isn't this about £15 more than last time she played london? dont know if i can stretch to that even if corsano is playing
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£40 fo Bjork?
NEXT.....
Seriously she is not WORTH £40
yes she is
it's just expensive
Have you seen her live Matt?
No, but Bjork at £40 just doesn't appeal to me at all
I'm not her hugest fan though, so die hards might be whilling to pay to brute force of the fee.
I saw her in Atlanta not long ago
they show is brilliant, it is worth it honestly.
she really is worth that
^that
and getting to london too costs more money. sigh.
if i'm still living in chichester
then, which i hope i'm not, it would cost me £70-£80 for ticket + travel.
i know how amazing she is live from dvds, but i refuse to pay that.
although i did pay £65 for tom waits. but thats different.
yeah
it pisses me off that everyones trying to ake loads of money of live gigs nowadays. play more, charge less! also, i bought all of bjorks albums, no downloading, can i get some kind of discount?
its just weird
that its suddenly gone up so much from when she last did gigs.
maybe the sales of volta havent been very good. not that thats an excuse.
anyway one day she'll curate or play ATP and i'll go to that.
possibly
but live music is all about making money now and not promoting records/having a nice time.
"it pisses me off that everyones trying to ake loads of money of live gigs nowadays"
Find a way to force people to pay for all of the music they listen to then and we'll have this discussion again.
fair enough
its just i pay for all my music. and playing 7 gigs isnt exactly a massive tour is it?
and there is this massive increase in people going to see live music which has meant promoters have been able to push up their prices...
you're having a discussion?
I already do that, Colin
This is a rare case, though, of the majority spoiling it for the majority.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
*HONK HONK*
is that the sound of the Megabus I hear?
where can get
tickets from? cant see um anywer
her show might be brilliant
and worth the money.
BUT it's at Hammersmith Apollo. Not a great venue.
Booo...
No surprise tickets are getting more expensive
The promoters see tickets that they put out for 30 odd quid sold on for 2, 3 or 4 times the amount they're worth. Therefore they go, "We'll have a bit of that thank you very much" and hike the price for everyone.
No one to blame but the touts and mugs who buy from them.
that's harsh
you can't put touts and people who buy from touts on the same level!
personally, if i care about a gig that much then i'll be on seetickets at 9am but i could easily lose my internet connection/get stuck in traffic on the way to work/whatever and if i was desperate enough then i'd certainly consider buying off ebay.
It's not the fault of the punters; yeah, if everyone made a stand then touts would lose money and in theory the whole thing would stop. But how many gigs do you have to miss in the meantime?
"you can't put touts and people who buy from touts on the same level!"
yes, you can.
touts exist because people are stupid enough to buy from them. simple as.
why is it stupid?
you want to go to a gig but it's sold out, your only fault being that you didn't get to the tickets first (MBV for example), what else can you do?
I personally don't pay touts out of principle but to brand people who do 'mugs', 'stupid' and even as bad as touts, is really over-simplifying the situation.
yes and so you pay over the odds
and promoters think 'we must be selling these tickets too cheaply'
i think they are just as bad
their "HAVE HAVE TO GO OMG HAVE TO GO" attitude is what makes touting possible. missing a gig you want to go to sucks, but it's hardly the end of the world. plus, most people who do it moan about touts, yet don't seem to realise that their actions have consequences. buh?
just as bad??!
You only have to look at their motives to see how wrong that statement is. Touts are out to exploit and make money for doing nothing, punters simply want tickets to sold out gigs.
You're not realistically going to stop everyone buying from touts, so missing gigs to make a stand is ultimately pointless.
I take your point, but surely it's up to the promoters to make it harder for touts, not people who just want to go to gigs?
I don't use touts but I don't
blame people who do. They shouldn't be allowed to exist in the first place. Much more could be done to prohibit touting.
Also it always seems more than a bit odd to me that touts seem to manage to get hold of large amounts of tickets for gigs which are impossible for anyone else to get tickets to. Surely whatever methods go on could be clamped down on?
They're on two different levels
but both partly responsible. The promoters are just raising the prices because they know people will now happily (or unhappily) pay more than they used to. Supply and demand, fuelled by a healthy black market.
some promoters
actually tout their own gigs!
awful but true
Fucking hell
Does she get her baps out or something?
