But there's still crazy money being asked for tickets despite the fact we're all on the bread line. If living standards have gone back to the '90s or whatnot how come ticket prices (and fucking everything else while we're at it?) haven't followed suit?
A lot of peoples jobs rely on getting big acts to come here so they're still paying them through the nose to come here and still asking the punter to pay the same amount.
It's not really that size event that suffers, It's the mid sized gigs where the profit margins are quite thin. It wouldn't make huge financial sense for someone like for example Rocket From The Crypt to go to Dublin unless they A charged around €40 or played at a festival. or payed Belfast Cardiff and Liverpool as well. Which is unlikely since the combined populations of those cities is about the same as Birmingham on it's own and therefore a safer bet for a reasonably big venue and higher revenue