In spite of recent price increases there seems to be more and more people willing to spend money on getting the concert experience. Looking at several of the last (especially Rock Concerts) booked in PG and all over BC from the last year and including those still to come this year, we are seeing more and more sell outs.
As of writing this the above image is a screenshot of currently available seating at the Foo Fighters upcoming date in Vancouver, but even looking at recent shows in PG both Bryan Adams last concert and the recent Offspring concert were total sell outs. The Offspring played here in 2017 and only sold 3500 tickets so over the course of a few years they’ve nearly doubled their sales and that’s on tickets that cost more than they did last time the band was here.
This is all to say I think it’s time we took on-line sales off the table, there are several reasons why I think this might help out many of the current problems we are facing. First of all it was a lot harder to buy obscenely large bricks of tickets when you had to do it face to face with a ticket seller, that goes for the price too, since you had to look the person you’re selling the ticket to in the eyes before you told them what it costs.
Finally I think there is something to be said for how it adds to the value of the experience when you had to wait in an actual line up (sometimes all day) before finally getting that ticket in hand, man you had to work for that sucker. Plus I miss ticket stubs those were fun to collect.
You can say this is just an old man yelling at clouds, and in a way you’re very right, I am not old but getting there and I’m tired of everything being in the cloud.
