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Speaker 4: Good morning, everybody, welcome, here we go. It is that
Speaker 4: time again. Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from
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Speaker 4: in glorious Manchester, New Hampshire, on Canal Street. Welcome everybody.
Speaker 4: Today is Saturday, September seven, twenty twenty four. I am
Speaker 4: flying solo this morning. Jenny is at home resting up,
Speaker 4: but she'll be back next week. And I'll speaking of
Speaker 4: next week, well we'll come back to that. But something
Speaker 4: pretty cool involving Jenny happening next Saturdayay, so we'll mention
Speaker 4: that in a moment, very very proud of her. It
Speaker 4: involves her artwork. Spoiler alert. We might have mentioned it
Speaker 4: last last week, but it's it's it's official. I dropped
Speaker 4: off the painting. Well, I'm giving all these hints, I
Speaker 4: might as well say it. So one week from today,
Speaker 4: Jenny's art will be showing at the Mosaic Art Collective.
Speaker 4: It's already there. I dropped the painting off on Thursday,
Speaker 4: and it's actually a personal favorite of mine. But that
Speaker 4: will be Let's see, I've got the event pulled up here.
Speaker 4: Let's we'll go ahead and talk about this and then
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what we have lined up for a
Speaker 4: two days show. Where did it go? Where did it go?
Speaker 4: I had it pulled up and I think I accidentally
Speaker 4: closed that tab. That figures well, anyway, we'll we'll come
Speaker 4: back to it. But this, let's see, it's from four
Speaker 4: to eight pm on Saturday, September fourteenth at the Mosaic
Speaker 4: Art Collective. It's actually in the Daily Mirror building right
Speaker 4: on Hanover Street. Very easy to find, and it's funny.
Speaker 4: There's a a couple of things happening there. Uh next week,
Speaker 4: because the other thing that's going on Friday the thirteenth
Speaker 4: is John Poussett Dart is going to be playing live
Speaker 4: at the Rex Theater and that relates to today's show
Speaker 4: because he is going to be calling in at ten
Speaker 4: am to open the second hour of this week's Matt
Speaker 4: Connorton Unleashed to talk about that. So we have John
Speaker 4: Bossett Dart coming on in the second hour, and then
Speaker 4: in the third hour we have Terry Almquist who will
Speaker 4: be with us live in studio from Wellness Hot Yoga,
Speaker 4: And I'm very excited to have her on the show
Speaker 4: because I've only known her for a short time, but
Speaker 4: she's got an amazing backstory, just such a fascinating person.
Speaker 4: To speak with, so she'll be on with us too.
Speaker 4: But yeah, so we've got plenty to do, plenty to do.
Speaker 4: Like I said, I am flying solo today, so I'll
Speaker 4: go ahea and give out the studio line if anyone
Speaker 4: does want to join. We've got some interesting things to
Speaker 4: discuss in the first hour. But the studio line is
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Speaker 4: program while we are live, or even when we're not
Speaker 4: live if you just want to reach out in contact us.
Speaker 4: But the studio line is open six three two five
Speaker 4: six seven. Especially by the way, if you have any
Speaker 4: questions for John Poussett Dart, who is going to be
Speaker 4: joining us at the top of the hour at ten am.
Speaker 4: I've always it's funny, so I kind of went down
Speaker 4: the rabbit hole last night with his music as I
Speaker 4: was preparing for today's show, because I've never been I'd
Speaker 4: never really listened to much of him. I'd always been
Speaker 4: aware of him. I remember back this goes back quite
Speaker 4: a ways, but when I was working at Strawberries, for
Speaker 4: those of you who remember Strawberries, the music store, I was.
Speaker 4: I started, uh, well, for a long time, I bounced around,
Speaker 4: but I worked at the location in Well, the first
Speaker 4: store that I ever actually managed for the company Wasn't
Speaker 4: Conquered New Hampshire on Laet and wrote, And I remember
Speaker 4: we always had Possett Dart Band CDs and stock and
Speaker 4: people would come in and buy them. But I'd never actually,
Speaker 4: you know, because he kind of this is where this area,
Speaker 4: you know, sort of the Boston area. I mean, this
Speaker 4: is Manchester, but obviously we're you know, we're only forty
Speaker 4: five minutes north. You know, this is kind of where
Speaker 4: he first became famous. So so he's touring around and
Speaker 4: he'll be here, Like I said, he's got a bunch
Speaker 4: of tour dates, but he will be here on Friday
Speaker 4: the thirteenth, So he's going to join us to talk
Speaker 4: about that. But I kind of was exploring his music,
Speaker 4: and you know, a couple of the songs from Posset
Speaker 4: Dart Band, you know, from I don't know, early seventies,
Speaker 4: like seventy three, seventy four around there. I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: I've heard this song. I definitely know this song. But
Speaker 4: he also I was playing some of his recent because
Speaker 4: he continues to as a solo artist, he continues to
Speaker 4: create music, and some of his recent stuff is just
Speaker 4: so interesting. We'll talk about it when he calls. I
Speaker 4: don't know how much time he has to spend with us,
Speaker 4: but I have some questions for him. But it might
Speaker 4: be a little bit of a curve because I'm sure
Speaker 4: that when he does radio interviews, people want to talk
Speaker 4: to him about Poose at Dart Band, where he started,
Speaker 4: and you know, of course we'll do that and we'll
Speaker 4: talk about the show coming up, but you know, because
Speaker 4: obviously the purpose is to promote that. But I have
Speaker 4: some questions for him too about his more recent material
Speaker 4: that I find quite fascinating. He's he's got a great
Speaker 4: voice and hell of a guitar player, my goodness. So anyway,
Speaker 4: so that'll be coming up at ten am. And like
Speaker 4: I said, third hour, we have Terry Almquist. For the
Speaker 4: first hour. We have some music news, music industry news
Speaker 4: to discuss. You know, I love this stuff. I'm a
Speaker 4: music industry nerd, and I do some things in the industry,
Speaker 4: and I have for a long time. But we were
Speaker 4: talking last week. I think it was last week. Was
Speaker 4: it last week or the week before? I have to
Speaker 4: be honest with you, It all blurts together, but no,
Speaker 4: I think it was last week. We were talking about
Speaker 4: Oasis and this debacle. We have an update on this well,
Speaker 4: and it relates to another issue happening in the music industry.
