Chris Cornell - Songbook Tour - The Olympia - Wed 13th June

NIBBS · 09-03-2012 10:11am #1

Just confirmed by himself and on his site, date is Wed 13th June......

delighted

Cornell's site said the Academy (but as Lamb Of God are on there that night - I rechecked) it's actually in The Olympia

Nea · 09-03-2012 10:14am

Over the moon myself, think I will have to travel to see Soundgarden though!

redmosquito85 · 09-03-2012 10:26am

Could have to hit this if funds allow! Any idea on ticket price?

allanb49 · 09-03-2012 10:29am

Chris Cornell brings his Songbook tour to Dublin June 13th, Olympia Theatre. The tour highlights Chris Cornell’s entire catalogue, including Soundgarden, Audioslave and Temple of the Dog. Tickets from 39.05 inc booking fee on sale this Wednesday at 9am.

Mushy · 09-03-2012 10:33am

Payday today...hello Chris. And seeing Soundgarden not long before that:D

Misfit Mum · 09-03-2012 11:29am

Was planning Berlin for Soundgarden but don't think I'll make it due to funds so this will do for now!! Bet if it wasn't for the PJ tour starting June 20th it would be a Soundgarden show!!

Roddy23 · 09-03-2012 12:27pm

Dammit - I'll be in Poland

rednik · 09-03-2012 12:29pm

Cheers Nibbs, looking forward to this.;)

Fi H · 10-03-2012 12:00am

The prospect of not getting tickets for this is making me feel sick!

seachto7 · 10-03-2012 2:03am

If I can't see SG, I have to see this. The album is pretty good. He is my man crush!:o:)

guitarzero · 10-03-2012 2:12am

In.

edhead · 10-03-2012 2:15am

How does one get password/access to presale? Any ideas?

Grid. · 10-03-2012 9:01am

What was his last gig here like??

LowOdour · 10-03-2012 11:01pm

going to try my hardest to get tickets for this, but if I don't what are the chances we will see soundgarden here before the end of the year?

Furious-Red · 11-03-2012 1:45am

LowOdour wrote: »

going to try my hardest to get tickets for this, but if I don't what are the chances we will see soundgarden here before the end of the year?

Yea i would have prefered a SG gig

Mushy · 11-03-2012 1:48am

Furious-Red wrote: »

Yea i would have prefered a SG gig

Wahey to seeing both. specially as at Rock im Park, its Linkin Park after SG, so last band I see is SG:D

Furious-Red · 11-03-2012 1:49am

Mushy wrote: »

Wahey to seeing both. specially as at Rock im Park, its Linkin Park after SG, so last band I see is SG:D

Quite You

. Loved RIP in 09 but not really mad on the line up this year

fufureida · 11-03-2012 4:28am

I will go to this concert, I will meet chris cornell, and I will get a cheeky feel.

There, it's settled.

ridonkulous · 12-03-2012 10:24am

Anyone know the pre-sale code? I've signed up to the fan community but can't see where to get it

EDIT: Found it.

danniemcq · 12-03-2012 10:34am

I'm sure my ma would like me getting this for myself as a birthday present for her....

Fi H · 12-03-2012 10:45am

Presale password is :
songbook2012

I'm assuming anyone interested has probably gotten tickets already

cant wait!

Neo# · 12-03-2012 2:23pm

Can you not get standing tickets with the presale? i cant see it as an option.

EyesClosed · 12-03-2012 2:34pm

Neo# wrote: »

Can you not get standing tickets with the presale? i cant see it as an option.

It is a fully seated show, which sucks cause the seats in the Olympia are terrible

Neo# · 12-03-2012 4:04pm

damn!

jack presley · 12-03-2012 10:59pm

darryn wrote: »

It is a fully seated show, which sucks cause the seats in the Olympia are terrible

Yeah, feck all legroom. So unless you're about 3 ft tall, try and get an aisle seat.

Fi H · 12-03-2012 11:17pm

Not sure how many tickets are going to make general sale on wednesday! Already up to row E in the circle.

fufureida · 13-03-2012 2:13am

Fi H wrote: »

Presale password is :
songbook2012

I'm assuming anyone interested has probably gotten tickets already
cant wait!

