Seats at Adele’s rescheduled Vegas show going for €230,000
TICKETS for Adele’s rescheduled Las Vegas concerts are on sale for a staggering €230,000 each.
Fans were left devastated in January when the singer cancelled her residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace just 24 hours before the first show. And officially the venue says all seats have been sold out for the first two months of the hotly anticipated new run.
But The Mail on Sunday has established there are tickets available from resale sites from €750 for ‘nosebleed seats’ in the balcony to an eye-watering €227,000, for a central position on the front row – offered via the StubHub platform.
Fans who had tickets for the cancelled Vegas show are able to use their tickets for the rescheduled concerts, which kick off on November 18. A source explained: ‘Most people hung on to their tickets and the €230,000 ask is a big one but clearly whoever is trying to resell those tickets thinks they might be able to get the big bucks.
‘There are more reasonably priced seats available but you would expect prices to soar closer to the first concert date as people make last-minute plans to head to Vegas.
‘If someone is asking €230,000 a ticket they must believe there is someone out there willing to pay.’
The Mail on Sunday has been told the new shows will be ‘intimate and heartfelt’ after Adele became unhappy with the scale of the original staging, which had included a 40-piece orchestra, 60-voice choir and a pool on stage. But she tearfully cancelled those concerts telling fans ‘we’re just not ready’.
The star later said: ‘I definitely felt everyone’s disappointment and I was devastated and I was frightened about letting them down. I thought I could pull it together and make it work and I couldn’t and I stand by that decision. ‘I’m not going to just do a show because I have to or because people are going to be let down or because we’re going to lose loads of money. I’m like, “The show’s not good enough.”’ This time around, the set and audience numbers have been reduced. She will now have a 20-piece band, three backing singers and a 30-person choir.
Construction crews have been working through the night to build the new set inside the 4,100-seat venue.
Much of the work has gone into constructing a protective climatecontrolled ‘bubble’ on stage and behind the scenes to ensure Adele’s incredible voice is protected from the dry Vegas air.
The source said: ‘They have spent a fortune bringing in industrialsized air purifiers, humidifiers and a machine that pumps out cooling water molecules to ensure the air quality is pure.
‘Vegas casinos are notorious for having dry, stale air so everything is being done to make sure Adele’s voice is protected.’
Fans will need to show proof of a negative Covid test before they will be allowed to enter the venue.
‘No other concert anywhere is asking for this any more, but Adele’s nightmare is if she gets sick she will have to cancel on fans again, so she is taking no chances,’ said the source.
The Oscar-winning star is earning a reported €930,000 per show for the residency which lasts until the end of next March.
Adele said she had been rehearsing in a studio close to her Beverly Hills home ‘for like 12 hours a f ****** day.’
During her Vegas stay she and her family will live in a luxury three-bedroom private villa in a gated area of the casino grounds with its own butler and security team.
‘They believe someone is willing to pay’
Minister Leo Varadkar announced a €100,000 grant for the organisation.
Now aged 68, Mr Shields, is a former managing director and part owner of North of Ireland security fencing firm, N.K Fencing Ltd. He is also a renowned marathon runner and athlete.
Russ Jefferys said that Matt and Ruth Shields have contributed hugely to public health and the Parkrun mission in Ireland.
The Parkrun Global chief executive told the MoS: ‘The two of them have done incredible work.
‘For the first couple of years – back in the days when Parkrun wasn’t a charity anywhere and was really struggling financially – they didn’t draw a salary at all. I’m sure it cost them personally. Latterly they’ve been able to receive a payment for the work that they have done but I would say that’s in line with market value.’
Parkrun Ireland was established under licence from Parkrun Global, which is headquartered in London.
Parkrun Global is a registered charity in the UK that controls various
commercial subsidiaries.
These subsidiaries, and various other external licensed firms such as the Irish operation, are not charities.
While this kind of structure is permissible under UK charity laws, the Charity Commission for England and Wales has warned it can lead to confusion. For example, participants at Parkrun Ireland events are directed to the global website to register where they are informed that the organisation is a charity.
However, Parkrun has no charitable status in Ireland.
Mr Jefferys said he accepts the movement’s ‘global corporate structure is at times confusing’, adding: ‘It is something I’m working on to simplify.’
He added Parkrun Global is trying
to ‘simplify things as much as we can, consolidate wherever we can and make sure we are being transparent’.
Most people seeking to check the charitable status of Parkrun Global would do so through the Charity Commission for England and Wales, to which all UK charities must submit an annual report.
According to the latest submission from Parkrun Global to the Commission, there are no employees receiving a salary of more than £60,000.
However, according to the filed annual financial statement of Parkrun Global Ltd – a complex 48page set of accounts – discloses that five employees earn above £60,000, with the best paid earning more than £150,000.
When we initially asked Parkrun Global to explain why the information provided to the Commission was incorrect, we were told the charity had no employees.
This was justified on the basis that the employees actually work for a subsidiary, which is entirely owned
by the registered charity.
When the MoS asked Mr Jefferys to address the issue, he agreed the information published by the Commission was not transparent.
The Parkrun Global CEO said: ‘There just seems to be some sort of discrepancy with the Charity Commission website there because, technically speaking, that’s right because there are no direct employees of the charity, but that is confusing and there’s a number of administrative things that we’ve been tidying up on there.’
When asked who supplied and updated the information on the Charity Commission’s database, Mr Jefferys said: ‘I’m not sure if that’s something the Charity Commission put up themselves or if we have access to update that.
‘I’m very happy for it to be as transparent as possible.
‘I want to make sure that we are not just fulfilling our obligations but that we go further.
‘Because I do think it’s right that people have an opportunity to understand how this organisation works, and if there are more things that we can expose and reveal and share then I’m open to it,’ he said.
‘I welcome the questions and the transparency.’
When asked who supplies the data for the published, public register, a spokesperson for the Charity Commission said the information on the register ‘is based on the annual return that the charity submits, not their accounts’.
‘If there is a discrepancy between the two, it would be because of the information that the trustees supplied,’ the spokesperson added.
‘In these instances, it would be the responsibility of the trustees to contact the Charity Commission via our enquiry form to amend any errors,’ the spokesperson said.
‘They receive a payment in line with market value’
‘I’m happy for it to be as transparent as possible’