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On the cheap
Live Nation Canada will be holding a ticket sale during the week of April 29 – May 5. Tickets to selected venues and shows will be offered for $30 (that includes fess, but taxes are extra), and according to Toronto Sun, Deep Purple are among the artists that will be offered during the promo week. Mind you, those seats will probably be on the lawn / in the rafters, but there’s not much there a pair of binoculars can’t fix. Except sound. But 30 bucks are 30 bucks, and if you’re strapped for cash that’s what counts.
Starting April 29, visit LiveNation.ca/SummerofLive to see the full list of participating events and look for tickets labelled Summer of Live Promotion.
Thanks to Toronto Sun for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
30 Canadian $!
That’s 139,82 Danish kroner!
Or 18,72 €!
16,21 £
It’s almost worth it to travel to Canada to get tickets at that price 😃
April 25th, 2026 at 00:33Poor old Live Nation eh? They must be trying to snuggle up to concert goers, are they? Cheers.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/18/us-live-nation-and-ticketmaster-verdict-triggers-calls-for-australian-investigation-into-ticketing-rules
April 25th, 2026 at 09:11Do we think that this is Live Nation’s way of trying to give back to the community after being found a monopoly? Ticket prices should all be like this.
April 25th, 2026 at 15:18#2 MacGregor:
Months ago I wrote on these pages about the exorbitant prices of Live Nation concerts in Italy, on average €15 more than in other European countries…
I’m happy that it’s not a shitty situation just in Italy, and I’m happy that at least in Australia Live Nation’s lobbying behavior has ended up in the newspapers.
Unfortunately, as long as tickets are sold, prices may continue to rise.
I’ve resigned myself to seeing 2-3 concerts a year when in the past I saw even 20 a year, but I know how much a concert can be worth and if 30 years ago in the same year I saw big names like Deep Purple, Kiss, AC/DC, Rush, Springsteen, Europe plus other “cheap” groups for example, this year I’m only going to see the 2 Purple dates and maybe The Gathering.
I’d rather stay home and listen to the Ian Gillan band box set!
April 25th, 2026 at 22:37Ticket’s were being scalped by ticket distribution business. It’s been on the radar of the politicians to correct this issue. Last year ticket distributors decided to make a “low budget” ticket available. This is the 2nd time that this “sale” has happened. It most likely won’t happen again because you can no longer scalp tickets for Ontario shows
April 25th, 2026 at 23:07@3
“Do we think that this is Live Nation’s way of trying to give back to the community after being found a monopoly?”
Not giving back to the community but rather damage control. They’re trying polish their image after the judgement was announced.
Unfortunately for me Sparks, NV is not included as one of the 4,000 US shows.
April 26th, 2026 at 07:13@ 4- yes indeed Flay76. These gougers have been at it for decades and it has taken this long to bring them into line, or at least attempt to. They have appealed, so it isn’t a done deal yet. I am out of touch with modern day prices. although back in 2009 I paid $250 for a ‘silver’ ticket to Simon and Garfunkel. Something I would normally never do or will ever do again. The Platinum tickets were $350, Gold $300 and Bronze $180. That separation of prices for seating says it all. Predictable in this world these days. I remember when Pearl Jam toured here, back in the late 90’s I think it was and all they charged was $30 a ticket. Simply as a protest of sorts to the scroungers and gougers and as long as they covered their touring costs they were more than happy to do so for the fans. Obviously that situation cannot continue, however it was a good thing for them to do in raising awareness as to how much extra pricing can be added to everything. Cheers.
April 26th, 2026 at 10:27Mind you, tickets have in part become so pricey because it is basically the only way for vintage acts to make money these days. Taylor Swift could live from streaming, but I doubt DP could support their operation in the same way and CD/vinyl sales have become negligible. Being in the charts today does not equate to substantial analog sales like it did 40 to 50 years ago.
When DP toured in the 70s, tickets weren’t really priced to make money off the tour, the tours were promotion for increased album sales and radio play, that is where the money was. It made commercial sense to put a maximum amount of bums on seats at an affordable ticket price, have them spread the gospel and have concert goers then buy your albums.
That said, bulk ticked sales to “secondary market” scalpers and “dynamic pricing” of tickets are abominations of greed.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bvtBFSjzot4
April 26th, 2026 at 15:57@8
I suppose that I’m in a small way responsible… In the late 80’s I would often supplement my income by standing in line all night long in order to get the best tickets and then turn around an sell them to the Ticketmaster guy (there was always one lurking nearby with a briefcase full of cash) who would pay you up to 3 times face value.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96XJl7mxDtc
April 28th, 2026 at 07:40@ 9 – Russ 775, we are all appalled. Are you sure you didn’t write the lyrics to Love Don’t Mean a Thing from the Stormbringer album. Or moving along to moving up the echelons of society, Money by Pink Floyd.