How do you use this???? Plz tell me!!!

fufureida · 13-03-2012 2:21am

fufureida wrote: »

Fi H wrote: »

Presale password is :
songbook2012

I'm assuming anyone interested has probably gotten tickets already
cant wait!

How do you use this???? Plz tell me!!!

I freakin cant get my tickets. Urgh stupid ticketmaster.ie won't work. Does anyone know if the tickets are allocated by location? Like will you be told to sit in a specific area?

fufureida · 13-03-2012 3:02am

Sorry to post again, but what are the best places to be seated in terms of view and closeness? Someone please respond, been awhile since i have been to olympia.

seachto7 · 13-03-2012 1:55pm

Tried to get tickets on Sunday night, used the password, and then got told by ticketmaster that tickets were not on sale yet.

Fi H · 13-03-2012 2:26pm

Thats because the presale started at 9am MONDAY morning

Yes its fully seated so you will be allocated tickets based on whats available. Avoid the upper circle at all costs!!
When you go to the ticketmaster page you will be asked to pick number of tickets and beside that there is a blank box, type songbook2012 into the box and keep going as normal!
Hope it works out!

fufureida · 13-03-2012 3:35pm

Fi H wrote: »

Thats because the presale started at 9am MONDAY morning

Yes its fully seated so you will be allocated tickets based on whats available. Avoid the upper circle at all costs!!
When you go to the ticketmaster page you will be asked to pick number of tickets and beside that there is a blank box, type songbook2012 into the box and keep going as normal!
Hope it works out!

I had no idea about the presale. Didn't even receive a notification from ****ing tickermaster, some kind of service they provide. If I had known I would have been watching like a hawk. Oh well, I got row E stalls tickets. Should be a good enough view.

Fi H · 13-03-2012 4:22pm

Presale is nothing to do with ticketmaster! its down to the artist whether they do presale or not and they usually issue the passwords to fans of theirs. I got the passwork from Chris Cornell's website!
We are in E too so see ya there

fufureida · 15-03-2012 4:49pm

Fi H wrote: »

Presale is nothing to do with ticketmaster! its down to the artist whether they do presale or not and they usually issue the passwords to fans of theirs. I got the passwork from Chris Cornell's website!
We are in E too so see ya there

Actually I don't know Dublin well, are you coming with a group of friends? Its just gonna be me and my sister, who is 15

I'm 21 myself.

Fi H · 16-03-2012 12:19am

yup theres a couple of us alright....older than yee

dont worry dublin wont hurt ya!

WithCheesePlease · 13-06-2012 4:19pm

Anyone know the stage times for this tonight??

rednik · 14-06-2012 12:00am

Super gig, a day in the life was awesome. The man has some energy.

NegativeCreep · 14-06-2012 12:31am

By far the best gig I've been too! Could have sat there for the whole night and listened to him! Some fair amount of posers and try-hard loud mouths in the crowd tho! Mostly boggers (first time in the big smoke I think) :rolleyes:

MoeJay · 14-06-2012 1:02am

Awesome show, pity the people wouldn't just shut up *rant on - especially the eejit (polite term) who made the Timbaland comment - dear oh dear. And the two females in close proximity to me who called him a god and gushed over his voice and then kept on yapping..!

Also probably the most I've ever seen security be so dogged about people taking pics...they were busy all over the place down in the stalls, don't know what it was like upstairs. *rant off

Chris Cornell was brilliant. What a voice. Nuff said.

flogen · 14-06-2012 8:47am

MoeJay wrote: »

Awesome show, pity the people wouldn't just shut up *rant on - especially the eejit (polite term) who made the Timbaland comment - dear oh dear. And the two females in close proximity to me who called him a god and gushed over his voice and then kept on yapping..!

They may have been the same people as the two in front of me - were in awe for the first few songs and then seemed to get bored.

Great gig, though. Such an amazing voice. Also a great mix of songs; Even some of his stuff that I'm not mad about sounded well.

Only thing that would have made it better was if Eddie Vedder walked out for a duet on Hunger Strike

sham69 · 14-06-2012 9:15am

Wow is all I can say.
Have been a fan since around 1990 and this is my first time to see him live (would have preferred soundgarden at download but what the hell)

2 solid hours of brilliant music.
I knew he had a good voice but jesus its powerful, I don't think he hit one bad note.

