Dee Reddy

And people are noticing when they go on these tickets that would have been predicted to sell out very, very quickly, like we saw with, say, Oasis last year.

there's a lot of blue dots.

And so people have coined the term blue dot fever to describe this.

And they're suggesting that it's contagious.

Now, there's a number of reasons this could be happening.

One, I think, look, at the end of the day, and I do a lot of commentary on music as well, I think the price of gigs has just been ratcheted so high, so high.

It's crazy.

Yeah, it really is.

And I think we're reaching sort of critical mass of what people are willing to pay.

Yeah, that's exactly it.

And often the tickets that might be advertised as being the kind of entry level ticket price, there aren't that many of them available.

Impossible to get.

Yeah, so the blue dots that you're seeing probably aren't the originally advertised ticket price, let's face it.

And I think as well, though, there's a lot of bands who might have been predicted or might have seen what, say, happened with Oasis who thought, oh, yeah, I can...

get a bit of that.

I'll kind of go for the nostalgia market, but it just it hasn't played out for them.

And so the term blue dot fever is describing that, that they're saying it's contagious, that as the as the appetite, I guess, for these tours wanes, that more and more artists are going to be cancelling.

The most recent one, I think the big one was the Pussycat Dolls.

They absolutely decimated their planned tour.

They pulled all but one show in North America after, they said, taking an honest look at the run.