If I work hard every day
For my money
If I work my fingers down to the bone
That ain’t funny, oh yeah
[Chorus]
Now if I see
Something I can’t buy
I put a dollar down
Then I try try try
To get my money
I need my money, oh yeah
Or even more to the point for Russ775, the million dollar man!
Money, get away
Go get a good job with more pay, and you’re okay
Money, it’s a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
[Refrain]
A new car, caviar, four-star daydream
Think I’ll buy me a football team
[Verse 2]
Money, well, get back
I’m alright, Jack, keep your hands off of my stack
Money, it’s a hit
Don’t give me that do goody-good bullshit
[Refrain]
April 28th, 2026 at 09:55I’m in the hi-fidelity first class travelling set
And I think I need a Learjet
Russ was an industrious young man with some real entrepreneurial frontiers spirit, way to go!
April 28th, 2026 at 11:48@ #9, #9, #9 (Sorry, couldn’t resist)
Yep, those of us of a certain age (Most of us on this site?) remember waiting, and even camping out for Tix at the local “Ticketron”, or better yet, the actual Box Office and you always got decent seats. I never off loaded any the the scalpers, but at least back then some effort had to be put into it so I did not begrudge them like I do now. Heck, even some Box Offices are just Ticketmaster outlets now so you still pay the stupid charges. On a note about the Service Charges, here in California (Maybe all the US?) the price that Ticketmaster shows is the price with the Charges, so there are no surprises until you get to the very end and find out that the $120 ticket that you are trying to buy really has a face value of about $85 – Yeesh!
April 28th, 2026 at 19:00@10, 11
No, it’s nothing like that… I did it to finance my then 24/7 party lifestyle. My 40 hours per week 9-5 job didn’t provide the necessary income to support my indulgences (not talkin’ about the religious kind). Damn, the 80’s were so much fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wAyM9Vda28
I’m not in the least bit greedy, not even a very good capitalist either… Look at my website, I don’t charge nearly as much as I could for the stuff I sell.
@12
I spent my share of nights sitting against the wall outside the ticket window at the San Diego Sports Arena. I probably left a permanent impression in it. Didn’t Ticketron end being ‘absorbed” by Ticketmonster?
April 29th, 2026 at 10:52Ah, that reminds me of my teenage son when he bought his first Gibson Custom Shop Les Paul “with his own money” because he didn’t want a “dad-bought guitar”. When I asked him where he got the money from, he revealed his business model: “I took my savings, bought some good hash, cut it to twice the amount and resold it in school. They thought my quality was so good, they keep coming back.”
– grave silence – 😑😑😑
To this day I’m proud of my measured parental reaction after everything had settled in. I said. “Son, I welcome your entrepreneurial spirit greatly, but your business model raises some very serious issues – frankly, I don’t even know where to begin, but we really have to talk!” 🤣
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWWXfkkRGyM
April 30th, 2026 at 17:47@ 14 -Wouldn’t you have been better off sampling the product that he was selling first Uwe? I am not talking about the guitar. Then at least you would have known what he was involved in. At least your son was a Led Zeppelin aficionado, he appeared to be heading the right direction by the sound of it and trying his hardest to steer his father in the right direction too. Does anybody remember laughter?
Walking in the park just the other day, baby
What do you, what do you think I saw?
Crowds of people sitting on the grass
With flowers in their hair said
“Hey, boy, do you wanna score?”
And you know how it is?
[Chorus]
I really don’t know what time it was
Woah-oh-oh
So I asked them if I could stay a while
[Verse 2]
I didn’t notice, but it had got very dark, and I was really
Really out of my mind
Just then a policeman stepped up to me
Asked us said please, hey, would we care
To all get in line, get in line?
[Chorus]
April 30th, 2026 at 19:02Well, you know
They asked us to stay for tea and have some fun
Hoh-oh-oh
He said that his friends would all drop by
That is what Martina, my wife at the time, said too,
Herr MacGregor, she scolded our son for withholding what was apparently high quality from us! 🤣
https://youtu.be/EsyUa63NM1E
May 6th, 2026 at 11:47Ha ha ha ha, indeed Uwe. Remember this song from the Easy Rider film and Cheech and Chong did their version of it too. Don’t Bogart That Joint. Cheers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-ifjIAoleI
May 7th, 2026 at 10:02