Where can I buy Backstage passes?

Where can you buy backstage passes to concerts?

• When I'm 15 I can go to my first concert and I want it to be special. I'm going to save all my money to buy seats frount and center. I also really wanna buy a backstage pass. If you know how I can get a backstage pass then thank you! Oh and I am going to see Katy Perry!

• Answer:

  Backstage passes are available ONLY to the concert crew, the band, roadies, producers, news media, promoters and relatives/friends of the band/stage crew/promoters. Not generally available to the general public. In other words, you just can't go to the ticket office & just buy them. I work at these concerts in NYC from time to time and I have more or less have first hand knowledge on this subject. There is a less than 300 available for any one concert. Some even less depending on the artist and the crew involved. There are FOUR WAYS to get a backstage pass. From somebody that posted this information here on Yahoo Answers in the past. This guy named spaceman that's really knowledgeable on this subject ans some editing of my NYC experience on this. 1) You must KNOW someone connected with the band or tour, more like a relative that works for the band/concert/promoters. Or, if you are lucky have a friend or a neighbor that has a relative that works for the band or the promoters directly. Or somebody you personally knows that works for the band or promoters directly that has these connections. 2) Be a news reporter. You would have to be one connected to your local newspaper or local TV/radio news team. Also, people that are internet news bloggers very rarely get these unless they are very well know in the news industry. Also, the news people can't just show up with their news crew and be let in backstage. They have to arrange this in advance. Especially these days. 3) A local radio station will sometime have a backstage pass or two of the concert and offer it as a promotional prize. Either you have to be the 7th or 10th or 12th caller. Or hope that the entry form you filled out gets picked out by the radio DJ or whoever they have in a random drawing. 4) Sometimes a person will have one and will sell it on EBAY online auction or Craigslist and EXPECT to pay REALLY BIG DOLLARS (like hundreds or thousands) for one. You have to be careful when buying these from these websites. Some people I have seen that show up at a concert and pay $300.00 and more on one only to learn the backstage pass they bought is nothing but a laminated fake that security can easily spot. Some of these backstage passes have bar codes or security strips on them, depending on the agents and promoters. On some concerts the promoters will give a backstage pass to a person. Sometime these backstage passes are not transferable. If the person is not the name on the ID code on this backstage pass they could be in some trouble. Those are the ONLY WAY you will get a backstage pass legally. Thank the Lord for the copy & past option on IExplorer so I don't have to type the above information again when people ask this question.