RT 2024 UK Tour Dates

[Jim G]

Last November tickets for Tankus the Henge at Bridport's Electric Palace (until recently a regular Wintour venue) were only £12. It was packed to capacity and a fantastic night.

Maybe RT will still play to sold out crowds - but somehow I think he won't with those prices

[davidmjs]

Last November tickets for Tankus the Henge at Bridport's Electric Palace (until recently a regular Wintour venue) were only £12. It was packed to capacity and a fantastic night.

Maybe RT will still play to sold out crowds - but somehow I think he won't with those prices

Sadly, I suspect they'll sell out.  Plenty of people still have plenty of cash.  It's just that vast quantities also have next to none....

[Andy]

I saw Saving Grace in Carmarthen on 16/4/19.  Tickets were £22.50 each.  The world's gone mad...

As you know we were there the same night. I certainly wasn't particularly impressed. Were you?

[Col D]

Got a couple of tickets for Stoke as soon as the presale opened. Had a sharp intake of breath at the asking price of £140 for the pair, expected somewhere around £45-50 each based on the last time we saw him and allowing for a bit of inflation but that is at the very limit I'd pay to see anyone. Thankfully it's just down the road for us and travel costs are negligible so that helped justify the spend. To think we used to go to multiple shows on a RT tour, now one is pushing the limits.

[davidmjs]

I saw Saving Grace in Carmarthen on 16/4/19.  Tickets were £22.50 each.  The world's gone mad...

As you know we were there the same night. I certainly wasn't particularly impressed. Were you?

Aye, I adored every second of it (and the other time I saw them)...

[Andy]

Aye, I adored every second of it (and the other time I saw them)...

Wow. Just goes to show...

[Adam]

Albert Hall booked, at a wallet-shrinking £93 a ticket. I hesitated for a minute, but given a lot of my favourites won’t be around forever, I went for it. It’s on a Saturday, so a good opportunity to meet up with London friends as well

[davidmjs]

Albert Hall booked, at a wallet-shrinking £93 a ticket.

Absolutely friggin' ridiculous (the price, not you going for it).  The guy used to be a normal bloke...he's taking the p1ss now.

[Lubiloo (Lorna)]

Albert Hall booked, at a wallet-shrinking £93 a ticket.

Absolutely friggin' ridiculous (the price, not you going for it).  The guy used to be a normal bloke...he's taking the p1ss now.

Even normal blokes need to pay the bills. All aspects of a tour must be way more expensive, in this current financial climate.

[David W]

Albert Hall booked, at a wallet-shrinking £93 a ticket.

Absolutely friggin' ridiculous (the price, not you going for it).  The guy used to be a normal bloke...he's taking the p1ss now.

Even normal blokes need to pay the bills.

Me too!!

[Shane (Skirky)]

Albert Hall booked, at a wallet-shrinking £93 a ticket. I hesitated for a minute, but given a lot of my favourites won’t be around forever, I went for it. It’s on a Saturday, so a good opportunity to meet up with London friends as well

Blimey, if he sells that out he may never need to work again!

[RobertD]

Albert Hall booked, at a wallet-shrinking £93 a ticket.

Absolutely friggin' ridiculous (the price, not you going for it).  The guy used to be a normal bloke...he's taking the p1ss now.

Yeah sure, he’s obviously lounging around on his yacht in Corfu, and selling his limited edition lithographs for 5K apiece, and hobnobbing with Taylor Swift and Beyonce at a swanky Las Vegas hotel and personally flying in Bono, Jagger, and McCartney for a 90 minute studio session….I think THAT is taking the piss. I don’t pay for large capacity shows often, in part because I prefer the music in more intimate settings these days, but I would plunk down the music for this. To each their own, but Richard has consistently worked bloody hard throughout his career. The singer Jackie Venson had a phenomenal social media post about the economics of touring in a world where almost nobody makes much money on their actual freaking music recordings these days. Richard included I am sure. If you are marginally living between the red and black wouldn’t you push the envelope sometimes?  Rant over, not sorry…but no offense to personal opinion intended!

[Dan O.]