Speaker 11: But so.
Speaker 4: Oasis tickets went on sale. It's the first time they're
Speaker 4: touring in fifteen years. The Gallagher brothers loll. I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: not loll Noel and Liam. I do that once in
Speaker 4: a while. I create amalgams of words. I combined Noel
Speaker 4: and Liam into loll. I'll just call them loll. So
Speaker 4: Lowell actually managed to stop arguing enough to say, let's
Speaker 4: go make some money. That's how the uh, that's how
Speaker 4: people who are cynical about it are talking about it.
Speaker 11: Right.
Speaker 4: Oh, this is just a money grab Oasis is. They're
Speaker 4: coming for our cash. They just want to make some money. Now,
Speaker 4: that's not how I think about it necessarily. I mean again,
Speaker 4: I do understand that that's very often a purpose of
Speaker 4: doing this, But but I also am a fan of Oasis.
Speaker 4: Although it's funny so back in the day, back in
Speaker 4: the nineties when Wonderwall was on the radio every five minutes,
Speaker 4: I actually really liked it that Wonderwall. I thought was
Speaker 4: such a great song, and I still think it's a
Speaker 4: great song. But if I hear it now, I'm like, eh,
Speaker 4: I'm over it. I was over it a long time ago.
Speaker 4: Acquiesce is my favorite Oasis song, which was actually a
Speaker 4: B side. But anyway, I'm I think it's cool. I mean,
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna go spend gobs of money. I don't
Speaker 4: know if they've even put any US tour dates on sale.
Speaker 4: I know they've got a bunch of UK dates, but
Speaker 4: you know, I'm not gonna go see them because I
Speaker 4: don't want to pay all that money and it's going
Speaker 4: to be expensive. It already is expensive because tickets went
Speaker 4: on sale in the UK, and that's what set off
Speaker 4: this whole controversy around the ticket sales themselves. But anyway,
Speaker 4: so Oasis, no matter how you feel about them, love them,
Speaker 4: hate them, They're kind of polarizing. I've always been a fan,
Speaker 4: but I also understand and again as someone who's done
Speaker 4: things in the industry. I have kind of a you know,
Speaker 4: I can look at it both as a fan and
Speaker 4: as a business. I can see it from both perspectives.
Speaker 4: So yeah, maybe it is a money grab. I don't,
Speaker 4: you know, but it's a business. You got to make money, right,
Speaker 4: you got to make a living. You know, these guys
Speaker 4: probably spend a lot. They just seem well, at least
Speaker 4: Liam does. Probably spend a lot. Noel always struck me
Speaker 4: as the more down to earth of the two, but
Speaker 4: I'm sure Liam has quite the lifestyle anyway. But put
Speaker 4: all that aside, regardless of how you feel about it.
Speaker 4: So we were talking on the show last week about
Speaker 4: tickets went on sale and the websites were crashing. I
Speaker 4: say websites plural because obviously, you know Ticketmaster, which is
Speaker 4: owned by Live Nation. They put the tickets on sale,
Speaker 4: nobody could get them because the site kept crashing, but
Speaker 4: also the secondary sites were crashing, and then Oasis's management
Speaker 4: put out a statement saying, actually, don't even buy these
Speaker 4: tickets on secondary sites because those will be canceled. Those
Speaker 4: are not authorized. And we got into this a little
Speaker 4: bit last week Jenny and I talking about how you know,
Speaker 4: you've got what a big tour like this goes on sale,
Speaker 4: so you've got Ticketmaster, which sells the tickets. But very
Speaker 4: often what happens is for I think a lot of
Speaker 4: people are probably pretty savvy to this already. But the
Speaker 4: reason that something can go on sale and then it
Speaker 4: sells out like immediately, I'm sure people probably assume, well,
Speaker 4: that's because of the Internet. You know, that didn't happen
Speaker 4: pre Internet. For those of us who are enough to remember,
Speaker 4: you know, when you would have to actually go and
Speaker 4: stand in line somewhere to buy tickets. But you know,
Speaker 4: things would sell out quickly, which is why if it
Speaker 4: was a big tour that you really wanted to see,
Speaker 4: you'd have to go and stand in line, you know,
Speaker 4: like Jenny has told stories about, you know her, I
Speaker 4: think her and her mom standing in line for Prince
Speaker 4: tickets and like camping out overnight or something, or being
Speaker 4: there for hours when Prince was touring. But then so
Speaker 4: the Internet comes along, for lack of a better way
Speaker 4: of putting it, and everything's available online, so things sell
Speaker 4: out instantly. And yes, because in theory, you know, thousands, tens,
Speaker 4: hundreds of thousands, potentially millions of people can go and
Speaker 4: try to buy these tickets immediately once they go online
Speaker 4: in the digital age, so to speak. But there's another
Speaker 4: element to that. Very often these tickets are bought up
Speaker 4: by scalpers. And I don't mean when I say scalper,
Speaker 4: I don't mean the guy standing out in front of
Speaker 4: the venue trying to sell you a ticket to a
Speaker 4: sold out show because the show has sold out, but
Speaker 4: this random guy has tickets that he's willing to sell
Speaker 4: you at a premium cash only. I mean scalpers, these services,
Speaker 4: these ticketing sites that buy in bulk these tickets and
Speaker 4: then resell them at a profit. That goes on all
Speaker 4: the time. There are those who have tried to push
Speaker 4: back on it, trying to find ways to prevent that
Speaker 4: from happening, but it still goes on. And then, of
Speaker 4: course you've also got the other element of Ticketmaster itself.
