Rolling Stones to hit Ireland

grumpytrousers

http://www.rollingstones.com/news/press.php?uid=458

"Additional concerts in Russia, Greece, Croatia, Serbia & Montenegro, Portugal, Denmark, Switzerland and Ireland are also confirmed with venue and/or on-sale information to follow....The average price of tickets across Europe is 75 euros."

loyatemu

18.08.06 Dublin UK(!?) Phoenix Park

comet

Phoenix Park! and in 2003 they played 2 nights in the Point, I should have went then, no way i'll go to the Phoenix Park anyway.

Bluetonic

It'll be Croke Park so the rumour mill has it.

Is Croke Park still limited to only three concerts under the terms of its planning
permission?

p.pete

Bluetonic wrote:

It'll be Croke Park so the rumour mill has it.

Is Croke Park still limited to only three concerts under the terms of its planning
permission?

What loyatemu said is correct according to https://tickets.rollingstones.com/

MrJoeSoap

The Stones in the Park sounds class. Pity about all the problems it creates in the local area for the days before and after it.

Beastieboy

Tickets on sale saturday the 3rd of december according to NME

Atomic Pineapple

Bluetonic wrote:

It'll be Croke Park so the rumour mill has it.

Is Croke Park still limited to only three concerts under the terms of its planning
permission?

yeh it is only allowed three concerts per year still and i believe robbie williams is playing two gigs there which leaves only one slot for a proper musician/band to fill.

croke park would be far better than phoeinix park, the park is a disaster for a concert.

comet

draffodx wrote:

yeh it is only allowed three concerts per year still and i believe robbie williams is playing two gigs there which leaves only one slot for a proper musician/band to fill.

croke park would be far better than phoeinix park, the park is a disaster for a concert.

well if Robbie Williams is really playing 2 nights then thats all 3 nights gone as tickets have already went on sale for Bon Jovi...

aw

I thought it was Robbie Williams and Michael Flatley fighting over the last Croke Park date.
Michael wants to do his new show there because "it's always been a dream of his".
But Robbie wants to sell out another 100,000 tickets.

lordgoat

It's the Pheno methinks, August full of Gaa matches and only one gig-lots more people than in Croke, should be a ball though...

rubadub

draffodx wrote:

the park is a disaster for a concert.

too right, especially as the tickets will cost a fortune. €220 in wembley for the highest. I despise the point but they were amazing there last time. Phoenix park is far worse though, sound, view, access, facilities- all brutal last time I was there. Any word of the ticket price. There is NO WAY it is €75, you can check the prices for other countries on ticketmaster.

Evil Sausage

Do you honestly think ticketmaster wouldnt stoop to charging €75 a ticket?!! My god, maybe you havent been dealing with them for very long!!

Even as far back as the Tenacious D concert in the Olympia, we were paying €35 a ticket, while our friends in Amsterdamn were paying €15!!

And nothing stopped them charging €45 for the point venue, and nothing stopped them charging up to €125 for Paul McCartney in the RDS!!

comet

People don't start the ticketmaster argument again, promoters decide the price of the ticket not ticketmaster, ticketmaster just sell them with an admittedly high service charge.

damienom

The argument which seems to make a bit of sense is that ticket costs are extra because of the additional transport costs that travelling to Ireland costs, the even more valid counter argument is that they surely cost their productions based on the whole tour meaning it should cost the same price for every venue.

As a nation we're suckers for paying well over the odds for gigs, no wonder they charge what the can

grumpytrousers

damienom wrote:

The argument which seems to make a bit of sense is that ticket costs are extra because of the additional transport costs that travelling to Ireland costs, the even more valid counter argument is that they surely cost their productions based on the whole tour meaning it should cost the same price for every venue.

As a nation we're suckers for paying well over the odds for gigs, no wonder they charge what the can

I think most acts will certainly try and cost their tours based upon what you say - but Ireland is a complete exception to the rest of europe. On mainland europe, the economies of scale are huge - you have three or four sets leapfrogging each other so when the band roll in it's all set. Even in England they'll do it to an extent (maybe with only 2 sets) but with the number of gigs they do, it still works out cheap-ish. For instance on the stones current outing, as things stand, they'll play to roughly 250,000 people - and that's before any second dates anywhere are announced - a second date being almost clear profit cos the set up costs/take down costs which are still the same are now tacked onto two nights. There's no way there'll be a second Irish gig - we simply don't have the market - thus the tickets will ALWAYS be that more expensive. One whole rig has to come in. One whole crew has to fed and watered. One whole crew has to fly out...One of everything...

rubadub

Evil Sausage wrote:

Do you honestly think ticketmaster wouldnt stoop to charging €75 a ticket?!! My god, maybe you havent been dealing with them for very long!!

