Another Radiohead Blog

Their upcoming show has become quite the buzz.

The question is, if one can actually manage to get their hands on Radiohead tickets, how much will they cost? Being a poor college student, will I be able to afford this?

Since the band is not with a record label, I am hoping for prices to be on the lower end of the money spectrum.

Today, their website sells tickets in Dublin for £46.80. Which, as of Jan. 11, amounts to about $91.59 in the U.S.

Tickets in Glasgow are £38.50, about $75.36.

I stumbled across a blog posted Dec. 7 in Analogue Magazine talking about the high concert prices. Analogue's Karl McDonald interviewed Phil, of Radiohead, on the matter.

Analogue: Tickets for your gig in Dublin in Malahide Castle went on sale this morning and it’s very expensive, it’s €70.70 [$105.11] and there’s been some discussion of how you can justify the fair way of releasing your album and then charge that much for a tour gig?

Phil: Right, and what’s been the general response on that?

Analogue: Well I mean it is the most expensive gig of the tour and there’s been arguements that you’re pricing out some fans, people who may have bought the diskbox, big fans or students who don’t have that much money to come to a gig.

Phil: Right.

Analogue: Do you have any reaction to that?

Phil: Eh, well whenever we’ve looked at ticket prices and set them, we’ve wanted to make them as fair as possible so I would hope that we’ve pitched it right on this one, make it as fair as possible on the price. You know we’ve never really set out to max, as they say, our tour revenue so I think we’ve always put out reasonably priced tickets. That’s as much as I can say really.

A coworker told me that two years ago, tickets to Radiohead ran about $120 in Chicago.

I suppose forking out the money for Radiohead is really not so bad. They need to make their living somehow. And people will, afterall, pay the price.

I mean, come on, people pay upwards of $130 to see the Spice Girls all the time.