Chili Peppers Pheonix Park Next June

bbop

Yep its just been announced i cant wait already, tickets probably on sale this Saturday

bbop

its the 12 of June 120000 tickets.

Imposter

Hopefully I'll get to see them on the 10th of June in Vienna. Tickets will probably be easier to get too!

comet

I can't find any news on this please post a link if its true!

comet

Ok just saw it on the bands site, nice one. also on NME
Red Hot Chili Peppers to play massive Dublin gig

honru

Oh man, and I thought that Metallica returning was bad. Three stadium shows in three summers - why don't they leave us alone. If Lansdowne Road was bad, I can only imagine how this holds up.

comet

Haven't been to a concert there, but i don't imagine its a good venue unless your right up the front.
Its the usual crap with concert promoters, they will try to sell as many tickets in the pre-Christmas buying frenzy period, they've cut it tight but they'll be plenty of kids pestering their parents for a 'surprise' in the Phoenix Park I'm sure:)

lodgepole

I don't get it... They're a decent enough band, but Slane one year (where they were overshadowed by the Foo Fighters and the Queens of the Stone Age) and now a 120,000 strong Phoenix Park crowd? Do Irish people think that highly of them? So much so that we won't try and find other acts to give the big gigs to? People more deserving?

eth0_

For gods sake. Why don't they just start gigging round all the pubs in Ireland? They're getting as bad as Counting Crows!
I don't mind RHCP but IMO they're not great live. Can't MCD et al come up with some other big name for phoenix park gigs?

Töpher

Like Metallica, they're doing a Bon Jovi. Same time next year guys....

kensutz

What a bad choice for an over rated band. Do they think they're that big??? Bunch of *&*&*&*.

Vlad Drac

I think the reason Slane sold out was because of the strength of all the bands playing rather than just the RHCP. I know I went to see the QOTSA and don't even like the RHCP ... Foo Fighters I had heard good stuff about live so I thought it would be a good show. But do they really think they alone can pull 120,000? Slane was around 80-90,000 people ... so they are expecting even more people to go see them this time around, even though they just played here :eek: Madness!

Dermo

it makes you think if they are going to get such big name support like Slane

beatsie

Yeah i was surprised that RHCP were going to be doin a phoenix park gig, dont know if it will sell as many as a pop concert (robbie williams), so the support bands will need be quite strong to guarantee a sellout.

empirix

the people will go because they want to be a part of it......the phoenix park & gig & summer sells tickets pluse its handy to get there than most other places...course it will be a sell out.......i'm going, i only live 10 mins just for that fact, i only live 10 mins away, twill be a good day out. I'd say most of my mates will go and they would be like me thinking tinnies, gig, g***A, sun(hopefully0, phoenix park) bit of craic agus crack;)

empirix

i had christmas dinner in work, so i am a bit tipsy,

Dont be at yourself

so the support bands will need be quite strong to guarantee a sellout

Pixies are rumoured to be supporting RHCP in Paris at around the same time, so fingers crossed, eh?

comet

Would you believe Ticketmaster are saying they received 30,000 phone call enquiries yesterday when news broke about the gig. Ah nothing like a little announcement like that to raise the hype....

weemcd

yeah it looks like me and my friends are goin \o/. tickets are going to be hard to get but we will try

GtripleB

Its a fact that Qotsa and the foo fighters helped pull the crowd in for slane(whih i was at) but does ne one know if there are gonna be any good bands supporting RHCPs at phoenix park?

Sauron

I went to slane...thought it was great...I will probably go...but it would be reassuring to know whos playing support b4 the old €60 is forked out....Im looking forward to U2....

honru

Originally posted by NekkidBibleMan
Pixies are rumoured to be supporting RHCP in Paris at around the same time, so fingers crossed, eh?

I really, really hope that that not happen (bit cautious on this Pixies reunion also). Not only would it force me to go to this joke of a concert, but the band would probably get such a beating like New Order did at Lansdowne Road, or even PJ Harvey at Slane, just because they're unknown to the majority of the crowd.

Plus, do the Pixies really deserve supporting the Red Hot Chili Peppers? I know this is unrealistic to the world out there but shouldn't it be the other way round??