Speaker 4: Some people think that, for example, the Live Nation Ticketmaster
Speaker 4: merger never should have been approved by the government. That
Speaker 4: gets into a whole other thing. So, you know, a
Speaker 4: lot of people are dissatisfied with Ticketmaster itself as any
Speaker 4: remember back in the day again this was yeah, this
Speaker 4: must have been in the nineties or early two thousands
Speaker 4: when Pearl Jam was kind of the first to say, hey,
Speaker 4: we don't even want to deal with Ticketmaster anymore. We
Speaker 4: don't like the way they do business, we don't like
Speaker 4: the way the fans are kind of getting the shaft.
Speaker 4: And so they started working with smaller you know, in
Speaker 4: various markets around the country. They started working with these
Speaker 4: smaller market ticketing agencies, which didn't really work out that great,
Speaker 4: and in the end pearl Jam had to give in,
Speaker 4: had to capitulate and go back to working with Ticketmaster.
Speaker 4: It's just the reality of it. So you've got all
Speaker 4: of that, and then you've got this new element. And
Speaker 4: this we did not talk about last week, but again
Speaker 4: it is part of this whole story with Oasis and
Speaker 4: these tickets is the dynamic pricing. Now, for those of
Speaker 4: you who don't know, you may have heard the term,
Speaker 4: some of you will know, some of you will not
Speaker 4: know what this is. But dynamic pricing is this concept where, well,
Speaker 4: you know, basic free market economics, right, supply and demand.
Speaker 4: When supplies low, demand is high, things cost more money. Well,
Speaker 4: this concept has been applied to tickets and Ticketmaster uses it.
Speaker 4: Where Okay, so if demand is high for a show
Speaker 4: and supply is low, only so many tickets available, those
Speaker 4: tickets will automatically increase in price. There's even been who
Speaker 4: was it. There was a fast food restaurant chain that
Speaker 4: tried to do this, and I want to say it
Speaker 4: was Wendy's. They either tried it in some of their
Speaker 4: locations or they were testing it in maybe one location
Speaker 4: and they were thinking about rolling it out nationally or something.
Speaker 4: I don't remember all the details, but they tried to
Speaker 4: do some sort of dynamic pricing concept where at busy
Speaker 4: time of day the food would cost more, but I
Speaker 4: think they probably pulled the plug on that pretty quickly.
Speaker 4: I think it was Wendy's who tried to do this.
Speaker 4: But anyway, so this has been done with Ticketmaster, and
Speaker 4: that factors into the Oasis debacle, as it were, because
Speaker 4: now Ticketmaster is being investigated about the dynamic pricing. Now,
Speaker 4: if you're a ticket buyer, you may not like this
Speaker 4: very much. You might long for the days when tickets
Speaker 4: would go on sale and you know what the price
Speaker 4: is and you just go and you buy the tickets
Speaker 4: at the price that you're expecting them to be because
Speaker 4: that's what they're announced at, and that that is over,
Speaker 4: you know. I mean, if you're buying tickets to a
Speaker 4: smaller sh like, for example, if you're buying tickets to
Speaker 4: go see John Posse at Dart at the Rex Theater
Speaker 4: on Friday night. I don't think those prices are going
Speaker 4: to change, right, you know. But but when your ticketmaster
Speaker 4: and you can afford all this technology to control the
Speaker 4: prices and everything, you know, you can do whatever you want.
Speaker 4: I mean Ticketmaster, it is truly a monopoly. They can
Speaker 4: do whatever they want. But that doesn't mean that they
Speaker 4: can do whatever they want without some consequences. So let's
Speaker 4: look at this again, the newest wrinkle in the What
Speaker 4: did I say? I'm calling them loll Loll Gallagher. I
Speaker 4: should if you're just joining us, I should clarify it's
Speaker 4: an amalgam of Nol and Liam because apparently I have
Speaker 4: difficulty say nol and Liam, so it's easier to just
Speaker 4: say loll. They are almost indistinguishable in terms of I mean,
Speaker 4: they don't look exactly alike, but if you listen to
Speaker 4: an interview with them. You know what's funny about Oasis
Speaker 4: back in the nineties when they first got big, that
Speaker 4: first album definitely maybe really blew up. I remember seeing
Speaker 4: interviews with them on MTV, and MTV would actually they
Speaker 4: would actually subtitle the interviews. Obviously the Gallaghers were speaking
Speaker 4: English in the interviews, but their accents were such that
Speaker 4: you almost couldn't understand them, so emptview would actually subtitle
Speaker 4: the interviews. It was funny. And I don't know if
Speaker 4: they were doing it to be funny or kind of
Speaker 4: doing it to be funny, but it was funny. They
Speaker 4: can be difficult to understand. By the way, Noel Gallagher
Speaker 4: is very funny too. He's got it. I don't think
Speaker 4: Liam's particularly funny, but Noel has a very dry sense
Speaker 4: of humor that I like anyway. Okay, so here's the
Speaker 4: newest wrinkle, and this is from Music Businessworldwide dot Com.
Speaker 4: UK competition regulator launches investigation into Ticketmaster over Oasis ticket sale.
