Dream Theater New tour overpriced??

[jcmistat]

For the U.S. ADToE tour I payed $47.50 for the 1st leg and $62.50 2nd leg. Same venue as well. I'd be willing to pay more if its an Evening With.

[FrostbiteZ]

The way I see it, I was a little late to the game (becoming a fan just after the release of Black Clouds), and well, realistically, you gotta get out and see them whenever you can!!

Being a latecomer myself I can only agree with you. I will dig deep into my pockets for bands like DT Rush and AC/DC

[goo-goo]

DT plays big venues in Europe and Asia. I guess the supply/demand in those countries is there.

Back in the US, DT should be playing smaller venues. Read some of the reviews and some of the venues seemed to be not even 70% full (correct me if I'm wrong).

[King Postwhore]

They fill 2000 to 4000 seat arenas here.  What's the size in Europe arenas?

[jonnybaxy]

If these prices stay the same, (£50+) I simply might not be able to afford it, as someone said, I'm a late comer and joined as ADToE was released, I felt like i didn't know them well enough for that tour, so now I'm in education so low on money, can't afford it at the moment and I'm wondering if i'll be able to any time soon...

[Jinx]

If these prices stay the same, (£50+) I simply might not be able to afford it, as someone said, I'm a late comer and joined as ADToE was released, I felt like i didn't know them well enough for that tour, so now I'm in education so low on money, can't afford it at the moment and I'm wondering if i'll be able to any time soon...

Scrimp and save my friend. Life is too short to worry about that. Plus they are just amazing live!! 

[jonnybaxy]

If these prices stay the same, (£50+) I simply might not be able to afford it, as someone said, I'm a late comer and joined as ADToE was released, I felt like i didn't know them well enough for that tour, so now I'm in education so low on money, can't afford it at the moment and I'm wondering if i'll be able to any time soon...

Scrimp and save my friend. Life is too short to worry about that. Plus they are just amazing live!! 

Trust me, since I got into them, I've just obsessed and obsessed about them, I'd love nothing more than to see them live but it seems like when money is sparse everything you want comes at the same time!

[DreamerTV]

They fill 2000 to 4000 seat arenas here.  What's the size in Europe arenas?

From a couple of thousands to 10/12,000 (Palalottomatica in Roma and Filaforum di Assago in Milan, and in 2007 they sold out both of them)

[?]

I think the capacity of Helsinki Ice Hall is something like 5000 for concerts IIRC.

[Perpetual Change]

IMHO it's a somewhat futile exercise to try to find specific markers in time that caused a rise in ticket prices. It's a simple supply vs. demand thing. People are willing to shell out the money these days.

...Are they?

I'm not exactly up-together on my world economics at the moment - but I figured the prices we're comparing against each other, generally, are either side of an economic recession. People were tripping money, back then, and have bugger all money nowadays. If there's any reason for a price hike, I wondered if it might've been that. Concerts are a riskier business now people aren't as happy to spend on luxuries, but it's a unique product and there's a core audience who'll always buy any given gig, so make as much money as possible off those customers and anything else is a bonus.

Good point. I'd say myself and most people I know are a lot less likely to splurge on a concert these days. Maybe that's maturity, or the fact we're all just getting older and have bigger expenses now, but either way it's true. I've already resigned myself to the fact that I'll be missing several of my favorite bands this year.

[duncan3dc]

They fill 2000 to 4000 seat arenas here.  What's the size in Europe arenas?

The Manchester Apollo seats 3500 here in the UK, and they've not sold that out on their last few visits (if ever)

[BlastParadigm]

I'm only going to pay 30€.
I'm from Portugal. And I think Spain has prices around 32€, if I'm not mistaken.

I can't even express the joy of paying such a low price to see a band I love with all my heart :x

[Cyclopssss]

The Ahoy here seats 8 to 10.000 so that´s pretty huge, yeah.

[aprilethereal]

The venue I plan to go to has about 5000 seats.

[TTD]

Wolverhampton Civic Hall - 2215 capacity

Smallest venue on the tour?

[JayOctavarium]

They did play The City National Grove twice on the Dramatic Tour. Capacity 1700. I'd be OKAY if they played there again on the NA leg