Because I'd so be there if she did
I'd pay
£100 to see Bjork.
scouts
please don't PM me, thanks
well give me 50 of that
to get my ticket, we'll go together!
everyones happy!
to Mr promoter
Please give me your address. Santa has a big bag of F**k off to go with your coal this year.
What is going on with the jerks? I can see Carter USM, EMF and MBV for that.
Carter was about £35
wasn't it?
Pfft
Worth it.
I'd spend £40 on a night out, and this is better than any night out. Ever.
someone I know
promoted a Beastie Boys gig/festival
the band got $100,000 and they made a loss
my friend sold 12,000 tickets and made a loss
the company who ran the fast-food kiosks made a fortune
the security firm also made a healthy buck
gigs and tours cost a lot of money at that level y'know
but yeah, touts do nothing to keep down the prices
and the poor value of the dollar carries some responsibility for price hikes too
10-piece all-female brass section
this is hardly showing up and plugging a few guitars in is it? That alone would cost a lot - and will probably be spectacular.
I can't wait, and won't begrudge the 40 quid. That is, if I'm lucky enough to get tickets.
Why?
Why does a weak dollar cause price hikes? I'd have thought American artists who want paying in dollars would be cheaper, and European artists would be unaffected?
cheaper - hence them demanding more pounds / euros
bjork lives in britain
indeed she does
but her live show will involve musicians, artists, equipment, companies and other agencies from all over the globe I'd imagine
bottom line is that an artist like Bjork is not going to scrimp on ANY aspect of a headline tour so £40 may be a lot of money to some people but it isn't quite the con trick some people are making it out to be
^this
This isn't 65 days of static or some rubbish, this is BJORK!
she doesn't
.
Where does she live, then?
I love posters who just contradict other people without offering any kind of explanation.
i thought she lived in New York.
london
are you sure?
I thought her and Matthew Barney lived in NYC.
she has a home in
Reykjavik and a home in London.
you can see her getting interviewed in her london garden in the making of documentary on the Medulla DVD.
I know she used to live in London
but I thought she moved to NY, perhaps after Medulla.
http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/bjork%20nervous%20about%20skyscraper%20life%20in%20new%20york_1039963
that's what i thought too
and anyway her investment funds my might be in dollars
she lives in NY
and she eventually comes here to work and if you read the interviews she did for Volta she says she travelled on a boat for a year while writing the album and she travelled to record it with all the different people she wanted to work.
i think she lives where she wants, this is the good thing of having a house in different places.
lucky cow
(Thanks for the explanation, btw.)
I don't think any artist is worth paying £40 to see.
But then I'll fritter away cash unnecessarily on stupid things, so I am full of double standards.
i think most people are like this
its just looking at 40 quid in the cold harshness of all in one go makes you stop and think a bit more than buying 200 bars of chocolate a week.
£4000 bean bags?
But I have that FOREVER!
It was a bargain.
well Bjork's production is expensive
if MBV tickets are £25 and they won't have anything apart from some lights and probably a screen behind them. Bjork tours with something like 100 (not sure about the number), i mean there's lot of people working on stage and they need to get paid!
presale tomorrow
will this be on the bjork website or the hammersmith website?
umm
is there a pre-sale link yet for tomorrow? I see Ticketmaster have a link for the Wolves gig thus far...
I blame
Maralyn Manson.
In all fairness though, many people I know spend £40 when they go out for an evening on alcohol/drugs (They're not rich, just prioritise poorly) At least this is a more productive alternative.
more or less what I said above
sadly seeing as Ticketmaster are doing the pre-sale you can expect at least a fiver on top of that too. On the credit card it goes....
...
I know for a fact that last time Bjork toured the show was loosing about £5,000 each night.
Bjork spends shit loads on musicians, effects and crew, hence why costs are so high. even at £40 she's still likely to be making fuck all - if not loosing money - on the tour.
she was the best thing by a country mile at Glastonbury this year.
^correct!
re: Glastonbury
i agree
she's definetely the best 'odd' pop artist alive, she's not only a musician.
Don't worry about missing Corsano Mr Summers
You'd never know he was there. I can't afford it either but in any case I can't see it topping the Matmos/Zeena Parkins lineup from when she toured Vespertine. I'm sure wasn't far off £40 either. In any case it was an amazing gig (the Hammersmith one).
i went
to see her a few years back before medulla came out and it cost £40. worth it if you got the cash though