Speaker 4: So now the government's involved, says here. The UK's Competition
Speaker 4: and Markets Authority CMA has launched an investigation in the
Speaker 4: Live Nation owned ticketing giant Ticketmaster. The reason for the
Speaker 4: investigation last Saturday is on sale for Oasis' twenty twenty
Speaker 4: five UK Actually, what was the date on this article?
Speaker 4: September fifth, Okay, so it is referring to last Saturday.
Speaker 4: So it's referring to the on sale that happened one
Speaker 4: week ago for Oasis' twenty twenty five UK and Ireland
Speaker 4: Stadium tour, including quote how so called dynamic pricing may
Speaker 4: have been used unquote, the CMA said in a statement
Speaker 4: on September five. The Competition watchdog says the plans to
Speaker 4: scrutinize quote excuse me, whether the sale of Oasis tickets
Speaker 4: by Ticketmaster may have reached consumer protection law unquote, because again,
Speaker 4: like I was saying, not everyone thinks that the dynamic
Speaker 4: pricing is right or ethical. And I'm not saying that
Speaker 4: I have a problem with it. I'm just saying, you know, well,
Speaker 4: apparently it's people in government who are saying, we're not
Speaker 4: sure that this is the correct way to be treating consumers.
Speaker 4: I'm not making a judgment about it. I'm agnostic on
Speaker 4: that part of it. But I think it's interesting that.
Speaker 4: You know, what I do think will be really interesting
Speaker 4: is does this stick around the dynamic pricing concept in
Speaker 4: terms of tickets. It's already lasted longer than I thought.
Speaker 4: This has been going on a few years now, when
Speaker 4: it started. I remember thinking this isn't going to last.
Speaker 4: There is going to be so much backlash to this.
Speaker 4: People are not going to like it. People are used
Speaker 4: to tickets go on sale, They go on sale for
Speaker 4: a particular price. If a show isn't selling, rarely will
Speaker 4: you even see the price go down, right, You rarely
Speaker 4: see that. You very rarely see discounted tickets. In fact,
Speaker 4: you're Look, if you're a promoter and you've got a
Speaker 4: big show in an arena, say right, and tickets aren't moving,
Speaker 4: you'll give away tickets before you'll lower the prices. That's
Speaker 4: true if you've got if you've got a show in
Speaker 4: a ten thousand seat arena. Again, this is if you're
Speaker 4: the promoter putting on the show, not the band's management
Speaker 4: has no say in this, or certainly not the record label, nobody,
Speaker 4: or even the venue. You're the promoter and you're deciding.
Speaker 4: You're making decisions based on how these tickets are moving.
Speaker 4: If it's soft, meaning you're not selling enough tickets, you're
Speaker 4: not selling as many as you thought you were, what
Speaker 4: you'll do is very often is they call it papering
Speaker 4: the room, which means because what you don't want at
Speaker 4: the end of the day is a half empty arena.
Speaker 4: So if you're in a ten thousand seat venue and
Speaker 4: you're only on track to sell five thousand tickets, you
Speaker 4: don't want that. It just doesn't look good right to
Speaker 4: have a ten thousand seed arena that's only half full.
Speaker 4: So if you were thinking you're gonna sell eight thousand, right,
Speaker 4: so you'd be at eighty percent capacity. Sorry, if I'm
Speaker 4: getting two into the weeds, but I know a lot
Speaker 4: of people in the industry listen to the show. So
Speaker 4: if you're only at you think you're gonna be at
Speaker 4: eighty percent capacity, you're gonna sell eight thousand out of
Speaker 4: ten thousand seats, and but it's looking like you're only
Speaker 4: gonna hit five thousand. You don't want a half empty arena,
Speaker 4: So you will give away tickets to that show. It
Speaker 4: happens all the time. You'll be contacting every radio station
Speaker 4: you can find that you think might be interested in
Speaker 4: doing a ticket giveaway. You'll be giving them out to
Speaker 4: businesses and saying here, give these to your employees, or
Speaker 4: do some kind of contest, do whatever you want with them.
Speaker 4: Just make sure people from your company show up at
Speaker 4: the show. You'll do anything that you can to get
Speaker 4: more people in the door. And at that point, it's
Speaker 4: all about the optics of it. It's all about what
Speaker 4: it looks like. Because you don't want to put on
Speaker 4: a show in a ten thousand seed arena that's literally
Speaker 4: half full and then have that, you know, have people
Speaker 4: hear about it, have people seeing on social media tickets
Speaker 4: of a half empty arena, just all of that. You
Speaker 4: want it to look like everything that you do is successful.
Speaker 4: So you're going to paper again it's called paper in
Speaker 4: the room. You're going to try to get as many
Speaker 4: people in there as you can, and if that means
Speaker 4: because you have nothing to lose, right, if you're not
Speaker 4: going to sell those tickets, you might as well give
Speaker 4: them away because the show's gonna happen no matter what,
Speaker 4: and you're gonna have to pay everybody, no matter what.
Speaker 4: If you're the promoter, you've got financial obligations tied up
Speaker 4: in this. You might take a loss on that show,
Speaker 4: but you might as well get as money as many
Speaker 4: people in the door as you can, so at least
Speaker 4: it looks good. So the point being, what you'll rarely see,
Speaker 4: I can't say never, but what you'll see is a
Speaker 4: promoter say, Okay, these tickets they're not moving at sixty dollars,
Speaker 4: so I think we're going to drop the price to
Speaker 4: fifty or to forty and see if we can sell
Speaker 4: some more. You just don't see that they'd rather paper
Speaker 4: the room than lower the price on the tickets. Reason being,
Speaker 4: if you lower the price on the tickets, again, not
Speaker 4: using Ticketmaster's dynamic pricing, I'm just saying, if you decide,
Speaker 4: as the promoter, you're going to lower the price, now
Speaker 4: you're you're risking well, first of all, you're risking alienating
Speaker 4: the people who already bought the tickets at the higher price.
