My Chemical Romance Band • Page 568

It may not apply to all dates, but I was in the first 4000 in the queue for LA Night 2 when it went on sale. Every single ticket on the field was marked as Platinum, every single seat. And I have more screen shots to prove it. Every seat in the lowest bowl was also marked platinum. It was only the upper decks of the stadium that were marked either "Preferred Seating" (which are the four seats on each side of the aisle, with the middle seats marked as Standard. It was easily 40% of the tickets marked as Platinum when that onsale started. That field seats thousands, and the lower bowl as well. That's not overly dramatic or obviously false at all.

 

Please drop new music they’re arguing about ticket sales at 4 in the afternoon

 

Talking about dramatically different things here. I’m solely talking about the “bold to call it sold out” stuff. I’ll bow out though. This isn’t for me.

 

@heymattrick I wonder if it is a sales tactic to have the rest of the tickets sold quickly, I can imagine others panic buying what's left of the tickets.

 

300 of 40,000 tickets is less than 1%…

 

Also platinum tickets are sold tickets. They’re tickets bought by livenation so they can resell for an up charge, which is terrible practice that’s allowed to exist but to the band that’s considered sold.

 

Alright, I'm sorry for being negative & dramatic about ticket prices. It's just a bummer and I'm salty I couldn't get tickets because of it. I'm excited for the tour and I'll make it to a couple shows somehow.

Was just watching a video from one of my favorite moments I was ever able to witness at a My Chem show...when they played Bulletproof Heart live at Milton Keynes in 2022. I couldn't believe they were actually playing it, my 2nd favorite MCR song (after Famous Last Words), and it was so amazing seeing it in a stadium.

When the whole crowd started jumping during the first verse (around 0:52 in this video), it was ON. What a special night. Then they also played it first night of the US Tour in Oklahoma City which I camped for and was on the barricade for. I love that song so damn much and I wish it was a more regular setlist staple.

 

Reading this thread it's always unbelievable to me how bad ticketing is in the US right now. My front pit GA ticket for Taylor Swift in Stockholm was roughly $150 including all fees and that was generally considered an expensive ticket.

Can't imagine MCR tickets would be much more than $70 including fees next time they play Scandinavia. Maybe $80 if they play arenas, but even blink-182 was $70 for GA standing at the Royal Arena show last year, with the most expensive inner circle tickets costing around $100.

 

They're a nostalgia act in almost every sense of the words. They're past their prime and came out of retirement as a band to play old music and sell expensive tickets.They are doing shows with large ticket prices based around their older, most popular, album.

They're kinda getting old themselves at this point (I mean, Gerard is almost 50) and have been doing other things in life rather than being a band. Now they reunited and are basically just playing old material.

A large part of their original demographic is now much older and view this band as something they used to listen to in middle school/high school/college/etc. That's nostalgia.

This "emo scene"-style of music they came from is definitely a nostalgia thing at this point. There's emo nights at bars and what not....just like there's 80s night, or 90s night, etc.

This isn't exactly a band that stayed creative and relevant or even involved in music much recently.

....that sounds like the definition of a nostalgia act to me. No offense to the band and it's fanbase...not trying to hate, but it is what it is. Time marches on.

 

I think most promoters are considering arena/stadium shows "sold out" with a pretty loose criteria across the board nowadays.

I've seen plenty of tours/venues make claims to being "sold out" despite there being plenty of platinum tickets and single-seats lol. As long as the face value ticket pairs are gone, they call it a day lol.

 

I'm seeing Oasis both in the UK and in the US next year. Both shows I got GA floor tickets, and the US tickets were 25% more expensive than UK. Which is especially wild considering Oasis is 10x bigger in the UK.

The US has got to get their shit together when it comes to ticketing. Maybe it's artists asking for larger guarantees, maybe it's the venues drastically increasing their rental fees, or maybe it's Live Nation not giving the artists a reasonable cut of concession sales. My guess is the latter but I'm not an expert on the matter.

 

I don’t think it’s any of the three. They’ve just realized the threshold for what they can get away with in the US to make more profit.

 

Yeah I think, for whatever reasons, Americans are more apt to paying premiums for luxury events/goods. UK/Europe seems to have a different attitude thus why when American bands try to charge US prices it doesn't end well (a la Pearl Jam in the UK recently).

 

It's because we lack any financial sense.

 

It’s really eye opening.

My four Eras Tour front floor tickets for the first night at Wembley came to £400 ($500ish) in total. You just assume that’s normal until you see people have paid 5x that to see her in like New Jersey or whatever. I think my ticket for MCR’s comeback tour in Milton Keynes was about £50 iirc.

We think we have it bad with ticket prices but I honestly would NEVER go to big gigs if they were the prices posted here. I love MCR but $400+ is insane. It’s possibly cheaper for Americans to fly here than go to one in their own cities. I thought there was some proposals or a lawsuit going on in the US, but I could be mistaken?

 

Standing for MCR was £80ish for me, which I remember at the time feeling like a LOT of money, but now that feels standard for any gig above arena size. Just had to turn down seeing Deftones for around the same next year as, just like MCR, the additional cost of travel and accommodation when a band only plays one (usually Southern) gig results in almost holiday-level money for one gig. Stuff like Oasis makes me think it's just a matter of time before US prices are the norm here too.

 

On your last point, when Zach Bryan played a 1500 cap venue in Copenhagen last year, there were legitimately more Americans in the audience who’d flown in to see him than there were Danes. Two people in line told me that it was cheaper for them to buy round trip flights, two nights at a hotel, and the $40 concert tickets here than just buying second-hand tickets for a show in their home state. Just crazy.

 

People use the phrase "nostalgia act" like it's derogatory.

Band just sold 365,000 tickets in a few days. That's rarified air for any musical act in 2024, let alone a guitar band.

 

We can still be mad at the prices though, right?

 

dunno, will high prices make you vote for trump? heard that's the rage.

 

Can confirm - went to the Eras Tour in Amsterdam in July and there were so many Americans. It wasn’t just the pricing, it was the availability of tickets in general too

 

I mean voting for Trump means private business will continue to squeeze every last dime out of the average American

So I can probably try to find a correlation that a trump vote is a vote for dynamic pricing with TM/LV

 

i've made peace with the bands squeezing all the dollars out of us that we didn't give them when we pirated their music during our teenage years. the big giant venue shows are a once a year or at best twice a year for me thing at best. glad this isn't coming to portland and i'm not tempted tbh

 

That's my thoughts on it too. Plus i wasn't allowed to go to any shows as a teen (only show was TBS/AVA in 2006), so i feel like i get to make up for that now that i make adult money lol. Also relieved MCR put on a hell of a great show here in 2022 so i don't feel i'm missing out. With that said, if i can get a cheapish ticket the day of, I may be tempted.