Oasis fans rushing to get tickets for the band’s two gigs in Croke Park set two records for spending this year, according to an AIB report.
Saturday, August 31st, saw the highest average transaction value for tickets among AIB customers so far this year, at €347, a 300 per cent increase on the average transaction for 2024 to date (€87).
The AIB Spend Trend found August 31st also saw the highest total spend on tickets in 2024 at €6.3 million. The highest spend per transaction on tickets that day was in Kildare (€466) followed by Monaghan (€444), Louth (€429), Roscommon (€420) and Cavan (€411).
Thousands of fans missed out on Oasis tickets as the Ticketmaster site crashed for many users, with hundreds of thousands in the online queue seconds after it opened at 8am on Saturday, August 31st.
Many did not reach the checkout stage at all, while others found only 'dynamic pricing' tickets with costs upwards of €400 available.
Electric Picnic fans drove the second-largest ticket sales so far in 2024, on August 21st, with an average transaction value of €231.
The total spend on tickets by AIB customers that day was €4.8 million. When it comes to the highest spend per transaction, it was something of a home affair, with the top spenders from the home of Electric Picnic, Co Laois (€320), followed by neighbouring and nearby counties Carlow (€259), Kildare (€257), Offaly (€244) and Kilkenny (€241).
It was a busy month for music lovers, with the third highest spend on tickets on August 30th (€3.9 million), the day Oasis tickets went on pre-sale and the day All Together Now tickets went on general sale. The average transaction value that day was €258.
Summer 2024 closed out well for the hospitality sector, with spend in restaurants up 11 per cent month on month, hotels up 7 per cent and pubs up 5 per cent. Hospitality spend increased most among people from Kerry (+15.7 per cent) followed by Leitrim (15.3 per cent) and Waterford (+14.9 per cent).
The monthly data was compiled from 75 million debit and credit card transactions in store and online during August 2024 and has been anonymised and aggregated. Data provided by AIB "features one of the most comprehensive and accurate data sets on consumer spending in Ireland".
