Phil Collins 'Backstage' pass will cost you £8999

[Rufus]

Source TeamRock

Tickets on the secondary market for Phil Collins upcoming Not Dead Yet UK tour are selling for more than £600.

Collins will play six dates in June, including five nights at London’s Royal Albert Hall. And with tickets selling fast, prices have begun to rise sharply on Viagogo.

Tickets for the London shows on the site are now on offer for up to £660 – despite only going on general sale last Friday.

And last week, before the tickets were released, the site began advertising passes for £8999 for Collins’ Liverpool show at the city’s Echo Arena, sparking outrage from Nigel Adams MP, chair of the parliamentary group on music.

He told the Liverpool Echo: “This is another outrageous attempt to fleece genuine music fans. I was glad to be able to raise this issue at Prime Minister’s Questions, and am pleased with the Government’s commitment to act, but since my question was aired, more and more music fans have got in touch with me to share their experiences, and I’m dismayed that I’ve heard ever more ludicrous examples of fans being ripped off.”

Just last week, Iron Maiden reported success in the war against ticket touts and counterfeiters following the introduction of ‘paperless ticketing’ to ensure fans were able to buy tickets at the intended price.

They, along with Radiohead and Foo Fighters wrote an open letter to the UK government calling on them to crack down on secondary sales two years ago.

And, in 2015, the Grateful Dead added extra Fare Thee Well dates to give fans a better chance to see the band after tickets for the original concerts in Chicago began changing hands for $10,000 on the secondary market.

In addition to the six indoor shows, Collins will also perform at the British Summer Time festival at London’s Hyde Park on June 30.

[Gruno]

What exactly does 'backstage' refer to here? I do not see it defined.

[flowerking]

Phil needs more money. He wants to buy the Alamo.

[Obscured]

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$998.98 per seat, face price. Foreigner. Yep.

[Jefferson James]

$998.98 per seat, face price. Foreigner. Yep.

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[chalkpie]

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My grandfather's girlfriend was very good friends with Lou Gramm, and they used to have him over for pasta dinner a few times (for free I suppose). My grandpa had never heard of Foreigner.

[yamishogun]

Is there a reason that we shouldn't expect supply and demand to work for concerts?

What is Phil bitching and moaning about?

[battema]

I'm confused...is Phil Collins charging those prices, or are those the inflated prices on secondary markets (which sound conspicuously like scalpers)?

[battema]

Is there a reason that we shouldn't expect supply and demand to work for concerts?

What is Phil bitching and moaning about?

Where did you read a quote from Collins about him bitching? I don't see anything in the article copied above.

[Vonta Jitty]

More of any example of the disparity of wealth in the UK. There are numerous individuals who can easily afford this with no bother at all. Unfortunately there are multitudes of employed people who don't even earn £8999 in a year

[Scrotum Scissor]

You know you can get a backstage pass and meet the drummer in The Musical Box for a quickie and a bag of onion mustard pretzels, right? At least if you let him give you a wedgie in return.

He's the alter ego of Collins' personae, just as TMB are the realest of real things. If you offer him a nip at the earlobe he'll stay in character and even allow you to join the tour as sophisticated art-rock groupie wearing a 70s wig and burlesque baroque-cockpiece outfit. It's progressive.

[JKL2000]

You know you can get a backstage pass and meet the drummer in The Musical Box for a quickie and a bag of onion mustard pretzels, right? At least if you let him give you a wedgie in return.

He's the alter ego of Collins' personae, just as TMB are the realest of real things. If you offer him a nip at the earlobe he'll stay in character and even allow you to join the tour as sophisticated art-rock groupie wearing a 70s wig and burlesque baroque-cockpiece outfit. It's progressive.

If I met the drummer from TMB I'd tell him "I loved you in Buster!" Or "I WILL love you in Buster!"

[Gruno]

More of any example of the disparity of wealth in the UK. There are numerous individuals who can easily afford this with no bother at all. Unfortunately there are multitudes of employed people who don't even earn £8999 in a year

Entertainment (buying music, going to concerts, etc) is a luxury; not a necessity in life.

[yamishogun]

Where did you read a quote from Collins about him bitching? I don't see anything in the article copied above.

You're right. I read it too fast. I take it back, Mr. Collins!

The quote was from the "chair of the parliamentary group on music." What is up with Britain? Have they turned into Plato's Republic?

[Scott Bails]

So....we're blaming Phil Collins for large prices on the secondary market?

You're precious, Rufus.

[Gruno]

So....we're blaming Phil Collins for large prices on the secondary market?

You're precious, Rufus.

He'll find any way to jab Phil Collins. Old hat, by now.

[JKL2000]

Entertainment (buying music, going to concerts, etc) is a luxury; not a necessity in life.

But going to concerts used to be much more affordable for most people. It's definitely become much more of a luxury. Or at least so much more expensive proportionally that it might give one pause as to whether they'd rather go to a concert or fly somewhere.

I priced tickets to a new Broadway (different from a concert, I know, but similar trajectory) version of the old Willy Wonka movie, and the front orchestra seats are about $500. I'd sooner put $1000 in my kid's college fund than spend it on two hours of singing and dancing.

[ronmac]

Phil needs more money. He wants to buy the Alamo.

He plans to add a studio in the basement.

[bRETT]

I'm confused...is Phil Collins charging those prices, or are those the inflated prices on secondary markets (which sound conspicuously like scalpers)?

Sounds conspicuously like Ticketmaster to me. Not too far from the way tickets on the current Midnight Oil tour were sold out at 10:01, and all over StubHub at 10:02.

[JJ88]

Please explain how ticket touts are Phil's fault, Rufus.

[tdotdo]

Please explain how ticket touts are Phil's fault, Rufus.

It's Phil's fault because he is still popular and Rufus can't stand that.

[Sean]

This^^^^

[Rufus]

So....we're blaming Phil Collins for large prices on the secondary market?

You're precious, Rufus.

Where in my post do I blame Collins when the article is clearly about 'rip off' ticket organisations who buy in bulk and then screw the public!

BTW, I was lucky enough to get tickets for my Granma & Granpa, they love easy listening ballads from any era!

[JJ88]

'Your post' is a TeamRock post, to be pedantic.

[Rufus]

As stated as the source