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.