[ Closed ] Hammersmith Apollo March 2015 (Page 7 of 9)

+2.  Me and a mate, fans of Joe for 8 years or so, will not be attending these gigs.  Taking the piss, dead right.

I also bought Tix from Tm - I'm not expecting anything until Feb.

all this is an old discussion and simple to answer. if its to expensive....................dont go..................................if you really got the money and have no problem with yourself to pay such a price for a concert................................go.
its true there are lots of things to say between, but all that wont stop or reduce any JB ticket prices. for sure he is doing all his touring cause he likes to play guitar and play shows for his fans. Beside that, JB wants to earn some money for all his work. he has to earn some more money for all the people who are touring with him or are home and working on the machinery.
thats what it has become.................a well oiled machinery with lots lots of merchandise, new cds or dvds every few months or half a year and everything the "fans" want. it seams to work well for JB................so why he should change it? its not only music, its business. i have the impression that business getting more important than music with the time. the machine cant stop and got to roll on. JB works hard for his money.....................................i do the same, working hard for my money and would not spend this much for one show only. i dont even think that he forgot his old fans, but somewhen i think things getting to big and its no more up to him how things are going.
i still love his music and had the pleasure to see him in his beginnings here in germany. geat memories, but times are changing.
Thomas

Take a look at availability                 loads !!! left

why no shows in the north joe has lots of fans up here , many who cannot get down to london
joe came to my town  South Shields in his early twenties long before most people had heard of him .  thats how long i have been a fan,want to see him again but not in london the cost would be to much
heres hoping    Dexsey

So something must be different about these shows if the price has doubled. Think about it. It’s hard for me to think they would just say, hmm, I think I’d like double the money. I mean, some organizations might do that but I feel like J&R wouldn’t. Trying to be optimistic and think maybe there is something more offered for the price, as opposed to elevating the cost because of the Bonamassa brand name.

Since the shows are at the same venue four nights in a row, maybe there is something more to the set than just the music. (besides our absolute favorite musician and the reason we are all here on this forum) Maybe a video screen or a larger addition to the stage show that requires more workers/equipment/stage build/set-up. Think fixed Disneyland rides as opposed to the “pop-up in a parking lot near you” carnival. We always hear how they invest in the show, try and make it bigger and better. Let’s assume they have. On the other hand, everything just costs more. It does and it sucks. Dollars/Pounds/Euros don’t stretch as far as they used to.

It might be a good idea if you are a tout who doesn't give a **## about ticket prices others pay unless it ends up in YOUR pocket!!! "Special" today is increase even MORE tomorrow.

I hope to hell this is one extremely special deal and NOTHING is leaked about it.  All you folks are doing is making things worse.  And worst of all, all you have to do is "Fuggetaboutit."

J & R don't have to justify anything at this point.  Maybe the promoters do, but if I were them, I'd (if artist & management approved) slow drip rumors false and true, with false one good and true ones better...

It's 8 months away for goodness sakes!!! Have your Christmas shopping done???????!!!!!!!   Brother...

Try? giving it a rest.  Or just move ON!!!  I'll quit if you will...

"He still doesn't charge for mistakes! "
http://jbonamassa.com/tour-dates/
"Everybody wants ta get inta the act!"
“Now, this isn’t your ordinary party crowd, here.  I mean, there are professionals in here.”

Checking out Carre' the all in ticket price is 135 Euros The Apollo is 117 pounds including fees. In Oklahoma City this year the first 5 rows were $125 plus fees which made the ticket nearly $150. There are so many factors that go into scaling a house for ticket prices and one is capacity also average ticket price in a region or country. I'm not all that good with exchange rates but this seems to be in line with the current tour although I'm not sure what the tour will be next year. If it will be an extension of the acoustic/electric bands which is one of the reasons the ticket prices increased in 2014 American tour. If it is something different like Joe has alluded to with horns in a big band setting then it will be a great show. Just as this show and tour has been.

It appears that the decision to seat the venue limits capacity which would increase ticket prices to cover the costs involved. The question seems to be as always in supply demand economics is the demand there for 10,000 seats and if so at the current pricing. I would say it is too early to tell. I know Joe would rather play to a seated room and would rather play a theater to an arena. The show here last Spring was at a cut arena simply because the Performing Arts Center was unavailable and the arena was cut to the capacity anticipated based on attendance numbers of past shows. Could we have opened the arena to increase the capacity and cut ticket prices and sold 10,000 tickets? Maybe. If so there would of been about 3,000 good tickets and 9,000 crappy seats.

As a promoter myself and with experience specifically with the purchasing habits of my market which is night and day different from London. Or is it really. I always said you couldn't over price the first 200 seats in the house. I had 200 fans that would pay any amount and schedule their life around that date. I could also predict the number actually sold based on the number at certain intervals sold. Say two months out, one month out, and one week out. There was backlash here and some people stayed home I would imagine but those that came and I know many of the people here that have been fans since 2003 that paid $15 for a ticket then, came up to me and said it was the best show they had ever seen and they had seen them all.

I'm not trying to say anything more than I understand that people feel that the Spring prices are high so were last springs prices. We sold just as many tickets at the end of the day.