On the support bands, I'd say it would take awhile until these are announced.

kanurocks

rhcp are a great band and desrve there credit and im a led zepelin fan.But personally i think the phonix park gig will sell out because they have become less punk and more rock pop in the past few years .And all the scumbags which is 90% of dublin who were to f*&*%$ lazy to got to slane will go to the phonix park gig.and i like to see any of you f*** wits sell out slane
p.s Both qotsa and the foo's played rubbish at slane.

ciao
johan

Töpher

So, if 90% of the scumbags in Dublin didn't go to Slane, thinking of how many scumbags I saw, how many would there be in Dublin if they left Slane travelling at 45MPH with wind resistance of 5MP NNE?

James R

Well ticketmaster are expecting it to be a sell out anyway by the looks of things because they've hired 250 extra staff and brought in 200 extra telephones.

p.pete

I'm thinking of seeing them at Rock-am-ring the weekend before, really not sure about the phoenix park thing. Slane was cool but the previous year in Lansdowne they were muck without decent support and a crap venue.

Third_Echelon

Originally posted by kanurocks
rhcp are a great band and desrve there credit and im a led zepelin fan.But personally i think the phonix park gig will sell out because they have become less punk and more rock pop in the past few years .And all the scumbags which is 90% of dublin who were to f*&*%$ lazy to got to slane will go to the phonix park gig.and i like to see any of you f*** wits sell out slane
p.s Both qotsa and the foo's played rubbish at slane.

ciao
johan

qotsa and the foo's were the best bloody part of the gig... they were excellent live... ive seen the foo's quite a few times now and they are brilliant live...

the rhcp were good and i like them.. but they are very over-rated...

and them playing another big gig a year later is a joke... talk about overkill... id much prefer seeing a different act headlining phoenix park... oh well... what you gonna do...

Caesar_Bojangle

Is it anywhere near sold out yet?

kensutz

*cough* rubbish overrated band *cough*

James R

I don't know if this is true or not but a friend told me it sold out in an hour and a half.

Can anyone confirm/deny this?!

lodgepole

Well Ticket Master still has them on sale, but when you try to reserve your tickets, it doesn't complete the page.

therecklessone

Originally posted by James R
I don't know if this is true or not but a friend told me it sold out in an hour and a half.

Can anyone confirm/deny this?!

Its bull. Soundcellar had a sheet load of tickets (none of which were to go to people who had reserved tickets, more due in the following day for them) at 3pm the day they came out, and were expecting more in the following day.

Ticketmaster are still listing it, so tickets should be available through them, for a ridiculous €5.50 service charge. Soundcellar will charge you €1.

eth0_

James R - do you work for MCD or something?
I laughed when I saw that ticketmaster had taken on extra staff to 'cope with the anticipated demand'. There was no WAY they were going to sell out that gig in a day! They're living in cloud cukoo land if they think RHCP can sell out a 120,000 capacity gig that quickly. They might be a bit popular, but they're not in the league of, say, U2, who could easily have sold out that gig in a day or two.

Also, it's chistmas, people don't have as much disposable income to spend on mcd's exorbitant tickets, and then there's the fact they have no support listed yet. Who do they think they are, Glastonbury? Glasto is the only gig i'd buy a ticket for without knowing the line-up, because you're guaranteed a good gig. With MCD you'll probably get the Frames and Halite. (no offence to fans of those groups, but they're not exactly 'up there')

D!ve^Bomb!

i heard on the radio it sold out in 30mins

eth0_

Originally posted by newband
i heard on the radio it sold out in 30mins

Eh, yeah. Well you heard wrong. Maybe "Biddy's Sound Cellar" in rural Donegal sold out their allocation of tickets in 30 mins.
Maybe you should go try and buy some tickets on ticketmaster.ie before posting misinformation. I wouldn't be surprised if yr from MCD trying to promote the gig :OP

Töpher

Do people not double check this information when they hear such absurd shít?!

Vlad Drac

This is funny ... the Chili Peppers must think that Ireland is there largest fan base in the world ... Slane was the biggest crowd the ever played to and now they think they can play to even more people! Slane sold out cause of the great line up from start to finish, and because there is people who go to slane on bus loads every year regardless who is playing etc. I would definetly be very shocked if this sold out ...

