🎤 Is paying for a live concert in Hyderabad worth it?

Paid almost 3000 for a concert ticket near Gachibowli last month, and I left office early to beat the traffic. Didn't help at all. We walked in after the first two songs were already over, which really stung. Then the food queue was longer than the gate queue, and water was 80 rupees for a tiny bottle. The samosas were cold too. Everyone's stuck inside so they charge whatever they like, I get it, still annoying. Sound was the bigger problem. At the back you hear the crowd more than the singer. Faisal climbed on a chair for a better view and the staff made him get down, fair enough. I stood next to a speaker for half an hour and my ears were buzzing till we got home. Then he played the old hit I came for and the whole ground sang louder than the speakers. That one song made it worth it. I filmed thirty seconds and I'll probably keep it forever. Thousands of strangers shouting the same line, nobody on their phone, nobody bothered about the heat. Still, with the cab and food I was nearly 2000 over budget. My cousin says only indoor halls from now on. Not sure I agree. Maybe I'll wait for the winter shows and see if prices drop.

Ha, Faisal getting told off for standing on the chair. Same thing happened to me once.

Winter shows are better anyway, it's cooler and the crowd is a lot less sweaty. Went to an evening one on an open lawn last December and it felt nothing like the summer shows.

Look up videos from the last show at the same venue before you book anything. Some grounds have a nasty echo and the back rows get the worst of it, always. My brother found a clip online, heard how it sounded and skipped the whole thing. Ten minutes of checking saves you a lot of regret and a lot of money.

That bit where the whole ground sings the old hit is why I keep going back. Cried a little at a show two years ago and wasn't even embarrassed, half the people around me were doing it too. You just can't get that feeling from a phone speaker at home. I'd pay the 3000 again for one song like that, easily.

80 for a small bottle is mild. I paid 100 at one last year. Some venues let you carry a sealed bottle, you just have to check the rules before you go. Ours did and it saved me a few hundred rupees overall. Worth a quick call to the organisers or reading the fine print on the ticket page.

3000 and you still missed two songs, that would have ruined it for me. I stopped paying for the premium zone after a show where the screens blocked half the stage.