GIG TICKETS
Live events are unaffordable for many – but there is hope
couple of years ago I wrote despairingly in this column about out-of-control gig ticket pricing in the post-Brexit/Covid-19/sky-high inflation era. One of the saddest things about it, I surmised, is that over time it will shut out large sections of people for whom live music is not merely a meaningful pastime, but key to shaping their identity. “Young people of today and tomorrow,” I concluded, “may grow up not even knowing what they’re