Speaker 4: So you don't want them going on social media saying
Speaker 4: hey I got ripped off. But although that's probably not
Speaker 4: that likely. But what you also don't want to happen
Speaker 4: is what if you lower the price but it doesn't
Speaker 4: it doesn't juice the sales. Now you're taking an even
Speaker 4: bigger loss. You could lower the price, but it doesn't
Speaker 4: increase your sales. The same number of people who were
Speaker 4: probably going to buy tickets end up buying the tickets
Speaker 4: anyway regardless. Right, So they would have bought the tickets
Speaker 4: anyway if they were still ten dollars more, twenty dollars more.
Speaker 4: So you lower the price, you still only sell five
Speaker 4: thousand tickets. You're you've still got a half empty room,
Speaker 4: and you've actually made less money. So it's not worth
Speaker 4: the risk. So the best thing to do, at least
Speaker 4: in my experience and from what I've seen, is in
Speaker 4: that situation, you leave the ticket price as it is
Speaker 4: and you just hope that you know, you get a
Speaker 4: lot of walk up right, you know, people coming showing
Speaker 4: up on the day of and and yeah, you try
Speaker 4: to paper the room, you try to give out some
Speaker 4: tickets too, but this dynamic pricing has changed everything. So
Speaker 4: again getting back to this article, over ten million fans
Speaker 4: from one hundred and fifty eight countries are confirmed to
Speaker 4: have qu up on Saturday, August thirty one to buy
Speaker 4: tickets to the tour. Yeah so it was yeah, so,
Speaker 4: like I said, it was last last weekend that the
Speaker 4: tickets went on sale. Two Additionally, additional Wembley Stadium shows
Speaker 4: have been added due to quote unprecedented demand during the sale,
Speaker 4: which Oasis said in a press release Saturday, Quote saw
Speaker 4: all ticket platforms struggling to cope, resulting in immense frustration
Speaker 4: and disappointment for fans who missed out after queuing for
Speaker 4: many hours. Unquote. By the way, the same thing happened
Speaker 4: in the United States, if you remember with Taylor Swift,
Speaker 4: same thing. You know, people were frustrated, they were trying
Speaker 4: to get I remember seeing people on social media just
Speaker 4: you know, in tears over it. They were so desperately
Speaker 4: trying to get Taylor Swift tickets and couldn't because you know,
Speaker 4: you wait, you log onto the website, you're in the queue,
Speaker 4: You're waiting and waiting and waiting, and then eventually something happens.
Speaker 4: You know, maybe the site crashes, or you know, there's
Speaker 4: something something goes wrong, maybe your computer suddenly wants to update,
Speaker 4: it shuts itself down and restarts or whatever it is, right,
Speaker 4: you know, after you've already invested hours of your time
Speaker 4: and then now you're you're at the back of the line,
Speaker 4: or now you log back in and the shows sold out.
Speaker 4: So you know, so this this is not in and
Speaker 4: of itself unprecedented, but to put the extent of that
Speaker 4: demand into context. Wembley, where Oasis are now set to
Speaker 4: play seven of the tour's nineteen dates, as a capacity
Speaker 4: of ninety thousand, which means that the band would need
Speaker 4: to perform one hundred and eleven dates at the stadium
Speaker 4: to meet the demand for next year's tour. The following
Speaker 4: Wednesday and the same press release announcing the two additional
Speaker 4: Wembley shows, Oasis publicly distanced themselves from the decisions that
Speaker 4: led to the use of Ticketmaster's dynamic pricing tools during
Speaker 4: the sale. Yeah, so a lot of this went on.
Speaker 4: Where now Oasis, the Gallagher brothers, Lowell I'm calling them.
Speaker 4: I've melded them together into one person, Lowell Gallagher. It's
Speaker 4: just easier economy of language, my friends. So now fans
Speaker 4: are pointing at them and going, you guys are bad,
Speaker 4: you guys are greedy. All this In reality, it really
Speaker 4: doesn't have much to do with them, but they're going
Speaker 4: to take the blame. Of course, they're the public faces
Speaker 4: of this. I have a hunch that they probably don't
Speaker 4: care that much because you know, they they're extremely rich
Speaker 4: and famous, and you know is you know, it probably
Speaker 4: doesn't affect that much. I don't think a mean comment
Speaker 4: from a fan is going to hurt the Gallagher brothers.
Speaker 4: But but that is, you know, they're they're the face
Speaker 4: of it. So it's they're going to take the brunt
Speaker 4: of the anger and ire from people, It says here.
Speaker 4: Informed sources speaking to MBW, which is Music Business Worldwide,
Speaker 4: this is a great website. This week estimated that ten
Speaker 4: to fifteen percent of the one point four million tickets
Speaker 4: sold over the weekend were quote dynamically priced on ticket Master,
Speaker 4: meaning the price automatically adjusts based on supply and demand.
Speaker 4: The price for these tickets more than doubled from a
Speaker 4: face value of around one hundred and fifty pounds I
Speaker 4: assume that's pounds to an in demand price tag of
Speaker 4: around three hundred and fifty five, causing fan outcry on
Speaker 4: social media platforms and much discussion in other media outlets,
Speaker 4: including MBW on Tuesday, and again, that takes us back
Speaker 4: to what I was saying before about how long will
Speaker 4: this last? People don't like the dynamic pricing, they end
Speaker 4: up feeling taken advantage of, and they end up feeling
Speaker 4: ripped off. As a free market economist, I'm not an economist.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry as but as but as a I don't
Speaker 4: know why I said economist, but you know, as someone
Speaker 4: who believes in free markets, let me put it that way.
