Oasis reunion

[Kunt 4 Life]

Sometimes people get a little like train spotting/stamp collecting when it comes to seeing bands. It's maybe not so much wanting to see a band perform live but just to score them off a list for bragging rights.
To be fair, the only band left on my list if I ever had much of a bucket list would be Helloween but fuck it, I wouldn't pay more than you're standard limelight gig price. And that's if I can get a babysitter too.

[John Kimble]

Again, I'm on a pure nostalgia buzz here but it's mad to think that some of us (unfortunate enough to be that old!!) got to see the likes of,say, Fugazi for £7 back in the day. Crazy and, as I said, privileged too. Just cannot fathom what someone would get out of paying maybe €400 to see the likes of Oasis, a band that were bang average in their heyday, nevermind now when they are well past it. Horses for courses and all that.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

It'd be great if it were possible to trade bucket list concert experiences. There's at least a hundred bands I wish I'd seen more than Helloween!

On reflection though, this sounds like the plot of a Black Mirror episode and somehow I end up stuck inside Kai Hensen's mind forever

[John Kimble]

Wacken 2006 was like an all-encompassing bucket list for me in that I got to see Carnivore, Celtic Frost and Emperor. Not suggesting that I got to see any of those bands at their peak, even though I've yet to witness anything live that could even remotely touch that Celtic Frost performance.

[Sworntothecans]

The only thing that I give a shit about is that the Manics are rumored to be the support band.

Its Fontaines Dublin Cunts apparently.


 

[Kunt 4 Life]

Not Sweet Savage?

[Sworntothecans]

Not Sweet Savage?

😂😂😂😂
Superskin waiting by the phone for the call from mcd 😂

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I've yet to witness anything live that could even remotely touch that Celtic Frost performance.

Saw them only once myself, at Graspop in 2007 I think. A real all-enveloping experience from start to finish there too. One of quite a few that festival actually. €125 the three day ticket   

[astfgyl]

I'd pay the 200 for fnm no bother having seen them in the olympia. Best gig I was at

Yeah, just to be clear...I think €200 is ok for a 'bucket list' gig. Anything in the €300 plus territory is retarded, esp if it's for something like fucking Oasis.
It's madness when you think about it. I had a stage in my early twenties when I was obsessed, and I mean OBSESSED with Swans, and I never thought I'd ever get to see them live. Lo and behold they played Cork, Cyprus Avenue I think, and I paid an absolute pittance.

Saw swans myself in the academy for about 30 quid and it was absolutely unbelievable. So fuckin heavy without even being heavy in the traditional sense. Would go again in a heartbeat for 3 times the price

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Back on topic, kind of: saw this link posted as a Community Note on a tweet blaming ticketmaster for the dynamic pricing:
https://business.ticketmaster.com/press-release/official-statement/

Interesting that it says:

Ticketmaster does not determine pricing. Promoters and artist representatives set pricing strategy and price range parameters on all tickets, including fixed and market-based price points.

The promoter is most often Live Nation, right? And they're both part of Live Nation Entertainment. So is ticketmaster disclaiming responsibility more sleight of hand than concrete?

[Ducky]

Friendly reminder Noel is happy to rip others off. And he's a cunt about it too (that wee clip of him at the end).

[Carnage]

I'd pay the 200 for fnm no bother having seen them in the olympia. Best gig I was at

Yeah, just to be clear...I think €200 is ok for a 'bucket list' gig. Anything in the €300 plus territory is retarded, esp if it's for something like fucking Oasis.
It's madness when you think about it. I had a stage in my early twenties when I was obsessed, and I mean OBSESSED with Swans, and I never thought I'd ever get to see them live. Lo and behold they played Cork, Cyprus Avenue I think, and I paid an absolute pittance.

Saw swans myself in the academy for about 30 quid and it was absolutely unbelievable. So fuckin heavy without even being heavy in the traditional sense. Would go again in a heartbeat for 3 times the price

This. That Swans gig last year (this time last year I think?) was such a gamechanger that I'm done with gigs. It'll never be topped. In hindsight, I'd have paid €100 for it no bother, but anyway.

The thing about Tickemaster and dynamic pricing - we all give out about it but the fault doesn't lie with Ticketmaster at all. The bands sign off on the fluctuating prices, not the agents. A former Aiken/MCD promoter is a good friend/drinking buddy of mine and he's been telling me this for years. Don't blame the ticket seller, blame the band - they're 100% responsible for the ticket prices, not the agents.

[astfgyl]

I actually remember saying to myself I could nearly pack it in myself after that Swans gig. It changed me so it did

[TheRuts]

The thing about Tickemaster and dynamic pricing - we all give out about it but the fault doesn't lie with Ticketmaster at all. The bands sign off on the fluctuating prices, not the agents. A former Aiken/MCD promoter is a good friend/drinking buddy of mine and he's been telling me this for years. Don't blame the ticket seller, blame the band - they're 100% responsible for the ticket prices, not the agents.

This would back that up.

[TheRuts]

As for Oasis, it's not a big surprise there's such a demand for tickets:

- they get 27 million listeners a month on Spotify
- a look a recent footage of both Noel and Liam gigs show that teenagers and ones in their early 20's belt out the Oasis numbers like they're current chart hits
- the arguments and fights make them seem exciting to ones who grew up in an era of Coldplay
- 90's nostalgia is all the rage these days