Is the entertainment economy out of control?
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Why are Oasis tickets at Slane costing over €200 while Fontaines tickets are under €150?
The Pat Kenny Show on News Talk. The first round of tickets to see Oasis in Slayne went on sale yesterday morning at nine AM. General admission tickets cost over 180 Euro, while front standing tickets are over 210 Euro. VIP options, well they're also available, priced somewhere between 365 and 590 euro. That's before the service charge. In comparison, Fontaine's DC are also playing Slaying next year. Their general admission and front standing tickets range from around 96 euro to 140 euro. So how is there such a big jump in price? I'm now joined by Niall Byrne, also known as Nile9, to talk about what is happening with the entertainment economy. You're very welcome to the studio, Nile. And look, I have to admit, my family WhatsApp group, the siblings WhatsApp group, has
has been absolutely hopping for the last forty eight hours. We all applied for codes, one gotta code. There's no dynamic pricing. We know what we're going to be paying. We have now paid it this morning. We have secured the tickets. And you
mind saying how much you paid for it or how much you expected to pay for it and how much you did actually pay for it? It was And I just hope my husband doesn't
listen 'cause I haven't even told him that I was considering going next year. Two hundred and twenty six euro.
How does the new code‑entry system affect ticket pricing and fan access?
Have we just been really ripped off?
Um I mean that's one way to look at it, but I guess in one way, you know, there's clearly demand for the Oasis tickets, as have we seen last year from their two gigs here. Those tickets they could be priced in any way. And obviously last year with the dynamic price and stuff, a lot of people felt like they were suddenly surprised or taken for granted in that way, 'cause you were offered what you were often platinum tickets and what was the extra? There was no extra. So this is something we're seeing a lot now in the last five years. Of kind of the Americanization of ticketing in Ireland, the platinum pricing, the dynamic pricing, the premium and tiered pricing are all the way across. It's no longer you get a ticket.
So Harry Stiles, for example, is charging uh one of his ticket prices is fifty one euro for a seated ticket, probably up high up in the rafters in the stadium. The nosebleed seats. Yeah, exactly. And he's also doing 20 quid tickets, which are we don't When you go further, as close as you can get, it goes up to two hundred and twenty six euro. So you can get into the stadium or get into the arena, but the cost you pay will depend on how close you want to be. So that's the thing, isn't it?
And what they're also doing is creating the system whereby you have to apply for a code, you have to answer a question about Oasis, then you get a particular slot how
much you actually like Oasis. Exactly. Exactly.
I had to do a quick Google what year was the album what's the story, Morning Glory released and I think was one of the questions. Is that sort of deliberate, do you think? Is that part of the strategy? Because the way we felt when we got a code, when one of the five of us got a code, was that we were almost lucky.
What role does demographic age play in the price gap between Oasis and Fontaines?
Like we were almost privileged. We were almost revelated tickets.
You got like the reason that exists in the first place really is for to stop uh bots essentially buying the tickets. That's would be the official reason. But I think it does draw up that interest and it does draw up that idea that you are, you know, in a special uh you're you're in the special round, you you you're actually showing interest. Obviously, you know, Oasis, uh you know, a traditional you know, a band of a certain age, they would are now building their huge mailing list with all these people as well. You know, you're giving them their your details. They now have your details. You know, you've they can use that going forward. We don't know what's gonna happen after these Oasis gigs, but you know, that's power.
Having that information is power in in the modern world. Having thousands and thousands of people on a mailing list. So yeah, I think there's certainly an aspect of you have these tickets.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why are Oasis tickets at Slane costing over €200 while Fontaines tickets are under €150?
0:01–1:24
2
How does the new code‑entry system affect ticket pricing and fan access?
1:24–2:59
3
What role does demographic age play in the price gap between Oasis and Fontaines?
2:59–4:10
4
Why are premium, platinum and dynamic pricing models becoming standard in Irish ticketing?
4:10–5:37
5
How do extra costs (bus, food, babysitting) push a concert night to €400 total?
5:37–6:40
6
What impact do inflation, insurance, Brexit and streaming royalties have on ticket prices?
6:40–7:59
7
Why are grassroots venues closing while big festivals and stadium gigs charge more?
7:59–9:20
8
Is there a ceiling for concert ticket prices, or will they keep rising?
9:20–10:49