Mucho-Expensive Party Tickets: C/D?

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I was, at turns, freezing and soaking my bum working outside the Millenium Dome on New Year's for 19 hours (working security for the Ministry of Sound New Year's Bash). People were that desperate to pay £50 a ticket to get in. .Hell, at times, I was bribed with double ticket price, liquor...even promises of sex. This was even at 2 in the morning, when the event was only going to be on for another 3-4 hours.

What makes people so damn desperate to toss out the price of 3 concert tickets?

Even better, did you spend cash to get into an event you could barely remember the next day?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 2 January 2003 19:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think it's also interesting that the more expensive and "select" a party is, the less any rational human being would want anything to do with the other people in attendance.

It's funny in Detroit that these "posh" nightclubs kept opening and closing which would charge $20 to get in (not to mention $150 for the VIP section and $10 drinks, all of which is just silly for it being Detroit afterall). It was a long standing joke that me and my friends were gonna charge $50 to get into the alley behind our apartment and that people would gladly pay if it was THE place to be.

― Aaron W, Thursday, 2 January 2003 19:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Aaron, you should have given it a try. Who knows? You might have made a mint!

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 2 January 2003 19:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

It was also the idea of all the club dudes standing around in a dirty Detroit alley (we were going to set up a few strobes) saying, "Wow this place is fantastic brah!"

― Aaron W, Thursday, 2 January 2003 19:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh yeah, maybe everyone wanted to get into the last big Ministry of Sound event before they go out of business?

It's funny, you inspired me to read an old article I wrote.
http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=1071
The funny part is that all of the clubs I mention have long since gone out of business.

― Aaron W, Thursday, 2 January 2003 19:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Even promises of sex? I'm assuming it's guys promising girls sex? I mean like big deal; don't guys do that every night??

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 2 January 2003 22:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes, who'd have thought a sexy young woman could hang around outside a club with the power to get people in, and get offers of sex? (That's meant to be a compliment, Nichole - I'm aware that you weren't exactly there to pull.)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 2 January 2003 22:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

ha, we're just discussing plans to go to trinity college cambridge may ball this year, at 90 quid a ticket. so classic, i guess.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 2 January 2003 22:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ha. I know, Martin....besides, as it was so cold that my joints were locking up, pulling was not going to be an option.

Even promises of sex? I'm assuming it's guys promising girls sex? I mean like big deal; don't guys do that every night??

Funny. I thought guys begged for sex, more than they actually asked for it;>

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Friday, 3 January 2003 15:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

Odd, but my italics function just went mad. The comment underneath was meant to be from me...

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Friday, 3 January 2003 15:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

god, i once went to an opening party for a bar that had bottle service -- you paid to get a booth, then paid upwards of $150 a pop for a bottle of liquor and the appropriate mixers. a small stand with four miniscule cones of caviar and creme fraiche cost $45. (this party, since it was during the club's opening week, had open bar, thank god.)

― maura (maura), Friday, 3 January 2003 16:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

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