A while back I had a little rant about the additional charges applied to ticket prices when buying from somewhere like Ticketmaster. Well, the event for which the tickets were purchased finally arrived this week - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at Somerset House.
For some reason I neglected to put a reminder in my diary and I almost forgot about it. Fortunately I was reminded in time. We were (again) pretty fortunate with the weather - Somerset House is an outdoor venue - and we had a perfect evening with not a cloud in the sky. The gig was amazing - an hour and a half of all BRMC's best tracks.
As seems to be happening more often these days, I didn't have my camera with me, so had to make do with the Nokia N73. It did surprisingly well considering it was dark.
A little bit of a rant coming up. Apologies.
Before going on holiday last week I bought some gig tickets from Ticketmaster and as well as adding a £3.00 service charge per ticket to the transaction price, they also wanted £2.00 to deliver the tickets ... by email!
Yesterday I was looking at tickets for another event and the charges were similarly offensive - £2.50 service charge per ticket, plus £4.95 for postage. A fiver? For an envelope (stuffed with adverts no doubt) and a stamp?
Funnily enough, this practice has been in the news today (and, more humorously, here). Maybe something will be done, or maybe its just a politician making some noise to get noticed and look cool. In the meantime, your best option is to shop around - if you can get to the box office and pay cash it will probably be cheapest, otherwise there are a number of on-line agencies available, for example See Tickets, Express Events and (the cheapest for the ticket I was looking for at least) Ticket Web.
I've not gone. It may have been more than a week since I posted, but I'm still here. I've been in Cornwall (where a lot of people seem to think their county is, or should be, a separate country for some reason) on holiday - on maybe the wettest week this year. There are a few photos to follow I promise!
Me and Mrs L just got back home this afternoon to a nice, clean, and non-burgled house (since I had my bike stolen last year, having things stolen seems to be a psychological concern - if I was American I might consider counselling) and since then we've watched last week's Lost (hey Neil - it's great!) and a bit of Eurovision (hah! we almost came last!) and I've drunk straight Smirnoff (like James Bond) and listened to music.
Tip Top.
In fact I've just rediscovered Inspiral Carpets - excellent band. I've even gone as far as ordering Revenge of the Goldfish from Amazon - I attest that this is the one of the best album covers ever. Care to argue? Do you have a better one?
