What's going on?
I personally think what we are witnessing is a bit of backlash from people who are just refusing to pay exuberant amounts of money for concerts. I think the world recession has forced everyone to think twice before parting with their cold hard cash. As one friend ever so eloquently said to me, "I need food and shelter to survive, but I don't need concert tickets".
I'll admit to U2 mostly having extremely fair ticket prices. If you average out prices on their current tour, the standard price stills comes to less than $100 (with select seats priced at $250 and 10,000 at every show priced at $30). However, this is U2. Arguably the biggest band in the world and they always carefully plan everything out and give their fans plenty of breathing space between tours. There is really no reason for them not to sell out...especially in Dublin.
Sadly, no one will probably care and it's unlikely Live Nation will do anything about it, but one has to wonder if the biggest band in the world can't sell out every show in their own backyard, what does this mean for other acts?
On a side note, the band's new video for "Magnificent" has debuted. Is it me or does this video look like a throwback and completely unoriginal? This should have been the lead single from the new record...alas, it now stands to get lost.
Read my review of No Line on the Horizon at this link.
