The Swamp

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 9:54 am Turns out - that $101 per ticket was flex pricing. When I went back, they were up to $137 a ticket - and these were not aftermarket tickets.

So two lawn seats with taxes and fees is about $350.



TicketMaster really is the worst. End stage capitalism.

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 10:15 am

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 9:54 am Turns out - that $101 per ticket was flex pricing. When I went back, they were up to $137 a ticket - and these were not aftermarket tickets.

So two lawn seats with taxes and fees is about $350.



TicketMaster really is the worst. End stage capitalism.

As bad as end-stage capitalism is bad, Ticketmaster-Live Nations monopoly power is a force-multiplier of fucking over consumers.

A_B wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 10:55 am

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 10:41 am

Giff wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 5:42 pm NKOTB on Tuesday!

(not really that excited but it's a work trip to the rodeo, so actually should be fun)

Not really sure I would have booked NKOTB for a rodeo. Figure there are other acts that may fit that better....Denim wearing folks not matching white suits.

You know who has money now? the kids that couldn't go see them when they were popular. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

EnochRoot wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 10:43 am So I found out some more information about it. The only time to buy tickets that are priced in reality was during the pre-sale. The public on-sale is where TM floods the market with second-hand tickets, but also matches those prices by doubling the prices of their own remaining tickets. And then when those numbers dwindle, they ‘flex price’ the remaining few even further.

So I blame myself for missing the pre-sale, but yeah, there’s something post apocalyptic about all this. It’s amazing how we’ve allowed this to happen to the entertainment industry.

rass wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 1:10 pm Saw this show with my wife's coworkers last night.

Not sure if is technically a co-headlining thing or what, because the show opened and closed with both groups performing together and the sets were similar lengths, but Gaelic Storm played their set first and are more of a party/drinking band and maybe could have benefited from a more intimate setting, or me being drunk. The voices of the dudes in The High Kings were pretty incredible and filled the space. Fun show, my wife had a great time.

I can't recommend the theater itself enough to you local guys if you have a reason to see a show there. Smaller than someplace like the Wellmont, and I think better preserved/restored to its gilded glory (at least based on the last time I was in Montclair). I can't believe how many luxury apartment buildings they've put up in downtown Rahway since the last time I was there (been years, since the old soccer bubble collapsed one winter).

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Sat Dec 17, 2022 9:50 am The Vandoliers are really scratching a musical itch I didn't know I had. Avett Brothers meets Dropkick Murphys meets Gaslight Anthem with a little Highwaymen heritage.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Tue Mar 28, 2023 3:59 pm

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Sat Dec 17, 2022 9:50 am The Vandoliers are really scratching a musical itch I didn't know I had. Avett Brothers meets Dropkick Murphys meets Gaslight Anthem with a little Highwaymen heritage.

Just got my tickets to see the Vandoliers in June. I normally wouldn’t buy so far in advance but they are playing at a tiny little club in San Francisco (the Bottom of the Hill), so it could easily sell out early. Haven’t been to that place since I saw Whiskeytown there back in the 90s.

mister d wrote: ↑Tue Mar 28, 2023 5:22 pm Expats in a Dying State.

brian wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 9:22 pm Depeche Mode fucking wailed last night. There’s probably very few bands you could say this about but their shit deserves to be seen in an arena.

brian wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 7:56 pm In PHX for Lucero (1st of 3 Lucero shows in next 7 days) and get to pre-game at Thunder Dan Majerle’s bar. There’s a guy who was born 20 years too early. In today’s NBA he’s probably a Hall of Famer.

Giff wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2023 8:32 am

brian wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 7:56 pm In PHX for Lucero (1st of 3 Lucero shows in next 7 days) and get to pre-game at Thunder Dan Majerle’s bar. There’s a guy who was born 20 years too early. In today’s NBA he’s probably a Hall of Famer.

They skipped Houston this year. We had our family pictures done this past weekend. It was originally supposed to happen in a town about 45 miles west of Fort Worth, but they moved it to Dallas at the last minute and I completely forgot Lucero was playing Dallas the night we got there or I would have actually been able to see them this tour.

Two veteran indie-rock acts with deep Minnesota ties, the Hold Steady and Bob Mould will pair up at the Minnesota State Fair grandstand on Sept. 2 for the Current's annual Music-on-a-Stick concert.

The Saturday night gig at the fair will be the first time the Hold Steady — led by Edina native Craig Finn with other ex-Twin Citian bandmates — has shared a stage locally with their hero Mould, who spent his formative 1980s years here making noise with the legendary punk trio Hüsker Dü. Mould will be joined at this show by his namesake band of the past decade and a half, featuring Superchunk drummer Jon Wurster and bassist Jason Narducy.

Dillinger Four also will make its grandstand debut to open the concert. That's one of two gigs the cult-loved Twin Cities punk quartet — which has been repeatedly alluded to in Finn's lyrics — has with the Hold Steady this summer. The other is a June 30 set at Chicago's new outdoor venue the Salt Shed.

Reaper wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 8:34 am Just got invited to go to my first Mountain Goats show tonight at Union Transfer Philly with someone who'll be going to at least his tenth MG show.

Reaper wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 8:34 am Just got invited to go to my first Mountain Goats show tonight at Union Transfer Philly with someone who'll be going to at least his tenth MG show.

Reaper wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 8:34 am Just got invited to go to my first Mountain Goats show tonight at Union Transfer Philly with someone who'll be going to at least his tenth MG show.

mister d wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 8:57 am

Reaper wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 8:34 am Just got invited to go to my first Mountain Goats show tonight at Union Transfer Philly with someone who'll be going to at least his tenth MG show.

I was supposed to go last August(?) but was sick. The guy I was supposed to go with said if you're a casual going in thinking "I'm sure I'll know more than just the two songs", you may really only know just those two songs. But also said it was great anyway.

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 12:26 pm Yeah, definitely go, if you need one more person telling you to.