Pink Summer Carnival Concert Tickets at Marvel Stadium (Melbourne) only $99.90 for Rear General Admin for 12-Mar-24 show. Other cheap tickets also still available. Also it won’t be 36’C tomorrow, so won’t be roasting outside :D
I checked against tickets for Townsville and they are $70 more expensive for equivalent area.
Battler mums of Straya desperately reorganising child custody arrangements as a result of this deal.
you're just sad because it's you and your hand tonight
Just a warning to people that don't frequent concerts. Rear GA is good if you want to enjoy the live music, but not if you want a view, unless you're over 6 feet tall. That being said, I'm pretty sure Pink does some wild acrobatics and stuff flying around the arena/stage so it might not matter too much for this lol…
I agree 100% with everything you typed.
I went with a friend to the first show at Marvel. We left well before the show finished. We were in the rear GA section and could not see a thing even though I am 6 foot tall. Everyone (myself included) had to hold their phones up with the camera on just to see what was happening.
The issues were as follows (in my opinion):
Stage was too low
None of the lcd/plasma panels (both to either side of the stage or the ones mounted to the stadium) were used to actually show what was happening on the stage. The stage mounted ones had bad graphics on them at times and were cycling through different views of the band, backup singers, P!NK, etc. The venue panels were just showing info like food, toilets, etc.
Gates opened at 5pm. At gate 10, there was 7(?) lines of people slowly shuffling forward to be wanded/have bags checked then there was the fuss of having to scan phone screens at the actual entrance. This took time.
On the actual field, there was two large white tents at 45 degree angles blocking views of the stage as well as someone on a tall platform with a video camera recording, I assume, the show for blu-ray/streaming release.
The roof was left open and a couple of times, we felt a few drops of rain but that, happily never came about.
We won't talk about the food prices, that's a given but after buying a bottle of coke, the security/workers/whatever take the bottle lid from you. We still haven't figured out a legitimate reason why.
P!nk didn't come onto the stage until roughly 8:40pm. Before her was Tones & I. That's alright if you like what she does (I personally don't) and there was some DJ before that.
My last whinge about this event was the bass. Way, way too much. I had to keep my earbuds in with noise cancelling on just to actually hear the music.
I saw P!nk at Rod Laver for her Funhouse & Truth About Love tours (missed the last tour) & I loved both of them (even met some of the backup singers & stage hands/lighting people after the TAL show) but this one was….. Meh.
I just think that Marvel stadium isn't the best place for events like this.
That's my whinge for the night over.
Had a similar experience when I saw Foo Fighters at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane. Paid $180 for GA2 to occasionally get a glimpse of Dave Grohl if I closed one eye and peeped through the occasional opening between hundreds of shoulders over the 3 hour set while competing for a spot that wasn't completely obstructed by two huge white tents. The atmosphere in the area was dead in the 2nd standing section too, and you had to look on at the mosh pit down the front having the time of their lives.
I go to A LOT of gigs varying from smaller venues to stadiums almost weekly, and stadium shows tend to be at the bottom of my list due to the separation of the crowd through multiple general admissions which ruins the atmosphere, and as you said, THE STAGES ARE ALWAYS WAY TOO LOW.
I don't know much about sound engineering too, but I always wondered if the acoustics of certain venues and stadiums are bad of if the audio engineers running the shows haven't got a clue what they're doing when the audio is (profanity). Saw Royel Otis last weekend and you could barely hear any vocals or instruments behind the constant BBBBBDBDDDDMMMM HMMMMMMMM VMMMMM of the insanely overinflated tuning of the bass guitar. Same problem at a different venue the next night for Hot Mulligan. Idk how they sit there at their little mixing board going "hmmm this is fine!"
I will say in general though, the prime consistent concert experience right now is through music festivals. The company that supplies the stages at festivals in Australia has got it figured out. I assume it's all the same company because the stages all look the same regardless of who runs the fest, but the stages always have a solid view and the audio is 90% of the time top quality.
FYI For Brisbane Rock/Heavy/Alt/Indie Music Concerts:
Good Venues:
- Fortitude Music Hall
- Eaton Hills Ballroom
- Riverstage
- Suncorp (GA1 or Seated Only)
Bad Venues:
- Tivoli (Bad layout, bad audio)
- Princess Theatre (Good layout, bad audio)
I saw Pink in 2009. Put on a good show. Haven't really heard any of her stuff since Funhouse beyond the odd single here and there…don't care for anything I've heard since Funhouse.
How these are still 100 the night before is insane, when Taylor Goddamn Swift had us covered with 80 buck tickets out the gate. (And then a small handful of shitty cheaper seats down the line no less)
Call me when it's fiddy or less, Alicia.
Pretty sure that's just the normal price, it was the same price for rear GA tickets in Sydney and Perth. Townsville probably has higher prices due to it being logistically more expensive to bring the concert there.
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Whats normal price OP?