Are people being priced out of concerts?

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With ticket prices soaring over the last few years, we ask the people of Cardiff whether they think people are being unfairly priced out of going to gigs.

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00:00Definitely it's not fair, if you're talking about someone who's earning on a minimum basis,

00:06it's not fair for them to, like, to spend that much money.

00:12But we cannot do anything about that.

00:14I've only ever been to one concert and I thought that was fairly priced,

00:17considering I got the VIP one as well.

00:19It was for Joji. I paid around £90 in London.

00:24I found that fairly priced, to be honest.

00:27I went to see Alice Cooper two weeks ago in London and I paid £70 a ticket.

00:31To me, that was worth every penny of it.

00:33So if you want to go and see the people you want to pay for the concert,

00:37I would pay for it, no problem.

00:39But they are, I mean, everything.

00:40If you go to a concert, if you go to the cinema,

00:42you're talking about 40, 50 quid for your grandkids, you know what I mean?

00:45But in terms of pricing, yeah, it's way too much.

00:48When did Taylor Swift come to you, Paddy?

00:50It was about a month or two ago.

00:51A month or two ago.

00:52People were dying to go to her,

00:54paid for obviously black tickets, over-priced, £500, £1,000.

00:58It was just too much.

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