Oasis reunion

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

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.

I wouldn't be surprised if Live Nation automatically opt musicians in for dynamic pricing. In that case, sure they can still opt out, but suggesting Live Nation Entertainment (because speaking about "ticketmaster" is already a bit smoke and mirrors at this point) have no fault is a stretch: they introduced the entire idea, so we can be fairly sure they profit off it to an extent that it is better for them to have as many artists as possible use it. In short, we can lay blame at artists' feet without taking it off LNE.

[open face surgery]

Live Nation owns Ticketmaster.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Aye, that's what I mean: saying "ticketmaster this and that" obscures the fact that Live Nation and ticketmaster are two parts of the same parent company: Live Nation Entertainment.

[mickO)))]

Some places reporting that two more dates will be announced and others saying it could be three. Doesn't Croke Park have a limit of 5 gigs per year because of how it impacts the residents? It will be a shame if all 5 dates go to this shite.

An MEP is calling for an investigation into Ticketmaster. Some chance of that amounting to anything.

[Pain Medicine]

Originally I thought it was 3 per year after  the Garth Brooks fiasco, but AC/DC, Bruce and 4 Coldplay is 6 this year so not sure what the deal is anymore.

[StoutAndAle]

Anyone who pays €400 for a ticket to see Oasis has a want in them.

[open face surgery]

I think someone said it's a new management company in Croke Park or something like that and they don't care.

[Eoin McLove]

Anyone who pays €400 for a ticket to see Oasis has a want in them.

A want for a toe up the hole.

[astfgyl]

Crazy money for that indeed. Most people going won't even be familiar with 3/4 of the discography. Mass hypnosis again

[Bürggermeister]

It's an event. It's not a gig. It's like lads buying tickets to fucking table tennis at the Olympics. It'll attract people who never attend these things because they want to say they had the experience and they'd never consider watching if it was happening in their back garden. It's a temple for event junkies to worship at, take their selifies and live their best lives at, nothing more. Fuck it, no harm done. It's not going to affect anyone playing at the Academy or Fibbers.

[The Butcher]

Some Might Pay
Fees Get Rich Quick
PlunderAll

*gets coat*

[Eoin McLove]

It's an event. It's not a gig. It's like lads buying tickets to fucking table tennis at the Olympics. It'll attract people who never attend these things because they want to say they had the experience and they'd never consider watching if it was happening in their back garden. It's a temple for event junkies to worship at, take their selifies and live their best lives at, nothing more. Fuck it, no harm done. It's not going to affect anyone playing at the Academy or Fibbers.

I was saying to a colleague that I see it as the equivalent of the cunts going out buying all the bogroll at the start of covid. They need to feel like they are a part of something. Fucking ANYTHING!!! The same muppets who queued for hours to get drive through McDonald's because it was going to close for two weeks. High on need, low on imagination.

[Don Gately]

I suppose we are lucky, we're in a metal community,  we belong to something however obscure that may be. It has served me well for the past 36 years anyway.

[Kunt 4 Life]

Did anyone get a ticket at face value or did they all jump up three fold?

The amount of money made by just one of these gigs is crazy.

[Trev]

Looks like the UK will be investigating Ticketmaster over this, and calls for the Irish government to do the same

Which will be something good to come out of this, if anything actually happens. But hotels and airlines have been doing the same thing for years and no one ever gave a shite