At some point over the past few years, the price of concert tickets in this city jumped. I used to attend plenty of big shows, and it wasn't that long ago that $50 was a pretty expensive ticket. That's changed, especially with festival shows.
Virgin Festival 2008 tickets go on sale tomorrow. The lineup is great, with the Foo Fighters, Oasis, Bloc Party, Paul Weller and others, but the price put me in sticker shock. They want $159 for a two-day ticket.
This may come as a surprise to many of you, but I don't have that kind of cabbage in my concert going slush fund. I'm still hearing about the $80 Edgefest 2008 is setting me back and the $118 I'm spending on slo-pitch. Coughing up 200 bones for the Foo and friends isn't an option at this point in my life, and by the time I can afford it, a two day concert on the island will likely be the last thing I'm up for.
If Sir Richard Branson is reading this, I'd love to cover this event free of charge. You just have to send me a couple of tix for the September 6 & 7 weekend. Drop me a line and I'll give you the address where you can send the Virgin Festival 2008 tickets.
I bought tickets to see Rush at the ampitheatre in July. 2 tickets for my wife and I was $180. I have a ticket stub from 1977 for Rush at MSG $7 in the reds. I think the greens were even less. That's just how it is now. Sometime in the mid ninties prices seeemed to jump dramatically. Ticketmaster is part of the problem.