Speaker 4: I you know, I'm not I'm not really taking a
Speaker 4: position one way or the other. It's it's supply and demand.
Speaker 4: It's being applied here. It's almost like an auction in
Speaker 4: a sense, right, But buying these tickets, I'm not. I'm
Speaker 4: not taking a position. I'm gonna remain agnostic on it,
Speaker 4: at least for now. But I'm telling you this could
Speaker 4: be the nail in the coffin of this particular strategy,
Speaker 4: because people are you know, the last thing you want
Speaker 4: is your consumers or your fans to feel that they've
Speaker 4: been victimized. You know, I saw one comment somebody directed
Speaker 4: at the Gallaghers saying, you know, I wouldn't have thought.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't have thought you would be so greedy. You know,
Speaker 4: your fan base is, you know, kind of working class people,
Speaker 4: and here you are being so greedy. And again it's
Speaker 4: but it's not it's not them. I'm not saying they're
Speaker 4: not greedy. Maybe they are. I don't know. Again, you know,
Speaker 4: you get when you get to that level. I mean,
Speaker 4: there's been plenty of research and studies done on this.
Speaker 4: When you get to a certain level of fame and money,
Speaker 4: there is a certain almost as sociopathy that sets in, right,
Speaker 4: So you know, I'm not saying they're not terrible people.
Speaker 4: They may be, they may not be. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm a fan of their music, but if I actually
Speaker 4: met them, I might be horrified. They say, don't meet
Speaker 4: your heroes. I don't know. But it's ultimately not their fault.
Speaker 4: But but if there's enough outcry over this, over this
Speaker 4: whole dynamic pricing thing, this might be the beginning of
Speaker 4: the end of it. So the band's press release said, quote,
Speaker 4: it needs to be made clear that Oasis leave decisions
Speaker 4: on ticketing and pricing entirely to their promoters and management,
Speaker 4: and at no time had any awareness at dynamic pricing
Speaker 4: was going to be used. Unquote. Is that satisfactory? Probably
Speaker 4: from a pr standpoint, Probably not. No one's going to
Speaker 4: believe that. No one who's no one who's angry about
Speaker 4: this is going to read that statement and say, oh, okay,
Speaker 4: it's really got nothing to do with them. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's true in a sense, right, but there's a there's
Speaker 4: a big hole in this though too. Let me read
Speaker 4: part of this again. It is it needs to be
Speaker 4: made clear that Oasis leave decisions on ticketing and pricing
Speaker 4: entirely to their promoters and management. One little problem with that.
Speaker 4: So promoters are people you're in business with, right, the
Speaker 4: promoter is the one. Well, the promoter first of all,
Speaker 4: takes all the risk. Again, I have experience in this,
Speaker 4: so I know how this feels. Not on this level obviously,
Speaker 4: but you know the promoters putting on the shows and
Speaker 4: handling all of that, so you are somewhat at a
Speaker 4: promoter's mercy. The problem is the sentence says that they
Speaker 4: leave this to their promoters and management, and management is
Speaker 4: a problem to me because that's there's a cop out there.
Speaker 4: Oh that's our management. Well, here's the thing is, management
Speaker 4: works for the band. The band doesn't work for management.
Speaker 4: It's not how you know, It's not like in the
Speaker 4: corporate world. You know, when if you have a manager,
Speaker 4: you work for your manager, right, they're your boss, you know.
Speaker 4: In the music industry it's the other way around in
Speaker 4: that If if you are an artist and you have
Speaker 4: a manager, the manager is someone you hire. They work
Speaker 4: for you. You hire them to run your business, the
Speaker 4: business of your music. So for the band to say, well,
Speaker 4: that's not up to us, we leave that to our management.
Speaker 4: Well that the management works for you, dude. You know,
Speaker 4: you can't really pass the buck. You know, they're your
Speaker 4: employee in a sense, not literally an employee. They you know,
Speaker 4: they've got contracts and everything. But you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: you know, So to say it's one thing to say,
Speaker 4: I you know, you can kind of let it fly
Speaker 4: a little bit and say, well, it's it's not our fault,
Speaker 4: it's it's you know, we leave that to the promoters. Well, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's what the promoter does, right, that's their function. But
Speaker 4: to say and management, well, that's your management is they're
Speaker 4: your management. You You can fire your management if you
Speaker 4: want to. You can tell your management don't do it
Speaker 4: this way. It's upsetting our fans. You can tell your
Speaker 4: management to handle it differently. Okay, So there's more to
Speaker 4: the statement quote. While prior meetings between promoters, ticket Master,
Speaker 4: and the band's management resulted in a positive ticket sales
Speaker 4: strategy which would be a fair experience for fans, including
Speaker 4: dynamic ticketing to help keep general ticket prices down, as
Speaker 4: well as reduced touting, the I don't know touting is
Speaker 4: that maybe that's a term for that almost sounds like
Speaker 4: a might be another term for scalping. In the United States,
Speaker 4: we call it scalping. Maybe there they call it touting.
Speaker 4: I don't know, sorry, I just I don't know what
Speaker 4: that word means in that, but I assume from the
Speaker 4: context it might be another term for scalping. The execution
Speaker 4: of the plan failed to meet expectations. All parties involved
Speaker 4: did their utmost to deliver the best possible fan experience,
Speaker 4: but due to the unprecedented demand, this became impossible.
Speaker 5: To a.
