Rag week '08

Funkstard

Monday
Republic of Loose & Fred
The Red Nose Ball @ Sin Bin
Java - Armoured Bear

Tuesday
Christy Moore Tribute
The Boggers Ball @ Sin Bin
Java - David Kitt Acoustic TBC

Wednesday
Future Kings of Spain
Headphone Disco - Superheroes Ball @ Cornmarket
Java Pig N'Porter Trad Night

Thursday
The Rag Ball - Hip Hop til You Drop
Headphone Disco - Pimps & Prostitutes
Java - The House Party

Friday
Rag Week Wrap Up Party

Big load of meh from me. Nothing particularly interesting there. Hopefully they come up with the goods over the next week or two. Didn't NUIG have the Klaxons?

cson

Nothing to get excited about. Freshers week had the Blizzards and Director (Two great gigs as well). NUIG had the *Joyce Country Ceili Band*, not sure about the Klaxons.

Mars Bar

The "Joyce Country Ceili Band" were F**KING BRILLIANT!! They fed the crowd and the crowd fed them! I have been to numerous Saw Doctors gigs and that was by far the best(and dangerous) crowd I have come across...Galway got a treat with the Saw Doctors, I have seen the Blizzards and they don't put on half the performance the Saw Doctors do!!

ImDave

Rep. of loose should be really good. Saw them last year in the stables, great atmosphere

RINO87

*yawn*

Nutty

Joyce Country Ceili band will be playin fo stable 21st birthday in April probably why they arent playin rag week

bluedolphin

Funkstard wrote: »

...Headphone Disco...

Now that sounds like fun!

ImDave

Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10AM. Anyone know that time you'd want to be queing from to be fairly guaranteed of getting tickets?

Mossin

EI-DAV wrote: »

Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10AM. Anyone know that time you'd want to be queing from to be fairly guaranteed of getting tickets?

Oh I'd advise being there very early!!!
Maybe 6ish.........:(:(

Maybe Sceptre would be kind enough to keep the boardsies a few tickets of choice??!! :rolleyes::cool:

digiking

Got my wonka today - started queing at 6am - was number 4 in the line - the other 3 were my friends who decided it was a great idea to starting queing on their way home from the lodge!!! - 2.50am they started at

Oh - And as i was one of the first 6 wonka takers got a free rag week hoodie too!!!

bluedolphin

Eew, RAG week. *shudder*

cooperguy

bluedolphin wrote: »

Eew, RAG week. *shudder*

People who spend the entire week working arnt exactly going to like it now are they:D

Edit: Wohoo Iv made it to 1000 posts. Im a real man now:D It did take me over 3 years tho!!

cson

1000th post coming up cooperguy. No pressure

bluedolphin

cooperguy wrote: »

People who spend the entire week working arnt exactly going to like it now are they:D

No, I didn't like it before I chose to work. I will actually have more fun working it than not because:
(a) I'll be earning money rather than spending it
(b) I'll still be in at the gigs
(c) any thing I'm not working at but take a fancy to attending instead I can just waltz in sans tickets
(d) see (a) above

I dislike RAG week as a customer because:
(a) It's overcrowded leading to:

(i) lots of bumping and bashing into people

(ii) overly long queues at the bar/toilet

(iii) lots of drink being splashed on me

*note: these also happen while working but at least I'm being paid for it then, rather than paying for it to happen*

(b) It's messy
(c) Tickets etc need to be bought in advance: I haaaaaaaaaaate planning! I am not a planner! I don't know what I'm doing this afternoon, let alone two weeks' time and don't make me plan that far in advance!

cooperguy wrote: »

Edit: Wohoo Iv made it to 1000 posts. Im a real man now:D It did take me over 3 years tho!!

\o/

cson

And over to Colm at the Sports Desk....

Theres only one word for the Rag week line up, it begins with 'S' and ends with 'cutter'

cooperguy

Advertising isnt allowed on the forums trinityrooms. Its not our fault you decided to stop working with the SU

kaimera

cooperguy wrote: »

Advertising isnt allowed on the forums trinityrooms. Its not our fault you decided to stop working with the SU

Thanks for that. I wasn't aware.

trinityrooms

cooperguy Advertising isnt allowed on the forums trinityrooms. Its not our fault you decided to stop working with the SU

not quite how it went down , but sorry for spamming your forum.

