assuming that these prices don’t get an additional $40-$60 “service fees” thrown on top my sentiment still stands.
Single ticket prices are more average, but I’d be very happy to get two shows at that price
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Now compare the incomes of the US to Poland (1,820 USD/month).
For Germany/UK/France the ticket prices are pretty average though. The tickets for Dir en grey in 2007/2009 were like 35 Euro, so 10 Euro more isn’t that much considering that was like 15 years ago.
It’s kinda intense though that the additional priority upgrade is basically 90% the price of the actual ticket, especially without knowing how many priority tickets are given out in general.
What’s crazy is that there is a similar phenomenon in the US, where not all areas of the US have the same amount of wealth but tickets are priced uniformally across the tour. So someone in Kansas may not make as much as someone in Cali, but the tickets prices are the same.
Ticket economics are wild!
That’s not what I meant. Comparing the price in the US of one specific item to the price in Poland just doesn’t work. These differences within the countries exist here too, but the US generally has way less taxes, so prices are naturally way higher.
Besides that the ticket pricing issues and “service fee” problem does not mean the US is more expensive but that the ticket vendor system over there is just fucked up. That’s what freedom means, I guess.
But like I said, the regular ticket prices are okay. Especially considering Gackt charged like 55 Euro in 2010 lol I think they don’t want to increase prices but instead do that priority stuff which makes 50% of the people pay double the price voluntarily anyway.
This is all I was focusing on. I could get into the weeds with how Ticketmaster and live Nation have been taking the piss outta concertgoers for years now but that isn’t important. when they function as the buyer, the seller, and the reseller, then I agree you can’t compare the ticket prices directly. I paid $200 for Dir en grey in 2019, so that’s what I expect the prices to be whenever they end up stateside.
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It’s lower.
VIP ticket service fee is about 18€
Dunno, considering how rarely they arrive to EU, they give plenty of time to save up for those gigs.
Come to Mississippi!!!
I know only 3 songs from them but I bought 2-days ticket in Poland XD
Got my two tickets for Warsaw. Now a dilemma whether to buy the VIP pass.
And if I brought all my 11 albums and 2 EPs on CDs would Diru even have time to sign them all for me 
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Anyone have ever gone to a DIRU meet&greet ? How was it ? I’m not the type to do this kind of things but I might consider for once.
Meet and greets are usually horrible with no interaction and the members do it out of necessity, the real benefit of vip is the chance to take front row.
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Someone on reddit posted their experience and it pretty much sums up what I heard until now:
"I did the VIP in 2013 (Tabula Rasa tour), I had never seen the band before, I used to barely attend show at that time and I took the VIP pass a little blindly without really knowing what it was or what I was going to get.
There was no Meet and Greet ( and people who attended the one that took place with the VIP from 2011 said it was a disaster so I guess that’s why ) but the atmosphere was just, heavy, unsettling and totally fake on Dir en grey’s side and it was impossible to blame them.
The fans just didn’t gave a damn about the band for the most part, they were rushing like crazy to go and stick to the barrier front row and get on the side where their favorite member was going to appear, some didn’t even bother to say Hello / Thank you / Goodbye during the photo (we had a picture with the band, part of the benefits), the photo session was terribly akward at best, it was 100% the same feeling as having your photo taken in front of an animal in a zoo, the band was literally behind a construction site barrer with two chairs in the front where I had to sit with them standing behind the barrer, so yeah, animal in a zoo, it was grotesque and the fact I participated in this process (70€ if I remember correctly ? At least it was 2x cheaper) really pissed me off, I wasn’t proud at all, and I felt bad for the band, I could tell by looking at them that their brain was shutted off for the whole duration of the photoshot, I also remember they posted ALL the photoshot in their facebook for us to download them, and they had the same exact pose, I also felt really bad the whole time I wait inside the venue before the people with “classic” tickets enter. Just a bad and anxious atmosphere.
As for the Dir en Grey staff, I don’t throw them any stone, they just do their job, but same bad memories, as a person who paid a certain amount, you don’t really feel respected either, feels like you’re into a factory, on the moving conveyor belt, everything goes VERY QUICKLY, they give you your gift (pre-signed Unraveling at the time) and you leave just as quick as you arrived.
In short, the experience left me a bitter taste on both sides, fans and organization, since then I try to explain, sometimes I admit, with a little animosity, that VIPs are really not a practice that should be encouraged, that we vote above all with our wallets and that we must stop this nonsense, that it does not even please the group and that there is other way to support them financially if that’s the question (Albums, Live DVD, Merch…) but there’s always fans who take it as personal attacks and start to throw a bunch of insult at you.
The band is obviously not held hostage when it comes to doing VIPs, and this is also the number 1 argument of VIP defenders (along with the classic "you’re angry because you don’t have ‘money’ lol), but that doesn’t mean they do it with a smile on their face, it’s simply a practice that (unfortunately) has become a big trend in the music industries, even for overseas band and DEG has to follow the trend like the others, in fact, they’re so not held hostage that Kyô used to just not show up during some meet and greet, and I guess this means more than any words about what they think about it right ? From this simple observation I don’t even see why people continue to buy vip tickets. Some DEG fans have this habit of seeing the members as divinities, and behind that treats them like animals from a Zoo, I’m not trying to act as the “better fan” but I will just never get used to it. Everyone has aspects of their job that they don’t enjoy to varying degrees but that they do anyway, and that goes for musicians, and for Dir en grey, VIP is a part of it.
ALL my friends who attended VIPs for Dir en grey share a similar bittersweet experience, and never tried it again.
Anyway, in the end, it’s your money, and your choice, that’s just my personal opinion about it."
Searching for “Dir en grey meet and greet” will give you pics like these and if that’s your vibe, go for it (even though it’s not even included to take pictures with them this time):
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Didn’t expect UK dates for withering to sell out so fast, had to get uroborous instead, wondering if we’ll get the full 9 minutes of vinushka.
Considering it was their lead PV that went along with the album release and that they played it (overseas) on their uroboros tour, i don’t see any reason why they wouldn’t
They played the full 9 minutes of Vinushka AND the entirety of TWOM in 2019, so hopefully the odds are good.
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You won’t get anything signed.
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See, it wouldn’t be bad if it were a photo taken standing next to the band members, even if they do look a bit disinterested. But having it being taken between a barrier, or in a group with a bunch of strangers just wouldn’t make it worth it.
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I’m still mad I wasn’t at the show they pulled out Vinushka for 
I’ve been to multiple VIP events. Taking photo in Europe is boring but it’s really good memory because not many people have it. Photos with DIR probably never happened in Japan. But i prefer current VIP with item handing hand to hand because you can catch that eye contact! while when you take photo they see only your back lol. I had really good experience with Kyo meet and greet in Japan. so i wonder how Europe version will go 
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