Crikey!
http://www.list.co.uk/article/8567-tom-waits-to-play-scotland/
I foresee a weighty ticket price, a testing dilemma, an impulse decision, an overdraft extension and then a very, very special night.
- Features: * Tech (No) Logic #2: Black Cab Sessions
- Reviews: * Tricky - Knowle West Boy
- Reviews: * The National at London Hyde Park, Fri 04 Jul
- Features: * Pinback's Rob Crow on penning perfect indie-pop
- Features: * Brothers rise from their Graves: Jaguar Love's fresh start
- Reviews: * John Matthias - Stories From The Watercooler
- Reviews: * Heloise & The Savoir Faire - Trash, Rats And Microphones
- Reviews: * The Dawn Chorus - The Big Adventure
- Reviews: * Abe Vigoda - Skeleton
- Reviews: * Ratatat - LP3
- Reviews: * Comets On Fire at London Kilburn The Luminaire, Sat 05 Jul
- Reviews: * Beck - Modern Guilt
- Features: * Supersonic 2008: the DiS preview
- Features: * Singles Round-up (07/07/08)
- Features: * Independents Day 2008: three labels on what it means to be indie
Drowned in Sound Event sponsored tours and events.
- * Her Name Is Calla, Glissando @ Cardiff 10 Feet Tall, 9/07
- * Ladytron, Interpol @ Sheffield Academy, 9/07
- * The Magnetic Fields @ London Cadogan Hall, 10/07
- * Sonic Cathedral @ London Heavenly Social, 10/07
- * Asva, Gravetemple @ London Camden Underworld, 10/07
- * My Morning Jacket @ Nottingham The Rescue Rooms, 11/07
- * The Gutter Twins @ Oxford Zodiac / Academy 2, 11/07
- * Harmonia @ Glasgow ABC, 11/07
- * Post War Years, William, Eugene McGuinness @ London Kings Cross Cross Kings, 11/07
- * DiScover Club @ RoTa @ London Notting Hill Arts Club, 12/07
- * other sounds presents... @ Manchester Kro Bar, 13/07
- * Pinback, Prego, DiS DJs, Phosphorescent @ London King's Cross Scala, 14/07
- * Shearwater @ Glasgow The Captain's Rest, 14/07
- * Parts & Labor @ London Corsica Studios, 14/07
- * Leonard Cohen @ Edinburgh Castle, 16/07
Home > Community > Music forum
- News: * Calvin Harris frustrated with Dizzee number one
- News: * Giant Sand to release first album for four years
- News: * Sigur Rós find inspiration in Eurovision
- News: * Mark Ronson to flog NME Award on eBay
- News: * Get a taste of F**ked Up's The Chemistry of Common Life here
- News: * Bowie gets covered on new !K7 comp; Au Revoir Simone on their choice of song
- News: * Watch: new Bloc Party single
- News: * The Automatic: first post-Pennie material due
- News: * WIN! Tickets to this year's Underage Festival in London
- News: * Future Of The Left announce pre-Reading tour dates
- News: * Brighton's Beachdown Festival confirms more acts
- News: * Wooden Shjips and The Heads: co-headlining from this week
- News: * ZOO8: the worst festival ever? Attendees speak out
- News: * Gang Of Four confirmed as Offset headliners
- News: * Points of the Compass: new London festival details
- Board_threads: * F**ked Up vs. Interpol (festival clash #2)
- Board_threads: * Beck
- Board_threads: * radiohead fans make me larf (generalisation-centric)
- Board_threads: * Coalesce - 0:12 Revolution In Just Listening
- Board_threads: * Blur
- Board_threads: * Booty Electro
- Board_threads: * Worst Lyrics Ever
- Board_threads: * The Organ, NEW ep!!
- Board_threads: * My parents just heard In Rainbows
- Board_threads: * Last.fm (best thead on the music board-centric)
- Board_threads: * Best song with a trumpet
- Board_threads: * Dour Festival
- Board_threads: * David Cronenberg's Wife / The Owlls / Voodoo Trombone Quartet at 93 Feet East
- Board_threads: * Best Blonde Redhead?
- Board_threads: * super adventure club + Mitchell Museum, glasgow.
