Can’t believe how cheap things used to be.

For comparison, the last picture is what I paid in 2019 for one ticket to My Chemical Romance and I’m paying 216 euro to go to Taylor Swift this year.

I just looked up tickets for Eddie Izzards last tour here and they *started* at 49.50 and that would have been the really cheap seats

by thisshortenough

22 comments

  1. Mad alright. I remember going to see Dana in the mid 70’s and the tickets were so cheap.

  2. I’ve a load of old ticket stubs from 90’s on. Looking at ones from say 10-15 years ago across all venues in Dublin 3Arena to Vicar St, Olympia and Ambassador. 20-40 euro was where pricing was at. Now you are looking at maybe 50-70 for smaller venues and 100+ for 3Arena.

  3. And yet venue operators wonder why people don’t go to shows as often as they used to.

  4. I was at that Green Day concert. Was class, there was a pit rush after a while and everyone just shoved in to get up closer.

  5. I was at the My Chem concert in RDS. Was a great show.

  7. Is it much more than the inflation rate? I’d guess yes, way more. Someone do the maths for me

  8. You can calculate Irish inflation by just plugging in the ticket prices here: https://visual.cso.ie/?body=entity/cpicalculator

    For example the the Greenday ticket was €49.20 which would now be €62.29

    How much would a ticket cost these days to something similar ?

    A lot of it comes down to musicians making far less money on selling music due to steaming, so they charge way more for live gig, as that’s where their money is coming from.

    If you went back to the pre steaming days, plenty of people were dropping the modern equivalent of about €25 an album probably once a week or so. They may have very pirating more too, but the whole business model changed when steaming became completely dominant, which was around 2010 onwards.

    You pay Spotify less than that a month. There was a huge change in income streams for music.

  9. You couldn’t have paid me the price of those tickets to see any of those gigs.

  12. Did MCR play a stadium gig or the 3arena? Cannot compare what Swift brings to MCR in all fairness.

  13. I seen dire straits in 1992 for £12.50 and Tom petty for £17

    In 2007 I saw Kylie in the point and two tickets were €80 (amazing show)

    As soon as the crash happens, All tickets went through the roof.

  14. Ha no way I was also at every single one of these minus Eddie izzard.

    That 2010 Greenday concert in Marley Park was amazing.

  15. I was at a load of them! Imagine paying €50 to see Green Day again?

  16. I had a cigar box with old tickets, dating back to the 90s, before the generic TM tickets came in, and the band logos used to be kn them. Some really cool ones, like GNR at Slane, Nirvana at the point, Chillis at Fakymoubt Pk., tickets from the long gone SFX.

    Box got thrown out when I was living abroad and my folks were doing a house clear out.

    I still get really fucking annoyed when I think about it.

  17. My first concert was No Doubt in the Point in I think 1997. Tickets were £16 each. I had a part time job for £3 that summer so had the money to buy them myself. Thankfully my daughter didn’t want to see Taylor Swift because those tickets are astronomical and I couldn’t justify the price.

  18. Man, I wish I kept all my stubs. I’m convinced I saw My Chemical Romance playing as support to some band but I can’t remember the main band or the year. Age is a terrible thing.

  19. The problem is you are willing to pay 216 euro ..so they charge that .

  20. How much of it is down to the artists themselves?

    My boyfriend and I went to Hozier in December 2019. The tickets were around the €30-€35 mark each, and I remember him asking fans on social media what an affordable price point would be. It was an amazing show.

    Granted, he’s not a humungous international act, but even recently there were General Admission tickets going for €49.50.

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