Was going to give my standout moments but every song was just amazing.
I hate when bands/singers sing cover versions but the beatles cover was class.
Great banter with the crowd but the shouting up at him was embarrassing at times but luckily his voice was powerful enough to drown out the loudest of mouthes.

You could hear a pin drop when he sang "when i'm down" with the vinyl accompaniment, what a vocal..
It was easily the best vocal performance i have heard at a gig since the great Freddie Mercury in '86..
Here's hoping soundgarden play here now..

One of my best gigs ever...

jack presley · 14-06-2012 9:44am

Were there many at it?

EyesClosed · 14-06-2012 9:46am

jack presley wrote: »

Were there many at it?

I am pretty sure it was sold out

Nea · 14-06-2012 9:55am

Absolutely stunning. 2 hrs of constant goosepimples on my arms.

When I'm Down made the night for me, I adore the song and it was nice the way he explained about Natasha as she was such a talented artist. I loved CC and Eleven working together.

Security were crazy on photos all right, I was sitting so close yet no photos then again I would say he would have had a pain in his arse with constant flashes all night for such an intimate gig.

The mouths were a bit much alright although I did like the Timbaland jibe. I was sitting on an aisle seat and I was asked" Will you let me get in?" Do people not have manners anymore, I know the Olympia seats are worse that Ryanair but Christ, a sorry/please would not go astray.

rednik · 14-06-2012 10:15am

I managed to get a few. (No flash

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phatkev · 14-06-2012 10:51am

Fantastic gig, I was seated in the upper circle which people said to avoid but I could not fault the sound or the view

seachto7 · 14-06-2012 11:04am

bummed I missed this now. I am holding out for a SG solo show.
I have the CC live album, and while it's great, I want to see just SG live!
Some of the recent clips of SG live have been ropey, but not brutal, just a tad ropey. But that can happen all of us!!

Want SG, want SG!!

Iggie · 14-06-2012 11:23am

Agree with all reviews here. He was amazing. Only downside were the assholes in the audience shouting all the time. I don't know what makes these idiots think that they're A) funny or

original.

Like the twats at a comedy gig that try to heckle the comedian

LowOdour · 14-06-2012 11:38am

NegativeCreep wrote: »

By far the best gig I've been too! Could have sat there for the whole night and listened to him! Some fair amount of posers and try-hard loud mouths in the crowd tho! Mostly boggers (first time in the big smoke I think) :rolleyes:

get off your high horse there kid....you complain about posers, but look down on 'boggers' as you call them. hypocrite

anyway, the gig. I always said CC would be the lead Singer of my fantasy rock supergroup...and last night proved why. that voice, its beyond words.
main highlights for me were Wide Awake, When I'm Down and Say hello to heaven...but they are just three of many.

Those to loud mouth Yanks actually moved up in to seats in my row, theres were a few rows back. acted stupid when the owners of the seats came along and had to go back to their original seats. guess mommy and daddy couldn't get them everything. And that timberland comment was embarrassing....who was that guy to tell a legend like Cornell anything about who he should or shouldn't work with

KeithTS · 14-06-2012 11:48am

The Timbaland thing was uncool, but Chris dealt with it well, made your man look like a fool.

Amazing show, I've seen him a few times in different settings but last night was special in the way it was about the interaction with the crowd and letting us get to see him as a guy and not just as a front man.

I loved his little ditty about getting a discount on tickets unless your parents played!!!

NegativeCreep · 14-06-2012 11:48am

LowOdour wrote: »

NegativeCreep wrote: »

By far the best gig I've been too! Could have sat there for the whole night and listened to him! Some fair amount of posers and try-hard loud mouths in the crowd tho! Mostly boggers (first time in the big smoke I think) :rolleyes:

get off your high horse there kid....you complain about posers, but look down on 'boggers' as you call them. hypocrite

I was joking, relax :L I obviously dont "look down" on boggers. I was just annoyed because of the girl behind me. She was a fool.

Chris Cornell - Songbook Tour - The Olympia - Wed 13th June

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