forevermusic Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 Muse are playing in London on the Drones 360 Tour. Members pre-sale is at 9am on Wednesday, with tickets on sale on September 18th at 9am. Details available here: http://muse.mu/news,the-drones-world-tour-2016_1677.htm Thread is for attendees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andreathegreat Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 Have you seen the price!!! Woah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cassntay Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 Flipping heck yes prices a little steep!! But missed out earlier in the year so guess will have to try and ignore the £6-£9 processing fees on top of the ticket costs too!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afterbirths Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 Very high prices and a week's notice (4 days for the presale). And a disappointingly short tour for the UK. Not sure how to feel about this one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forevermusic Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share Posted September 11, 2015 Where are people finding this information about prices? http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/muse-standing-london-11-04-2016/event/35004F2AEB176265?artistid=1400322&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobby Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 Very high prices and a week's notice (4 days for the presale). And a disappointingly short tour for the UK. Not sure how to feel about this one... Bad. http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/muse-standing-london-11-04-2016/event/35004F2AEB176265?artistid=1400322&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ3j5jp5IoY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Half Life Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Where are people finding this information about prices? £73.00 standing, £51-£84 seated... And I had been stressing that the tickets would go fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forevermusic Posted September 12, 2015 Author Share Posted September 12, 2015 Agreed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ3j5jp5IoY Also agreed. To think I thought "Who would pay that?" a while back when I saw those sort of fees being charged for Rush, The Who and Fleetwood Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsty2stay Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Has anyone here ever queued for a gig at The 02 for anyone before? I'm in the Midlands and trying to work out whether I'm better off at The 02 or Manchester. I've heard crappy stuff about queueing in Manchester before, so figured I might be better off in London, but I've never been to The 02 before. Both destinations are pretty much equal for me to get to by train. Obviously London will work out more expensive, but I can make a mini trip out of it anyway. I love queueing for barrier, so if The 02 have the best queue system then it may help swing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norwichred Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Maybe I'm being stupid here but people are complaining about these prices? I'm sure I paid more when I saw them in the O2 in 2009! I was expecting three figures per ticket! I spoke to my partner and she was "that's a really good price!" Ok, I'd love to pay less of course but this was less than I expected. Surely the top bands charge over £100. Sure we also paid £80 something for Queen in January. And fairly sure when we considered Paul Simon and Sting earlier this year that was more expensive too. Or am I missing something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobby Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Maybe I'm being stupid here but people are complaining about these prices? I'm sure I paid more when I saw them in the O2 in 2009! I was expecting three figures per ticket! I spoke to my partner and she was "that's a really good price!" Ok, I'd love to pay less of course but this was less than I expected. Surely the top bands charge over £100. Sure we also paid £80 something for Queen in January. And fairly sure when we considered Paul Simon and Sting earlier this year that was more expensive too. Or am I missing something? General admission tickets were just over £40 for the O2 in 2009. If you paid significantly more than that, then you probs bought from a tout. £70 for a band of Muse's level is expensive, especially for an arena gig. For comparison, standing tickets for T2L's stadium gigs were £50 (just over with added fees and whatnot). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forevermusic Posted September 12, 2015 Author Share Posted September 12, 2015 I was in seats for the O2 2009 gig I went to (when I picked the wrong night) and my tickets were in the £40 range. Not quite two for the price of one to this one, although MuseWiki says Wembley in 2007 was £37... I thought £65 was excessive for the 2012 arena show and refused to pay it, then wound up going on a £30 behind-stage seat, which would've been great had it not been for the oddly sterile nature of the sound. Seeing as I wasn't entirely happy with that, £50 (nearly as much as Emirates 2013) for the same seats and £75 for GA makes me wonder if they've lost their minds. Either that or hopeful I'd get what I think would be money's worth - a 2 1/2 hour set and proper drones rather than those shitty things people normally crash into parks. Wishful thinking ofc. Yet there's still a shitload of people both on here and on Twitter prepared to pay it, so maybe I'm the crazy one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norwichred Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Ok, my bad on the price. I was sure I paid more in 2009 but I paid official prices so I obviously didn't. I guess I'm stupid, as I will be prepared to pay this. Whether I can actually get tickets or not is another matter but I will try. What we were surprised at is the hotel we normally stay at for O2 gigs is £200 for the night which is three times what we normally pay . So will have to stay somewhere else if lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobby Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 They seem to have significantly bumped up their ticket prices across the board this time around and I don't know why. I think I even remember saying a couple of months ago that I was worried about how much the arena shows might cost. There was that whole debacle in Brazil, some rumours of Singapore prices being pretty silly, and then the Psycho Tour (yes, the gigs were great