Pearl Jam Announces 2023 Tour Dates, Adopts ‘All-In’ Ticket Pricing
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Pearl Jam has announced a short tour for late summer and early fall of 2023, playing nine arena shows in five cities in August and September.
Perhaps not surprisingly with a group long known for its careful attention to ticket practices, the explanation of how the band will be handling the ticket sales runs much longer than the actual list of tour dates. (See the full list of shows below.) For the first time, the band has adopted “all-in” ticket pricing, meaning the added fees that are attached to tickets almost across the board appear as part of the basic ticket price, rather than showing up as a surprise during checkout.
Pearl Jam is doing the tour with Live Nation, which has advocated the all-in model. The announcement about the tour dates had Pearl Jam staking its position on other controversial ticketing practices, as well.
The use of “platinum” — i.e., dynamically priced — tickets came to the forefront after some of Bruce Springsteen’s 2023 tickets reached astronomical face-value heights, and Taylor Swift rejected the use of platinum pricing on her own tour.
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