{"id":37874,"date":"2023-09-12T19:48:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T19:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/12\/oliver-anthony-blasts-high-ticket-prices-not-acceptable\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T19:48:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T19:48:37","slug":"oliver-anthony-blasts-high-ticket-prices-not-acceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/12\/oliver-anthony-blasts-high-ticket-prices-not-acceptable\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Anthony Blasts High Ticket Prices: ‘Not Acceptable’"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Oliver Anthony<\/strong> has a message for any \u201crich men\u201d charging an arm and a leg for concert tickets.<\/p>\n

Anthony, 31, took to Instagram on Monday, September 11, to vent his frustration after hearing that tickets to his now-canceled show at the Cotton Eyed Joe venue in Knoxville, Tennessee were almost a hundred bucks each. \u201cMy adrenaline\u2019s pumping, man. I\u2019m pissed off right now,\u201d the \u201cRich Men North of Richmond\u201d singer said in the Instagram video. \u201cDon\u2019t buy Cotton Eyed Joe tickets for $99 apiece. And sure as hell don\u2019t buy VIP for whatever bulls\u2013t price they\u2019re going.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anthony said that the incident happened because his booking agent \u2013 who works full-time as a plumber \u2013 agreed to the show \u201cwithout asking what the ticket prices are,\u201d said Anthony. The \u201cmiscommunication\u201d led to this situation, and Anthony encouraged his fans not to pay the ticket price<\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s horse s\u2013t. If we\u2019ve got to cancel the venue and play somewhere else, we will. I didn\u2019t agree to it, and I don\u2019t want you to pay it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the video\u2019s caption, Anthony said his fans shouldn\u2019t agree to paying $200 for a meet-and-greet. \u201cThat\u2019s not acceptable,\u201d he wrote. \u201cJust saw the Facebook post and lost my s\u2013t. \u2026 My shows should never cost more than $40, ideally no more than $25. Hell, out of the four shows we have currently done, two of them have been completely free<\/a>. This will get straightened out tonight. Hold off on buying tickets for now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Shortly after posting the video, Anthony wrote in the comments section that the Cotton Eyed Joe show had been canceled. \u201cI am so sorry about all of this. I will do better next time. We are still learning,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

However, the venue responded to Anthony\u2019s video via the official Cotton Eyed Joe Facebook page<\/a> and said they were the ones pulling the plug on the event. \u201cIt\u2019s a damn shame what the world\u2019s gotten to for the customers of the world-famous Cotton Eyed Joe,\u201d the venue wrote. \u201cMost times, we say a show has been canceled due to circumstances beyond our control. Well, we are canceling the Oliver Anthony show under our full control. All refunds will be made in the next few business days to your original form of payment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The venue claimed Anthony was \u201ccontracted to play the Cotton Eyed Joe for $120,000 for 60 minutes.\u201d The venue, which claims to hold around 1500 people, said it set the pricing to cover the cost of taxes and to pay \u201cthe ticket website their fee to sell the tickets,\u201d ultimately settling on $99 \u201cto break even and bring our customers a show we thought we would be fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anthony has been experiencing the rush of fame since his song, \u201cRich Men North of Richmond,\u201d spent two weeks on the top of the Billboard<\/em> Hot 100 after going viral on YouTube. The Farmville, Virginia native\u2019s track was embraced by conservatives since its lyrics attack \u201cthe obese [people] milkin\u2019 welfare,\u201d all while criticizing the \u201crich\u201d politicians in Washington D.C., aka the town north of Richmond.<\/p>\n

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With the surge of conservative support for the song, where it was the basis for a question in a 2024 Republican presidential primary debate, Anthony had to speak out and say that the song was \u201cwritten about the people on that [debate] stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

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