{"id":1141415,"date":"2026-08-10T11:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T11:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1141415\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T11:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T11:01:14","slug":"londons-2-7-billion-live-music-boom-how-concerts-are-fuelling-a-record-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1141415\/","title":{"rendered":"London&#8217;s \u00a32.7 billion live music boom: How concerts are fuelling a record summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On prices, it\u2019s true that some tickets cost the earth. But insiders say they are for the best seats; there are always more reasonable ones to be had. They argue, in fact, that if inflation is factored in, ticket prices have fallen over the past 10 years. \u201cNothing beats a good live experience, be it in an 80,000-capacity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/stadium\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stadium<\/a> or a 400-capacity club,\u201d said Denis Desmond, chairman of Live Nation UK &amp; Ireland. \u201cSome shows are now much bigger and costs overall are far greater. While VIPs can be expensive, prices overall are generally down from where they were.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On prices, it\u2019s true that some tickets cost the earth. But insiders say they are for the best&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1141416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,30365,393,79510,4884,7413,310467,257,62984,16,15],"class_list":["post-1141415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-concerts","tag-england","tag-gigs","tag-great-britain","tag-live-music","tag-live-music-venues","tag-london","tag-music-venues","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1141416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}