Anyone thinking of going to watch stone roses in Manchester next June ?
I saw them few times in 89/90 do consider myself a fan - not sure being stuck in a stadium watching them will work for me - don't think Ian Brown has strong enough voice to carry it off plus I'd prefer to keep my positive Roses memories untarnished! |
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It crossed myind as like you I was lucky enough to see them first time around, but then I saw the ticket prices. £60 is a lot for a band you know will be amazing, but the Roses aren't great live |
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Went to the Heaton Park one last year, they were good but not brilliant in such a large space. Best think about it was I finally got to see Primal Scream.
Loads of idiots there just looking to cause trouble, and I imagine it'll be the same at the emptyhad stadium as well.
Saying that I did try to get tickets and failed, it's a ticket touts dream. Buy loads and sell them and 4 times the price. |
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"Went to the Heaton Park one last year, they were good but not brilliant in such a large space. Best think about it was I finally got to see Primal Scream.
Loads of idiots there just looking to cause trouble, and I imagine it'll be the same at the emptyhad stadium as well.
Saying that I did try to get tickets and failed, it's a ticket touts dream. Buy loads and sell them and 4 times the price."
I have contacted the Competition Authority to look into the UK ticketing market. There has to be collusion between all the agencies as within seconds of tickets going on sale there are thousands available for resale at vastly inflated prices. Fans are being royally ripped off. More fans should complain. |
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". There has to be collusion between all the agencies as within seconds of tickets going on sale there are thousands available for resale at vastly inflated prices. Fans are being royally ripped off. More fans should complain."
Just because it is advertised for sale at £200 doesnt mean someone will pay it...i see houses advertised for sale at ridiculous prices often ...they tend to go unsold |
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". There has to be collusion between all the agencies as within seconds of tickets going on sale there are thousands available for resale at vastly inflated prices. Fans are being royally ripped off. More fans should complain.
Just because it is advertised for sale at £200 doesnt mean someone will pay it...i see houses advertised for sale at ridiculous prices often ...they tend to go unsold"
The issues is thousands of tickets end up in the hands of agencies within seconds of them going on sale. The market I suspect is being illegally manipulated. Stubhub etc all control supply such that the ability of consumers to buy at face value is severely restricted. Stubhub also agree to see you tickets and while you are trying to pay sell those tickets elsewhere and then use emails to try and get you to buy exactly the same tickets from the resale market as massively inflated prices. There is a scam going on, everyone knows it and too few people are willing to complain to get it investigated. |
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but if no one bought them the market would collapse ....do you know that anyone actually does buy them ?
I could advertise my house for sale today for £500,000 and no one would buy it because it clearly isnt worth that ...i dont think the neighbours would contact a watchdog though |
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"but if no one bought them the market would collapse ....do you know that anyone actually does buy them ?
I could advertise my house for sale today for £500,000 and no one would buy it because it clearly isnt worth that ...i dont think the neighbours would contact a watchdog though "
Of course people buy them, it is supply and demand. The issue is the mis-marketing and market manipulation. Public is told that tickets go on sale at a certain time, but clearly a large percentage has already been pre- sold to agencies with the sole intention of selling those tickets at at mark up. There is a lack of clarity and clear intent to mislead. |
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"but if no one bought them the market would collapse ....do you know that anyone actually does buy them ?
I could advertise my house for sale today for £500,000 and no one would buy it because it clearly isnt worth that ...i dont think the neighbours would contact a watchdog though
Of course people buy them, it is supply and demand. The issue is the mis-marketing and market manipulation. Public is told that tickets go on sale at a certain time, but clearly a large percentage has already been pre- sold to agencies with the sole intention of selling those tickets at at mark up. There is a lack of clarity and clear intent to mislead."
to be honest I would not do individual gigs anymore. We prefer festivals. I can go to a small festival pay £100 for a 3 day ticket and watch live music fro kunctime till bedtime for 3 days. There will be bands that I have heard of and want to see and bands I have never heard of. We have discovered some amazing music by going to a festival. Why pay £60 and upwards for one night and 1 band when you can pay £100-£150 for 3 days and loads of bands. My sister paid £175 to see dolly parton for one night and in the next breath says that Glastonbury tickets at £200 are to expensive... I have tried to make her see sense.... |
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"but if no one bought them the market would collapse ....do you know that anyone actually does buy them ?
