Dynamic Pricing
ARC’s policy is to set ticket prices based on demand, like budget airlines, which means we set a price when the event goes on sale and then sometimes put the price up or down depending on how the show is selling. Usually, the price will increase as we get closer to the event, so it is advantageous to book in advance, although sometimes we will put special offers on and reduce the price. Our website will always show the current ticket price.
ARC’s theatre and dance performances are priced on a Pay What You Decide basis, which means you don’t have to pay until after you have seen a show!
We want to encourage more people to come and see shows at ARC, more often. Pay What You Decide not only allows you to pay what you can afford, rather than a fixed ticket price, but also removes the financial risk of buying a ticket for a show in advance without knowing whether you are going to enjoy it or not.
Tickets are available to book in advance as usual, but there is no obligation for you to pay until after you have seen the show. You can then decide on a price which you think is suitable based on your experience, which means if you haven’t enjoyed it at all, you don’t have to pay anything.
All money collected will help ARC pay the artists who have performed, and we therefore hope you will give generously.
Please ensure you have arrived and collected your tickets 15 minutes before the show starts in order to secure your seats. At the end of the show, you can decide what to pay, either by cash on the door or by card at the Box Office.
General Prices: £22.50 + £2 Booking Fee
Duration: 7.30pm
Seating: Reserved seated
Eddi Reader (real name Sadenia!) has proven herself to be a tour-de-force of musical talent over her illustrious career.
The Scottish singer-songwriter, is perhaps best known both for her work with Fairground Attraction and for an enduring solo career that so far is quite the tale… After starting out as a busker in her home town of Glasgow she headed to London and then across Europe in the early 1980s, performing live on the streets with circus and performance artists.
She headed back to London answering an advert from legendary punks Gang Of Four who needed a backing singer for a TV appearance on The Old Grey Whistle Test and for UK tour. She went on to tour the US with the band but left to pursue more work singing with acts such as Eurythmics, John Foxx and Alison Moyet.
After a while living in Paris she came back to London and joined Fairground Attraction whose first single Perfect took the UK pop scene by storm, going to No. 1 in the UK charts, and the band scooped best single and best album at the Brit Awards. After the band split, Reader spent some time acting in everything from Royal Shakespeare to BBC dramas, before kick starting her solo musical career. Through the nineties she released albums on Warner Bros, RCA and Rough Trade, and won Best Female Singer at The Brits..
Many more critically acclaimed albums followed, and in 2003, not content to rest in any kind of comfort zone, she recorded an album of material by Robert Burns with the Royal Scottish Orchestra.
Since then, she’s sung for the Queen, performed for the reopened Scottish Parliament, received three honorary doctorates (and an MBE!), performed in the period drama Me and Orson Wells with Claire Danes and Zac Efron, rearranged 1930’s standards with Jools Holland, written for film soundtracks including Batman and has of course continued releasing stunning solo albums…Phew!
From the traditional to the contemporary, Eddi brings joyous life to all forms of song and she has effortlessly developed into one of popular music’s most affecting performers
Please note, this performance will take place at Princess Alexandra Auditorium