tigermilk

Ticket prices range from some $20 for lawn/general admission to over $100. This does not include ticketmaster fee's and auction prices.

These prices are correct! Do not forget those added on fee's which will take the top tickets over $120!

I used to work for Ticketmaster and still retain some contacts, so I can just ask and I shall receive! Unfortunately, most of the best seats have gone! Usual story I am afraid, sponsors etc...so the presale seats are very average, better seats will be on general sale.

I have the presale code folks! I must warn you the presale tickets are not that great and better tickets will be on general sale. The best tickets I am afraid are going on auctions. The top price tickets are $101 plus fee's-so about $120 or so in total. The lawn tickets are something like $30 total.

Yes I have the presale password! Anybody who wants the code will have to PM me neaer the presale date.

Bit disappointing to see the prices for good seats are over $100 again and that coldplay are using ticketmaster auctions for premium seats again!

Kings of Leon play the Hard Rock...a venue that Coldplay played a few years back-one of the best coldplay experiences i ever had! i wish they could sneak another hard rock vegas show in around anaheim.

You know, I never take pictures but I always think afterwards I should. Maybe your suggestion will be the catalyst for such action!!! Actually, I go see Kings of Leon on Sat here in Vegas...maybe that should be my practice.

Ha! My wife would surely object. Wish I could have got more tickets for some people on here! Good luck with the general sale every1!!!

Yeah serious! I have a client in Las Vegas. Anyway, said person is quite well connected in the music industry. I called said person and offered to wave my fees in exchange for tickets. Quite unethical but drastic times call for drastic measures.

well i called in a favor and i now have four tickets in 102, Row 6. Dead center on the floor!!! YAY!!!!

I totally get why you bought those, at least you are in! But for me, this is my 3rd coldplay this year-oh and i have been less than 20ft from the stage with $100 tickets the last two gigs in LA and Vegas. So I just can't see me spending that sort of money for average seats.

I suspected this presale would be lousy. I am not going to be tempted by presales again unless they are general admission or official band presales. You may as well take your chance with the general sale. I mean I am not expecting front row. But for $130 I kinda expect to be within 50ft of the stage.

I was able to find the best seats in 203 and 227, Row B several times. i just can't pay $120 for that kind of average seat.

Yeah i know where and how far back it is! i don't understand how it can be priced at the same price as a floor or plaza or club level. it is a awful seat for $120. i would rather take my chances with general sale, these are awful tickets

yeah thats the back of the floor, almost at the back of the arena. you should bid on the ticketmaster auctions-they start on sat or mon after the general sale

okay how is sec 433, row J a $97.50 ticket? well actually it is $117 with all the fees

the presale sucked! back of the arena tickets 8 times, the best were in the 200's. a waste of my time!

Well how then did coldplay find out about complaints about ticket prices from the last tour? Chris has mentioned it in an interview that they check out the messageboards and press from time to time. And any good manager would always be checking on band feedback. Let me put it this way, if you had a messageboard about you and your career, life wouldn't you want to take a look at it every now and then???? I would also add to others saying lets 'let the thread die'. Why? are we trying to stifle debate. If everyone agreed then there is no point in having any discussion or messageboard. If you are not interested in the thread do not read it and certainly do not post a comment like 'let this thread die' because you just move the thread back to the top again!!

There is no better way to get the best seats. You luck out either way at the box office or ticketmaster. You can equally lose out at the box office. Most box offices-for the popular sell-out events, will only have maybe 50-150 tickets available. Either the line is determined by order or most often each person gets a random ticket/wristband with a number. If you draw a bad number you can find the gig is sold out by the time you get to the front of the line. Ticketmaster does allow you to search many times before you buy. But nevertheless the best tickets never usually make general sale-they are already allocated to promoters/sponsors/band etc. Also ticketmaster and coldplay have been auctioning off the premium seats on ticketmaster. So that reduces the chances even more.

Oh it is! I used to work for Mean Fiddler-they produced Reading Festival in the UK. The headliners had very strict contracts-because they are the festivals main draw and they pay them big money, the festival organisers demand exclusive billing rights. I remember the headline contracts were very extensive-the headliner could not play any other UK festival that year and could not play any tours in the UK from Mar-Oct. The only dates that were acceptable were 1-3 small warm-up gigs of less than 500people. If you are paying a band +$1million dollars, you do not want them playing tha same city before or after your festival, it will impact your ticket sales dramatically. Coachella works the same-if you headline Coachella you can't play a big gig in Southern California between Mar-June.

I disagree. I do not like criticism for criticism sake, but constructive criticism helps the band. By your logic, if coldplay live was terrible we should say nothing and not go ever again. So ultimately everyone stops going and there is no more coldplay. My critique is coldplay are still pretty darn good live. But I do have some concerns about the overall concert experience. After every gig coldplay themselves sit down and critique their performances. I also hope they read their messageboards and get audience feedback-well I know they do because they listened to the main criticism of the last tour, namely ticket prices. So to say we can't make a difference is just not so. Isn't the whole appreciation of art based on an individuals critical assessment? We look at something and decide whether it appeals to us or not. I don't expect coldplay to please every single fan, but I sure hope they want to please as many fans/concert goers as possible. The current coldplay tour does many more things right than it does wrong. The only on-going concerns are ticket prices, set-lists, set-length and a few production niggles. If I was coldplay, I would be interested in hearing opinions. In truth people/consumers are very demanding nowadays-I don't know whether that is a bad thing when it encroaches into artistic expression but there you go. But we look at the poll results so far, over 75% of people who responded were not satisfied with the set list. If I was managing the coldplay 'live' brand that would concern me-put it another way if you had a restaurant where 75% of your consumers were not satisfied with your portions you would have problems.

Yes its a conscious choice. If you headline big festivals, you contractually restricted to not playing any gigs in that catchment area. For instance if you headline Reading/Leeds festival/Lollapalooza/Coachella etc the organisers do not want you playing an arena nearby the same week. Kinda bad business for both parties. 2009 will see a glut of Coldplay festival slots-I will go for Coachella, Glastonbury, V Festival, Roskilde, as well as Australia and other European dates.

It is clever doing this...but it is not spontaneous. One problem is when they did this I lost interest for those two songs. The sound was poor, I couldn't see the band, even with those (over-rated) ball screens. Bascially, we (fans) are mostly paying over $100 per ticket-at least 60% of all seats are $100 in every venue. Compare radiohead in Indy the other day, my ticket was $65(top price) 1st row. I got a 25 song set lasting over 2 hours and 2 encores. Which was better value? MMmmmmmmm

I think encores are too cliched and the norm! I am glad some bands still only do encores on very special occassions. But yeah, you are right about coldplay and practice. Very definitely I have felt coldplay have been under-rehearsed this tour and not very spontaneous. They played longer sets with after the 1st album!