Speaker 4: M I feel like there's a contradiction here. Did anyone
Speaker 4: else hear a contradiction? Yeah, there's a there's a pretty
Speaker 4: latent contradiction self contradiction in this statement that to me
Speaker 4: seems glaringly obvious. So let's back up a little bit.
Speaker 4: So the statement opens with it needs to be made
Speaker 4: clear that Oasis leave decisions on ticketing and pricing entirely
Speaker 4: to their promoters and management, and at no time had
Speaker 4: any awareness that dynamic pricing was to be used. So
Speaker 4: the band had no idea according to that paragraph or
Speaker 4: that opening statement, that opening sentence, that of the statement,
Speaker 4: that dynamic pricing was to be used. But then they say, oh, okay,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, No, I was wrong. I was wrong. I retract,
Speaker 4: There is no There is no contradiction. I thought there
Speaker 4: was a contradiction because it sounded like they're saying that
Speaker 4: Oasis had no idea, the band had no idea. And
Speaker 4: then I see this sentence while while prior meetings between promoter,
Speaker 4: Sigmaster and the band's management resulted in a positive ticket strategy,
Speaker 4: you know that everyone thought would be fair, and I
Speaker 4: thought I took that as everyone was involved in that decision.
Speaker 4: But no, that's not correct. The band the band is
Speaker 4: not mentioned in that part, so there is no contradiction.
Speaker 4: I was wrong about that. I apologize, Okay, all right, well,
Speaker 4: so taking that into account, it's probably the best possible
Speaker 4: statement that you know that it's the best damage control
Speaker 4: they could do. Let me put it that way. It's
Speaker 4: not going to satisfy people, but it's uh damage control
Speaker 4: is about just doing the best you can with a
Speaker 4: rough situation. The CMA said today that and again that's
Speaker 4: the part of the government that does consumer protection in
Speaker 4: the UK that it is at the initial stage of
Speaker 4: its investigation. It will now engage with Ticketmaster and gather
Speaker 4: evidence from various other sources, which quote may include the
Speaker 4: band's management and event organizers unquote SJM, Live Nation, MCD
Speaker 4: and DF Concerts are promoting the Oasis tour. Ticketmaster was
Speaker 4: one of the three sites used, along with Gigs and
Speaker 4: Tours and See Tickets. The CMA is stressed in its
Speaker 4: statement on Thursday that quote, it should not be assumed
Speaker 4: that Ticketmaster has broken consumer protection law unquote No, I
Speaker 4: mean and from look, I'm not a legal expert of
Speaker 4: any kind, and there may be an element to this
Speaker 4: that I'm missing, but I don't see any anything that
Speaker 4: makes me say, oh, it sounds like, look, we can
Speaker 4: talk about this whole dynamic pricing strategy is being kind
Speaker 4: of dirty business. Right again, I'm going to remain agnostic
Speaker 4: on it for now, but that doesn't mean it's and
Speaker 4: that anything's illegal about it yet. Right, there's nothing illegal
Speaker 4: about it that I can see. The Competition Regulator added
Speaker 4: that it will quote also consider whether it is appropriate
Speaker 4: to investigate the conduct of anyone else in relation to
Speaker 4: the matter unquote. Dynamic ticket pricing sees prices surge in
Speaker 4: real time as demand rises, similar to airline tickets or Uber.
Speaker 4: Live Nation has previously argued that the program addresses the
Speaker 4: issue of scalpers buying up tickets at face value and
Speaker 4: then selling them at a higher price point. Wait, they
Speaker 4: have I got to click this link they have. That's
Speaker 4: their argument that it reduces scalping. That's why they do it. Uh.
Speaker 4: I just clicked and I just looked another article that
Speaker 4: might explain it. But well, we might come back to
Speaker 4: this later if we have time.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: I don't see how that would be the case. But
Speaker 4: I'm open to the argument, but I don't see how
Speaker 4: how would that How would that prevent scalping? What am
Speaker 4: I missing? Maybe I'm missing something again. I'm trying to
Speaker 4: be fair, all right.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 4: The CMA said on Thursday, they quote this is not
Speaker 4: the first time that the use of dynamic pricing has
Speaker 4: raised concerns among fans of live sporting events and music
Speaker 4: events unquote. According to the CMA, while the practice is
Speaker 4: quote not automatically unlawful, it may breach consumer protection or
Speaker 4: competition law in certain circumstances unquote. Sarah Cardell, chief executive
Speaker 4: of the CMA, said, quote, it's important that fans are
Speaker 4: treated fair early when they buy tickets, which is why
Speaker 4: we've launched this investigation. It's clear that many people felt
Speaker 4: they had a bad experience and we're surprised by the
Speaker 4: price of their tickets at checkout. We want to hear
Speaker 4: from fans who went through the process and may have
Speaker 4: encountered issues, so that we can investigate whether existing consumer
Speaker 4: protection law has been breached by the way. That's something
Speaker 4: there's more to the statement, but that's something we can
Speaker 4: all relate to. Right, you go to buy tickets and again,
Speaker 4: I you know this doesn't I don't think this really
Speaker 4: happens with smaller ticketing agencies or smaller tours. But you
Speaker 4: go to buy tickets from Live Nation and you go
Speaker 4: to check out, and the ticket price is suddenly much higher,
Speaker 4: not not necessarily because of dynamic pricing, but all these
Speaker 4: all these fees and taxes and everything, and you thought
Speaker 4: you were going to spend one hundred dollars on a ticket,
Speaker 4: and all of a sudden it's you get to check
Speaker 4: out and it's one hundred and fifty and you're like,
Speaker 4: where did this other? I mean no, I'm not even exaggerating, right,
Speaker 4: it'll be that much more. It's it's wild and and
Speaker 4: there's like all these fees and you know there's a yeah,
Speaker 4: there's just any any fee you can. You can imagine.
