Just Announced

One band is ONE example. 

Yes, inflation exists.

Yep, inflation is a real thing. 

But competition is not DRIVING show prices up.

Sorry, back to topic.

10/1
the Raveonettes
Black Cat

A ticket to Led Zeppelin was $5 in the 70s before 930 Club existed. When they played a show a few years back, after 930 Club was up and running, it was several hundred. MUST BE BECAUSE 930 CLUB OPENED AND INCREASED COMPETITION!! YOU CANT RULE IT OUT AS A FACTOR! ECONOMICS: WHO CAM UNDERSTAND THEM?

престижний wrote:
Yep, inflation is a real thing. 

But competition is not DRIVING show prices up.

I'm agreeing with you. My inflation exists comment was in response to hutch's "prices go up, who knows why? Possibly Fillmore SS!"

I was agreeing with you as well. 

7/1
Night Ranger
Rams Head Annapolis

престижний wrote:
I was agreeing with you as well. 

Sorry, I was very thrown off by the experience!

Julian, wrote:
A ticket to Led Zeppelin was $5 in the 70s before 930 Club existed. When they played a show a few years back, after 930 Club was up and running, it was several hundred. MUST BE BECAUSE 930 CLUB OPENED AND INCREASED COMPETITION!! YOU CANT RULE IT OUT AS A FACTOR! ECONOMICS: WHO CAM UNDERSTAND THEM?

;D

venues competing for the same talent drives up prices.. lets say a band has been playing venue x and they've been guaranteed Y.. .. a new venue opens up and they want that band..they have to bid higher..

a good example is the hamilton….. they are bidding high on acts they consider their home turf… new orleans music…

i don't see why it makes you guys angry…. having worked at a venue in town i can tell you that there are offer sheets and you put them out in response to requests from artists planning their tours…

but it is also true that in DC market there has been a lot of inflation..


which is why i said its not easy to say exactly what is driving the rising costs..

now some apparently are arguing that prices for concerts have not gone up….

talk about insane.

haha

престижний wrote:
7/1
Night Ranger
Rams Head Annapolis

HA HA TONKA
7/20
RNR

OOIOO
7/17
RNR

will azaghal come to the show? :)

He will not.


They could reanimate Ian Curtis' corpse and put him up on that stage and I won't go back.

Tommy Keene (solo) added to Matthew Sweet at the Birchmere 7/16. Ugh, I wish this show was in the bandstand.

Neil Hamburger
11/17
BC

Wye Oak / Matmos
7/26
Charles St. Parking lot at Metro Gallery

hell yeah.  i love seeing shows in that parking lot.

probably cheaper than renting a mid sized theater…which Baltimore doesn't really have