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 Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 3:40 pm Post subject: One comedy ticket? That'll be £180 please... |
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Kevn Hart's pricey O2 gig
| Quote: | American comic Kevin Hart is charging fans up to £180 to see his one-off show in London this September.
The price for seats in the second row of the O2 Arena dwarfs the £100 Jerry Seinfeld controversially charged last year.
If you want to sit a little further back, seats in row 12 are going for £130 under the so-called ‘Platinum Tickets’ scheme.
There are not tickets from touts or a resale site, but the official prices from O2’s ticket supplier Ticketmaster. The company keeps back the prime seats from general sale, then offers them at what it calls ‘market-driven’ prices.
It means the price varies depending on demand, similar to airline seats. So tickets – which only went on sale on Friday – could become even more expensive if they become more scarce closer to the September 14 gig.
Normal seats for the gig are priced £42.50 and £30, although Ticketmaster’s fees could add up to £7.25 on top of that.
Premium seats are also available at his other UK gig at the Birmingham NIA the previous night, at £69.50.
Hart is best known as an actor, having appeared in films including The 40 Year Old Virgin, Little Fockers, Epic Movie, and the forthcoming comedy The Five Year Engagement. But when he took his stand-up on tour in the States last year, he grossed more than $15million.
Meanwhile, two more established icons of black American comedy – Dick Gregory and Paul Mooney – are coming to London in the same week. But tickets for their Masters Of Comedy gig at the Brixton Academy are priced £25 and £30.
Gregory has been performing since the Fifties, when he was one of the first black comics to play primarily white venues, where he performed a modern, naturalistic stand-up as opposed to the stereotypical black characters most prevalent on the scene at the time.
Mooney started in comedy writing for Richard Pryor, was the head writer for the sketch show In Living Color and was a regular on the Chapelle Show.
Click here for tickets to the September 16 gig.
For Kevin Hart tickets, click for London/a> or Birmingham/a> – or watch some of his stand-up for free here:
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Daley
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 3:53 pm Post subject: Re: One comedy ticket? That'll be £180 please... |
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| News Bot wrote: | The company keeps back the prime seats from general sale, then offers them at what it calls ‘market-driven’ prices.
It means the price varies depending on demand, similar to airline seats. |
This won't sell out so expect cheap seats soon... |
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bobbyc
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I think you massively underestimate what a "grassroots movement" for en masse ticket buying there is among the black or urban market. It is an absolute overlooked phenomenon in the UK. Through almost viral utilization of social media and a FUBU attitude I’d be shocked if these tickets didn’t sell out at prime prices.
Don’t believe me? Check out this http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2010/02/03/10460/unknown_comic_to_play_the_o2
Then listen to this
http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_272_-_kevin_hart
Of course I maybe wrong but there are plenty of now affluent middle class young black and Asian adults with their own businesses in London who will know Kevin Hart from youtube and Soul Plane in a way similar to Russell Peters or our own Michael McIntyre. And be quite happy to have the gold class seats for them and their friends as a status symbol.
I’m pretty sure Kevin Hart knows what he is doing. He’s a very astute businessman.
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Daley
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| bobbyc wrote: | | I think you massively underestimate what a "grassroots movement" for en masse ticket buying there is among the black or urban market. |
I have underestimated this, mainly as I have never heard of it.
[/quote]Don’t believe me? Check out this http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2010/02/03/10460/unknown_comic_to_play_the_o2[/quote]
'Don't believe me?', save your sales drivel son.
[/quote]Of course I maybe wrong but there are plenty of now affluent middle class young black and Asian adults with their own businesses in London who will know Kevin Hart from youtube and Soul Plane in a way similar to Russell Peters or our own Michael McIntyre. And be quite happy to have the gold class seats for them and their friends as a status symbol.
I’m pretty sure Kevin Hart knows what he is doing. He’s a very astute businessman.[/quote]
You are right, your wrong. |
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bobbyc
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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....Bit rude. But at least you won, hey?
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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I am currently bathing in the glory.
I wasn't being rude, I haven't heard of the grassroots movement. Did it work for Eddie Kadis? Did he sell all 8000?
Nice idea if he did but not really 'fans' going to the show, more tag along's hopping on the night out/drinks bandwagon I suspect, I'd rather play to 500 fans personally. |
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bobbyc
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Yep Eddie sold all 13,000 seats.
If some weren't fans before, they are now.
Next time I saw him he performed like a man with a fair amount of artistic freedom. What with being able to live off of his his cut of the gate and knowing he could do it again plus independent DVD sales on top. Sorry about the "sales drivel" there again.
Nice bloke offstage too.
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