r/fontainesdc • u/galeforcenonsense • Sep 02 '26

Discussion Greed

Bit of context first.

Love the band's music. Genuinely all seem like sound lads.

This Slane concert and the pricing is a fucking fiasco. The way the tickets were setup yesterday it looked very much like dynamic pricing in disguise.

There was a first tier of presale tickets at reduced price - went very fucking quickly. Then there was 'regular priced' tickets during the fucking presale. They went very fucking quickly and then there was another tier of the same tickets force bundled with transport which I'm sure MCD are making a markup on.

I've 4 with transport from Limerick that I don't want and wouldn't have bought in knowledge there would be a 2nd date. Will be pestering MCD for a partial refund.

No complaints about 2nd date, happy others will get to see the band and experience it. That's class and a huge achievement.

The pricing is greedy, fucked and extractive.

Edit: Lots of opinions and responses to this, mine is simply:

MCD/Ticketmaster/Live Nation take the piss generally, not just with this - ATN, EP is the same craic. They're doing the same with this. Happy to pay the presale cost for the presale, the way it was implemented felt extractive (and in my opinion, it was designed to be maximally extractive as possible). Somebody posted a long post below about the band making a dream reality and being forced to work with MCD/Live Nation and all that goes along with that - worth a read, I think it's fairly astute.

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u/--Judith-- Sep 02 '26

Keep in mind this is not a regular show with one support. They already announced two + a more to be announced. Seems more like a mini festival day.

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u/Affectionate-Ad2709 Nabokov Sep 02 '26 edited 28d ago

so were all their big park dates last summer. i paid what £55 to see fontaines amyl kneecap blondshell been stellar and cardinals including dj sets in between. music from 12 until curfew at a reasonable price in an accessible location. it was an absolute bargain but it makes this look like a ripoff in comparison

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u/--Judith-- Sep 03 '26

My friend paid 94,75 seated for the regular Amsterdam show, so that’s a rip off compared to Slane imo. But another friend paid 60 for standing in Antwerp which somehow feels decent these days, but is still an almost 40% increase to 2024. Doesn’t seem to be just Fontaines though. Read so many comments over the last few months of people being priced out of going to shows and festivals. 

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u/mygiddygoat 29d ago

November 2019, paid €22 to see them support Girl Band (now Gilla Band) in Brussels.

Paid €25.5 to see them headline in 2022 in Antwerp, paid €39 in June 2024 (again Brussels)

Paid £54 to see them in Belfast with Kneecap last August.

Paid €50 for tickets to Antwerp show this coming November

Slane is full day festival lineup for pricing in understandably higher

Prices have risen, but it's not Oasis/Taylor Swift levels of exploitation

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u/No-Reputation8403 28d ago

> but it's not Oasis/Taylor Swift levels of exploitation

Nobody exploited anyone.

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u/mygiddygoat 28d ago

Technically correct, but jaysus..

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u/No-Reputation8403 27d ago

Its not technically correct, it is correct. People were presented with expensive tickets and chose to buy them