James R

It will probably pull a big enough crowd closer to the date but I think a lot of its success will depend on the line-ups of Slane, Witnness and Reading Ireland

lodgepole

According to the Irish Independent...

MORE than 20,000 tickets for next summer's Phoenix Park concert by US rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers sold out within five minutes of going on sale yesterday.

And by 6pm more than half the tickets for the 120,000 capacity event on June 12 had been sold.

source

I'm not sure why the used the term "sold out" when referring to one sixth of the tickets. Unless they staggered the sales in 6 stages.

therecklessone

Originally posted by Lodgepole


source

I'm not sure why the used the term "sold out" when referring to one sixth of the tickets. Unless they staggered the sales in 6 stages.

Your link is no use, requires registration.

Anyway, I believe (but am open to persuasion to the contrary) that accounts of sold out concerts often include tickets issued to stores which are not part of the ticketmaster computerised system. I've often seen wedges of tickets for "sold out" shows in the Soundcellar, days after the gig is announced as sold out. Its a bit bizarre to be honest.

lodgepole

Originally posted by therecklessone
Your link is no use, requires registration.

Anyway, I believe (but am open to persuasion to the contrary) that accounts of sold out concerts often include tickets issued to stores which are not part of the ticketmaster computerised system. I've often seen wedges of tickets for "sold out" shows in the Soundcellar, days after the gig is announced as sold out. Its a bit bizarre to be honest.

You're completely correct, Sound Cellar (and many other stores like it) buy in bulk from Ticket Master. They're completely seperate to the ticket master system, which is all linked.

Registration is free and fairly straightforward if you really need to follow the link. I'm sure it's in today's paper version too.

therecklessone

So is it possible that a claim of 20000 tickets sold could include a number of tickets issued to a non-ticketmaster outlet, that haven't actually been sold?

monument

Registration is FREE, but I've posted some of the text below....

http://www.unison.ie/entertainment/stories.php3?ca=61&si=1098337


"Red Hot ticket sales for band's summer park gig
Tuesday December 23rd 2003

MORE than 20,000 tickets for next summer's Phoenix Park concert by US rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers sold out within five minutes of going on sale yesterday.

And by 6pm more than half the tickets for the 120,000 capacity event on June 12 had been sold......

...........Eugene Moloney"

http://www.unison.ie/entertainment/stories.php3?ca=61&si=1098337

comet

This is funny ... the Chili Peppers must think that Ireland is there largest fan base in the world ... Slane was the biggest crowd the ever played to and now they think they can play to even more people!

Well actually this could be true because I think like Eminem they have sold more records in Ireland per capita than anywhere else.

eth0_

Originally posted by comet
Well actually this could be true because I think like Eminem they have sold more records in Ireland per capita than anywhere else.

Which doesn't say much for the nation's taste in music, does it.

comet

Yeah, well the Chilli Peppers aren't a bad band, just a bit of overkill there however the Eminem statistic sums us up as a "A Nation of Knackers" .....

Töpher

In fact its disgraceful.

monument

Originally posted by comet
however the Eminem statistic sums us up as a "A Nation of Knackers" .....

I'd think/hope it's mostly a lower age group.

D!ve^Bomb!

Originally posted by eth0_
Eh, yeah. Well you heard wrong. Maybe "Biddy's Sound Cellar" in rural Donegal sold out their allocation of tickets in 30 mins.
Maybe you should go try and buy some tickets on ticketmaster.ie before posting misinformation. I wouldn't be surprised if yr from MCD trying to promote the gig :OP

listen muppet, all i posted was wot i heard on the radio, do i give a **** if it was wrong? no!

and why the **** would i try and promote a chilli peppers gig on boards.ie.. to make gob ****es like you wana buy a ticket.. it doesn't exactly need the extra publicity now does it..

p.pete

I'm a big chili's fan but i'd rather go here .

Apparently the Robbie concert was good last year but almost everything else about the day was a bit tedious and crap. I've only managed to see the chili's twice before and would love to see them again before they bite the bullet but I'm not sure I want to put myself through the torture of the phoenix park.

IMHO they were brilliant in Slane - even bought the DVD but there previous Irish concert was kack. I think one of the posts mentioned the Dublin knackers that couldn't be arsed going as far as slane but will definitely make it to the Park - that's certainly how it worked for the Lansdowne gig.