Yes it seems to be charge as much as they can get away with. Though with the big stars who they sign guaranteed income deals they need to have a high price to recover some of the promised income. I think that they offered Madonna a $100 million over some number of years. That will be tough to recover if they charge only £18 a ticket.

go see indy/less famous people? I went to gigs in bristol for 20£ featuring 3 good acts. For one I much prefer to see a new band giving their best on stage that a band of OAPs

I bet the hip replacement brigade will outlast the hipsters in every way though

Maybe that is why the tickets are so expensive, it is in direct proportion to the bands medical expenses.

Classical music FTW. Almost every concert, you can get tickets at around 10 quid, going up to about 50 quid in London and 35 elsewhere. But then, I suppose you go for the piece rather than the performer, most of the time.

And you still get people claiming those prices are expensive