Dusty MORers The Eagles will play a one-off private show in London and have set ticket prices at the lamentably high price of £950.
The band hope to attract 2,300 mugs - all of whom work in the music industry - to their performance at the 02 Arena's Indigo2 venue on October 31st.
Described as a "once in a lifetime gig" - presumably because the band members hate each other so much it'll never happen again - a sell-out crowd would pump £2,185,000 into the band's wheezing coffers.
It's invite only, so if your money isn't good enough you won't be going. Sorry.
bf
I can't imagine that too many people in the 'industry' would go to this even if it was free, unless there was no other schmoozefest on that night.
Can't see them selling all those tickets, really
I invite you
to pay £950 to see The Feeling of yesteryear
greedy old men
never again will i listen to my 'best of..' with the same enthuasism again...
damn you dad rock veterans!
LOL
Seriously though, this is actually the funniest news story in, oh, I dunno, at least the last few days.
It's not the Eagles' "greed" that annoys me...
...it's the fact that there are (or might be) 2,300 people working in the "music industry" who can think about shelling out almost a grand to go to a gig. Presumably amongst their ranks there'll be a fair few who regularly bleat about "illegal downloads killing music"...
but they WONT shell out
it'll go on expenses if they can get away with it.
i'm delighted not to be listed as an industry scum Kev :-)
Fair to assume
there won't be a DiS gig review?
Suggested reply for the DiS invite:
"Dear Eagles,
Before DiS commits ... who's the opening band?"
wouldn't be out of the
question for a dis review. o2 arena pretty big and it requires staff to work there. if you signed up with the right agency you could probably get a shift there. if i was in london i could get a shift there and review the gig, but i aint...i'm fuckin miles away. so rather than shell out £950 you could actually get paid to be there. but i don't like the eagles, though that langley schools music project cover of desperado is good
except
its not in the arena- it's in the Indigo club
opening bands
will hopefully all be bird based
an albatross, pelican, birds of prey, the chicks, hawkwind, the byrds, erm, pterodactyl, party of helicopters....oops
oh swans obv
and doves
I hoped this was going to be about
the Eagles of Death Metal
I'd pay £950 for that.
Well... maybe...
hopefully it's
Applicants.
I'd go...
... if they (the members of The Eagles) would play "Take it easy" while getting me up on the stage and cover me in a golden shower. I want a golden shower literally though, I'm not into old men's piss! Yuck!
man, I hate the fucking Eagles
.
GET OUT OF MY TAXI!
dude
haven't you got any Credence?
Lousy bastards
I'm torn between pitying and deriding anyone who'd pay that
£2,185,000
would get you a lot of coke these days...
It wouldn't get you that much coke at the o2
I paid a fiver for a hotdog.
And it would be the "floured down"
official O2 endorsed variety of coke and not the stuff you normally like to get elsewhere.
£950 = bargain ! if only i was record industry scum...
Apparently it's £950 plus VAT...
so the actual price (unless you're claiming the tax back somehow) will be £1116.25.
Of course anyone who's not a tight arse would just give them £1200 and tell them to keep the change.
Actually, whingers, you could get in cheaper because there are also tickets priced far more reasonably at £575 and £475 plus VAT.
However, who'd want to look like a povvo and be seen dead outside of the 'golden circle' where your ticket gets you “full hospitality” — including free drinks and meals and commemorative merchandise — as part of the event?
if the tickets are 950
then how much are ticketbastards going to be putting as the "handling fee" and the "delivery charge" and the "admin fee"? The GNP of a small carribean island I bet...
tracklisting?
(I'm so fucking rich I live in the hilton) hotel california
take (your credit card) to the limit
life in the fast lane (to the bar of the empty venue)
take it easy (in corporate hospitailty)
desperado (to get tickets you sold your wife to huntingdon life sciences)
etc.
Hurray
I can finally specify why I hate the Eagles!