Staff Contacts
|
RSS feeds 
|
T&Cs
|
© DrownedinSound.com
|
From the Archive - Drowned in Sound SXSW Must See Bands
|
T&Cs
|
© DrownedinSound.com
|
From the Archive - Drowned in Sound SXSW Must See Bands
Who cares what it costs....
a ticket must be got!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hmmm...I wonder when the Dublin date is...
....
This would be pretty appalling if it was to be confirmed...no?
That's nearly twice the price of tickets in the USA.
...
Dublin dates are 30th and 31st I believe. I think this has already been "confirmed" by various Irish radio stations.
that news
has made me physically sick
£95?
That's a fucking disgrace.
That's fucked
but if it really is his only UK date, I've got to go.
It'll be an adventure. I've never been to Scotland...
2 birds 1 stone....
and all that.
The thought of seeing Tom Waits live gets me very very excited.
How fucking hard will it be to get a ticket?
think carbon steel
and then think a bit harder than that
ADAMANTIUM
Wolverine's unbreakable bones and claws level of hardness.
Fuck, there's no way I can justify this. Fucking arrgrhhh. Surely he'll do a real tour within a year or two???
is it £95?
nothing is worth £95
or
75 pound, which is only slightly more than last time really
there's literally a bazillion people
who will be more than happy to pay that price so fair enough really
There's no way I can afford that!
Damn him. Although it's only a few days after my birthday so some quality hinting could land me a ticket. Now, just gotta think of someone I know who likes the Waits.
£75/95
That IS a fucking disgrace. Love Tom Waits, love Edinburgh, but that is WAY too much money to shell out...
agreed.
surely it doesn't cost 95/75 x amount of people they can fit in venue.
So someones making a massive profit.
that'll be without booking fee etc
I love the guys music but fuck paying that, 50% more than I paid to see Aretha Franklin in New York in March
I can go and listen to
Toy Mic Trevor in the town centre for a fraction of that. I am sure if I chuck him a bottle of Johnnie Walker and a copy of Raindogs to scat along too he'd oblige.
The Hammersmith show
in 2004 was just sublime, I was lucky enough to get a ticket.
Including booking fee it was almost £75 for that gig, which is easily the most I have ever paid for a single show, but it was worth it.
I wanted to see Neil Young again when he played Hammersmith in March, but when I got through to buy tickets, it worked out at £84 a ticket inc fees, which is just fucking wrong.
Paying £95/£75 plus booking fee for Waits seems in Edinburgh is way too steep though.......
The capacity of the Playhouse is just over 3000, which means he'll gross somewhere in the region of £250K PER SHOW!
Obviously, he doesn't pocket all that, but it makes you think what he does earn... is any artist 'worth' that?
I can't think of a single performer that charges more (except Madonna I suppose, but if your idea of a night out is Madonna at £150 a shot, then you've got too much money or a fool....)
She does Pantera covers though
Im actually sick
with excitement.
I said edinburgh as a joke to my friends.
who's laughing now?
Not me, im too nervous.
demand?
I'm hoping to get tickets to either night, anyone have any idea what my chances are like?
fuck this again
my favourite musician ever is a fucking money grabbing cunt and can fuck off
OH MY GOD
GOES
Wait
£75
I actually feel like crying now.
think yourself lucky you dont live in france
the best tickets there are £130. Yet the cheapest are £40.
What gets me is the fact that the tickets to the US shows were all about $80-$85 dollars- thats £40 a ticket.... which is about ok.
I can't possibly believe they 'forgot' the dollar is worth half of the pound and even less vs the euro- have they just changed the monetary signs (like some US tour bands do with their merch....)
anyhow- the fact that they are employing 'anti-scalping policy so the real fans get in seems a little hollow when tickets are more that a tout would play anyway....
OH MY GOD
so excited, i live in edinburgh, and assumed there'd only be alondon show so ticket cost doesn't bother me as now no need to pay for travel or accomodation, win win YES!
might try
for another european country if he does them
*Much* better chance of getting a ticket for Dublin, I think
Bigger venue, more dates.
ebay
The ONE day that I can't be home to buy tickets
and they have to go onsale that day
WHY?
Utterly rubbish :(
Tickets must be got though!
this is definitely confirmed now
edinburgh is the only uk date :(
http://www.antilabelblog.com/?p=246
i REALLY want to see him but don't think i can afford flights and a hotel for the night in edinburgh.
i suppose i'll have a check on expedia to see what sort of money i'll be looking at.