Morrissey live
I had always wanted to see Morrissey live. When I found out that he's going to be performing at Paramount Theatre, Oakland, on Apr 18, as a last minute addition to his tour, I was quite excited. It is going to be close enough to drive to! Tickets came on sale on Mar 27 at 12.00pm PDT. I went onto the ticketmaster website in the afternoon on Mar 27- maybe 4pm - to check what seats were available.
It was pretty ridiculous. The tickets were about $85 + $12 convenience charge, or alternatively $47 + $10 for really sucky seats way back in the balcony. I would almost be willing to pay for the tickets, but all the pit tickets, and first 20 or so rows of seats in the orchestra area were gone. I can't really justify paying about $100 for far back and to the side of the orchestra area (it seems most of the center seats, even those far back are gone). And it would be $200 for the both of us, because I would want Eu-Jin to go too.
It seems somewhat fishy, particularly when I noticed tickets for sale on stubhub.com for $200-250 each for the first few rows center orchestra seats. And I noticed someone complaining in the forums that the best seats he could get at noon on the 27th were in row O of the orchestra. Oh well, maybe next time...and I liked the new album too.
