Worth noting that in the UK at least, Live Nation have an effective monopoly on: - ticket sale - ticket secondary markets - they own most of the venues - they

Worth noting that in the UK at least, Live Nation have an effective monopoly on: - ticket sale - ticket secondary markets - they own most of the venues - they run the security (showsec) - they run the tour buses and logistics And so on. So when they raise ticket prices and claim costs are going up, it is their own costs. They're criminals. No more. No less.