Comment by marysol5
6 days ago
OASIS did that one when they announced their return tour. "We have no control over the ticket prices"
Yeah you do, there's no show without you...
6 days ago
OASIS did that one when they announced their return tour. "We have no control over the ticket prices"
Yeah you do, there's no show without you...
What incentive would Oasis have to help bring down the prices for their own shows anyway?
Having seen shows with super-premium prices at the front, with half the place being non-reactive to the show because people paying extra are not actually huge fans but huge wallets, yeah you need to put down prices and get those front tickets to fans if you want to have nice shows
> Having seen shows with super-premium prices at the front, with half the place being non-reactive to the show because people paying extra are not actually huge fans but huge wallets, yeah you need to put down prices and get those front tickets to fans if you want to have nice shows
Probably depends on the band. An older "legacy" band like Oasis may not (my speculation) be affected by that, because it will have a lot of wealthy, older fans that both like the band and can pay super-premium prices.
What you talk about probably applies more to newer, hotter bands where the enthusiasm is with younger and/or poorer people.
You're basically describing my idea of hell.
Idk about Oasis specifically, but there have been multiple examples of other bands fighting to keep the concert tickets affordable for their fans. Nirvana did that for example.
And even if you explicitly want to charge as much as possible from your fans, why claim that you have no influence over the price?
> but there have been multiple examples of other bands fighting to keep the concert tickets affordable for their fans. Nirvana did that for example.
Tickets price landscape radically changed in the last 30 years. They incremented between 3x to 5x (or even more) in that lapse of time, depending on the artist and venue, and accrued inflation doesn't explain it (quick search says that in the last 30 years in the Eurozone inflation grew ~85% and in the US ~110%)
Here is an interview with MTV where Nirvana are doing the maths of how much money they earn from ticket sales to their shows: https://youtube.com/shorts/anI0NT-_DRQ?si=abX0sy_C-XzxCIjG
I remember Oasis. They're the ones who literally pissed on the audience here back in the 90s.
The idea that they care if their fans live or die really comes down to whether they could get sponsors on board or not.
Can't find any evidence of this urination incident, got a link?
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They don’t have control over the margins. They could set the MSRP as low as they want - the customer will still pay the same amount.
Presumably the don't want only old rich people and empty seats. Otherwise you could self-scalp all the tickets at the highest price possible, maximisung revenue for a single gig but making it so unfun/bad press that you come off worse.
I think a majority of old rich people is pretty much unavoidable at a return tour.
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Which is complete nonsense anyway. Robert Smith from The Cure famously went against TicketMaster before their last world tour several years ago, pointing out the ridiculous prices and demanding that they be lowered to make their shows more accessible. He managed to get TicketMaster to budge and even got them to refund some of the marked up resale prices, costing them millions but generating a lot of goodwill among fans in the process. It's not that artists do not have control, but they do need to put in a good amount of effort to make change happen.
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