Vicky Jessop
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43 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
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These tours hit multiple cities, sometimes night after night.
If you stay in fewer places for a longer period of time, that's less exhausting for the artist.
And it's more lucrative.
Touring is more expensive than it's ever been.
And fans expect elaborate sets these days, since sporting them across the world is not cheap.
So staying in one place for longer is a good way of keeping outlays down and products up, in addition to making it easier for artists to secure good support pack.
For the chosen cities who get lucky, often London, often New York or Los Angeles, this means huge windfalls.
So stars and fans are expected to spend £1 billion on tickets, accommodation and other expenses in London alone, according to Barclays.
Similarly to Taylor Swift, whose multi-night residency in Wembley injected a predicted £1 billion into the UK economy.
But there are losers in this too.
For the smaller regional cities bumped from the schedule, such as Manchester and Coventry, it means losing access to megastars and fans' spending power, as well as smaller artists.
The way we gig is changing.
Instead of dropping 50 quid on a Wednesday night gig, concerts have become modern Super Bowl-style events.
People splash out and are willing to spend the money, but they demand spectacle in return.
Still, despite the expense, fans don't seem to mind going on the road themselves.
Around 25% of the fans watching Mr Styles at Wembley are travelling from outside London, and 28% are turning the occasion into a mini-break.
Last year, a survey of 3,000 UK adults showed that more than a third said they booked overnight accommodation to attend the gig,
One person who was at Harry Styles' opening night at Wembley travelled 1,500 miles from central Romania, whilst another travelled 3,900 miles from Indiana in the USA to be one of the first in line when the doors opened.
These days, concert goers are cultural tourists as well as gig goers.
In an age where music is cheap and increasingly easy to access, live shows have acquired a new social value.
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