If you buy a gig ticket of any kind from Ticketweb, they charge a 10% handling fee on the cost price and an additional £2.25 "postage". This postage is second class in an unmarked white envelope which contains no covering letter or reciept. If you choose to collect tickets from the box office instead they STILL charge £1.50 for the service. This is not a booking fee, it is in addition to it.

I haven't actually consulted the Jones, but I'm sure he's with me on this one

This is how a £6 ticket ended up costing me nearly £10. I wouldn't mind if there was any chance of any of that money getting to the artist I was watching, but of course he's being paid on the assumption that tickets are the lower price rather than the price people are paying.

I call at once for all ticket prices to include ALL costs other than reasonable postage where applicable. Being honest, there shouldn't be any postage at all - if airlines can do eTickets i'm damn sure venues can.

Stepping up to the challenge (several years before I made it), we got tickets - a service recommended to me by some guy in HMV. Unfortunately the fat kitty kats don't always give them a chance to shine, but for smaller gigs in your area be sure to give them a once over! DIY ethics are punk rock! Starting your own label is puink rock! But when a crass corporate vulture feeds on mass consumer culture then spending mommy's money IS NOT PUNK ROCK