WA music lovers spoilt for choice
Almost 100,000 people are expected to rock out at gigs across the city over the next five days, with Perth's unofficial summer festival of music set to kick off tonight with legendary US band the Eagles.
Your teenage daughter's favourite band, One Direction, play the biggest single gig of the weekend on Friday night with up to 29,000 1D fans - and their not-so-excited parents - expected to transform Domain Stadium into a sea of screams.
About 27,000 are due to make their way to Perth Arena over two nights for the Eagles three-hour marathon gigs, while more than 20,000 are expected over two nights on the South Perth foreshore for the Paul Simon and Sting pairing.
Australian electronic act Chet Faker is one of the hottest acts in the country right now, and though he is not quite at the stadium level, the numbers attending his concerts mean he is getting close.
Faker, known to his mum as Nicholas Murphy, will play to almost 3000 people over Friday and Saturday night at the Chevron Festival Gardens as part of the Perth International Arts Festival, then to about 3000 people on Sunday night at the Fremantle Arts Centre.
All three shows have been sold out for months.
Tickets with an original face value of $66 for Murphy's concert on Sunday night are selling for more than $200 on hawker sites such as Gumtree, with some would-be concert goers saying they had been ripped off by sellers telling them to transfer money because they lived in regional WA. There are still limited tickets available for the Eagles and One Direction concerts and the Sunday night Paul Simon and Sting concert.
Saturday night's concert is sold out.
Other gigs over the next five days include 1990s alternative rock king Stephen Malkmus and his band The Jicks and up-and-coming US R 'n' B star Tinashe at the Chevron Festi-val Gardens.