I could advertise my house for sale today for £500,000 and no one would buy it because it clearly isnt worth that ...i dont think the neighbours would contact a watchdog though
Of course people buy them, it is supply and demand. The issue is the mis-marketing and market manipulation. Public is told that tickets go on sale at a certain time, but clearly a large percentage has already been pre- sold to agencies with the sole intention of selling those tickets at at mark up. There is a lack of clarity and clear intent to mislead.to be honest I would not do individual gigs anymore. We prefer festivals. I can go to a small festival pay £100 for a 3 day ticket and watch live music fro kunctime till bedtime for 3 days. There will be bands that I have heard of and want to see and bands I have never heard of. We have discovered some amazing music by going to a festival. Why pay £60 and upwards for one night and 1 band when you can pay £100-£150 for 3 days and loads of bands. My sister paid £175 to see dolly parton for one night and in the next breath says that Glastonbury tickets at £200 are to expensive... I have tried to make her see sense...."
The Glastonbury process is better with pre-registering etc and seems less abused than other sales. The issue still remains trying to compete with collusion amongst agencies, technology that allows touts/agencies to buy huge numbers of tickets with the sole intention of selling them at a profit and generally misleading marketing and a flawed sales process. |
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Of course people buy them, it is supply and demand. The issue is the mis-marketing and market manipulation. Public is told that tickets go on sale at a certain time, but clearly a large percentage has already been pre- sold to agencies with the sole intention of selling those tickets at at mark up. There is a lack of clarity and clear intent to mislead.to be honest I would not do individual gigs anymore. We prefer festivals. I can go to a small festival pay £100 for a 3 day ticket and watch live music fro kunctime till bedtime for 3 days. There will be bands that I have heard of and want to see and bands I have never heard of. We have discovered some amazing music by going to a festival. Why pay £60 and upwards for one night and 1 band when you can pay £100-£150 for 3 days and loads of bands. My sister paid £175 to see dolly parton for one night and in the next breath says that Glastonbury tickets at £200 are to expensive... I have tried to make her see sense...."
I went to my first festival this year for one day I paid £98 (v festival) and got to see Mark ronson, Tom Jones, olly murs, Sam smith, reverend and the makers plus lots more all for that price, when I think of some of the other gigs I've been too paying £50 upwards for about three hours (if that) worth of entertainment, I do feel slightly ripped off now!! Much prefer a festival now as its better value, you see a variety of bands and singers plus you see bands that you wouldn't normally have heard or seen and that happened with reverend and the makers, I wouldn't have thought to listen to their stuff but actually they are kinda awesome! |
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I've got tickets for Saturday. My 16yo son is well into them, I don't get why there's such a massive schooly following??. Non of them could tell you where Spike Island is. So we're going together. I was at Spike Island @ 17. I've told him not to expect much as I agree, musically fantastic, live, shit, lol. For me it's about the occasion, it was then, it is now. Bob Dylan can't sing, but he's a legend and inspired many. They're were iconic at the time and it's like jumping in the DeLorean. I'm hoping for a good support acts too. Part of me thinks leave it, because it'll never be the same, but just gotta be there, even tho I could make on the tickets, it's just wrong that. |
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"Anyone thinking of going to watch stone roses in Manchester next June ?
I saw them few times in 89/90 do consider myself a fan - not sure being stuck in a stadium watching them will work for me - don't think Ian Brown has strong enough voice to carry it off plus I'd prefer to keep my positive Roses memories untarnished!"
Same for me Ian Brown is awful live and stadiums lack intimacy.Roses were great in their day though that has to be said.
There's a time when bands/artists should know when to call last drinks(Paul Weller and Morrissey who is a hero of mine) come to mind but nonetheless they've provided us with magical moments  |
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Would be a great opportunity for a Manchester club to put on "Madchester" swinging event for some post gig fun!
wish I could go. 