but £40+ for 15 songs in a tiny venue is bad). Why are they bumping them up this much now though? At this rate, if they do indeed do a stadium tour, you could be looking at £80-£90 for GA. It's not right imo, unless they seriously bump up their performances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forevermusic Posted September 12, 2015 Author Share Posted September 12, 2015 I do wanna go because despite it being pricey for what it was, Brighton was fantastic, and even when I've had gigs where I found something to be critical about, I do enjoy myself. I would've been alright paying this if it was a stadium tour (paid that for Foo Fighters, who would have only had a video screen had they not required Dave's Throne), but for the sodding O2, I'm not entirely on board. And yeah it does seem odd that the prices are more now. Sure, with inflation and increased costs, I get why they might be a bit more, but this seems ridiculous. Though if stadiums do happen, its worth noting that the Unsustainable tour was cheaper to do GA than T2L arenas were. Maybe I'll get lucky and find a second hand in the last few hours for less than that eye-whopping price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobby Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 I'm not sure what to do tbh. Obviously I'd like to go, especially as I haven't been to an arena gig for Muse before. Something just feels wrong about paying £70+ for what'll inevitably be about 21 songs though. I don't wanna support it, but I feel like enough people will/are that the band won't really notice or care if some people aren't happy. Edit: I wish Dee wasn't banned, I'd be interested in seeing his thoughts right about now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlecSp Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Could it be that the big prices are to pay for the set? All this talk of in the round makes me wonder how much towards something like U2's 360 set - which was *stupidly* expensive to fabricate and tour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobby Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Could it be that the big prices are to pay for the set? All this talk of in the round makes me wonder how much towards something like U2's 360 set - which was *stupidly* expensive to fabricate and tour. Like I said, prices for the Psycho Tour were bumped up a fair amount from what they should've been as well and that had a very minimal production. It could be something to do with the elaborate production, but it seems like prices have just been raised in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forevermusic Posted September 12, 2015 Author Share Posted September 12, 2015 I'm not sure what to do tbh. Obviously I'd like to go, especially as I haven't been to an arena gig for Muse before. Something just feels wrong about paying £70+ for what'll inevitably be about 21 songs though. I don't wanna support it, but I feel like enough people will/are that the band won't really notice or care if some people aren't happy. Edit: I wish Dee wasn't banned, I'd be interested in seeing his thoughts right about now Yeah I see that too. Its £20 more than Emirates 2013, which was 24 full songs, plus Isolated System and 2 drum&bass jams. Could it be that the big prices are to pay for the set? All this talk of in the round makes me wonder how much towards something like U2's 360 set - which was *stupidly* expensive to fabricate and tour. Well, the U2 360 set was with overheads of something like £750,000-a-day even when shows were not on, yet they still had a few thousand tickets per show at £30 (nosebleeds, yeah, but still), and GA was less than £70 (I think it was £65 but I'm not certain). It probably is the case this is pricey because of all the drones that Matt's hinted are in the toybox. Even if it is agreed that the Psycho Tour was pricey for what it was... maybe Q Prime charge higher fees than their old management do, ehdunno. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattestro Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 I'm not gonna bother I don't think, prices overly expensive and the sound at the O2 in 2012 was meh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antoftheproblematique Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Wow. I'm still half tempted purely based on it being my birthday the day after, but for 2 of us to go, I'm looking at nearly £150 when download cost us £190...on the scheme of things, seems very over the top... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scifigeekgirl Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 Bloody hell £65 and £8 admin fees is a bit much. The only thing that used to be OTT about Muse was the music... I'm sure the show will be brilliant, and I will go (or rather, try to). But lumping themselves price-wise in the middle-aged rock bracket is not a good sign. Is this the summit of their ambition - to be a bloaty U2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apoco123 Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 I am shocked with the ticket prices also... I'm still attempting to get one, but really can't afford more than just the one show and I really want to do Manchester and both O2 shows... I'm going to go for the VIP option though... I just hope we get to meet the guys too, that would be amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maturefan Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 I am shocked with the ticket prices also... I'm still attempting to get one, but really can't afford more than just the one show and I really want to do Manchester and both O2 shows... I'm going to go for the VIP option though... I just hope we get to meet the guys too, that would be amazing! I thought VIP meant being able to meet the band but someone on another thread said it doesn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forevermusic Posted September 15, 2015 Author Share Posted September 15, 2015 Doesn't say anything about meet-and-greet in the VIP deal. Just that you get a free buffet, VIP bar and lounge, early entry, a free poster/laminate, and "an exclusive interactive experience allowing guests to relive the greatest moments in Muse history" (which sounds hilarious). As much as I hate the idea of paid meet and greets, you'd think you have one of those for just shy of 200 Euros. Hell, if I was paying that, I'd wanna be able to request really obscure songs... maybe if CID Entertainment are reading, that can be a plan for any such packages on the 8th album tour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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