U2’s Opening Acts
If you can’t get enough of U2’s opening acts from this tour, fear not - they may be playing your local college area this Spring. One campus promoter, Pretty Polly Productions, has listed various acts on their website that you can hire for your college or corporate event. If you’re curious where your concert ticket price goes, check out what the booking fees are for a full concert by the following opening acts if you were to book them yourself:
Kings of Leon: $20k - $25k per show
The Thrills: $10k - $12.5k per show
Franz Ferdinand: $25k-$30k per show
Dashboard Confessional: (says to call for pricing)
Kaiser Chiefs: (says to call for pricing)
Keane: $35k - $40k per show
Damian Marley: $10k - $15k per show
Institute: $10k - $15k per show
Arcade Fire: $30k - $40k per show
The Killers: $75k-$100k per show
Kanye West: $125k - $150k per show
Talk about gold digger for Kanye!
Now…if they’d ever say who’s opening for U2 in between Arcade Fire and Kanye West???!!!!
Scott said,
November 10, 2005 @ 11:29 pm
How much to book U2?
U2isABLE said,
November 11, 2005 @ 7:52 am
From a conversation with an arena staff member at the MGM Grand - so take this with a grain of salt - was $500,000 just in booking fees. I could not confirm this with anyone else, and obviously U2’s staff will not divulge this type of information. If you look at the receipts of the 5 U2 concerts at Madison Square Garden back in October, it was reported by Pollstar that U2 brought in $9,658,009, or $1,931,601.80 per show on average. This figure should include all merchandise sales. Remember that gets split between the promoter, the band, management and their very-deserving and hard-working road crew (along with local crew). Still not bad for a day’s work, tho.