Child Rock meets with Donald Trump’s Lawyer Basic nominee with plan to “open a can of whoop ass” on gig ticket trade

Child Rock has met with Donald Trump’s Lawyer Basic nominee Pam Bondi to take intention on the present state of the concert-ticket trade.

The ‘All Summer time Lengthy’ singer took to his official Instagram web page and shared a photograph of him alongside Bondi, explaining that he plans to work carefully with the Lawyer Basic nominee and the entire administration to work on the present points surrounding ticket buying.

“What a deal with to interrupt bread with our quickly to be Lawyer Basic @pambondi,” started the caption of his put up. “I stay up for working together with her and the entire administration to assist repair the fiasco of shopping for live performance tickets. Gonna open a can of whoop ass on the bots, scalpers, venues, ticketing corporations, managers and artists alike who rip off and deceive the general public with the horse shit that has gone on for many years and solely gotten worse.”

He continued: “Whoever in cost that wishes to assist repair this, get your ass to the desk, in any other case, Fuck Round and Discover Out. Child Rock #MAGA”

Ticketmaster has been on the helm of controversy these previous couple of years. In 2022, in the course of the sale of Taylor Swift’s ‘Eras’ tour live performance tickets, the ticketing providers supplier revealed that the web site skilled “traditionally unprecedented demand” for tickets to the North American leg of the ‘Bejeweled’ singer’s tour.

Swift went on to reply with an announcement that learn: “Nicely. It goes with out saying that I’m extraordinarily protecting of my followers. […] It’s actually tough for me to belief an out of doors entity with these relationships and loyalties, and excruciating for me to only watch errors occur with no recourse. There are a large number of the reason why folks had such a tough time making an attempt to get tickets and I’m making an attempt to determine how this example could be improved shifting ahead.

“I’m not going to make excuses for anybody as a result of we requested them, a number of occasions, if they may deal with this type of demand and we had been assured they may. It’s really wonderful that 2.4 million folks bought tickets, however it actually pisses me off that a whole lot of them really feel like they went by way of a number of bear assaults to get them.”

That very same 12 months, Ticketmaster launched their dynamic pricing scheme which fits on to enhance ticket costs primarily based on demand. The corporate has clarified on their web site beforehand that tickets which are “market-priced” and “could enhance or lower at any time, primarily based on demand. That is much like how airline tickets and resort rooms are offered.”

Followers who had been trying to buy tickets to Bruce Springsteen‘s 2023 tour shared their complaints with the dynamic ticket pricing, with some making an attempt to attain tickets being requested to pay as much as $5000 (£4152).

On the time, Ticketmaster went on to defend the mannequin saying that solely 11.2 per cent of the Springsteen tickets offered had been platinum, and only one.3 per cent had been $1000 (£830) or extra. In addition they stated the common value for a Springsteen ticket was $262 (£217).

Again in April, Reside Nation – the guardian firm of Ticketmaster – was sued by the US Justice Division after they claimed that the live performance promotion and ticketing operations have undermined competitors within the reside music trade.

The story was first reported within the Wall Street Journal, and alleged that following the 2010  merger of Reside Nation and Ticketmaster, the enterprise has gone on to regulate greater than 80 per cent of the marketplace for ticket gross sales within the US, that means that it has turn into a monopoly.

In response to the report, Reside Nation’s head of company affairs, Dan Wall, argued that the corporate actually has extra competitors than ever. “If you must hone in on one slice of the market in an effort to allege a monopoly, then there isn’t one,” he stated.

In different information, Child Rock beforehand shared a message following Donald Trump’s election victory and stated it was “not the time to brag”.