This is what I wrote in the thread about RT's 2023 tour :

"Well, didn't he once say, half in jest, that once he reaches 70 he officially becomes a living legend and can double his fee ?"
 
"Hasn't Mr Pegg been known to say, again half in jest, that they can only afford him for Cropredy every 5 years ?"

Maybe he's jesting no longer ?  

[Pat Helms]

This cover is really annoying me.  It's like an (is it?) AI image of what RT would look like if he was fisherman.  And yet somehow ends up looking precisely nothing like him.  Has an 'artist' created this or is it literally AI?

Its just a guess, but I suspect he's playing off on a Wes Anderson motif.....

[Dan O.]

I've just found my first ever RT ticket - Portsmouth Pyramids Centre in 1995, duo tour with Danny T, Christine Collister support.

Don't think he's played Portsmouth since - I've seen him with and without a band many times in Basingstoke, Guildford, Abingdon, London, Brighton, Cropredy, Chesterfield, Chichester, Southampton, but not Portsmouth.

Ticket prices for his return this year are either £57.60 or £72.10

In 1995 - £8.50 ! Even using an online inflation adjuster, in 2024 money that would be roughly £22.10 !

[blagden]

Albert Hall booked, at a wallet-shrinking £93 a ticket.

Absolutely friggin' ridiculous (the price, not you going for it).  The guy used to be a normal bloke...he's taking the p1ss now.

Whatever the circumstances £93 just feels excessive.

[davidmjs]

I've just found my first ever RT ticket - Portsmouth Pyramids Centre in 1995, duo tour with Danny T, Christine Collister support.

Don't think he's played Portsmouth since - I've seen him with and without a band many times in Basingstoke, Guildford, Abingdon, London, Brighton, Cropredy, Chesterfield, Chichester, Southampton, but not Portsmouth.

Ticket prices for his return this year are either £57.60 or £72.10

In 1995 - £8.50 ! Even using an online inflation adjuster, in 2024 money that would be roughly £22.10 !

The Bank of England Inflation Calculator (arguably the most accurate one of these for the UK) shows this to be £16.72 today

[Will S]

Don't know what it costs to hire the Albert Hall, but even so...  Anyone know how much Show of Hands were charging for their party there last year?

Top prices for Fotheringay and Elton John at the RAH in 1970 were 25 shillings, which would be £16.41 in today's money according to the Bank of England inflation calculator (thanks for that, David).  Seems like a bargain to me now!  At the age of 6 it was way out of my price range   (even if I had had any idea who Sandy or Elton was at that age).

[Pat Helms]

Albert Hall booked, at a wallet-shrinking £93 a ticket.

Absolutely friggin' ridiculous (the price, not you going for it).  The guy used to be a normal bloke...he's taking the p1ss now.

Yeah sure, he’s obviously lounging around on his yacht in Corfu, and selling his limited edition lithographs for 5K apiece, and hobnobbing with Taylor Swift and Beyonce at a swanky Las Vegas hotel and personally flying in Bono, Jagger, and McCartney for a 90 minute studio session….I think THAT is taking the piss. I don’t pay for large capacity shows often, in part because I prefer the music in more intimate settings these days, but I would plunk down the music for this. To each their own, but Richard has consistently worked bloody hard throughout his career. The singer Jackie Venson had a phenomenal social media post about the economics of touring in a world where almost nobody makes much money on their actual freaking music recordings these days. Richard included I am sure. If you are marginally living between the red and black wouldn’t you push the envelope sometimes?  Rant over, not sorry…but no offense to personal opinion intended!

Agree. Inflation or not, the industry has changed and is the real cause for the spike.....and I've changed with it.  I have to admit that I haven't bought an RT album in quite some time.  Its just too easy (and permissible) to listen for free.  

Therefore, if I'm fortunate enough to have an opportunity to see him this year, I'll pay the price.  Its my comeuppance for streaming.  I owe the man.

I would make the day long journey to see him in Richmond or Vienna ( pronounced "Vy-anna" ) Virginia, but they're both already sold out! Hopefully a proper southern tour is in the cards down the road.

[davidmjs]

Vienna ( pronounced "Vy-anna" ) Virginia

How?  Why?  I'd have to avoid that on principle...