Over the weekend (April 13-14), Dickinson played two nights at the Whisky A Go Go venue in Los Angeles, both of which were surprise, last-minute gigs.
Dickinson performed under the pseudonym The House Band Of Hell and it was the first solo concert he’s done in 22 years.
The setlist for night one was:
‘Accident Of Birth’
‘Abduction’
‘Laughing In The Hiding Bush’
‘Afterglow Of Ragnarok’
‘Chemical Wedding’
‘Many Doors To Hell’
‘Tears Of The Dragon’
‘Resurrection Men’
‘Rain On The Graves’
‘Frankenstein’
‘Gods Of War’
‘The Alchemist’
‘Darkside Of Aquarius’
‘Jerusalem’
‘Road To Hell
Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson Goes on Rant About Ticket Prices: Front Row Should Be Affordable
"I've got no interest in paying 1,200 dollars to go and see U2 in the Sphere — none," Dickinson told ATMósferas Magazine.
Bruce Dickinson, the frontman for heavy metal band Iron Maiden, has shared his two cents on the ever-increasing prices for concert tickets. (People)
Speaking to Mexico’s ATMósferas Magazine last week, the musician opened up about the negative impact of gauged ticket prices and cited an expensive example.
“If you wanna go and see the U2 show, I think it was $1,200 dollars per seat in the Sphere,” Dickinson, 65, told the outlet.
He added, "I’ve got no interest in paying $1,200 dollars to go and see U2 in the Sphere — none. A hundred bucks, maybe. But for me, what’s important is to try and keep, on the one hand, the right type of tickets at the right price.”
The "Fear of the Dark" singer suggested that the price of tickets near the front of the stage should be the most reasonably priced.
"The people who are gonna go there to the front of the stage are gonna be people who are real fans, people who are kids, people who can’t afford the crazy money, but they are the people that need to be down the front; they’re the people that are gonna keep this music alive," he said.
“And then you get the people that they might be fans,” he continued, “but they wanna bring their wife and they don’t wanna get too hot and sweaty and all the rest of it. So, there’s some seats at the top or something else like that, what they’re gonna pick, and those get priced differently.”
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