Price Shock For AC/DC Fans In New Zealand
July 19, 2009, 15 years ago
Tom Cardy from Stuff.co.nz is reporting:
Their dirty deeds may be done dirt cheap but when it comes to seeing rock legends AC/DC, fans can expect to be thunderstruck by the hefty ticket price.
All tickets to the Australian rockers' concert at Westpac Stadium on January 28 will cost $159.90.
Wellington is the first date of the band's Australasian tour and tickets go on sale on July 28. The band will also perform at Auckland's Western Springs on February 4.
It is the first rock concert at the stadium not to vary ticket prices. Even The Rolling Stones in 2006 seen by a crowd of 40,000 had ticket prices from $55 to $350. When AC/DC last played New Zealand in 1996, tickets cost $59 (the equivalent of $77 today).
The band's long-time promoter, Garry Van Egmond, said the price of general admission tickets to stand on the pitch - usually some of the cheapest - would have been higher if they had not set one price for all tickets. A big factor was the preference of AC/DC audiences wanting to stand on the pitch to see the band, rather than be seated.
About half the ticket sales to AC/DC's shows in Australia had been for general admission, rather than reserved seating. "That was one way of keeping them down to one price. Our audience has widened much more, it's now young kids to 60-year-olds."
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