Even as far back as the Tenacious D concert in the Olympia, we were paying €35 a ticket, while our friends in Amsterdamn were paying €15!!

And nothing stopped them charging €45 for the point venue, and nothing stopped them charging up to €125 for Paul McCartney in the RDS!!

I think you picked me up wrong! The OP said tickets were averaging €75 in europe. I am saying there is no way it will be that cheap! Check the ticketmaster site they are usually ranging 80-180+. I would expect it to be at least €100 after the booking fee, a ridiculous price for standing in a crappy field with overpriced plastic cups, €10 crappy burgers and having to use horrendous toilet facilities. I think seated in the point was €130 last time (before the all the extras).
The point sold out in a flash, I wonder about this though. The point had a much older crowd, who like their seats etc, and could afford the high price tag. Younger people who went "just to say they saw them" will probably not bother again since it will be very expensive, and they have seen them recently enough (even though they were absolutely amazing). It is on in the summer along with other festivals, a 2-day witness ticket will probably be the same price. People on a budget or even stones fans may prefer to buy another ticket(s) for the same money. I would consider myself a fairly big stones fan and have the cash to go but when you see the alternatives you could get for the same money it may sway me, or make me stop going on principal. It could go the way of madonna in slane all over again.

I predict €120 with all charges...

damienom

I predict €120 with all charges...

Wouldn't say that high but ya won't have change out of 100

gucci

why has nobody mentioned SLANE as a venue for the concert?
august would be the time for it, would be an excellent venuce for the stones, or have i completely had my head in the sand and missed who is playing slane alredy?

rubadub

gucci wrote:

why has nobody mentioned SLANE as a venue for the concert?

I'd say they learnt their lesson after the madonna debacle, for the reasons I said above.

Neo#

Theyve also already played Slane and I think no act can play there twice.

comet

Neo# wrote:

no act can play there twice.

really? U2 have played slane 3 times.

rubadub

comet wrote:

really? U2 have played slane 3 times.

twice in one year doesnt really count. and the other was a support act. I think I heard it somewhere too. But I am sure U2 would be allowed do it again.

comet

Slane is all about money but the yer man Henry would jump at the chance of the Rolling Stones, look at the crap he's resorted to bringing there in recent years. I don't think they will play slane though, the Rolling Stones would draw a fans across the age spectrum, the hassle of getting to slane might put off aging rockers and hurt ticket sales.

J.R.HARTLEY

slane's dead baby slanes dead, anyway lord henry is a two faced git, he won't let westlife play cause they are not a rock act, and then he books eminem who's not a rock act.

hope it s the park just to accomodate the numbers.

grumpytrousers

It's definitely the Phoenix Park. There's still no word on when tickets go on sale. If the promoter is hoping to catch the lucrative christmas present market, they'd want to start publicising something soon...

damienom

Green Day for Slane AFAIK...you heard it here first

damienom

Looks like the Stones not going to happen now...well according to The Mirror and The Indo.

Dublin date removed from the band website

grumpytrousers

fwiw...

http://www.sbpost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqid=11597-qqqx=1.asp

corm500

Thanks Grumpytrousers

Some positive news at last.


Corm500

grumpytrousers

corm500 wrote:

Thanks Grumpytrousers

Some positive news at last.


Corm500

Positive until we get wind of the fact that the geriatric numbnuts will try and stick us for the financial equivalent of a kidney....

spartacus93

grumpytrousers wrote:

fwiw...

http://www.sbpost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqid=11597-qqqx=1.asp

Cheers for the link. Finally a bit of good news.

rubadub

spartacus93 wrote:

Finally a bit of good news.

Until you see the price of the tickets

spartacus93

rubadub wrote:

Until you see the price of the tickets

Jesus, 60-150 pound sterling for pitch seats in Wembley! Still with Jagger being 63 they probably wont be around again.