the priciest / most expensive concert ticket you've bought

$55 to see prince from the rafters of an arena 11 years ago (and be given a free cd of 'musicology')

insanely good and totally worth it despite my relative poverty at the time

As I said in the other thread:

I think the most I ever spent for tix was for a NYE show, and it was Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, and it was still only something like $60 or maybe $80 per person, and the venue turned out to be pretty enjoyable even though it was some weird underground level theater near times square, and I only spent that much out of feeling bad at never doing anything spendy on NYE, and we had a blast.

think I paid $140 for a scalped Rush seat a few months ago

I don't think I've ever paid more than 30 bucks (tax etc. included) for a concert ticket.

Bowie on the Reality tour. Somewhere in the $70-$100 range.

xxp considering that i now have a full-time job and rush rules, that seems both totally reasonable and also crazily high

Outside of my NYE splurge I really never spend/t anything close to that -- the next highest one was probably something like 25-30.

Equivalent of about 130 american dollars to see Bruce Springsteen. First and only stadium show. Paid da cost to see da boss.

The Who Quadrophenia tour two years ago: one ticket cost me $100+ (christmas present from mr veg)
Awesome show, cried buckets of tears of joy.

Before that was the same Prince rafters seats on the same tour Mookie went to in the op. Still worth it!

dropped a hundo or maybe it was 120 to see your mom. great show!

around $200 each for 2 fleetwood mac floor seats, worth it.

dropped a hundo or maybe it was 120 to see your mom. great show!

thanks dad!

Just shy of $200 for Morrissey. Had to pay resale prices to get fairly close floor seats. Seats were great, it was worth it.

i flew from ny to london to see the mott the hoople reunion. the tickets themselves weren't crazy. i was a little crazy.

IIRC, I paid $162 through Ticketmaster for two tickets to the Dylan/Nelson/Mellencamp tour in '09. This got me covered seats 15-20 rows from the stage with overhead fans going in a summer shed on veeeerrrrryyy hot August in Texas day.

Most for a single artist would be $70-ish through Frontgate(?) for Neil Young (w/Bert Jansch opening) on the Twisted Road tour. It was a front-row balcony seat at the very top of the venue.

Not sure what my biggest club expenditure was. Saw X & Blondie on their joint tour a couple years ago, seems like that after tax & surcharges was $50+ general admission.

Hmm...

I don't go to a lot of big shows but:

Lollapalooza 1992 $28
Daft Punk 1997 $48

Whoops that should be Daft Punk 2007.

$160 bjork paris rex, worth it

about $40 for:
Laurie Anderson "Moby Dick" show in 1997
Throbbing Gristle reunion show in 2009

About €80 for Mylene Farmer in Lyon - plus flights, hotel, etc, etc. I go to France to see her whenever she tours.

$120 ish for paul mccartney at a stadium, nosebleed seats, amazing almost 3 hr show and totally worth it

1200 DKK / $180 to see Dylan in 2011 at a rather intimate amphitheater (2200 tickets).

Worth it.

£35 to see Charlie Haden, Carla Bley and the Liberation Music Orchestra as part of Ornette Coleman's Meltdown Festival (Ornette turned up at the end to wave to the crowd but didn't play; Robert Wyatt came onstage and played a nice bit of pocket trumpet). It wasn't a mind-blowing gig - tho' Haden was utterly charming and had the audience in the palm of his hand - but I'm really glad I went now.

$70 for Rolling Stones earlier this year. Nosebleeds ahoy.

Also $120 for Paul McCartney in like april

$150 for three day phish 1999/2000 new years festival. I was completely sick of phish at this point and had just gotten back from what I swore would be my last show ever, but my friends needed to borrow my mom's station wagon for the trip and I reluctantly went along with their plan. It was a total shitshow and I wish to this day that I'd never agreed to go.

$150 each for 2 tickets (+ train tickets) for my partner and me to see Stevie Wonder, first night of last year's Songs in the Key of Life tour. Seats were really good, about 15 rows from the back on the floor (Madison Square Garden). Absofuckinglutely worth it. Songs isn't even my favorite of his peak-years records, but it was an incredibly moving experience.

