Radiohead’s response to questions about high ticket pricing.

We don’t usually preview interviews before the magazine goes to print but given that there’s been so much discussion about the price Radiohead are charging for their upcoming gig in Malahide castle, we’re going to make an exception this time. I’m not going to make any comment on it but instead I’ll let you draw your own conclusions. Here’s a little snippet from the interview that Analogue writer, Karl McDonald did with Phil.

Analogue: Tickets for your gig in Dublin in Malahide Castle went on sale this morning and it’s very expensive, it’s €70.70 and there’s been some discussion of how you can justify the fair way of releasing your album and then charge that much for a tour gig?

Phil: Right, and what’s been the general response on that?

Analogue: Well I mean it is the most expensive gig of the tour and there’s been arguements that you’re pricing out some fans, people who may have bought the diskbox, big fans or students who don’t have that much money to come to a gig.

Phil: Right.

Analogue: Do you have any reaction to that?

Phil: Eh, well whenever we’ve looked at ticket prices and set them, we’ve wanted to make them as fair as possible so I would hope that we’ve pitched it right on this one, make it as fair as possible on the price. You know we’ve never really set out to max, as they say, our tour revenue so I think we’ve always put out reasonably priced tickets. That’s as much as I can say really.

The full interview will appear in our third issue scheduled for late January.