Spin off from the expensive gig thread
Hole at Brixton Academy in 1995 for £9. Stunning gig.
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Wouldn’t rule out it being Springsteen, despite that also being the answer to the most expensive thread. You certainly get your money’s worth with him.
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Free foo fighters gig at Van Warped under Waterloo
Can’t remember costs, but either recent Nap Eyes tour where we also got Haley Heynderickx as support
Or surprise Meursault as support for Frightened Rabbit, when they were my fav new band
Just wondering whether a free Foo Fighters gig is good value for money 
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It’s gotta be £2.50 tickets to Arcade Fire’s Hyde Park day thing thanks to a thread on here. Can never be beaten.
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Oh yeah. I got a few of those. We got upgraded to the inner circle area when a bloke was handing out posh wristbands.
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ATP vs the Fans 2. Sleep and The Jesus Lizard are two of my all time favourite bands and I got to see them back to back two nights in a row. That was worth the price alone but then there was all the other amazing bands I saw that weekend.
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Rage Against The Machine at the Zodiac in Oxford - only £5
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Love The Rosebuds - Birds Make Good Neighbours.
Never seen them live unfortunately.
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i remember getting a ticket for this in 2009 when the venue were trying out a short lived ‘tickets bought in the bar are half price on Mondays’ offer. the barmaid had no idea what i was talking about so i had to go to one of their sister bars to get one instead, but it was worth it. £3.50.
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that’s still the only time i’ve seen them. remember them headlining Mandela Hall a couple of years later but i hadn’t really kept up with them at the time and didn’t go to that
That was probably my album of the year whenever it came out in the mid-00s. Loved the album and was waiting for a London date. Never came.
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When I was 14 I went to see Static-x, Spineshank and System of a down at Manchester Academy 2 for about £12.
You might rightfully sneer at some of those bands now but at the time they were relatively small bands touring their debut album that all went on to varying levels of success after and it was just one of the most amazing things 14yo me could spend my money on. It’s never been beaten for value for me.
(System of a Down’s debut is still a solid album and I’ll defend it’s honour to the death)
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funny that this doesn’t seem like very long ago, but Phoebe Bridgers was the opening act on the second stage
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i had only really heard of her from one of the end of year DiS Mixtape CDs someone had made for me here so i remember being surprised a couple of my friends knew who she was. think i wandered back and forth between her and Father John Misty and caught a couple of tracks from each
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we also bought tickets to this gig at the same time in the same half price offer, which i like to remind @JaguarPirate of
both those posters were on display in the downstairs bar for years afterwards which was nice, until it got renovated and turned into The Points
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i got lost trying to find the entrance so missed the first couple of songs of his set i think
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After just a small amount of thought and considering the free gigs, climbing over the fence to Glastonbury every year except 1985 to 1995 that it was on (I paid the first year, £17:50). The best value for money was £5 to see GWAR at Edwards No 8 circa 1990, which was actually quite expensive and a few of my mates didn’t go because of the cost, but the theatrics and show they put on is right up there and I thought immediately afterwards I wished I’d paid for a few of them to experience that show.
There was an Elvis zombie style guy introducing them and they executed skinheads onstage in a very small venue. The crowd got covered in fake blood and more bodily waste and it was a show like no other. On the bus on the way home people gasped when we got on as it looked like we’d been in a car accident or something. Those days are gone but that is the best gig value I’ve ever had for pure entertainment and originality.
I’m on the right.
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