Stones to play Dublin?

SteadyEddie

I heard some rumours that The Rolling Stones are to play Dublin this summer...can anyone confirm any of these rumours, and if so where are they possibly playing?

damienom

Thing in one of the papers today saying Croke Park has been ruled out. Think they're here in August but the Championship is in full swing....

Return to Slane perhaps???

grumpytrousers

SteadyEddie wrote:

I heard some rumours that The Rolling Stones are to play Dublin this summer...can anyone confirm any of these rumours, and if so where are they possibly playing?

Mail on sunday stated that they would be playing in croke park, but i'd rather they didn't; the sound at u2 there was atrocious, esp in the upper areas. The pitch would be the place to be, but they have a nasty habit of putting seats on pitches some shows nowadays, and frankly, i don't *do* seats on the pitch...

there's plenty of speculation on www.iorr.org (http://www.iorr.org/talk/read.php?1,518746,page=26 - first post by 'bv' who runs the site)that certainly, 'ver Stones WILL be touring Europe. A lot of dates were cancelled last year and it never really got going...

whether they hit dublin or not is anybodys guess...

corm500

I searched for the Stones on ticketmaster.ie a couple of weeks ago the site said no dates scheduled.
I tried again this morning, the site says "Dates scheduled for the UK & Ireland" this is good news. Methinks Lord Henry will be getting them back for a gig in his garden this summer.:)

Corm500

grumpytrousers

i'd love to think you were right, but i don't think their target demographic, which - sadly - is a tad older than most folks of this parish, would, er, stand for a Slane gig now. A lot of them will want seats, a guaranteed vantage point, etc...

Furious-Red

Were they not supposed to play Phoneix Park last year so that could be where they mite play this year.

Judes

The Stones have been around for generations - and their fans are from different generations too. Don't just assume because people are over a certain age that they have to sit through a concert - after all look at Mick and the boys - in their 60's and still jumping around, as a lot of their fans - of the older generation will be too!!!

I saw them in '95 at Wembley - Voodoo Lounge Tour, they knocked my socks off!

aphex™

I'm young and I'd like to see the Stones before they, like, die. Wouldn't other people of a similar age?

Went to the Eagles and most the people there were old tho.

super_furry

If I want to watch pensioners dance about and make fools of themselves I can go to the local on a Friday evening.

grumpytrousers

Judes wrote:

The Stones have been around for generations - and their fans are from different generations too. Don't just assume because people are over a certain age that they have to sit through a concert - after all look at Mick and the boys - in their 60's and still jumping around, as a lot of their fans - of the older generation will be too!!!

I saw them in '95 at Wembley - Voodoo Lounge Tour, they knocked my socks off!

So did I mate, Sunday, July 16 1995...black crowes supporting and got rained off, and the opening sequence of 'Not Fade Away' knocked my socks off too!!!

I'm NOT saying they're too old to cut it at all at all, and i'd dearly love to seem them play Slane, what I'm getting at is that the last few tours where they've played stadia in the UK, the tickets have been all seater...£150 for a seat on the pitch of Twickenham, for example. Now, I know that in theory everybody stands up at a concert anyway, but you can't do the whole 'rocking out' thing if there's a bloody chair in yer way, now can you!!! The selling point seems to be that a lot of their fans like the idea of having a guaranteed seat, and not having to arrive early to get up the front etc...do you see what im' getting at...

And, if that's what they do in the UK, there's a 'danger' that they'd employ a similar tactic here...that's *all* i'm saying...mainland Europe they still do general admission

CiaranC

Oh, you silly old man
You silly old man
Youre making a fool of yourself
So get off the stage

You silly old man
In your misguided trousers
With your mascara and your fender guitar
And you think you can arouse us ?

Judes

Hey Grumpy T - yeah, I see what you're saying. I personally hate getting a seat at any concert, as it does stop you from bopping up and down. (I was at the two days of their Voodoo Lounge Tour - oh, yeah, I remember the rain!!!

But the person who previously mentioned if he "wanted to see Geriatrics Jumping up and down.................. I hope he remembers that he too will one day be a little older - maybe he's the type that thinks that life ends at 30/40 or when you're married. But for some of us - we'll keep on rocking till we die -and if we can't - then I for one will be sitting on my motorised wheelchair doing wheelies. Age is a state of mind! I know really "old" 20 year olds and mad as hatter 60 year olds. I found that comment ageist and disrespectful!!!

I personally find it really distasteful to go to concerts and see "kids" puking their guts up, pulling their penis out to pee infront of anyone, sniffing various forms of powders in groups again for all to see. You can keep the YOBBO YOUTH CULTURE and give me the Geriatrics any day!!!

grumpytrousers

talk over on iorr.org that there's a press conference planned for thursday this week...if there's dates to be announced, then that'd be it...

have a feeling in my waters that Aiken promotions might not be handling this gig, so the talk might be stopping soon!!!

GT

Shiminay

Folks,

As a fan of extremely heavy metal I know what a lively gig is.

All I can say is, if you want to go to a gig and have your b0><0rs well and truely r0><0red, go and see the Rolling Stones. I saw them in The Point (ick) a few years back and they absolutely blew me away. All this talk of old men is of course true, they are older men, but that does not mean they're not up to the job.

I'm giving this gig serious thought...

Potcher

yep they ****in rocked in the point few years back.
blew me away.

grumpytrousers

corm500 wrote:

I searched for the Stones on ticketmaster.ie a couple of weeks ago the site said no dates scheduled.
I tried again this morning, the site says "Dates scheduled for the UK & Ireland" this is good news. Methinks Lord Henry will be getting them back for a gig in his garden this summer.:)

Corm500

http://www.hotpress.com/news/2916293.html - sadly don't have a subscription to give more details

Hmm.....despite what i said last week about a press conference *then*, it seems Virgin Radio UK are saying there is an announcement due in the next 24 hours about some class of gigs in Europe; certainly there's a load of talk about 'em headlining the Isle of Wight Festival....