Speaker 4: I don't remember too. It's been a while since I've
Speaker 4: even bought tickets from Ticketmaster. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 4: remember if it even itemizes it for you, doesn't Maybe
Speaker 4: if somebody's in the chat room, I should take a
Speaker 4: breath and say hello to everybody in the chat room.
Speaker 4: But does it even itemize it for you? Or does
Speaker 4: it just say taxes and fees and it's this huge
Speaker 4: additional number that you weren't expecting, or you were expecting
Speaker 4: if you buy tickets from Ticketmaster regularly. But Alex Whitey
Speaker 4: is in the chat room, one of our friends from
Speaker 4: the UK, oh says touting is a term used for
Speaker 4: people selling tickets on for higher prices. Okay, Oh. Miriam
Speaker 4: Banish also joins us in the Facebook lat chat. Yeah,
Speaker 4: thank you for that, Alex.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: We don't use that term in the Uh. We don't
Speaker 4: use touting. We have a call. It's see who we
Speaker 4: have here? Hi, welcome to Matt Conderson. At least who's this?
Speaker 5: Hey?
Speaker 12: It's true?
Speaker 4: Hey, Charles Richardson, how are you?
Speaker 12: I've been better, but hanging in there.
Speaker 4: What's what's going on? I should by the way, Charles
Speaker 4: I should just tell you upfront, we only have a
Speaker 4: few minutes because we have a guest calling in at
Speaker 4: ten am. But what's on your life?
Speaker 12: I want to try and make it quick. Number one
Speaker 12: take a master Live Nation. All these other they're all
Speaker 12: scam artists.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 12: And the fact that they're going with this this pricing
Speaker 12: technique is really embarrassing. Listen, if I buy a seat
Speaker 12: in section one O one in the first ten rows,
Speaker 12: it should be one price, the next ten rows of
Speaker 12: another price. They should not be any alternative pricing. But
Speaker 12: they're scam artists because you got this ticket charge fee,
Speaker 12: you got this fee that feet the damn fees costs
Speaker 12: more than the damn tickets sometimes, so I think it's
Speaker 12: all just a really big joke.
Speaker 4: If you wore well it is it is true. I
Speaker 4: mean you get to the uh, you get to the
Speaker 4: end of the process and and the the price is
Speaker 4: it just all of a sudden, it's yeah. Sometimes the
Speaker 4: fees they are almost as much or perhaps even more
Speaker 4: uh than than the ticket itself. It's wild, it is.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 12: It's embarrassing to buy tickets nowadays because everything's done online
Speaker 12: and they're just reaping the benefits the fact that they
Speaker 12: do alternate pricing for scalpers. Are you kidding me? Please?
Speaker 12: That's such a lame excuse. That's almost like the glub
Speaker 12: didn't fit your honor.
Speaker 4: Come out of here, all right, bye, Charles, good here
Speaker 4: for you, my friend. Take care all right. That was
Speaker 4: Charles Richardson, of course, uh from the Charles Richardson Show,
Speaker 4: although I think he's taking a little bit of a
Speaker 4: break from that right now. But good here from Charles. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not gonna go I relate to his frustration, certainly,
Speaker 4: I think most of us probably do. I'm not going
Speaker 4: to go so far as to say that it's a scam,
Speaker 4: because you know, to use that word, I would say
Speaker 4: a scam would be in my mind, if you go
Speaker 4: to buy the tickets and you after you've checked out,
Speaker 4: you end up with a charge on your credit card
Speaker 4: or your debit or whatever that's higher than what you
Speaker 4: thought it was going to be. You do know what
Speaker 4: the final price is before you click that to pay
Speaker 4: that and make that purchase. But it is true, so
Speaker 4: I would not I would not technically call it a scam.
Speaker 4: I would I would disagree with Charles on that, although
Speaker 4: I'm certainly sympathetic with the broader point that he was making.
Speaker 4: And again, and I think a lot of us can
Speaker 4: relate to that frustration, and it is interesting, like you
Speaker 4: you really and this absolutely I don't think anyone can
Speaker 4: argue with It is definitely designed the unless it's changed. Again,
Speaker 4: I haven't bought tickets from Ticketmaster in quite a while,
Speaker 4: so unless the process has changed, it is designed so
Speaker 4: that you don't see that final number until the very end.
Speaker 4: So you're going through the entire process and picking your
Speaker 4: seats and everything. You're going through that entire process unless
Speaker 4: you have bought tickets recently.
Speaker 12: Right.
Speaker 4: If it's if you go to a lot of shows,
Speaker 4: none of this will surprise you. But if you don't
Speaker 4: go to a lot of shows, you're going through that
Speaker 4: entire process with one price in your mind. And then
Speaker 4: you get to that final screen and that's where it
Speaker 4: shows you all these fees and you're like, oh, this
Speaker 4: ticket just doubled in price. Let's see. Isaac Banks is
Speaker 4: also in the chat room. Alex Whiteley says people had
Speaker 4: to sign into their Ticketmaster wait to be accepted into
Speaker 4: a ballot, which took out for some. Then some were
Speaker 4: told that they were going to have to pay upwards
Speaker 4: of four hundred pounds per ticket. Yeah, I mean again,
Speaker 4: I don't know that I would call it a scam
Speaker 4: per se, but it certainly is. I think we can
Speaker 4: all understand why from a just from a consumer standpoint,
Speaker 4: you might have a pretty bad taste in your mouth
Speaker 4: after going through that. Right, All right, here's what we
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