Trinity Ball 2012

LadyGaga! wrote: »

One of my friends asked me to ask, he graduated a few years back and isn't doing a masters or anything, can he apply for tickets?

Yep. Students, staff and graduates can buy tickets.

Whatever Marina and the Diamonds song they played in the trailer was sufficiently annoying to turn me off buying a ticket. Haven't heard of most of the other bands cos I'm not with it, are they any good?

This is the first time the Trinity Ball has had an act I'm even vaguely interested in (I love Marina and the Diamonds), but 80 euro for one artist? Not happening.

brownacid wrote: »

The line up is ****, I had heard of marina and the diamonds by name only and same with teh dead presidents, although I think the dead presidents played last year which is why I would have heard the name.

The only act I have heard anything by is prof green who is in all honesty ****e, I dont remember seeing him last year. Ive never heard of the "headline" friendly fires and from a quick youtube they dont seem to have any "ballesque" songs. The line up is seriously lacking an act that has drunken anthems that has everyone singing along to and they charge 80 quid for teh night, what a ****ing rip.

Hopefully ents don;t re-seign the contract with mcd and get someone like pod or aiken to take over on a 5 year basis rather than the current 10. 10 years and the promoter seems to have gotten complacent. I half way expected a decent line up this year in an attempt my mcd to ensure the contract is renewed, oh well.

Haters goina hate

thunderdog wrote: »

Just hop on stage with Trinity Orchestra and whip out a triangle or something. Thats my plan

Funny you should say that, I hear that they are actually looking for a triangle player.

Has anyone managed to apply yet? Can't even get the site open...

Edit: Got it open now, nvm!

Trinity Ball vs Forbidden Fruit... I shall not be going to the ball, then.

Is there any archive of past line-ups? It would be great to compare. I suspect every year is "the worst ever", but I may be wrong.

Africa wrote: »

This is unquestionably the worst I have ever seen. Last year sucked ballz too, but this year is the worst Ive ever, ever seen.

05 - Ian Brown, Babyshambles, The Music, Mainline & Angels Of Mons, Lemon Jelly, Groove Armada DJ set, Jacques Le Cont, Tom Middleton & Erol Aiken Acoustic – Declan O'Rourke, David Kitt & Neil Mooney, The Urges, Redneck Manifesto, Arveen, Jape, 747s"

06 - Ocean Colour Scene, The Futureheads, Felix Da Housecat, Who Made Who (Live), Hal, Mundy, Republic of Loose, Humanzi, Headman, Emm Gryner (ex-David Bowies Band), Jon Carter, The Blizzards, Porn Trauma, Leya, G'n'R Tribute, Delorentos, Present Arms, The Company and many more.

07 - CSS, Director,The Blizzards, Aslan,DataRock,Erol Alkan, The Enemy,Justice,Hot Chip DJ's, BookaShade, BoyzNoise,Dr. Lektroluv,Busy P,Channel One,The Last Tycoons,The Flaws

08 - Mark Ronson, Vitalic, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Lightspeed Champion, Boys noize, the Metros, Kavinsky, Reprazent, the Mighty Stef, the Coronas, Something happens, the Whip, Jamie Scott, the Spikes, Crazy P and Royworld.

09 - Calvin Harris, The Script, Ladyhawke,Vitalic, Dan Black, Vicarious Bliss, Filthy Dukes, Popof, Fight Like Apes

10 - Dizze F*ckin Rascal. That was enough to make me ignore the rest.

11 - The Streets, Bell X1, Jessie J, Simian Mobile Disco (DJ set), Chipmunk, Professor Green, Ryan Sheridan, The Rubberbandits, Fight Like Apes, Katy B, Glasser, Bitches With Wolves, Jenna Toro, Devlin, Alex Metric, Starsmith, The Minutes, The Kanyu Tree, Royseven

I clearly have the wrong taste in music for this - none of those line-ups seem particularly good to me! :pac:

I got tickets this year though, because I figured you have to go at least once. I'm in third year and there's a fair chance I'll have either my final Spanish oral exam or my dissertation interview - or both - the week after the ball next year (and because my surname starts with B, I'd definitely be on the Monday if they were that week). So yeah, this is the year I'll go :P

Is the MCD contract up for renewal?

People are forgetting to understand the price of production of the ball.

Roughly €550,000 from Ticket Sales, its fair to say, without breaking down actual costs, heres a rough breakdown of how money is spent!

Out of this, the acts need to be paid for, their transport and accommodation, and their riders for the back stage area.

Stages need to be constructed, marquees erected, fencing rented, all of which carry a considerable cost, just go to Trinity any day before the ball and look at the work put into erecting them.

Equipment then needs to be rented aswell, from truck full's of sound systems, and lighting, to portaloo's, they all need to be provided and are not cheap, add to this the cost of wiring and setting each up, and the time involved in this.

I think its fair to say that the above 3 take a huge amount of money, just in themselves.