PeakOutput

cooperguy wrote: »

Advertising isnt allowed on the forums trinityrooms. Its not our fault you decided to stop working with the SU

i wonder did they pay the guy who sent the email with the trinity rooms poster around to every student by email

apparently the su were looking for 20K a year to allow trooms to put up their posters on campus so its fairly understandable that they decided to stop working with the su imo but thats a debate for another thread i think.

does anyone know who i could get in touch with about getting pass's to photo the gigs during rag week iv no interest in seeing any of the bands but iv a new lens on the way from the states and would love to test it out

ninty9er

PeakOutput wrote: »

apparently the su were looking for 20K a year to allow trooms to put up their posters on campus so its fairly understandable that they decided to stop working with the su imo but thats a debate for another thread i think.

It's possible they were looking for 20k worth of discounts over the academic year, which isn't a lot considering it wouldn't even be a nights takings. €20k cash would be a different matter and I'm sure that it's tripe to suggest €20k was the price of postering the campus, though I can find out.

PeakOutput wrote: »

does anyone know who i could get in touch with about getting pass's to photo the gigs during rag week iv no interest in seeing any of the bands but iv a new lens on the way from the states and would love to test it out

I would suggest contacting Keith Piggott of Ents or Will Lyons of Photo Soc

bluedolphin

PeakOutput wrote: »

does anyone know who i could get in touch with about getting pass's to photo the gigs during rag week iv no interest in seeing any of the bands but iv a new lens on the way from the states and would love to test it out

+1 on the Keith Pigott (keith@eightball.ie) but you might want to give something back eg some photos (I'd say make a proposal to Seamus Ryan the PPO re: same for An Focal) cos they mightn't let you in just for the sake of it if you get what I'm saying...He could, at least, then argue your case for access...

PeakOutput

obviouly id make the photos available to an focal if he got me a pass i forgot to mention that

cooperguy

Lets not forget either that they were looking for exclusive advertising rights on campus. As in the only club that you would ever hear about on campus would be Trooms. Not on as far as im concerned!

Vertigo100

it was actually the SU that wanted to go down the exclusive route and were looking for big chunk of cash upfront. well that was the case the year before anyway and they took it up that year. lots of conflicting stories as to what happened this year between trinity and the su. sure would like to know which one is true though. . . .

PeakOutput

i was told by someone who was told directly by joe in trooms not gonna name names in case it was in confidence. sure it must of been the su that wanted to do some sort of exclusive deal as they pretty much did one with sin bin it just dosnt seem to have been stuck to that much from what i can tell.

either way the only people who lost out are the students not getting as good a deal as they could be getting if a deal was done trooms is still packed out most nights during the week and they have their local regulars at the weekend paying 12euro on the door and the student union dosnt strike me of being short of cash it just sounds like someone in trooms dug their heals n and someone in the union did the same thing

Vertigo100

yeah but the union offered that deal to everyone in town and it seems like the only ones to fork up the cash were the sin bin. i heard something happened between the su and trooms at the end of last year and thats why they havent been in bed together this year

mooonpie

Nutty wrote: »

Joyce Country Ceili band will be playin fo stable 21st birthday in April probably why they arent playin rag week

Because they are touring america the same week

Mars Bar

They won't be in America at that time...They will be getting ready for their mini european tour! They should be around for the Stables gig.

Limerick91

The city centre looks very well this morning after Monday of Rag Week!!!!

Take-away rubbish thrown the length of O'Connell St.

Well done

Mossin

limerickros wrote: »

The city centre looks very well this morning after Monday of Rag Week!!!!

Take-away rubbish thrown the length of O'Connell St.

Well done

You cant blame UL students solely for the state of O'Connelll St. :mad:

rmacm

limerickros wrote: »

The city centre looks very well this morning after Monday of Rag Week!!!!

Take-away rubbish thrown the length of O'Connell St.

Well done

Hmmm in my experience native Limerick people can manage that just fine without students around to do it for them.

bluedolphin

limerickros wrote: »

The city centre looks very well this morning after Monday of Rag Week!!!!

Take-away rubbish thrown the length of O'Connell St.

