HW : Re: Glasgow ticket prices

[gingoblin at EASYNET.CO.UK]

Maybe to you my friend!  To me it's pretty expensive... approaching double
what it usually costs me to see bands in that kinda place.
Don't get me wrong... I've spent hundreds of pounds on travelling to see
'em in the past, and will do again, and fully recognise they deserve to get
paid a good amount. My problem is that the promoter has pegged the price
higher than every other gig on the tour, and at a price that's gonna put
off the more casual fan, and most definitely the
take-a-chance-and-see-what-they're-like type person.
All my friends - who are what I'd call the more casual sorta fan... ie.
they like 'em okay, but aren't gonna make any special effort to see 'em,
don't buy many of the records etc - NONE of them are going now.   Maybe the
gig'll sell out anyway and this will be nothing more than me moaning 'cos
I'm a stingy git!!  ;-)

Dave






At 04:15 10/03/2004 +1030, you wrote:
>20 to see Hawkwind?  Thats a bargain!
>
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>From: <gingoblin at EASYNET.CO.UK>
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>Subject: HW : Glasgow ticket prices
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> > Bloody hell, over £20 (inc booking fee) for the gig at the Glasgow
> > Cathouse!!   I reckon the promoter might've shot himself/herself in the
> > foot with this one... pretty much everyone I know isn't gonna pay that
>much
> > (not being fanatics like myself!). It's sickening... probably woulda been
> > about 10 folk going through from Edinburgh with me if it'd been cheaper...
> > as it stands, it'll be two (and I have to pay for both... argh!!).   This
> > sorta price hardly encourages people to take a chance and check out the
> > Hawks. It's the priciest out of all the dates it seems... and being a
> > miserly, tight-fisted Scotsman I have to complain!  Yeah, I'm still gonna
> > go, but greedy promoters make me sick!
> > Anyone know how much the Aberdeen ones are?
> > I'm off to break open the piggy-bank... probably full of shillings and
> > half-crowns... it's been a while!
> >
> > Dave
> >