Now, add further to this, the cost of security, medical personnel and stewards (which TCD students get the option to do), legal fee's(event license applications etc). The money that MCD charge(they need to pay the staff obviously), the money given to the 5 capitated college bodies and all other miscellaneous costs, there's loads but im not going into them!


This is all excluding bar set up and fee's associated, so lets presume the pouring license covers all that cost, as well as staff associated with the bar and the security that work on the bar, and let it, and the food vendors rent, cover the post event clean up (TCD has to be left in perfect condition following the ball, including broken things repaired).


The ball is expensive to run and produce. There is nothing to be ashamed of in that price, the line up the ball attracts, is top class. Sure, you could have a bigger headline act, but at the expense of having the rest of the line up being completely unknown amateurs, and either way, everyone wont be pleased, balance is best and trying to keep everyone happy with a wide range of music and genres!

electrogrimey wrote: »

Ball Acts are generally people that are playing over here anyway, it being a private event means it wouldn't interfere with normal gigs. She might be playing her own gig, have a look.

Line-up is expectedly terrible IMO, but I'm sure there'll be a few thousand drunk happy people there, so it's serving its purpose.

@timmywex - Castlepalooza is €74 for a whole weekend, and Body & Soul is €99 for a whole weekend. Both festivals have a similar capacity (i.e. ticket sales/income), and offer a lot more for the price, the line-up being a small part of that. Trinity Ball offers nothing more than a few bare-minimum facilities, and a weak line-up, who they (I'd guess) get good prices for as many usually are playing the Ball as a second Dublin date in a weekend. There are loads of people in Trinity who could organize a better ball without help of MCD, for a cheaper price. Then the Ball might actually be something to do with Trinity, not just another way for MCD to make money from their Trinity Ents lapdogs.

Them 2 events are totally different, go look at the acts as an example, totally different vibe and targetting a different audience, and their not private parties held in the middle of Dublin, in a fully functioning college campus!

Some people think the ball line up is weak, others good, its impossible to please everyone? The ball lineup takes about a third of the revenue from ticket sales, and for your info, only professor green is playing that weekend in Dublin aswell, all the others are coming for the event, which means flights/hotel costs have to be covered aswell!

There isnt anyone in Trinity that would be capable of organizing something on the scale of Trinity Ball, to the success it is

Bollocks line-up as usual. Only things even remotely worth seeing are Friendly Fires and Erol Alkan.

Why don't they ever book decent dance acts any more? 2007 they had Booka Shade, Erol Alkan, Hot Chip, Boys Noize, Dr. Lektroluv, it was great, it was music you actually dance to and have a laugh. Back then I remember people outside Trinity would get jealous when I'd tell them about the line-up. Now, if I was going, I'd be embarrassed to tell anyone for fear of being laughed at.

timmywex wrote: »

Them 2 events are totally different, go look at the acts as an example, totally different vibe and targetting a different audience, and their not private parties held in the middle of Dublin, in a fully functioning college campus!

The 'vibe' or audience in no way changes the finances of the event...And being a private party if anything would make it a lot cheaper, licensing & insurance is much easier for private events. I guarantee MCD are laughing at the thousands of people paying crazy prices for a extremely budget event.

If so many people think it's more to do with the event than the music, then it'd be nice to see some effort put into the atmosphere, more than horrible tents and takeaway vans.

brownacid wrote: »

MCD don't pay the catering units to be there, the caterers pay MCD for the right to serve food. I know for the likes of oxegen it costs the caterers anywhere from 2000 to 10000 to be there for the weekend depending on the size of teh unit and what they are selling. The only reason there are caterers at the ball is that teh guys who own those vans, are big enough to have bought the rights for every event MCD have for the year. They dont make much money at the ball and certainly dont get paid by mcd.

And it's not within the power of Trinity Ents to put their foot down and say they don't want Abrakebabra vans in Trinity?

electrogrimey wrote: »

And it's not within the power of Trinity Ents to put their foot down and say they don't want Abrakebabra vans in Trinity?

The queue or the abrakebabra van at the ball is ALWAYS longer than the queue for the bar. I'd be pissed if there wasn't a van there, and I'm not alone in that.
I agree it's pricey for the event, but in fairness, it could be the UCD ball.....

RandolphEsq wrote: »

I'll be bringing a little picnic in with me. Cucumber sandwiches FTW!

I'll go to my room this time....

Tears in Rain wrote: »

Booka Shade

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Is there a list anywhere of past line-ups?

IIRC Vitalic pulled out in '08, but was there in '09.

'10 was Dizzee Rascal, Mystery Jets, Mr Hudson, Uffie, Jape, Digitalism, Delorentos, Japanese Popstars, Jessie Rose, Fred Falke, Louis La Roche, Example, Ou Est La Swimming Pool, The Law, Definitely Mightbe et al.

snicket wrote: »

Lost my purse last night, I know there's slim chances of getting it back, but do they have a lost and found or something similar?

Lost and found opening Monday in Arts block as far as i know!