Radiohead hit back at claims UK tour is too expensive

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Nearly £50 a ticket will ensure 'quality' say band's management

Dec 28, 2007
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Radiohead’s management have hit back at suggestions their 2008 tour is too expensive.

Tickets for the band’s UK tour are around £42.50, more than some tickets for Prince’s residency at the O2 Arena in London last summer.

However one of the band’s managers Bryce Edge has claimed that the tickets are being sold at a fair price.

“We don’t want to go on tour and lose money,” he told The Times. “It is expensive to put on the quality show people expect. It is a comparable price to artists of a similar stature.”

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MrDaveS1986

Jan 1, 2008

They just want more money from the fans, but then again some fans would have got tickets if they cost Â£425.

carlb1988

Jan 1, 2008

Obviously the "pay what you want for our album" didn't work out for them.

CrackedLCD

Jan 1, 2008

That's an aweful excuse from a bunch of middle class nobheads!! I have a mortgage to pay, think I'll just go to a few gigs by some quality up and coming bands instead of giving those sell outs any more cash! At the end of the day, all people want is the band playing their tunes - they've just joined all the other over paid scumbags who they refer to as "artists of a similar stature"

forwardr

Jan 1, 2008

I've long suspected that bands should be charging more - the fact that tickets appear immediately on eBay suggests that the bands are selling short of market demand. I'd rather the money went to the band than a tout.

Ethan_Hunt_Berlin

Jan 2, 2008

The question is, do we need the "Quality Show" bands like Radiohead think we expect. A good concert needs a good band, some lights and thats it. All this "Quality" stuff just detracts from the music.

skistar123

Jan 2, 2008

i think maybe they could have knocked a tenner off or so, but to be honest, I wasn't surprised i ended up paying nearly Â£50 (when booking and postage fees are added) for the ticket.

a l a n c

Jan 3, 2008

Muse put on two "quality shows" at Wembley Stadium last year. Â£37.50 a ticket got you the first proper rock shows at the new stadium, three support bands each day, Zane Lowe DJing, pyrotechnics, giant special effect satellite dishes around and on the stage, trapeze artists over the crowd, their trademark giant balloons, and a kick-arse set each night.

I reckon a fiver is probably the standard inflationary increase from a gig of that price last year to this coming summer. So, Radiohead had better _really_ lay it on for the money.

a l a n c

Jan 3, 2008

The price might also explain why the gigs haven't sold out yet. I remember when the Radiohead Oxford South Park tickets went on sale, queueing up outside the Zodiac in Oxford to get the tickets, they were sold out in no time.