150 euros for 2 tickets to see Bruce Springsteen in Thomand Park in Limerick two years ago. It was worth it.

Around $100 for this show: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buena_Vista_Social_Club_at_Carnegie_Hall

V worth it

For "regular" non festival shows . . . probably ~ 80 for Morrissey.

Paid £90 each for two fleetwood mac tickets this year but then they cancelled and I got a full refund. In a way I was pleased because I'd just got back from holiday, felt like shit, and had a todd terje all-sayer the day after.

*all-dayer

$45 to see Radiohead in 2003.

£140 (the listed price, not from a scalper) for an excellent, didn't-need-the-big-screens seat at the London O2 for Fleetwood Mac this year. Would almost never pay so much, but they were top of my Unseen Legends list, and it felt like now or never.

I stated elsewhere that I paid $135 to see Prince in a medium-sized club; it was actually $165

I would have paid up to $500, the show was that good

Prince in Birmingham last year was my second priciest. Standing tickets, best show I've seen him do since the Lovesexy tour.

i was v tempted by the £140 fleetwood mac at the o2 tickets, but decided in the end that €75 tickets and a trip to paris was the better idea

xxp considering that i now have a full-time job and rush rules, that seems both totally reasonable and also crazily high

― mookieproof, Thursday, August 13, 2015 3:20 AM (19 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm totally in the "I can afford it so throw caution to the wind" phase now but had I planned on going to that show earlier, face value, woulda been mine :/

oh wait, I paid $150 for a three day pass to Maryland Deathfest in 2013....

i have trouble paying more than $30 for a show, i guess i'm a cheapskate. probably paid $40 for dylan a few times. i think i paid 50+ bucks for nick cave a few years ago, but my friend bought the tix and i didn't realize they were that much.

most shows I go to (and I go to a lot) are between $8 - $20 so it makes those occasional expensive ones easier to justify.

I paid over $100 to see Leonard Cohen.

€250 to see Roger Waters doing The Wall a couple of years ago.

Fairrrrly sure I haven't gone over £25. Think both Perfume and Kyary were that plus train fare to get there. Residents possibly the same?

Apart from festivals (which I haven't really been to in years anyway) I think maybe £35 to see Motorhead/Damned/Girlschool a few years ago?

Apart from festivals, I can't think of any I've 'pushed the boat out' for. Quite a few that would cost a fortune if they did a gig now, though.

Even the Velvet Underground wasn't a silly price.

The Prince one (the Lovesexy/Black Album Wembley Arena one) might have been a bit pricey, but I can't remember how much.

daren't think about how much it would cost the promoter to get VU back together for one last tour

I remember Masada at Yoshi's being really expensive compared to what I was used to...$30-35? Compared to what single show tickets cost these days, festival passes like FIMAV and Big Ears seem like really good value for the dollar.

I *think* my highest was the same Prince tour that mookie and VG referred to -- the show I saw was at the then-MCI Center in Washington, DC. I was pretty high up, but it was worth every penny. I may have paid a bit more for one of the McCartney shows I've been to.

Around £250 to see Madonna couple years back, Golden circle, early entry, "special gift" (rubbish watch). I've been a fan half my life and never seen her, thought I'd go all out. Absolutely worth it, minus the watch.

When Bjork went on the Vespertine tour, first one since the 90s, I freaked out and ended up spending around $400 on tickets to a show of hers in another state. I got 8 tickets, scalped half of them, and flew me a 3 friends to Boston to see her play. It was incredible.

I tried the trick again later when Weezer came back and lost a bunch of money on it.

$120 to see the first nine inch nails tour in five years (tension 2013). honestly, the NIN show i paid less for (like 40ish with fees for lights in the sky 2008) was a bit better, but the seats for this one were p great loge box ones at TD garden. and godspeed you! black emperor opened, which was dope.

NIN/Jane's Addiction was probably my second most expensive, Mansfield MA in 2009. I must have paid somewhere in the $50s.

7g of pot for Radiohead in 2003