don’t is a cop out and also that the stand his band has taken does pay dividends in terms of loyalty.
The Cure’s Robert Smith: ‘Ticket pricing is a scam. It’s driven by greed’
www.thetimes.com
Smith is right that the fact that they don’t is a cop out and also that the stand his band has taken does pay dividends in terms of loyalty.
The Cure’s Robert Smith: ‘Ticket pricing is a scam. It’s driven by greed’
The Cure’s Robert Smith: ‘Ticket pricing is a scam. It’s driven by greed’
The singer is back with the band’s first album in 16 years. In a rare interview, he holds forth on touring, grief and why he’s going to call it a day at 70
www.thetimes.com
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skyscraper101
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Robert Smith tells it how it is.
Riff
B@nned from eGofestivals
If anyone lives in or can easily get to Sheffield, they also have some decent small venues such as The Yellow Arch, The Leadmill and The Corporation.
Wow great to here the leadmill is still going
skyscraper101
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£378.50 for a ticket to Glastonbury 2025 
skyscraper101
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ska invita
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TBF Glastonbury is bigger and has more shit (acts
) in it than it used to - has the capacity gone up a lot?The biggest jump is pre and post covid 248 in 2019 to 373 in 2025
Scores of big festivals have closed becasue they cant afford it
I gather the majority of musicians aren't getting paid or not getting paid much, including fairly big names
I havent seen the budgets but I propose cut back on some of the OTT production costs, sack off all the big pop stars and see what happens to overheads and the vibe
skyscraper101
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TBF Glastonbury is bigger and has more shit (acts
The biggest jump is pre and post covid 248 in 2019 to 373 in 2025
Scores of big festivals have closed becasue they cant afford it
I gather the majority of musicians aren't getting paid or not getting paid much, including fairly big names
I havent seen the budgets but I would guess cut back on some of the OTT production costs, sack off all the big pop stars and see what happens to overheads and the vibe
Tbh I don’t really care what they do with it. Glastonbury’s over. The vibe died ages ago. Anything that once was alternative about it is now long gone. Smaller festivals with less people and less mega huge artists is more my vibe.
ska invita
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i cant comment on that but i think glastonbury is a different thing from the price gouging off ticketmaster.... i think its more costs and too big scale.... i heard they were enacting some cost cutting measures last year anyway....
but yeah its twice as expensive in real terms as it was in 2000, but as i say the production has more than doubled in scale i expect
mx wcfc
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I think the most I paid last season was £120. One festival was £30.
I have just paid a stupid amount for Bearded next year, and I'm not entirely sure why.
The little DIY stuff is far more my scene.
