My Bloody Valentine show announced
By Jon Solomon in This Just In
Thursday, Mar. 12 2009 @ 5:38PM
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Ryan says:
It would be really fun to catch 'em live, but who wants to pay $40 to see a show that will be so unbearably loud, you have to wear earplugs?
Is it me, or are concert prices just outrageous these days? What happened to national bands and $18-$25 tickets? Touring costs are as low as they've been in years, yet the price of admission is easily 40% higher than it was 8-10 years ago. How's AEG and Livenation's stock these days? Are concerts recession-proof too?
Something tells me I'll just be reading the review, unfortunately.
Posted On: Friday, Mar. 13 2009 @ 3:20PM
Crawf says:
I have to disagree here - I expected this show to be in the $60-85 range, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that it is only $40. In fact, that's a deal in my book... it's MBV dude. I would pay $40 just to hear the first four chords of "Only Shallow" in a live setting.
Earplugs in or out: this is gonna be fuckin' awesome either way.
wondering says:
MBV getting booked at Coachella for big money was one thing as festival ticketbuyers also got to see lots of other headliner bands. The promoters didn't have to rely on just MBV to sell tickets, they had dozens of compelling well known bands that people were willing to see and pay good money for.
The $40 MBV Fillmore ticket represents what is...about a 1/4th of a one day Coachella ticket isn't it? And Coachella had dozens of well known bands...
It will be interesting to say the least to see if this band can sell out the 3500 tickets to the Denver Fillmore at $40 each!
Kevin says:
I could be upset at the ticket price, but the sheer loudness of this band will actually make the Fillmore seems less sad and empty then it has for most acts that play there.
And the price is nothing compared to what Girl Talk was charging. I really do not understand how one guy with a laptop could feel ok charging $50+ at a small venue
but hell he sold it out right?
margemayhem says:
I saw MBV in San Francisco this last October, and won't be attending the Denver show.
I love the band passionately, but thought they sounded like sh*t. There's more to a live show than being ridiculously loud. No way am I going to pay $40 to experience that show again.
I saw them numerous times in the 90s and they were loud (although not as loud), but still sounded good. Why do you have to give up sound quality for sound "quantity?"
Posted On: Friday, Apr. 24 2009 @ 8:44AM
Anonymous says:
love the band..im mean...I LOVE this band, but i didnt go..for the same reasons; didnt want to have my ears assaulted unnessarily, and on top of it not be able to hear any of the vocals..thats just annoying, and lame. and pay over 40 bucks. Im over the novelty of super loud being equal to super cool... I would rather have a great show, than be able say "i was part of the 'holocaust'" the crap noise interlude that they have stupidly self named...
Posted On: Saturday, Apr. 25 2009 @ 10:13AM
jeff says:
Seriously, if you didn't go to this show, you missed out on the opportunity of a lifetime. Besides MBV, who were powerful, musical and incredible, the first opening band, Brightblack Morning Light was even better. You could feel them feeling their own music as they played. Makes me want to go to NorCal to see them again live.
I have been pleasantly surprised to get to see a lot of my faves from my college days play live lately, and MBV was top of the list.
By the time the holocaust was going, I was getting ready to split. It was kind of funny to see the "WTF" expressions on the staff at the Fillmore during that jam.
Count me as one that is so happy to have paid the meager sum of 40 bucks to see one of my favorite bands ever return from the dead and play live, as it seemed while I was there, for me.
