Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson: “I’ve got no interest in paying $1,200 to see U2”

nme.com:

Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson has said he wouldn’t pay $1,200 (£950) to see U2 in concert, referring to the band’s recent run of gigs in Vegas.The Irish rock band wrapped up their shows at the Sphere venue in Nevada earlier this month (March 2) – a residency which they started last September and saw them perform their 1991 album ‘Achtung Baby’ in its entirety for the first time.In a five-star review from the opening night of the residency, NME said the show “truly takes your breath away”.“They pull off a dazzling series of technological tricks right from the outset as whirring drones whizz past the audience while everything from giant helicopters, falling letters, widescreen desert landscapes and even a projection of the Sphere itself come hurtling towards the audience,” it read.In a new interview with Mexico’s ATMósferas Magazine, Dickinson was asked if he thought high ticket prices were having a negative impact on the industry and referred to U2’s recent run of shows in his response.He replied: “Well, two things.

One, it depends what the show is and kind of who the audience are. I mean, I’m not gonna go around and say specific artists, because most of the artists that are charging, like, 1,200 dollars a ticket – like in Las Vegas, if you wanna go and see the U2 show, I think it was 1,200 dollars per seat in the sphere.

I’ve got no interest in paying 1,200 dollars to go and see U2 in the sphere – none. A hundred bucks, maybe.”He continued: “But for me, what’s important is to try and keep, on the one hand, the right type of tickets at the right price.

So by that I mean the right type of tickets, I mean, the tickets that are in front of the stage, which everybody says should be the most expensive tickets.