Rant about Diljit's Concert

The Coldplay concert made me realise how much the other bands/ performers have been shortcharging us.

I had attended the Diljit's concert at Pune and had more money for Gold ticket than I paid for Coldplay's concert. However, the arrangements there, to say the least, were abysmal. Even from Gold tickets, Diljit was barely visible at all. I could only imagine the situation at Silver or other seats. Leave alone seeing Diljit on stage, even the screens were so small that we were not able to see him on screen. I don't know about food prices but water was Rs. 50/ glass and available only at a certain place. Lighting and all was fine. There was no opening act also.

Now, compare that to Coldplay. The lighting, confetti work and everything else was top-notch. The stage was visible from all parts of the stadium. They even take efforts to sing one-two songs from stage c so that everyone can see them close. Water arrangements were everywhere. I could even see the security staff giving water bottles to people standing ahead. In general, the attitude of the volunteers/ staff there was also way better. They even had opening acts from international as well as local artist. And they would have additional expenses due to international support staff etc.

Now, Ahmedabad I could understand that there were 1lac+ people so revenue would be more for Coldplay. But the number of people at DY Patil would be comparable to the number of people at his Pune concert.

It felt really bad that artists like Diljit have been saying that they spend all the revenue on their concert, and then they also rant about Infra while giving themselves not putting an effort to make the experience worthwhile for their fans.