Bob Dylan is still good for an encore

I READ with some confusion Tom Sykes’s column headlined ‘Dylan show proves he’s some jokerman’ (December 7). Mr Sykes claims to have spent €80 per head for tickets to see Bob Dylan at the 02 and returned to watch Kasabian there “almost a year after I watched Dylan”.

Perhaps Mr Sykes knows of another gig (or gigs) but the only time Dylan has ever played the 02 (as The Point is now known) was just a few months ago (May 5/6) and tickets (the pricing of which are generally not in the artist’s control, by the way) were a rather more modest €55.

This was €10 less than the price charged for his previous Irish gig (The Marquee, Cork, June 25, ‘06). If memory serves, it was also cheaper than the charge for his gigs at The Point about two years before that.