Well done

I think you'll find that UL students predominantly live in their microcosmic world of Castletroy. There are threads to this effect in the Limerick forum lamenting this fact. While UL's RAG week probably did contribute to the mess, it is farcical to blame it in entirety. LIT and MIC both partake in the city centre activities.

All in all RAG week may have some negative effects - it's gonna happen when people/students drink copious amounts of alcohol - but we raised €20,000 for charity last year and are hoping to increase that by 50 per cent this year.

Mossin wrote: »

You cant blame UL students solely for the state of O'Connelll St. :mad:

+1

rmacm wrote: »

Hmmm in my experience native Limerick people can manage that just fine without students around to do it for them.

As a Limerick native I can certainly verify this. The city centre is a state on weekend mornings. When was the last time you walked down O'Connell Street before noon on a Sunday? Probably not recently... Just because you don't see it on a Sunday and did see it this morning going to work/school/college/wherever doesn't mean that it doesn't occur due to reasons other than RAG week.

cooperguy

bluedolphin wrote: »

As a Limerick native I can certainly verify this. The city centre is a state on weekend mornings. When was the last time you walked down O'Connell Street before noon on a Sunday? Probably not recently... Just because you don't see it on a Sunday and did see it this morning going to work/school/college/wherever doesn't mean that it doesn't occur due to reasons other than RAG week.

+1

Another native here to confirm what you've said

cson

How bad were Republic Of Loose last night? Jaysus, Mary and Joseph but that'll go down as a very verrrrrry badly spent tenner.

Mr. K

Republic of Loose were bad? I saw at a festival, I didn't think they were awful. Not great, mind you, but not terrible.

PeakOutput

i heard something happened to one of the security crew like a broken hand or foot or something so they had to cut the gig short

Nutty

ya gig was cut short for deff i was inside due to coldness...
guy broke his leg on slippery pole today in courtyard..

bluedolphin

As the Ents Crew Medic working at both of the below events I'd like to clarify a few issues... I'll say as much as I can without breaching patient confidentiality

The Republic of Loose gig was cut short because there was a crush at the top by the stage. The barriers that are usually at gigs (they use the weight of the crowd to prevent them being pushed forward) hadn't arrived so regular barriers were used which meant that Crew members had to use their own physical force to keep the crowd back.

Unfortunately the strength of a few hundred > 5... Ergo a crush ensued.

There was a member of the audience who needed medical attention, but (s)he was fine. A Crew member did hurt his/her hand by banging it off the stage; but again a very minor incident that didn't require any significant attention. The band was asked to stop playing slightly early because of the danger to public safety as a result of crushing...

With regard to the incident in which a male was involved today on the jousting thingy... There was a suspected underlying injury to his knee and therefore he was taken to A&E for further examination. But he most definitely did not break his leg as such...

I feel like such a spoilsport for putting an end to these wild rumours

Peteee

Students these days

<Generic "back in my day" rant/>

Funkstard

Opinions? Didn't partake in any ticketed events but had an absolutely brilliant week. Leeroy in the trooms on Wednesday was absolutely brilliant. Final moment being absolutely hammered this morning walking home amongst the early risers, and my lecturer going by me on his way to college.

Absolutely wrecked now!

cooperguy

Did anybody see the guy stripped to nothing but a tshirt by two girls in the gunge wrestling thing? He was kinda drunk:D I kept thinking they were about to crack their heads off the concrete though since the gunge "pit" was just a plastic sheet over the concrete ground and everyone kept slipping up!

Mr. CooL ICE

Anyone attend the Oaklawns house party???

PeakOutput

LordChessington wrote: »

Anyone attend the Oaklawns house party???

if it was on thursday then i know people who were there

Mr. CooL ICE

PeakOutput wrote: »

if it was on thursday then i know people who were there

Yes indeed. House party with live bands attracted close to 150 people. The music was quiet enough that it didn't cause excessive noise, but the guards dispersed everyone on the grounds that there were too many cars in the vicinity, and residents had nowhere to park.

cooperguy

LordChessington wrote: »

Yes indeed. House party with live bands attracted close to 150 people. The music was quiet enough that it didn't cause excessive noise, but the guards dispersed everyone on the grounds that there were too many cars in the vicinity, and residents had nowhere to park.

That sounds like a laugh! Where did they put the band?