Sony Scales Back PlayStation Gigs as Some Dates Are Cancelled or Moved

My guess is low sales. Almost always comes down to money.

the one in munic got move to 2026 as well

I'm attending one in couple weeks.I've just checked and my original seat has been cancelled and that section of the arena isn't open (was about half way back) and I've been moved to infront of stage near enough. Didn't even know i'd been moved ha

I’ve had a lot of concerts cancelled 8 months after buying the tickets. If the venue is undersold, they just pull the plug now.

You can tell it’s a hard market to be in when there has been news Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, and AC/DC have all had trouble selling tickets.

As i can see all May dates have either been removed completely or moved to 2026 only April dates are still going

@MrGawain It not a hard market for AC/DC, Springsteen, Rolling Stones, etc., to sell tickets, it's their unadulterated greed and people are finally waking up to the fact that paying three digit sums of money to watch multimillionaires who are four decades past their best-before dates shuffle across a stage isn't a great way to spend a day.

@MrGawain To be fair those 3 are a bit past their sell by dates no ?

@MrPeanutbutterz some concert tickets these days are absolutely scandalous. I love music and have been going to see bands live since my first on back in 1994, but I find it hard to justify the cost these days. I tend to go watch folks playing in smaller venues. I will still attend the odd bigger gig, but there are many I just back out of simply because I refuse to pay the ticket price.

Music is for everyone. I'm lucky enough to be able to afford to pay for tickets, I just choose not to as I don't like the way they are pricing folks out of going to see it live.

With this economy where everything became a lotttt more expensives than before (thanks to some countries), i don't think many people have the luxury to spend their money for game concert.

The copied email mentions March 10th 2026, your text translates it to May 2026…

They announced and immediately cancelled a gig in Finland last year so this has been on shaky ground since the get go. I'd still like to attend so I'll have a look if any tickets are going cheaper now

@GirlVersusGame really appreciate the response and completley agree with everything you say. I myself was in the music business a while back and the flow of money was very different. The shift to streaming means that unless youre hitting millions of streams, most of an artists revenue is from touring/merch these days. As you highlighted so well, the cost of touring has gone through the roof. Catch 22.

Add folks like ticketmaster into the mix with the wonderful invention of dynamic pricing, and greed kills the hope of seeing your favourite band for many kids.

I miss the days of going to buy tickets. Or hitting redial on the phone and hoping it gets a dial tone. It sounds old fashioned but at least it was fair and there was no 'wait in the lobby' so it creates a false demand and pushes prices up.

Sadly I don't see it changing for the better.

I had tickets to the Gothenburg concert, but they cancelled it. They said they'd rearrange it for a later date, but haven't had any news on that yet.

My initial thought was it could be low ticket sales, but then I remembered when I was purchasing my tickets, there weren't that many seats to pick from. Apart from a few dotted around the middle/front, most were just the ones right at the back.

I don't expect them to reorganise the concert here anyway, unfortunately.

@Weebleman Agree completely. I do similar - I try to hit up smaller bands when they're in town (well, Dublin). Saw Revocation (with Alluvial, Goatwh*re, Creeping Death) in 2023 in a venue that let me stand and watch my favourite guitarist of his generation play six inches from my face.

Cost of entry? €25. I'm no business wizard, but I don't see four bands from the US making much money for themselves by charging €25 to see them after trekking all the way to Ireland. Too right I bought a long sleeve t-shirt off them for €40.

Then Pearl Jam were charging something like €150 to see them in 2024... what happened to fighting Ticketmaster, chaps? I'm good at those prices.

Plus as well it's not just the tickets - it's taking the day off (most international gigs in ireland seem to be mid-week), it's travelling to Dublin, it's either paying accommodation or hoping one of the boys is driving up and down the same day...

@GirlVersusGame my kids think my music taste is abysmal but every so often I catch them humming along to a song or tapping away with the beat so i know the seed is planted. I'm just letting it grow at its own pace. Force it and they will lose interest, but its slowly growing.

My middle kid discovered weezer recently and he is all in on the green album. I'm gonna try and get tickets when they next come round to see how he likes it. I'm hoping that bug bites and I can start bringing him to the smaller, more random gigs.

I'm like you though, my greatest memories are from gigs and festivals growing up. I used to love heading into Manchester of a weekend and hitting the box office in virgin megastore to pick some random gig tickets up. Many of my friends were made at places like the academy or the roadhouse and that just doesn't stand a chance today.

@MrPeanutbutterz I'm a big pearl jam fan and it was 160 quid a ticket to see them in the UK last time round. As much as I love them, I just can't bring myself to pay that. To top it off, I believe he was ill at the gig and struggled to sing most of the songs.

I'd rather catch someone in a small venue for 30 quid and feel like I've been to a gig than sit in the back row of a stadium for a small fortune.

Did you see the price of tickets for the sabbath shows at the Aston villa ground? My god.

@Weebleman Yeah the scale of these gigs isn't particularly appealing either. I saw Metallica live in 2004, but I didn't really "see" them. I watched them on a Jumbo Tron, while tiny little bean people bopped around a stage I was miles away from.

The pricing of the Sabbath shows are criminal. Plus Ozzy is only doing a few tracks (which is honestly a surprise in itself - if a Weekend At Bernie's-esque scenario happened it wouldn't surprise me at all).

@GirlVersusGame @GirlVersusGame You've some excellent comments in this thread. Nah it was on in Whelan's, which holds a few hundred at most. My face was less than a foot from Davidson's fretboard at times. Will take that a million times over the big gigs where I'm almost squinting to see what's happening on stage.

Agree about the venue sizes - I saw Suffocation in possibly Fibbers? I remember chatting to Hobbs and Marchais and they said they were absolutely buzzing to be in a venue of that size again as they had just done a bunch of festival dates in Europe, and the atmosphere is obviously very different for both performer and attendees.

I've long maintained that my three favourite things to do in Dublin are go around the record shops, head to a gig, and board a car/bus/train to get the hell out of it. The latter has certainly become much worse in the last few years.

I can see what you mean about bands not quite hitting the Emerald Isle - Blood Incantation were scheduled to play here a few years back, which was scuppered by the pandemic. Now, the closest they're getting is the Incineration Fest in London.

Never a big fan of Vader! I've De Profundis and Revelations in a crate somewhere in my attic, but twenty minutes of them had me swapping over to Slayer lol. I did have a ticket for the recent Crowbar/Napalm Death gig, but alas it was mid-week and I just couldn't make the time work.