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There has to be limits, warn Radiohead
After having had a 2007 full of good press following the 'pay nothing if you like' pricing of In Rainbows, Radiohead are heading into 2008 having to defend some eyewatering ticket prices for next year's gigs:
The band’s manager Bryce Edge has claimed the £42.50 per ticket for the series of dates in May simply ensures the band do not lose money for putting on the “quality shows”.
He says, “We don't want to go on tour and lose money. It is expensive to put on the quality show people expect. It is a comparable price to artists of a similar stature."
He says, “We don't want to go on tour and lose money. It is expensive to put on the quality show people expect. It is a comparable price to artists of a similar stature."
This, of course, is the flipside of the shift from records to live being the place where artists make money. Perhaps Radiohead could offer a slew of different qualities of show - a Value One where Thom doesn't change his shirt beforehand and the venue only serves warm beer for a tenner?
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What happened to pay what you like, and "we've made more money from in rainbows than all our others"
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a Value One where Thom doesn't change his shirt beforehand and the venue only serves warm beer for a tenner?
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That's some expensive beer. Even for a Radiohead gig.
This has absolutely nothing to do with In Rainbows, and doesn't represent the "flipside" of anything. If £42.50 is "eye-watering" there's something wrong with your eyes. They are playing sports arenas and large outdoor open spaces; artists/bands smaller than Radiohead are charging barely less than $42.50 for playing in actual music venues; you pay £30-£35 at least for seeing a show at the the meticulously organized O2 arena; yet Radiohead are somehow unjustified in adding a mere tenner onto that for the added complications of playing outside?
This is all on top of the point that they almost certainly made vast sums of money from In Rainbows anyway.
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