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What incentive would Oasis have to help bring down the prices for their own shows anyway?

by jorisw 4mo ago

Y_Y 4mo ago
Presumably the don't want only old rich people and empty seats. Otherwise you could self-scalp all the tickets at the highest price possible, maximisung revenue for a single gig but making it so unfun/bad press that you come off worse.
- KeplerBoy 4mo ago
  I think a majority of old rich people is pretty much unavoidable at a return tour.
  - fortran77 4mo ago
    Why does Hacker News hate us old people so much? Of course, I usually only see old acts (the B52s / Devo show was great!) and most of the audiences for those are 60+ years old, like me. Next week, I'm seeing Steve Forbert!
QuantumNomad_ 4mo ago
Idk about Oasis specifically, but there have been multiple examples of other bands fighting to keep the concert tickets affordable for their fans. Nirvana did that for example. And even if you explicitly want to charge as much as possible from your fans, why claim that you have no influence over the price?
- darkwater 4mo ago
  > but there have been multiple examples of other bands fighting to keep the concert tickets affordable for their fans. Nirvana did that for example. Tickets price landscape radically changed in the last 30 years. They incremented between 3x to 5x (or even more) in that lapse of time, depending on the artist and venue, and accrued inflation doesn't explain it (quick search says that in the last 30 years in the Eurozone inflation grew ~85% and in the US ~110%)
- ojdon 4mo ago
  Here is an interview with MTV where Nirvana are doing the maths of how much money they earn from ticket sales to their shows: https://youtube.com/shorts/anI0NT-_DRQ?si=abX0sy_C-XzxCIjG https://youtube.com/shorts/anI0NT-_DRQ?si=abX0sy_C-XzxCIjG
gregoriol 4mo ago
Having seen shows with super-premium prices at the front, with half the place being non-reactive to the show because people paying extra are not actually huge fans but huge wallets, yeah you need to put down prices and get those front tickets to fans if you want to have nice shows
- peteforde 4mo ago
  You're basically describing my idea of hell.
- palmotea 4mo ago
  > Having seen shows with super-premium prices at the front, with half the place being non-reactive to the show because people paying extra are not actually huge fans but huge wallets, yeah you need to put down prices and get those front tickets to fans if you want to have nice shows Probably depends on the band. An older "legacy" band like Oasis may not (my speculation) be affected by that, because it will have a lot of wealthy, older fans that both like the band and can pay super-premium prices. What you talk about probably applies more to newer, hotter bands where the enthusiasm is with younger and/or poorer people.
peteforde 4mo ago
I remember Oasis. They're the ones who literally pissed on the audience here back in the 90s. The idea that they care if their fans live or die really comes down to whether they could get sponsors on board or not.
- trumpdong 4mo ago
  Can't find any evidence of this urination incident, got a link?
  - jorisw 4mo ago
    I think the word 'literally' has gone the way of the emdash
    - iso1631 4mo ago
      literally has had two meanings for decades, maybe centuries 1) Literally Literally 2) Figuratively It's semantic bleaching
      - goodmythical 4mo ago
        Not sure why you're downvoted. People have literally been using literally both ways for at at least 25 years by my own observational record. You know, "I could literally eat a horse." in which it is clearly understood that the speaker is not claiming that they could physically fit a horse inside their stomache.
        ndriscoll 4mo ago
        Except in this case e.g. Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon actually did literally piss on the audience, so using the word literally to mean "not literally" is confusing because it's not obviously some exaggeration (and considering the timelines, the original comment may have been referring to a literal event but confusing who did it).
        4mo ago
cush 4mo ago
They don’t have control over the margins. They could set the MSRP as low as they want - the customer will still pay the same amount.

What incentive would Oasis have to help bring down the prices for their own shows anyway?

by jorisw 4mo ago

What incentive would Oasis have to help bring down the prices for their own shows anyway?

Y_Y 4mo ago

Presumably the don't want only old rich people and empty seats. Otherwise you could self-scalp all the tickets at the highest price possible, maximisung revenue for a single gig but making it so unfun/bad press that you come off worse.

KeplerBoy 4mo ago
I think a majority of old rich people is pretty much unavoidable at a return tour.
- fortran77 4mo ago
  Why does Hacker News hate us old people so much? Of course, I usually only see old acts (the B52s / Devo show was great!) and most of the audiences for those are 60+ years old, like me. Next week, I'm seeing Steve Forbert!

QuantumNomad_ 4mo ago

Idk about Oasis specifically, but there have been multiple examples of other bands fighting to keep the concert tickets affordable for their fans. Nirvana did that for example. And even if you explicitly want to charge as much as possible from your fans, why claim that you have no influence over the price?

darkwater 4mo ago
> but there have been multiple examples of other bands fighting to keep the concert tickets affordable for their fans. Nirvana did that for example. Tickets price landscape radically changed in the last 30 years. They incremented between 3x to 5x (or even more) in that lapse of time, depending on the artist and venue, and accrued inflation doesn't explain it (quick search says that in the last 30 years in the Eurozone inflation grew ~85% and in the US ~110%)
ojdon 4mo ago
Here is an interview with MTV where Nirvana are doing the maths of how much money they earn from ticket sales to their shows: https://youtube.com/shorts/anI0NT-_DRQ?si=abX0sy_C-XzxCIjG https://youtube.com/shorts/anI0NT-_DRQ?si=abX0sy_C-XzxCIjG

gregoriol 4mo ago

Having seen shows with super-premium prices at the front, with half the place being non-reactive to the show because people paying extra are not actually huge fans but huge wallets, yeah you need to put down prices and get those front tickets to fans if you want to have nice shows

peteforde 4mo ago
You're basically describing my idea of hell.
palmotea 4mo ago
> Having seen shows with super-premium prices at the front, with half the place being non-reactive to the show because people paying extra are not actually huge fans but huge wallets, yeah you need to put down prices and get those front tickets to fans if you want to have nice shows Probably depends on the band. An older "legacy" band like Oasis may not (my speculation) be affected by that, because it will have a lot of wealthy, older fans that both like the band and can pay super-premium prices. What you talk about probably applies more to newer, hotter bands where the enthusiasm is with younger and/or poorer people.

peteforde 4mo ago

I remember Oasis. They're the ones who literally pissed on the audience here back in the 90s. The idea that they care if their fans live or die really comes down to whether they could get sponsors on board or not.

trumpdong 4mo ago
Can't find any evidence of this urination incident, got a link?
- jorisw 4mo ago
  I think the word 'literally' has gone the way of the emdash
  - iso1631 4mo ago
    literally has had two meanings for decades, maybe centuries 1) Literally Literally 2) Figuratively It's semantic bleaching
    - goodmythical 4mo ago
      Not sure why you're downvoted. People have literally been using literally both ways for at at least 25 years by my own observational record. You know, "I could literally eat a horse." in which it is clearly understood that the speaker is not claiming that they could physically fit a horse inside their stomache.
      - ndriscoll 4mo ago
        Except in this case e.g. Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon actually did literally piss on the audience, so using the word literally to mean "not literally" is confusing because it's not obviously some exaggeration (and considering the timelines, the original comment may have been referring to a literal event but confusing who did it).
      - 4mo ago

cush 4mo ago

They don’t have control over the margins. They could set the MSRP as low as they want - the customer will still pay the same amount.