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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2022 17:21:09 GMT
Touts jailed for fraud over ticket reselling ordered to pay £6.2m I'm currently on the sofa with my Mrs and my dog, there's a fire in the hearth and we've got a nice meal lined up for tonight. There's lager in the fridge too.
Hope those pair of greedy bastards are gonna have a lovely evening. NOT.
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Post by stu77 on Jan 2, 2023 20:14:42 GMT
Sir Paul McCartney is still hitting the high notes – by earning the highest ticket fee per gig across the world, new figures reveal. The Beatles and Wings legend commands an average of £206.68 per head for his two-and-a-half hour shows in 2022. That’s 60 quid more than his nearest UK rivals Genesis and The Rolling Stones, fronted by Sir Mick Jagger, 79. Sir Elton John, 75, takes fourth place at £134.03 a ticket and snapping at their heels is youngster Harry Styles. The former One Direction singer, 28, is fifth on an average £124.44. But Macca’s fab earning power is so strong that Ed Sheeran - aged 31 and placed eighth with an average price of £68.76 – has to sell three times as many tickets to match the 80-year-old’s concert revenue. www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/beatles-legend-sir-paul-mccartney-28847859
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Post by stu77 on Jan 26, 2023 23:45:46 GMT
www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64372274Fans, politicians and even musicians have been complaining about the painful process of trying to buy tickets for concerts for years. From soaring prices to intractable online queues and the prevalence of touts, everyone has a horror story. Things came to a head last November, when the launch of Taylor Swift's Era's tour went so badly that Ticketmaster was hauled in front of the US Senate to answer questions about its business practices. So what can be done? We asked industry experts how they would change the system.
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Post by stu77 on Jan 27, 2023 18:39:59 GMT
Another arrogant greedy cockroach.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2023 19:06:04 GMT
^Really?
If saps are prepared to pay that then hell slap it into them.
Wonder what you get for the 'cheap seats'?🤔
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Post by stu77 on Feb 5, 2023 18:12:14 GMT
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Feb 5, 2023 18:18:19 GMT
Springsteen... "Hey, why shouldn’t that money go to the guys that are going to be up there sweating three hours a night for it?" Man of the people, eh?
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Post by stu77 on Feb 5, 2023 18:23:29 GMT
"I'll be dead soon you'll be dead soon fuck you"
Does he not understand that one major reason for anger and division in America is the perceived arrogance of the coastal "liberal elites".
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Post by stu77 on Feb 7, 2023 1:30:15 GMT
The first batch of tickets for the North American dates of Beyoncé's world tour went on sale on Monday, with huge demand as expected.
The star, who won a record-breaking 32nd Grammy Award on Sunday, has not held a solo tour since 2016.
It is seen as the first major test for Ticketmaster since the company's system was overwhelmed by demand for Taylor Swift tickets late last year.
Ticketmaster apologised to Swift and her fans last month.
The company tweeted an update ahead of the initial sales in which they said they had increased their defences since "scalpers will likely unleash a record level of bot attacks".
William Robertson, a cyber-security professor at Northeastern University, said touts have likely been "overwhelming Ticketmaster with network traffic".
He explained that defending against bots is an active area of security research, but there is no silver bullet yet. "It's probably unreasonable to expect that Ticketmaster can stop all bot attacks," he said.
The ticket giant has been live tweeting when new pre-sale access codes are sent out to eager fans.
Some expressed their joy at securing tickets, while others were waiting anxiously. One fan wrote: "I got my Beyoncé tickets... after being stressed for days waiting to get an email or message for the [access] code, I got the code 2 minutes into the sale & was able to secure a ticket!"
The company earlier said it had changed its process for the North American legs of Beyoncé's 43-date Renaissance tour following the Taylor Swift issues in November.
Fans were asked to register for Ticketmaster's Verified Fan process - which the company says will filter out touts - before the first pre-sale opened on Monday.
The deadline to register was Sunday, and those that managed to do so ahead of time were entered into a "lottery-style process" after demand outstripped the number of available tickets.
Some who registered were placed on a waiting list, the company said.
If there are remaining tickets after those on the waiting list have been offered a chance to buy, then they will go on general sale.
But the possibility of that seems increasingly rare - Ticketmaster noted that demand was 800% higher than supply, based off registration.
Beyoncé will kick-off her North American dates in Toronto on 8 July, playing regular shows until her final date in New Orleans on 27 September.
A UK general sale will begin on Tuesday. The star is set to play five UK stadium shows in Cardiff, Edinburgh, Sunderland and London.
Politicians in the US, who are already investigating Ticketmaster over the fumbled sale of Taylor Swift's Eras tour, will be closely watching how the systems cope with Beyoncé's concerts.
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing last month to investigate a "lack of competition" in the ticketing industry following the Taylor Swift problems.
The committee earlier tweeted "we're watching" at Ticketmaster in response to a post announcing the Beyoncé tour.
The company apologised during the congressional hearing. "We need to do better and we will," Joe Berchtold, president of Live Nation, Ticketmaster's parent company, said.
Ticketmaster, which merged with Live Nation in 2010, has repeatedly faced criticism from fans and politicians, who say it has too much control over the live music market and artificially inflates the cost of tickets with fees and service charges.
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Post by stu77 on Mar 16, 2023 13:51:12 GMT
When The Cure announced their 2023 US tour, they promised fans they'd worked hard to keep the ticket prices low. "We want the tour to be affordable for all fans, and we have a very wide (and we think very fair) range of pricing at every show," they said in a statement. But when fans went to Ticketmaster on Wednesday, they were charged additional fees that, in some cases, doubled the price the band had set. Frontman Robert Smith said he was "sickened" by the outcome. Addressing the added fees, he wrote: "To be very clear, the artist has no way to limit them". "I have been asking how they are justified. If I get anything coherent by way of an answer, I will let you know," he promised. As the tour went on sale, fans shared screenshots of Ticketmaster's pricing breakdown. www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64975160
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Mar 16, 2023 14:23:13 GMT
At least Smithy cares - be good if it changed things though not holding my breath
V rare I buy anything tickets through them as I prefer smaller scale live music
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Post by stu77 on Mar 16, 2023 14:53:10 GMT
£43 'facility fee'
How do they get away with this? I guess when big business owns all the politicians they can do as they like.
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Post by stu77 on Mar 16, 2023 23:48:41 GMT
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Post by stu77 on Mar 25, 2023 19:03:08 GMT
www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/24/neil-young-ticketmaster-saying-tours-no-longer-funNeil Young has lambasted Ticketmaster over its concert ticketing policies, saying “concert tours are no longer fun” due to what he sees as exploitative pricing. Young wrote on his website: It’s over. The old days are gone. I get letters blaming me for $3,000 tickets for a benefit I am doing. That money does not go to me or the benefit. Artists have to worry about ripped off fans blaming them for Ticketmaster add-ons and scalpers. Concert tours are no longer fun. Concert tours not what they were.
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Post by stu77 on Nov 1, 2023 22:56:28 GMT
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